A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism
author: Swami Harshananda
edition: 2008, Ramakrishna Math
pages: 2084
ISBN-13: 9788179070574
Topic: Hinduism
Encyclopaedia of Hinduism - Trivrtkarana
This page describes Trivrtkarana which is located on page 415 of the third volume in the book: A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism by Swami Harshananda. This book, known as “a concise encyclopaedia of hinduism”, includes a vast amount of topics covering general aspects on Hinduism, but also contains important aspects regarding Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms, as well as information if you want to buy this book.
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You can look up the meaning of the phrase “Trivrtkarana” according to 5 books dealing with Hinduism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
A History of Indian Philosophy Volume 2 [by Surendranath Dasgupta]
Vacaspati and Amalananda prefer trivrit-karana to panci-harana; for they think that there is no point in admitting that air and akasha have also parts of other elements integrated in them, and the Vedic texts speak of trivrit-karana and not of pancl-karana....
Read full contents: Part 6 - Vedantic Cosmology
A History of Indian Philosophy Volume 3 [by Surendranath Dasgupta]
But Sudarshana Suri refers to the views of other teachers (kecid acaryah) and says that the trivrit-karana view may well explain the misapprehension of one element (bhuta) for another; but in the cases of misapprehension due to similarity trivrit-karana is not of much use, for trivrit-karana and panci-karana can explain the intermixture of bhutas, but not of the bhautikas, or the later modifications of the five elements into the varied substances such as conch-shell and silver, which are mutually misapprehended...
Read full contents: Part 3 - Ramanuja’s theory of Illusion—All knowledge is Real
Shankaracharya and Ramana Maharshi (study) [by Maithili Vitthal Joshi]
The trivritkarana-shruti, in which the process of making each element three-fold is explained, is accepted in the Kevala-advaitavedanta-philosophy as a basis of the pancikarana-process (making each element fivefold). The process of the trivritkarana, which is related to the threefoldness of fire, water and earth, is explained by Shankaracarya as follows: While making each element threefold, the very element in turn becomes predominant and remaining two in turn become subordinate....
Read full contents: Chapter 2.2 - Shankaracarya on Jagat
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