Note 63 — SA@NKARA'S INTRODUCTION

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The pradhâna, called also prakriti, is the primal causal matter of the world in the Sâ@nkhya-system. It will be fully discussed in later parts of this work. To avoid ambiguities, the term pradhâna has been left untranslated. Cp. Sâ@nkhya Kârikâ 3.