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prakriti (iou)



prakriti noun. L18.
[Sanskrit prakti nature.]
Hinduism. Matter as opp. to spirit; primordial matter; nature; spec. in Sankhya philosophy, the passive principle (personified as female) which with the active (male) principle produces the universe. Cf. PURUSHA.