sattva,rajas,tamas dictionary meanings

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search `sattva' in `Apte Dic'

meanings of "sattva" [1]

n.{a-stem}

1. being;

2. nature;

3. natural character;

4. life;

5. consciousness;

6. an embryo;

7. substance;

8. an elementary substance such as earth;

9. (also m.) a living or sentient being;

10. an evil spirit;

11. goodness;

12. truth;

13. strength;

14. wisdom;

15. the quality of goodness or purity regarded as the highest of the

tree <&GuNas>;

16. a natural property or quality;

17. a noun;

18. intellect;

19. the subtle body or individual soul

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search `tamas' in `Apte Dic'

meanings of "tamas" [1]

n.{c-stem}

1.darkness;

2.the gloom or darkness of hell;

3.mental darkness;

4.(in saaG. phil.) darkness or ignorance, as one of the three

qualities or constitutents of every thing in nature (the other two

being sattva and rajas);

5.grief;

6.sin;

7.stupefaction;

8.anger

 

meanings of "tamas" [2]

m.n.{c-stem}

1.an epithet of raahu

 

 

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search `rajas' in `Apte Dic'

meanings of "rajas"

 

n.{c-stem}

 

1.dust;

2.the dust or pollen of flowers;

3.a mote in a sun-beam;

4.a ploughed or cultivated land;

5.gloom;

6.foulness;

7.the second of the three guNas or constituent qualities of all

material substances;

8.menstrual discharge;

9.safflower;

10.tin;

11.air;

12.a division of the world;

13.vapour;

14.cloud or rain-water;

15.sin