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तत्—त्व n. n. true or real state, truth, reality, [ŚvetUp.] ; [Mn.] ; [Bhag.] &c. अ-व्यक्त (in phil. ) a true principle (in सांख्यphil. 25 in number, viz. , बुद्धि, अहं-कार, the 5 तन्-मात्रs, the 5 महा-भूतs, the 11 organs including मनस्, and, lastly, पुरुष, q.v. ), [MBh. xii, 11840; xiv, 984] ; [R. iii, 53, 42] ; [Tattvas.] ; 24 in number, [MBh. xii, 11242] ; [Hariv. 14840] (m.); 23 in number, [BhP. iii, 6, 2 ff.] ; for other numbers cf. xi, 22, 1 ff.; [RāmatUp.] ; with माहेश्वरs and लोकायतिकs only 5 [viz. the 5 elements] are admitted, [Prab. ii, 18/19] ; with, [Buddh.] 4, with जैनs 2 or 5 or 7 or 9 [Sarvad. ii f.] ; in वेदान्तphil. तत्त्व is regarded as made up of तद् and त्वम्, ‘that [art] thou’, and called महा-वाक्य, the great word by which the identity of the whole world with the one eternal ब्रह्म [तद्] is expressed) the, number 25 [Sūryas. ii] the number 24 [DevībhP.] ; [ŚBr. vii, 3, 1, 43] ; [Sāy.] an element or elementary property, [W.] the essence or substance of anything, [W.] the being that, [Jaim. i, 3, 24] Sch. तत-त्व = , [L.] N. of a musical instrument, [L.]
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