Skip to main content

Pradhana

In Hindu SĀNKHYA philosophy, it is the undifferentiated matter which is the source of the cosmos. It is equivalent to ĀKĀŚA, or primordial substance, and the Mūlaprakrti (root-matter) of the Vendāntins. Pradhāna is also spoken of as a veil of the unmanifested BRAHMAN. Its first product is MAHAT, or the Universal Mind.

© Copyright by the Theosophical Publishing House, Manila