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citta

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[chit-uh] / ˈtʃɪt ə /

noun

Hinduism.
  1. the intellect or cognitive facility.


Etymology

Origin of citta

From Sanskrit


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They stand to the more purist kinds of geometrical abstraction as the plan of a hill town does to a Renaissance citta ideale.

From Time Magazine Archive

Condemned in absentia to death by burning, Dante for the last 20 years of his life wandered in exile from the "bella citta" he loved.

From Time Magazine Archive

She sang as she did so, even as her foremothers had sung seven hundred years back— Poggibonizzi, fatti in la, Che Monteriano si fa citta!

From Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

At this stage dawns the true knowledge, when the buddhi becomes as pure as the puru@sa, and after that the citta not being able to bind the puru@sa any longer returns back to prak@rti.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta

It becomes at this stage ultimately dissociated from citta which contains within it the root of all emotions, ideas, and actions.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta

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