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citta

American  
[chit-uh] / ˈtʃɪt ə /

noun

Hinduism.
  1. the intellect or cognitive facility.


Etymology

Origin of citta

From Sanskrit

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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

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

The virtù generativa degli uomini, which is always the same, is found face to face with the virtù nutritiva delle citta.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm

There is a still further advanced stage in which the citta processes are absolutely stopped.

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

The citta has thus collected within itself the instincts and tendencies of all those different animal lives.

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

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