guna
[goo n-uh]
- (in Sankhya and Vedantic philosophy) one of the three qualities of prakriti, or nature, which are passion (rajas), dullness or inertia (tamas), and goodness or purity (sattva).
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Origin of guna
First recorded in 1860–65, guna is from the Sanskrit word guṇa thread, quality
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