manas
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of manas
< Sanskrit: mind
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Hence the best thing that we can do is to evolve the lower manas, manas deeply tinged with kâma.
From London Lectures of 1907 by Annie Wood Besant
But without manas none of these organs is found to be effective.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
A Mana of Babylon is of Aleppo 1 roue 5 ounces and a halfe: and 68 manas and three seuenth parts, make a quintall of Aleppo, which is 494 li.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt
In the eighth book it is said that soul and manas are not perceptible, and that in the apprehension of qualities, action, generality, and particularity perception is due to their contact with the thing.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
Consciousness can only come to it through its connection with the sense organs and manas.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
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