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noun Hinduism, Buddhism.
the false identification of the purusha, or true inner self, with the body, the mind, or the outside world.
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< Sanskrit ahaṅkāra ego consciousness, equivalent to aham I + -kāra making or producing (a sound), saying, as in śītkāra making the sound śīt
< Sanskrit ahaṅkāra ego consciousness, equivalent to aham I + -kāra making or producing (a sound), saying, as in śītkāra making the sound śīt
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Ahankara
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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ahankara
("I-saying," or "I-making"), in the dualist and evolutionist Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy, the second stage of development of the prakriti, the original stuff of material nature, which evolves into the manifest world
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