dvaita

[dvahy-tuh]

dvai·ta

[dvahy-tuh]
noun Hinduism.
1.
any of the pluralistic schools of philosophy.
2.
(initial capital letter) (in Vedantic philosophy) one of the two principal schools, asserting that entities have a real existence apart from Brahman.
Compare Advaita.


Origin:
< Sanskrit; akin to two
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