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guna

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gu⋅na

[goon-uh]
–noun
(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).

Origin:
1860–65; < Skt guṇa thread, quality
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