Ajnana
Ajñāna (IAST)Translation: "ignorance / nescience"
A Concise Dictionary of Indian Philosophy
Sanskrit: अज्ञान
Transliteration: Ajñāna
Translation: "ignorance; nescience (from the verb root "jñā = "to know" + a = "not")"
Definition:- One of the five types of delusion (Mithyātva) according to Jainism.
- According to Advaita Vedānta, it is defined as beginningless (Ānādi), positive (Bhāva-Rūpa), removable by right knowledge (Jñāna-Nivartya), having its locus either in the Absolute (Brahman) or in the individual (Jīva), having the two powers of concealment (Āvaraṇa) and projection (Vikṣepa), and indeterminable (Anirvacanīya).
- Primal limitation (Mala), according to Śaivism.
Reference:
- Grimes, John (1996). A Concise Dictionary of Indian Philosophy: Sanskrit Terms Defined in English. Albany: State University of New York Press
