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आत्मबोध, ātmabodha: "self-knowledge"

Katsushika Hokusai, The Blind Men and the Elephant, ca. 1750, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA.

vedā

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upavedā

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śāstra

dharm artha kama moksha

itihāsapurāṇaṃ

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śikṣā chandas vyākaraṇa nirukta kalpa jyotiṣa

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