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‘Thatness’, the essence of a thing; a principle of nature. Tattvas are the fundamental realities or categories on which a system of thought is built. Different schools of philosophy define different tattvas: Jainism identifies nine tattvas on which it is built, Samkhya ahs twenty-five, and Shaivism identifies thirty-six. According to Hindu tradition tattvas are the building blocks, or principles, on which individual evolution is based. See Samkhya, Shaivism, Jain
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