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Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad Fellow of the British Academy Distinguished Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion Lancaster University UK ________________________________ From: Asko Parpola <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2022 8:03:52 AM To: Nagaraj Paturi <[email protected]> Cc: Ram-Prasad, Chakravarthi <[email protected]>; Indology <[email protected]> Subject: [External] Re: [INDOLOGY] 'conscience' This email originated outside the University. Check before clicking links or attachments. The following study may be useful: Bisgaard, Daniel James, 1994. Social conscience in Sanskrit literature. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. xxix, 141 pp. Best wishes, Asko Parpola On 18. Jul 2022, at 7.56, Nagaraj Paturi via INDOLOGY <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Quotes like सतां हि सन्देहपदेषु वस्तुषु प्रमाणमन्तःकरणप्रव्रुत्तयः indicate words like अन्तःकरण and अन्तःकरणप्रवृत्तयः as words close in meaning to conscience in classical works. In most contemporary Indian languages, Sanskrit borrowings like अन्तःकरण , अंतरात्म(न्) is used in this sense. In Tamil, the word manassaaklshin is found used, which can be guessed to have some Sanskrit source.
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