darsana

English

Alternative forms

• darśana
• darshan
• darshana

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit दर्शन (dárśana).

Noun

darsana (plural darsanas)

1. (India philosophy) A philosophy, worldview.
   • 2000, Sue Hamilton, Indian Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction, OUP, published 2001, page 12:

     In presenting its ‘view’ of the truth, each darśana is as it were describing what it is that its practitioners will ‘see’.

Anagrams

• sardana