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vyaṣṭi f S Pervasion severally or singly; inherence distributively and constituently; the state of an individual or a particular or a part of any compound or collective mass--of any quantity or numberof any body or whole. व्यष्टि is contradistinguished from समष्टि. व्यष्टि signifies the state or standing of component members, portions, substances, or articles--of constituents, ingredients, or items; the state of components distinctly, distributively, and componently. समष्टि signifies the state of the composition, aggregate, or amount--the state of parts or particulars comprehended, comprised, or collected. व्यष्टि is the state of an individual in the species; of a species in the genus; of a genus in the class or order. समष्टि is the state of the species as the comprehension of its individuals; of the genus as the comprehension of its species; of the class or order as the comprehension of its genera. व्यष्टि is the state of an ingredient, a tree, a fruit, a drop, a soldier, a citizen; and समष्टि is the state of the compound--of the forest, the cluster, the ocean, the army, the city. See further under समष्टि.
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