स्वभाववाद

A dictionary, Marathi and English

   The doctrine, or the maintenance of it, that the universal system was arranged and is maintained by the necessary action of substances according to the impulses of their respective natures: also the doctrine, or the maintenance of it, that the universe sprang from itself. one of the modifications, in the first case, of materialism; in the second, or virtually in both cases, of atheism.

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

स्व—भाव—वाद  m.  m. the doctrine that the universe was produced and is sustained by the natural and necessary action of substances according to their inherent properties, [MW.]

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स्व भाव वाद