mūla—tva n. the state of being a root or foundation or source, the having a foundation (tan-mūlatvāt prajānāṃ rājā skandhaḥ, ‘the king is the stem of his subjects through their being his root’; veda-mūlatva, ‘the fact that the Veda is the original source of all knowledge’; śāstra-m°, ‘the being founded upon the Śāstras’), [Kām.] (cf. tan-m°).