tat—tva n. true or real state, truth, reality, [ŚvetUp.]; [Mn.]; [Bhag.] &c.
(in phil.) a true principle (in Sāṃkhya phil. 25 in number, viz. a-vyakta, buddhi, ahaṃ-kāra, the 5 Tan-mātras, the 5 Mahā-bhūtas, the 11 organs including manas, and, lastly, puruṣa, qq.vv.), [MBh. xii, 11840]; [xiv, 984]; [R. iii, 53, 42]; [Tattvas.]; 24 in number, [MBh. xii, 11242]; [Hariv. 14840] (m.); 23 in number, [BhP. iii, 6, 2 ff.]; for other numbers cf. [xi, 22, 1 ff.]; [RāmatUp.]; with Māheśvaras and Lokāyatikas only 5 [viz. the 5 elements] are admitted, [Prab. ii, 18/19]; with [Buddh.] 4, with Jainas 2 or 5 or 7 or 9 [Sarvad. ii f.]; in Vedānta phil. is regarded as made up of tad and tvam, ‘that [art] thou’, and called mahā-vākya, the great word by which the identity of the whole world with the one eternal Brahma [tad] is expressed)
the number 25 [Sūryas. ii]
the number 24 [DevībhP.]; [ŚBr. vii, 3, 1, 43]; [Sāy.]
an element or elementary property, [W.]
the essence or substance of anything, [W.]
the being that, [Jaim. i, 3, 24], Sch.
= tata-tva, [L.]
N. of a musical instrument, [L.]