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Mūlaprakṛti (devanāgarī: मूलप्रकृति) is a Sanskrit term that can be translated as "the root of nature" or "root of Prakriti"; meaning "fundamental matter". In the Samkhya school of Hinduism it is frequently used as a synonym of pradhāna.

In Theosophical literature it is often defined as the essence of matter, that aspect of the Absolute which underlines all the objective aspects of Nature. It is related to space, more specifically to the absolute abstract space.

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