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What is Artha?

From the What is that? series: What is Artha? (Sanskrit: अर्थ)

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Sep 30, 2019
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Artha

If you look up the term artha, you’ll gather the straight facts, the generic definitions. They’ll say that artha is "one of four aims of life", noted in Indian Philosophy. You’ll learn that collectively they are called the Purusharthas. Whilst that’s all well and good and, that’s even where we’ll start, but keep reading beyond the basics because we…

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