The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1862 page)

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, the two are radically different.
Prat
tya-samutp
da
(the causal nexus of interconnected appearance):
Praty
h
ra
(Skt., ‘withdrawal’).
1
In Hinduism, sense-withdrawal, the fifth ‘limb’ of ‘eight-limbed’ (
a
a
ga
) or
r
ja
yoga, referring to the contraction of consciousness from the external world and senses, as a tortoise contracts its limbs.
2
A technical sense in Sanskrit grammar meaning the compression to one syllable of a series of letters or affixes, by combining the initial letter with the final.

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