prakaasha
Prakaasha, also transliterated as prakāśa, is a Sanskrit term meaning light, brightness, or illumination. It derives from the root prakāś- “to shine” and the nominal ending -a. In Hindu philosophy and religious literature, prakaasha is used both literally for daylight and metaphorically for knowledge, insight, or revelation. It denotes the radiant activity of consciousness that reveals objects and meaning, and it is sometimes employed to describe the manifest or divine presence that dispels ignorance.
In classical texts, prakaasha appears in discussions of perception and cosmology, as well as in devotional
As a linguistic term, prakaśa also appears in compounds and derivatives, such as prakaśita (“illuminated”), prakaśa-śakti