prakarana
Prakarana is a Sanskrit term that conventionally translates as “manner, form, type” and is used in Indian literature to refer to a particular kind of discourse or to a subdivision within a larger work. The root prakāra means form or mode, and prakarana denotes a connected tract or method of presentation within a text. In scholarly usage, prakarana commonly designates a treatise or a part of a treatise that is organized around a single theme or methodological approach. Thus, a long work may be divided into prakarana sections, and certain philosophical or religious texts are described as prakarana-granthas, i.e., treatises of a specific kind.
In Hindu philosophy, prakarana appears as a generic label for systematic, doctrine-centered writings across schools such
Across Indian literary and religious traditions, prakarana thus functions as a flexible, technical term. It signals