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Jagarata

Hindu philosophical concept

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ6122823 ↗
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Jagarata (Sanskrit: जगराता, romanized: jagarātā), also commonly rendered jagrata, is the Sanskrit term for wakefulness and vigilance. It is one of the four states of consciousness in Hindu philosophy. It is that part of consciousness when a person or being can sense this physical universe. Other states of consciousness are svapna, sushupti, and turiya.

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“Jagarata” enters the record as hindu philosophical concept. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jagarata, Hindu and philosophical can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 54-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jagarata, Hindu and philosophical.
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“Jagarata” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jagarata, Hindu and philosophical provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6122823. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jagarata” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.