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'''Rachanā''' ([[Social:Sanskrit|Sanskrit]]: रचना) is derived from the root verb – रच् - meaning – to arrange, prepare, contrive, plan, or to form, make, effect, create, produce, or to write, compose, put together, or to place in or upon, fix on, adorn, decorate. ''Rachanā'' (रचनम् - ना = रचना) means – arrangement, preparation, disposition, formation, creation, production, performance, completion, array of troops, literary work, a creation of the mind, contrivance, invention e.g. '' chitra-rachana '' (drawing/painting), '' [[Religion:Kāvya|kāvya-rachana]] '' (poetic composition), ''anvaya-rachana'' (indeclinable/undistributable middle sentence construction).<ref>{{cite book|title=The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary|publisher=Digital Dictionaries of South Asia|page=1324|url= http://dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/contextualize.pl?p.4.apte.2856822 }}</ref>

Proponents of [[Philosophy:Advaita Vedanta|Advaita Vedanta]] use this term to refer to the composition or structure of [[Philosophy:Brahman|Brahman]]; [[Biography:Adi Shankara|Shankara]] explains that Brahman cannot be described by any name or form, the mind cannot think about Its composition (''rachana'').<ref>{{cite book|title=Foundations of Education|author=S.P.Chaube|publisher=Vikas Publishing|page=219|url= https://books.google.co.in/books?id=b3BY_dNrRJMC&pg=PA219&dq=rachana+upanishads&hl=en&sa=X&ei=u1SOVP_vG5K8uASrxoCYBw&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=rachana%20upanishads&f=false }}</ref> Even Badarayana in his [[Religion:Brahma Sutras|Brahma Sutras]] (Sutra II.ii.1) states :-

:रचनाऽनुपपत्तेश्च नानुमानम् |

:"The inferred one (pradhana) is not (the cause) owing to the impossibility of explaining the design, as also for other reasons."

Badarayana uses the word ''rachana'' to mean - 'design', he explains that on no account can the insentient ''pradhana'' create this universe, which cannot even be mentally conceived of by the intelligent (skilful persons, architects). 
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<ref>{{cite book|title=Brahma sutra Bhasya of Sankaracarya|publisher=Advaita Ashrama|page=367|url= http://advaitaashrama.org/Book/Detail/8121 }}</ref>

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