The Sanskrit term Kṛtyapañcaka can be transliterated into English as Krtyapancaka or Krityapancaka, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Alternative spellings of this word include Krityapanchaka.

In Hinduism

Kavyashastra (science of poetry)

Source: Google Books: The Dhvanyaloka of Anandavardhana with the Locana of Abhinavagupta

Kṛtyapañcaka (कृत्यपञ्चक) refers to the “five-fold function”, according to the fourth chapter of the 9th-century Dhvanyāloka of Ānandavardhana (with the Locana of Abhinavagupta): a Sanskrit text dealing with Sanskrit poetics (kāvya-śāstra), the Indian theory of rhetoric (sahitya-śāstra) and the science of aesthetics (alaṃkāra-śāstra).—Śāṅkarī Śakti is here used as a name of Māyā. The components of the fivefold function (kṛtyapañcaka) are listed in a verse attributed to King Bhoja in the Sarvadarśanasaṅgraha 7.77-78.

The kṛtyapañcaka (fivefold function) are:

1. sṛṣṭi (creation),
2. sthiti (maintenance),
3. saṃhāra (dissolution),
4. tirobhāva (concealment, illusion), and
5. anugraha (the favoring of his devotees).

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Kavyashastra (काव्यशास्त्र, kāvyaśāstra) refers to the ancient Indian tradition of poetry (kavya). Canonical literature (shastra) of the includes encyclopedic manuals dealing with prosody, rhetoric and various other guidelines serving to teach the poet how to compose literature.

Shaiva philosophy

Source: Google Books: The philosophy of the Pratyabhijñā

Kṛtyapañcaka (कृत्यपञ्चक) refers to the “five cosmic activities”, according to Abhinavagupta’s Īśvarapratyabhijñāvimarśinī (also known as the “doctrine of divine recognition”) with the Sanskrit commentary called Bhāskarī.—Accordingly, [Vol. I, p. 261-262]

The Five cosmic activities (kṛtyapañcaka) are:

1. the great creation (mahāsṛṣṭi),
2. the great maintenance (mahāsthiti),
3. the great destruction (mahāpralaya),
4. the obscuration (tirodhāna) [due to his anger] and
5. the grace (anugraha).

Note: During the worldly activity [vyavahāra], the Lord creates (sṛj-) unity with this or that subject, destroys (saṃhṛ-) unity with [such] other subject, carries out [the cosmic operation of] maintenance (sthiti) with respect to that which consists of a simple [object] such as the pot, etc., imposes obscuration (tirobhāva) by obliterating its complete nature, [and] produces grace (anugraha) by conferring completeness by the manifestation of unity in this particular manifestation. Therefore, the Lord exercises the five [cosmic] activities (kṛtyapañcaka) not only in the great creations (mahāsṛṣṭi), the great maintenances (mahāsthiti), the great destructions (mahāpralaya), the obscurations (tirodhāna) due to [his] anger and the graces (anugraha) [granted on the occasion of] initiation, knowledge, etc., but still absolutely always (satatam eva), even in worldly activity (vyavahāra)”—([automatically translated from the French]).

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See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Kritya, Pancaka.

Full-text: Pancakritya, Mahasthiti, Mahasrishti, Tirodhana, Anugraha, Mahapralaya, Tirobhava, Sthiti, Vyavahara.

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