Rachanā, derived from the Sanskrit root रच् (rac), means 'to arrange'. It signifies arrangement, preparation, disposition, formation, creation, production, performance, completion, array of troops, literary work, a creation of the mind, contrivance, and invention. Examples include chitra-rachana (drawing/painting), kāvya-rachana (poetic composition), and anvaya-rachana (indeclinable/undistributable middle sentence construction). In Advaita Vedanta, it refers to the composition or structure of Br...