A variant spelling of ahamkara; in Hindu philosophy, the false sense of individual ego that prevents spiritual enlightenment and self-realization.
Alternate Sanskrit transliteration of the same root as ahamkara ('aham' = I, 'kara' = maker), representing the flexibility in how Sanskrit terms are romanized into English.
The different spellings (ahamkara vs. ahankara) show how tricky it is to transliterate Sanskrit into English—there's no perfect one-to-one match for sounds, so scholars use different systems. But they mean the exact same deep philosophical idea about ego blocking enlightenment.
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