What is "rachana"

Rachanā ( 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), '' kāvya-rachana '' (poetic composition), anvaya-rachana (indeclinable/undistributable middle sentence construction).

Proponents of Advaita Vedanta use this term to refer to the composition or structure of Brahman; Shankara explains that Brahman cannot be described by any name or form, the mind cannot think about Its composition (rachana). Even Badarayana in his 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).

Rachana is a genus of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.

Rachana is a 1983 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Mohan and produced by Sivan Kunnampilly. The film stars Srividya, Nedumudi Venu, Bharath Gopi and Mammootty in lead roles. The film had musical score by MB Sreenivasan. Bharath Gopi won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film.