mūlatva | मूलत्व | mUlatva
mūla—tva | मूल—त्व | n. the state of being a root or foundation or source, the having a f˚ (tan-mūlatvāt prajānāṃ rājā skanḍaḥ | तन्-मूलत्वात् प्रजानां राजा स्कन्डः |, ‘the king is the stem of his subjects through their being his root’; veda-mūlatva | वेद-मूलत्व |, ‘the fact that the Veda is the original source of all knowledge’; ṣāstra-m˚ | षास्त्र-म्˚ |, ‘the being founded upon the Śāstras’), Kām. (cf. tan-m˚ | तन्-म्˚ |).