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Bahvricha Upanishad devanagari बह्वृच sanskrit_transliteration Bahvṛca meaning One conversant with Rigveda composition_date 12th- to 15th-century CE veda Rigveda type Shakta chapters 1 verses 9 philosophy Shaktism, Vedanta The Bahvricha Upanishad (बह्वृच उपनिषद्, IAST: Bahvṛca Upaniṣad) is a medieval era Sanskrit text and one of the minor Upanishads of Hinduism. It is classified as one of the eight Shakta Upanishads and attached to the Rigveda. The Upanishad is notable for asserting that the Self (soul, Atman) is a Goddess who alone existed before the creation of the universe....

Preṣya yoga Preṣya yoga (Sanskrit: प्रेष्य योग) is a planetary combination in Hindu astrology. A person born with preshya yoga is poor, unhappy and uneducated. He hears harsh words from others and works in slavery throughout his life. The term comes from the Sanskrit word preṣya which means “servant.” Vedic usage In Aitareya Brahmana, the term *preṣya * occurs in the sense of a menial servant, Śudra or a slave employed for being sent on an errand....

Rama tapaniya Upanishad devanagari राम तापनीय sanskrit_transliteration Rāma Tāpanīya meaning Upanishad of the penance towards Rama composition_date 11th- to 16th-century type Vaishnava veda Atharvaveda chapters 2 verses 94 in Rama Purva, 5 prose sections in Rama Uttara philosophy Vaishnava name Rama Tapaniya Upanishad The Rama Tapaniya Upanishad (राम तापनीय उपनिषत्) also called Ramatapaniyopanishad (रामतापिनियोपनिषत्) is a minor Upanishadic text written in Sanskrit. It is one of the 31 Upanishads attached to the Atharvaveda, and is classified as a Vaishnava Upanishad....

Hanuman Chalisa name Hanuman Chalisa author Tulsidas title_orig Shubham Krishnatray religion Hinduism language Awadhi language genre Bhakti literature (Devotional poetry) verses 40 The Hanuman Chalisa (Forty chaupais) on Hanuman) is a Hindu devotional hymn (stotra) in praise of Hanuman. It was authored by Tulsidas in the Awadhi language, and is his best known text apart from the Ramcharitmanas. Apart from Awadhi, the Hanuman Chalisa is also available in various languages including Sanskrit, Kannada, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Punjabi and Bengali....

Nyāya Sūtras !4 Pramanas, epistemology according to ancient Nyayasutras The Nyāya Sūtras is an ancient Indian Sanskrit text composed by , and the foundational text of the Nyaya school of Hindu philosophy. The date when the text was composed, and the biography of its author is unknown, but variously estimated between 6th-century BCE and 2nd-century CE. The text may have been composed by more than one author, over a period of time....

Ketumati Ketumati (Ch’ih-t’ou) is a legendary place in some Buddhist traditions viewed as the earthly paradise of the prophesied figure called Maitreya, who is the future Buddha). Devotees of Maitreya believe that the kingdom is a pure land where Maitreya and his future parents will preside upon his descent from the Tusita Heaven to Earth. They believe that he will also bring a utopian era upon his devotees. Ketumati is sometimes associated with the city of Banaras in Uttar Pradesh, India....

Autobiography of a Yogi name Autobiography of a Yogi author Paramahansa Yogananda country India and the United States language Hindi, English subject Autobiography, memoir genre Non-fiction publisher The Philosophical Library release_date 1946 media_type Print (Hardback) Autobiography of a Yogi is an autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda (5 January 1893 – 7 March 1952) first published in 1946. Paramahansa Yogananda was born as Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur, India, into a Bengali Hindu family....

Govardhan Hill !Govardhan hill, Govardhan Govardhan Hill (गोवर्धन पर्वत; ; Pronunciation: [ɡoʋəɾdʱən]), also called Mount Govardhana and Giriraj, is a sacred Hindu site in the Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh, India on an 8 km long hill located in the area of Govardhan and Radha Kund, which is about 21 km from Vrindavan. It is the sacred centre of Braj and is identified as a natural form of Krishna, the Govardhana Shila....

List of characters in Ramayana !2016 Singapur, Rochor, Świątynia Sri Krishnan (21).jpg?width=300) Ramayana is one of the two major Sanskrit ancient epics (Itihasas) of Hindu literature. It was composed by sage Valmiki. This is a list of important characters that appear in the epic. Agastya Agastya was a son of sage Pulastya and brother of sage Vishrava. He was an uncle of Ravana. Agastya and his wife Lopamudra met Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana during their exile and gave them a divine bow and arrow....

Dewa people of Sri Lanka According to the Mahavamsa and Ramayana they lived among the Naga, Yakkha and Raskha. They ousted their arch enemies the Raskha from Sri Lanka, with the help of Lord Vishnu. They were then subsequently conquered by King Ravana of the Raskha. After the Yakkhas had left to live in the mountains and remote dense forests, they met Gautama Buddha who converted them to Buddhism. According to the Mahavansa, Gautama Buddha meet the Dewa at Mahiyangana....

Padma (Vishnu) type Hindu affiliation Vaishnavism script पद्म script_name Devanagari texts Vishnu Purana Padma (पद्म) is one of the four attributes borne by Vishnu in his iconography. It is associated with Vishnu’s abode upon water, as well as his role in creation and birth. Mythology In the Vishnu Purana, in the beginning of time, Brahma is described to have been created within a lotus blooming from the navel of Vishnu. The padma is hence prominent in the Vaishnava narrative of cosmogony, where Brahma is instructed by Vishnu to start generating the universe and the rest of creation....

Anupalabdhi Anupalabdhi (Sanskrit: अनुपलब्धि) means ’non-recognition’, ’non-perception’. This word refers to the Pramana of Non-perception which consists in the presentative knowledge of negative facts. Hinduism Anupalabdhi or abhāvapramāṇa is the Pramana of Non-perception admitted by Kumārila for the perception of non-existence of a thing. He holds that the non-existence of a thing cannot be perceived by the senses for there is nothing with which the senses could come into contact in order to perceive the non-existence....

Manidvipa Manidvipa (मणिद्वीप; ) is the celestial abode of Adi Shakti, the supreme goddess, according to the Shaktism tradition in Hinduism. It is an island situated in the middle of an ocean called the Sudha Samudra (the ocean of nectar). In the Devi Bhagavata Purana, Manidvipa is portrayed as the Sarvaloka, the highest world, superior to Goloka, the realm of Krishna, Vaikuntha, the realm of Vishnu and Lakshmi, Kailasa, the realm of Shiva and Parvati, and Brahmaloka, the realm of Brahma and Saraswati....

Indo-Aryan superstrate in Mitanni Some loanwords in the variant of the Hurrian language spoken in the Mitanni kingdom, during the 2nd millennium BCE, are identifiable as originating in an Indo-Aryan language; these are considered to constitute an Indo-Aryan superstrate in Mitanni (or in Mitanni Hurrian). The words in question are theonyms, proper names and technical terminology related to horses (hippological). It is generally believed that a militarily powerful, nomadic Indo-Aryan elite, known as the Maryannu, settled in Mitanni, and came to politically dominate the indigenous population, while also adopting the Hurrian language....

Nimbarka Sampradaya group Nimbarka image_caption Shankha-Chakra-Urdhvapundra of the Nimbarka Sampradaya founder Nimbarkacharya regions India & Nepal languages Sanskrit, Hindi, Brajbhasha The Nimbarka Sampradaya (IAST: Nimbārka Sampradāya, Sanskrit निम्बार्क सम्प्रदाय), also known as the Hamsa Sampradāya, and Sanakādi Sampradāya (सनकादि सम्प्रदाय), is one of the four Vaishnavism Sampradāyas. It was founded by Nimbarka, a Telugu Brahmin yogi and philosopher. It propounds the Vaishnava Bhedabheda theology of Dvaitadvaita (dvaita-advaita) or dualistic non-dualism. Dvaitadvaita states that humans are both different and non-different from Isvara, God or Supreme Being....