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Parashakti !Goddess Adi Parashakthi at Parashakthi Temple !Trident_Yantra_of_Parama_Siva|||Trishulabja Yantra used in Trika worship, Parashakti symbolizes central prong of Trident Parashakti (IAST: Paraśakti, Sanskrit: पराशक्ति) or Parā is one of the three chief goddesses in Trika system of Kashmir Shaivism along with Aparā and Parparā. In Siddhantic perspective, Parashakti is the counterpart of Paramshiva. Paramshiva is used to describe the ultimate form of Shiva. Parashakti is the power of this primordial Shiva, who is emanated by Paramshiva....

Pranagnihotra Upanishad devanagari प्राणाग्निहोत्र meaning The fire offering made to the Prana veda Atharvaveda verses 23 philosophy Vedanta The Pranagnihotra Upanishad (प्राणाग्निहोत्र उपनिषत्, IAST:Pranagnihotra Upaniṣad) is a minor Upanishad of Hinduism. In the anthology of 108 Upanishads of the Muktika canon, narrated by Rama to Hanuman, it is listed at number 94. The Sanskrit text is one of the 22 Samanya Upanishads, part of the Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy literature and is attached to the Atharva Veda....

Eli Marozzi !‘E Pluribus Unum’ by Eli Marozzi Nartanam, a cast white marble aggregate relief sculpture at the Tennent Art Foundation Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1958 The Cat, a concrete sculpture at Leeward Community College, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1970 As You Like It, terrazzo sculpture at Honolulu Stadium State Park, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1981 E Pluribus Unum, a white Vermont marble sculpture at President Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1982 Kuikahi, a terrazzo sculpture at Waianae High School, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1985 Eli Raphael Marozzi (1913–1999) was a sculptor, ceramist, teacher, and illustrator....

Khilani The Khilani (Sanskrit: खिलानि, Khilāni) are a collection of 98 “apocryphal” hymns of the Rigveda, recorded in the ’, but not in the ‘ shakha. They are late additions to the text of the Rigveda, but still belong to the “Mantra” period of Vedic Sanskrit, contemporary with the Atharvaveda, Yajurveda, and Samaveda, estimated to fall within the range of c. 1200–1000 BCE. The Khilāni hymns include the Śrī Sūkta, as well as the Kuntāpa hymns for the Mahāvrata ceremony, the New Year’s festival of the early Kuru Kingdom....

Atharvaveda dharma sanatan dharma language Vedic Sanskrit period c. undefined 1200–900 BCE chapters 20 kāṇḍas) verses 5,977 mantras The Atharva Veda (अथर्ववेदः, ’ from ‘ and veda, meaning “knowledge”) or Atharvana Veda (अथर्वणवेदः, is the “knowledge storehouse of atharvāṇas, the procedures for everyday life”. The text is the fourth Veda, and is a late addition to the Vedic scriptures of Hinduism. The language of the Atharvaveda is different from Vedic Sanskrit, preserving pre-Vedic Indo-European archaisms....

Racanā “The inferred one (pradhana) is not (the cause) owing to the impossibility of explaining the design, as also for other reasons.” Rachanā (Sanskrit: रचना) is derived from the root verb – रच् - meaning – to arrange. 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)....

Surya Upanishad devanagari सूर्य sanskrit_transliteration Sūrya meaning The Sun God, the Supreme Light type Samanya veda Atharvaveda The Surya Upanishad (सूर्य उपनिषत्), or Suryopanishad, is one of the minor Upanishads of Hinduism, written in Sanskrit language. It is among the 31 Upanishads associated with the Atharvaveda, and one of the Samanya Upanishads. In this Upanishad, Atharvangiras to whom the Atharvaveda is attributed, extols the virtues of Surya, the Sun god, calling him the ultimate truth and reality Brahman....

Krishnaism Krishnaism (IAST: Kṛṣṇaism) is a large group of independent Hindu traditions—sampradayas related to Vaishnavism—that center on the devotion to Krishna as Svayam Bhagavan, Ishvara, Para Brahman, the source of all reality, who is not an avatar of Vishnu. This is its difference from such Vaishnavite groupings as Sri Vaishnavism, Sadh Vaishnavism, Ramaism, Radhaism, Sitaism etc. There is also a personal Krishnaism, that is devotion to Krishna outside of any tradition and community, as in the case of the saint-poet Meera Bai....

Swami Vivekananda name Vivekananda honorific prefix Swami birth_date January 12, 1863 birth_place Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India, (present-day Kolkata, West Bengal, India) birth_name Narendranath Datta death_date July 4, 1902 death_place Belur Math, Bengal Presidency, British India, (present-day West Bengal, India) alma_mater University of Calcutta (BA) guru Ramakrishna disciples Ashokananda · Virajananda · Paramananda · Alasinga Perumal · Abhayananda · Sister Nivedita · Swami Sadananda citizenship British subject religion Hinduism philosophy Neo-Vedanta , Rāja yoga founder Ramakrishna Mission (1897), , Ramakrishna Math literary_works Raja Yoga, , Karma Yoga, , Bhakti Yoga, , Jnana Yoga, , My Master, , Lectures from Colombo to Almora era Modern philosophy, * 19th-century philosophy region Eastern philosophy, * Indian philosophy native_name স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ influences Tagore, , Ramakrishna, , Sen, , Spencer Swami Vivekananda (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna....

Kundalini yoga !Oriental_MS_Indic_beta_511_Wellcome_L0029118 Kundalini yoga derives from kundalini, defined in tantra as energy that lies within the body, frequently at the navel or the base of the spine. In normative tantric systems, kundalini is considered to be dormant until it is activated (as by the practice of yoga) and channeled upward through the central channel in a process of spiritual perfection. Other schools, such as Kashmir Shaivism, teach that there are multiple kundalini energies in different parts of the body which are active and do not require awakening....

Dwarkadhish Kankroli name Dwarkadhish Temple, Kankroli country India state Rajasthan district Rajsamand location Kankroli deity Dwarkadhish (form of Krishna) festivals Janmashtami, Holi, Diwalietc. architecture Rajputana year_completed 1676 creator Maharana of Mewar, Goswami GirdharJi website http://www.shrinathjihelpline.com/dwarkadhish-temple-rajsamand-nathdwara.html !Dwarkadhish Temple Gate Kankroli.pdf|||Dwarkadhish Temple Gate, Kankroli Dwarkadhish Ji is a Hindu Temple, situated on the southern bank of the Rajsamand lake in Kankroli. The temple commands a very fine view of the lake. This temple is temple is dedicated to Dwarkadhish Ji, one of the seven swaroops of Pushtimarg of Vallabhacharya....

Shuddhadvaita !Shri mahaprabhuji Shuddadvaita (Sanskrit: “pure non-dualism”) is the “purely non-dual” philosophy propounded by Vallabhacharya (1479-1531 CE), the founding philosopher and guru of the (“tradition of Vallabh”) or (“The path of grace”), a Hindu Vaishnava tradition focused on the worship of Krishna. Vallabhacharya’s pure form (nondualist) philosophy is different from Advaita. The Shrinathji temple at Nathdwara, and compositions of eight poets, including Surdas, are central to the worship by the followers of the sect....

Kalagni Rudra Upanishad name kālāgnirudra devanagari कालाग्निरुद्र sanskrit_transliteration Kālāgni Rudrā meaning Shiva (composite of Agni and Rudra) type Shaiva veda Krishna Yajurveda chapters 2 The Kalagni Rudra Upanishad (कालाग्निरुद्र - उपनिषत्), is one of the minor Upanishads of Hinduism, written in the Sanskrit language. It is attached to the Krishna Yajurveda. It is one of 14 Shaiva Upanishads. The Upanishad is a discourse by Kalagni Rudra (Shiva) to sage Sanatkumara on the Tripundra, the Shaiva sectarian tilaka consisting of three horizontal lines of sacred ash on the forehead....

Hamsa Upanishad name Hamsa devanagari हंस meaning Swan composition_date 2nd millennium common era type Yoga veda Shukla Yajurveda chapters 11 philosophy Tantra, Shaktism, Yoga The Hamsa Upanishad (हंसोपनिषद्) is a Sanskrit text and a minor Upanishad of Hinduism. It is classified as one of the twenty Yoga Upanishads, and attached to the Shukla Yajurveda. The text or parts of the text is a relatively late origin, probably from the 2nd-millennium of the common era, but written before early 17th-century, because Dara Shikoh included it in the Persian translation of the Upanishads as Oupanekhat, spelling it as Hensnad (Hamsa-nada)....

Sanskritism Sanskritism is a term used to indicate words that are coined out of Sanskrit for modern usage in India, in Sri Lanka and elsewhere or for neologisms. These terms are similar in nature to taxon terms coined from Latin and Greek. References Influence of Sanskritisms in Sinhala