Dictionary: Anukramaṇī

Anukramaṇī The Anukramaṇī (अनुक्रमणी, ) (also ) are the systematic indices of Vedic hymns recording poetic meter, content, and traditions of authorship. Anukramanis of the Rigveda “the editors of the lists of authors […] [possessed] a correct notion of the families associated with these Mandalas [the Rigvedic “family books” 2–7], possibly rooted in tradition. Beyond this, they do not betray as much as the slightest sign of any genuine tradition on the hymn authors....

February 15, 2023 · 2 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Anusvara

Anusvara char ं name Anusvara Anusvara (Sanskrit: अनुस्वार ) is a symbol used in many Indic scripts to mark a type of nasal sound, typically transliterated. Depending on its location in the word and the language for which it is used, its exact pronunciation can vary. In the context of ancient Sanskrit, anusvara is the name of the particular nasal sound itself, regardless of written representation. Sanskrit In Vedic Sanskrit, the anusvāra (lit....

February 15, 2023 · 8 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Anuvyavasaya

Anuvyavasaya Anuvyavasāya (Sanskrit:अनुव्यवसाय) is derived from anu (‘after’) + vyavasāya (‘contact’) – which means - ‘after contact’ or ‘self reflective cognition’ or ‘cognition of a cognition’. Abhinavagupta has used this term to designate the re-presentation of what has been presented repeatedly as a dramatic representation. In Yoga psychology, it refers to the function of the mind in its intelligent (sāttvika) aspect by which the sensations (due to the sense-object contact ālochana) are associated, differentiated, integrated, and assimilated into precepts and concepts; it refers to the creative faculty of the mind, and also accepted by Dignāga and Dharmakirti of the Yogacara and the Sautrāntika schools of Buddhism respectively....

February 15, 2023 · 3 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Anvaya

Anvaya Anvaya refers to the logical connection of words, as to how different words relate with each other to convey a significant meaning or idea. Literally, Anvaya (Sanskrit: अन्वय) means - positive; affirmative or nexus; but in grammar and logic this word refers to - ‘concordance’ or ‘agreement’, such as the agreement which exists between two things that are present, as between ‘smoke’ and ‘fire’, it is universally known that - “where there is smoke, there is fire”....

February 15, 2023 · 4 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Anviksiki

Anviksiki Ānvīkṣikī is a term in Sanskrit denoting roughly the “science of inquiry” and it should have been recognized in India as a distinct branch of learning as early as 650 BCE. However, over the centuries its meaning and import have undergone considerable variations. In the earliest period, the term was used to denote Atma-vidya, the science of the soul, in contrast to Adhyatma-vidya, the spiritual science, or Brahma-vidya, the divine science....

February 15, 2023 · 3 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Ap (water)

Ap (water) Ap (’) is the Vedic Sanskrit term for “water”, which in Classical Sanskrit only occurs in the plural (sometimes re-analysed as a thematic singular, ‘), whence Hindi . The term is from PIE “water”. The Indo-Iranian word also survives as the Persian word for water, āb, e.g. in Punjab (from panj-āb “five waters”). In archaic ablauting contractions, the laryngeal of the PIE root remains visible in Vedic Sanskrit, e....

February 15, 2023 · 2 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Aparoksha

Aparoksha Aparoksha (Sanskrit: अपरोक्ष), a Sanskrit adjective meaning not invisible or perceptible, refers to direct intuitive knowledge) which is one of the seven stages of knowledge or conditions of Chidabhasa, the first three being the sources of bondage and the rest four being the processes of liberation; and to the continuation of the deepening of conventional knowledge. It removes sorrows. According to Indian philosophy, the three traditional kinds of knowledge are – pratyaksha (empirical), paroksha (conventional, universal) and aparoksha (transcendental)....

February 15, 2023 · 2 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Apris

Apris Apri () in Sanskrit means “conciliation, propitiation” and refers to special invocations spoken previous to the offering of oblations in an animal sacrifice. Some scholars have proposed however, that these hymns were originally meant for a family ritual centered around Agni, which was then later connected to the animal sacrifice. Aprisuktas 1.13 1.142 1.188 2.3 3.4 5.5 7.2 9.5 10.70 10.110 Of the ten Aprisuktas mentioned in Gargya Narayana’s commentary, I....

February 15, 2023 · 1 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Apurva

Apurva Apurva, also spelled as Apoorv, in Vedanta philosophy is the performative element of an injunction that justifies ritualistic acts and their results. As an explanatory concept it serves as a mediator. Meaning The Sanskrit word in its common usage means ‘one of a kind’, ‘unique’, ’like none-other’, ’like never before’ or ‘unprecedented’, it is something not foreseen, unpreceded, unprecedented, never seen before; in brief it means that which did not exist before or is newly born....

February 15, 2023 · 5 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Araṇya-Kāṇḍa

Araṇya-Kāṇḍa !Ravi Varma-Ravana Sita Jathayu Araṇya-Kāṇḍa, or The Forest Episode, is the third book of the epic poem Ramayana. It is also found in the Rāmcaritmānas. It follows the legend of Rama through his fourteen-year exile in the forest, joined by his wife and his brother. Rama overcomes challenges and demons by upholding standards of behavior. Nearing the end of his exile, Rama’s wife Sita is kidnapped by the demon king Ravana and Rama learns of what happened....

February 15, 2023 · 5 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Archi (Hindu goddess)

Archi (Hindu goddess) !Halebid04 Archi (Sanskrit: अर्ची, Arcī, lit. “adored”) is a queen, and an earthly avatar of Lakshmi in Hindu mythology. According to the Bhagavata Purana, Archi emerges from Vena’s) body, along with her husband, King Prithu, each of them incarnations of Lakshmi and Vishnu, respectively. As consort, she followed her husband into the forest for sannyasa. When he passed away, she dutifully self-immolates) herself on his funeral pyre: “the Queen executed the necessary funerary functions and offered oblations of water....

February 15, 2023 · 1 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days name Around the World in Eighty Days author Jules Verne title_orig Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours illustrator Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville and Léon Benett country France language French series The Extraordinary Voyages #11 genre Adventure novel publisher Le Temps) (as serial) , Pierre-Jules Hetzel (book form) release_date 1872 (as serial), January 30, 1873 english_pub_date 1873 preceded_by The Fur Country followed_by The Mysterious Island wikisource Around the World in Eighty Days Around the World in Eighty Days (Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872....

February 15, 2023 · 20 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Aruneya Upanishad

Aruneya Upanishad name Aruneya/Aruni devanagari अारुणेय/अरुणी sanskrit_transliteration Āruṇeya/Āruṇeyī meaning Name of the Sage Aruni composition_date 1st millennium BCE type Sannyasa veda Samaveda chapters 1 verses 5 Aruneya Upanishad (Sanskrit : आरुणेय उपनिषद्) is a minor Upanishad in the corpus of the 108 Upanishads of Hinduism. It is written in Sanskrit. It is one of the 16 Upanishads attached to the Samaveda. It is classified as a Sannyasa Upanishad. It deals with the cultural phenomenon of a Sannyasi (Hindu monk), a practitioner of Sannyasa or renunciation....

February 15, 2023 · 5 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Aryan

Aryan Aryan or Arya (Indo-Iranian arya) is a term originally used as an ethnocultural self-designation by Indo-Iranians in ancient times, in contrast to the nearby outsiders known as ’non-Aryan’ (an-arya). In Ancient India, the term ā́rya was used by the Indo-Aryan speakers of the Vedic period as an endonym (self-designation) and in reference to a region known as Āryāvarta (‘abode of the Aryas’), where the Indo-Aryan culture emerged. In the Avesta scriptures, ancient Iranian peoples similarly used the term airya to designate themselves as an ethnic group, and in reference to their mythical homeland, Airyanǝm Vaēǰō (’expanse of the Aryas’ or ‘stretch of the Aryas’)....

February 15, 2023 · 24 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Ashta Lakshmi

Ashta Lakshmi type Hindu name Ashta Lakshmi devanagari अष्टलक्ष्मी affiliation Lakshmi, Sri Vaishnavism, Mahadevi god_of Goddess of Prosperity Supreme Goddess in Vaishnavism abode Vaikuntha, Manidvipa mantra oṁ aim hrīṁ śrīṁ mahālakṣmyai namo namaḥ weapon Khanda (sword), Bow and Arrow, Trishula (Trident), Chakra (discus), Gada (mace), Ankusha (goad) and Shield consort Vishnu mount Lotus, owl, eagle, lion, elephant Ashta Lakshmi (Sanskrit: अष्टलक्ष्मी, IAST: Aṣṭalakṣmī; lit. “Octet of Lakshmi”) or Ashtalakshmi, is a group of the eight manifestations of Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of prosperity....

February 15, 2023 · 7 min · TheAum