Devīsūkta This article is about the Devīsūktam in the Ṛgveda. This is different from Devisuktam/ Chandipath) in Durgāsaptaśatī of Mārkaṃḍeyapurāṇa. The , also called the , is the 125th (hymn) occurring in the 10th mandala of the Rigveda. In the present day, the ’ is popularly chanted during the worship of the ‘ (Universal Goddess in any form), in the daily rituals of temples, and also in various Vedic sacrificial ceremonies like ‘, etc....
Devīsūktam (Chandipatha) !1853 sketch of Durga Mahishasura mardini in 6th century Ravana Phadi Hindu cave temple, Aihole Karnataka (1).jpg?width=300) The Devīsūktam (Sanskrit: दॆवीसूक्तम्), also popularly called as the Caṇḍīpāṭha (चण्डीपाठ) or the Taṃtroktadevīsūktam (तंत्रॊक्तदेवीसूक्तम्), is a hymnal text that occurs in the 5th chapter of the Devīmāhātmyam (दॆवीमाहात्म्यम्), also known as Durgāsaptaśatī (दुर्गासप्तशती). The Devīmāhātmyam, in turn, forms a part of the Sāvarṇikamanvantara Section (सावर्णिकमन्वन्तर, Chapters 77 - 90) of the Mārkaṃḍeyapurāṇa (मार्कंडेयपुराण)....
Dewi Sri name Dewi Sri grouping Goddess sub_grouping Immortality country Indonesia region Java, Bali, Lombok Dewi Sri or Shridevi (Javanese: ꦢꦺꦮꦶꦱꦿꦶ, Balinese: ᬤᬾᬯᬶᬲ᭄ᬭᬶ, Dewi Sri, Sundanese: ᮑᮄ ᮕᮧᮠᮎᮤ ᮞᮀᮠᮡᮀ ᮃᮞᮢᮤ, Nyai Pohaci Sanghyang Asri) is the Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese Hindu Goddess of rice and fertility, still widely worshiped on the islands of Java), Bali and Lombok, Indonesia. History and origin !COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Beeld van Dewi Sri de rijstgodin TMnr 60016918|||Ancient statue of Dewi Sri The cult of the rice goddess has its origin in the prehistoric domestication, development and propagation of rice cultivation in Asia, possibly brought by Austroasiatic or Austronesian population that finally migrated and settled in the archipelago....
Dhanurveda author Bhrigu or Vishvamitra or Bharadwaja language Sanskrit period 1100 – 800 BCE Dhanurveda (धनुर्वेद) is a Sanskrit treatise on warfare and archery, traditionally regarded as an upaveda attached to Yajurveda (1100 – 800 BCE) and attributed either to Bhrigu or Vishvamitra or Bharadwaja. It is one among the four upavedas to Vedas (along with Ayurveda, Gandharvaveda, and Sthāpatyaveda). History Dhanurveda, a section of the Vedas (1700 BCE – 1100 BCE), contains references to martial arts....
Dhi (Hindu thought) Dhi (Sanskrit: धी) is a Sanskrit word meaning ‘understanding’, ‘reflection’, ‘religious thought’, ‘mind’, ‘design’, ‘intelligence’, ‘opinion’, ‘meditation’, ‘imagination’, ’notion’, and ‘intellect’. This word is directly connected with the word Vāc (Sanskrit: वाच), meaning Speech, derived from Vac (Sanskrit: वच) meaning, ’to speak’. Dhi is the voiced Vāc or ‘Speech’, it is the thought-mind or intellect. Dhi also means ’to hold’ or ’to place’, and indicates the activity of the intellect....
Dhyanabindu Upanishad name Dhyanabindu devanagari ध्यानबिन्दू sanskrit_transliteration Dhyānabindu meaning The point of meditation composition_date ~100 BCE to 300 CE type Yoga veda Samaveda or Atharvaveda chapters 1 verses varies by manuscript (~23 or 106) The Dhyanabindu Upanishad (Sanskrit: ध्यानबिन्दू उपनिषत्, IAST: Dhyānabindu Upaniṣad) is an ancient Sanskrit text and a minor Upanishad of Hinduism. It is one of twenty Yoga Upanishads in the four Vedas. The manuscripts of this Upanishad exist in two versions....
Digvijaya (conquest) Digvijaya, (Sanskrit: दिग्विजय; Dig:“Direction” and Vijaya:“Victory”), in India was originally a Sanskrit term that meant conquest of the “four quarters”, in a military or a moral context. In medieval times, it came to refer to the religious conquest by reputed founders of the major Hindu renunciate traditions, namely Madhva, Sankara, Chaitanya, and Vallabha. Military and moral conquest Digvijaya as a military conquest is often mentioned in Indian history and mythology, for example, the digvijaya of Bharata Chakravartin....
Dravidian folk religion !Dravidian - Tamil Folk Deity Aiyanar with his wives The early Dravidian religion constituted a non-Vedic form of Hinduism in that they were either historically or are at present Āgamic). The Agamas are non-Vedic in origin, and have been dated either as post-Vedic texts, or as pre-Vedic compositions. The Agamas are a collection of Tamil and Sanskrit scriptures chiefly constituting the methods of temple construction and creation of murti, worship means of deities, philosophical doctrines, meditative practices, attainment of sixfold desires and four kinds of yoga....
Dream Weaver name Dream Weaver cover Dreamweaver single.jpg type single artist Gary Wright album The Dream Weaver b-side Let It Out released December 1975 recorded 1975 length 4:17 (album version) 3:15 (single version) label Warner Bros. writer Gary Wright producer Gary Wright next_title Love Is Alive) next_year 1976 “Dream Weaver” is a song by the American singer Gary Wright, released as the first single from his third studio album The Dream Weaver in December 1975....
Drishti-srishti-vada Drishti-srishti-vada (Sanskrit: दृष्टिसृष्टिवाद) or ’the doctrine of creation through perception’, is an offshoot of Advaita Vedanta, which doctrine maintains that the perceived phenomenal world comes into existence only in the process of one’s observation of the world which is seen as a world of one’s own mental construction; having no objective reality, it exists only in his mind. Thus, mind is the cause of the universe and not the subtle cosmic elements; mind which is consciousness creates the world....
Dvaita Vedanta !Madhvacahrya Dvaita Vedanta ; (originally known as Tattvavada; IAST: Tattvavāda), is a sub-school in the Vedanta tradition of Hindu philosophy. The term Tattvavada literally means “arguments from a realist viewpoint”. The Tattvavada (Dvaita) Vedanta sub-school was founded by the 13th-century Indian philosopher-saint Madhvacharya. Madhvacharya believed in three entities: God, jiva (soul), and jada (maya, matter). The Dvaita Vedanta school believes that God and the individual souls (jīvātman) exist as independent realities, and these are distinct, being said that Vishnu (Narayana) is independent (svatantra), and souls are dependent (paratantra) on him....
Dwarbasini !Dwarbasini Dwarbasini (“দ্বারবাসিনী”) is a Shakti goddess. She is the form of goddess Durga. The Dwarbasini temple is situated on the bank of Dwarka River and at the end of Deucha-Boliharpur road. Here Dwarka River is flowing twords north, and according to tantra Dwarbasini is a shaktipith. Etymology From a folk story we get the name of ‘Raja Umacharan Roy ( Umeshcharan Sharma ) ‘, grandson of first priest Triloke Sharma....
Dwarka name Dwarka other_name Dvarka settlement_type City pushpin_map India Gujarat pushpin_label_position right coordinates 22.24639°N, 68.96667°W subdivision_type Country subdivision_name India subdivision_type1 State subdivision_name1 Gujarat subdivision_type2 Region subdivision_name2 Saurashtra) founder Krishna government_type Municipality governing_body Dwarka Municipality unit_pref Metric elevation_m 0 population_total 38,873 population_as_of 2011 population_density_km2 auto demographics_type1 Languages demographics1_title1 Official demographics1_info1 Gujarati timezone1 IST utc_offset1 +5:30 postal_code_type PIN postal_code 361335 registration_plate GJ-37 website https://devbhumidwarka.nic.in/ subdivision_type3 District subdivision_name3 Devbhoomi Dwarka Dwarka is a city and a municipality of Devbhumi Dwarka district in the state of Gujarat in Western India....
E. C. George Sudarshan name George Sudarshan image_size 245px birth_date September 16, 1931 death_date May 13, 2018 death_place Austin, Texas, United States birth_place Pallom, Travancore, British India alma_mater CMS College Kottayam Madras Christian College University of Madras University of Rochester doctoral_advisor Robert Marshak doctoral_students Mohammad Aslam Khan Khalil Narasimhaiengar Mukunda known_for Coherent states Optical equivalence theorem Glauber–Sudarshan representation GKSL equation V-A theory Tachyon Quantum Zeno effect Open quantum system Spin–statistics theorem field Theoretical physics work_institution University of Texas at Austin Indian Institute of Science Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai Harvard University University of Rochester Tata Institute of Fundamental Research prizes 2010 ICTP Dirac Medal spouse Lalita Rau (m....
Ekagrata Ekāgratā (एकाग्रता, “one-pointedness”; Pali: ekaggatā) is intent pursuit of one object, close and undisturbed attention. Yoga emphasises regular practice (Abhyasa) of meditation and self-imposed discipline to acquire. Overview The faculty called may be increased by integrating the psycho-mental flux ( or variously-directed, discontinuous, and diffuse attention) so that one gains genuine will and a happiness different from the experience of pleasure from sense-objects. It is harder to achieve if the body is in a tiring or uncomfortable posture or if the breathing is improper....