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Parasurama Kalpasutra Parasurama Kalpasutra (Paraśurāma Kalpasūtra | Sanskrit: परशुरामकल्पसूत्रम्), is a Shakta Agama), Hindu text on Shri Vidya practices as per Kaula) tradition and is said to be authored by Parasurama, the fifth avatar of Lord Vishnu and a disciple of Guru Dattatreya. It is a sacred text for the Shri Vidya worshippers of Goddess Lalita Devi, who is considered to be a manifestation of the Divine Mother (Shakti), and the text is therefore used in the worship of Ganesha, Bala Tripurasundari, Raja Shyamala, Varahi as well....

Pariṇāmavāda Pariṇāmavāda (परिणामवाद), known in English as Transformation theory, is a Hindu philosophical theory which pre-supposes the cause to be continually transforming itself into its effects, and it has three variations – the Satkarya-vada of the Samkhyas, the Prakrti Parinama-vada of the Saiva Siddhanta and the Brahma-Parinama-vada of the Vishishtadvaita Vedanta School of Thought. Overview In Indian philosophy, there are basically three major cosmological theories of origination – 1) Arambha-vada (the theory of atomic agglomeration, based on the theory of Asatkarya-vada that the effect, which is something newly produced, does not exist in the cause), 2) Parinama-vada (the theory of real transformation, based on satkarya-vada that the effect, though phenomenally different, is substantially identical with the cause, and pre-exists latently in it), and 3) Vivartavada (the theory of apparent transformation or of false appearance)....

Pariśiṣṭa (Devanagari: परिशिष्ट, “supplement, appendix, remainder”) are Sanskrit supplementary texts appended to another fixed, more ancient text – typically the Vedic literature – that aim to “tell what remains to be told”. These have style of sutras, but less concise. According to Max Mueller, the parisista of the Vedas, “may be considered the very last outskirts of Vedic literature, but they are Vedic in character, and it would be difficult to account for their origin at any time except the expiring moments of the Vedic age....

Parvati type Hindu name Parvati script_name Devanagari script पार्वती sanskrit_transliteration Pārvatī affiliation Mahadevi, Tridevi, Sati), Durga, Kali, Mahakali, Tripura Sundari siblings Ganga (elder sister) (Ramayana), , Vishnu (ceremonial brother), , Mainaka (elder brother) deity_of Mother Goddess Goddess of Power, Nourishment, Devotion, Motherhood, Fertility, and Harmony , Para Brahman, the Supreme Being abode Mount Kailash, Manidvipa consort Shiva parents Himavan (father), , Maināvati (mother) children Ganesha (son), Kartikeya (son), Ashok Sundari (daughter) mount Lion and Tiger mantra Om Pārvatyāi Namaha festivals Navaratri, Vijayadashami, Teej, Gowri Habba, Durga Puja, Kali Puja member_of Tridevi other_names Sati, Uma, Gauri, Durga, Kali, Aparna, Girija, Haimavati, Shankari, Maheshvari, Shakti, Adishakti, Parashakti, Adiparashakti texts Devi-Bhagavata Purana, Devi Mahatmya, Kalika Purana, Shakta Upanishads, Tantras Parvati (पार्वती, ), Uma (उमा, ) or Gauri (गौरी, ) is the Hindu goddess of power, energy, nourishment, harmony, love, beauty, devotion, and motherhood....

Pasha (Hinduism) !Pasha Ganesha Pasha, often translated as “noose” or “lasso”, is a supernatural weapon) depicted in Hindu iconography. Hindu deities such as Ganesha, Yama and Varuna are depicted with the pasha in their hands. Pasha is a common attribute of Ganesha, the Lord of removing obstacles; a pasha represents his power to bind and free obstacles. Yama, the god of death, uses the Pasha to extract a soul from a being’s body at the time of death....

Pashupatabrahma Upanishad devanagari पाशुपतब्रह्मोपनिषत् sanskrit_transliteration Pāśupatabrahmā meaning Creator lord of all animals type Yoga veda Atharvaveda chapters 2, Purva and Uttara verses 78 philosophy Yoga, Vedanta The Pashupatabrahma Upanishad (पाशुपतिब्रह्म उपनिषत्), also called Pasupathabrahmopanishad, is a minor Upanishadic text written in Sanskrit. It is one of the 31 Upanishads attached to the Atharvaveda, and is classified as one of the 20 Yoga Upanishads. In the Telugu language anthology of 108 Upanishads of the Muktika canon, narrated by Rama to Hanuman, it is listed by Paul Deussen – a German Indologist and professor of philosophy, at number 77....

Patanjali !Patañjali11 The author of the Mahābhāṣya, an ancient treatise on Sanskrit grammar and linguistics, based on the Aṣṭādhyāyī#Ashtadhyayi) of Pāṇini. This Patañjali’s life is dated to mid 2nd century BCE by both Western and Indian scholars. This text was titled as a bhashya or “commentary” on Kātyāyana-Pāṇini’s work by Patanjali, but is so revered in the Indian traditions that it is widely known simply as Mahā-bhasya or “Great commentary”. As per Ganesh Sripad Huparikar, actually, Patanjali (2nd century BCE), the forerunner among ancient grammatical commentators, “adopted an etymological and dialectical method of explaining in the whole of his ‘Mahābhāshya’ (Great Commentary), and this has assumed, in the later commentary literature the definite form of ‘Khanda-anvaya’....

Pavitra Pavitra (January 16, 1894 – May 16, 1969) (from the Sanskrit word for “pure”) was one of the very early disciples of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. The name was one of Srimati Radharani’s 1000 names. Early life He was born Philippe Barbier Saint-Hilaire in Paris. In 1914, he graduated from the Ècole Polytechnique with a degree in Engineering. He served in the army in World War I as an artillery officer, and after the war worked as a junior engineer in Paris, at the Ministry of transport and communication....

Peter Heehs birth_date 1948 (age 75) nationality American occupation Historian Peter Heehs (born 1948) is an American historian living in Puducherry, India who writes on modern Indian history, spirituality and religion. Much of his work focuses on the Indian freedom fighter and spiritual leader Sri Aurobindo. His publications include twelve books and more than sixty articles in journals and magazines. Biography Peter Heehs was born and educated in the United States but has lived in India since 1971....

Philosophy of experience (Hinduism) The Upanishadic philosophy of experience expounded by Gaudapada is based on the cryptic references made by the sage of the Mandukya Upanishad to the experience of the individual self of its own apparent manifestations in the three fundamental states of consciousness, and to the Fourth known as Turiya. Turiya is identified with “that goal which all the Vedas declare” - सर्वे वेदा यत् पदमानन्ति (Katha Upanishad I....

Phulhar name Phulhar native_name फुलहर native_name_lang mai settlement_type Village founder Janaka population_est 6315 population_total 5638 postal_code 8472 pop_est_as_of 2022 governing_body Gram panchayat government_type State seat Government of Bihar name Phulhar native_name राजा जनक के फुलवारी native_language Maithili location Phulhar village, Harlakhi, Madhubani district built Janaka built_for Worshiping at Girja Sthan Mandir architect Hinduism architecture Hinduism Phulhar is an ancient historical site in Madhubani district of Mithila region of Bihar, India. It is the place where Lord Rama and Goddess Sita first time met....

Pillaiyar Suḻi !Pillayar Suli Pillaiyar Suḻi (பிள்ளையார் சுழி), also rendered Ganesha’s curl, is sacred textual symbol. Various Tamil Hindus usually write it at the beginning of diaries, notebooks, and invitations before writing anything new. It is primarily found in South India and Sri Lanka. It is dedicated to deity Ganesha, who believed that the Pillaiyar Suḻi symbolises an auspicious beginning. It is similar to the Tamil and Malayalam letter உ,ഉ(u). Ganesha is ritually worshiped first with prayers for success in various traditions of Hinduism....

Political history of Sri Aurobindo !Sri Aurobindo presiding over a meeting of the Nationalists after the Surat Congress, with Tilak speaking, 1907 Aurobindo’s political career lasted only four years, from 1906 to 1910. Though he had been active behind the scene surveying, organizing and supporting the nationalist cause, ever since his return to India, especially during his excursions to Bengal. This period of his activity from 1906-1910 saw a complete transformation of India’s political scene....

Pompeii Lakshmi name Pompeii Yakshi image_caption An ivory statuette of Lakshmi (1st century CE), found in the ruins of Pompeii material Ivory discovered_place Pompeii discovered_date c. 1930–1938 location Secret Museum, Naples, Italy id 149425 height 24.5cm The Pompeii Lakshmi is an ivory statuette that was discovered in the ruins of Pompeii, a Roman city destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 79 CE. It was found by Amedeo Maiuri, an Italian scholar, in 1938....

Prachetas !The Prachetas paying homage to Shiva It is an epithet of Varuna. It is a name of one of the ten Prajapatis, the son of Suvarna, a law giver. It is the name of the grandson of the sage Marichi It is the designation for a group of beings in the Vedas It is the collective term for the ten great-grandsons of Prithu Pracetas (Sanskrit: प्रचेतस्) is a term in Hindu mythology with a number of definitions: Vedas (गिर्वणः इन्द्र) Praise-worthy Lord !...