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Angarki Sankashti Chaturthi holiday_name Angarika Sankashti Chaturthi type Hindu longtype Maharashtra Hindu observedby Hindus date Krishna paksha chaturthi in Hindu lunar calendar coming on Tuesday (fourth day of the dark half of moon’s cycle during Every month), decided by Hindu calendar (lunar calendar) date2013 1 January, 28 May and 22 October date2014 18 February,15 July,9 December date2019 17 September celebrations Fast and Pooja Angarika Chaturth (अंगारिका चतुर्थी) is a Sankashti Chaturthi falling on Tuesday....

Ankia Naat Ankia Naats (অংকীয়া নাট) are a class of one act plays performed in Assam, India. The invention of the Ankia Naat is usually attributed to the medieval saint and social reformer Srimanta Sankardeva. These plays were written in an artificial old medieval period poetic Assamese mixed language called Brajavali and are primarily centered on Krishna. A particular presentation of an Ankia Naat is called a Bhaona. The plays usually combine live instruments and singers, dance and elaborate costumes in production....

Annapurna Upanishad devanagari अन्नपूर्णा sanskrit_transliteration Annapūrṇā meaning Abundance of food veda Atharvaveda type Samanya (general) chapters 5 verses 337 philosophy Vedanta The Annapurna Upanishad (अन्नपूर्णा उपनिषद्, IAST: Annapūrṇā Upaniṣad) is a Sanskrit text and one of the minor Upanishads of Hinduism. It is classified as a Samanya Upanishads and attached to the Atharvaveda. The text is structured into five chapters, as a discourse between yogin Nidagha and Vedic sage Ribhu. The first chapter presents a series of questions such as “Who am I?...

Anubandha chatushtaya Anubandha chatushtaya (Sanskrit: अनुबन्ध चतुष्टय) literally means four connections, and therefore, it is four-fold in nature and content viz, – a) adhikāri (’the qualified student’) who has developed ekāgrata (‘single pointed mind’), chitta shuddhi (‘purity of the mind’) and vikshepa (‘freedom from restlessness and impurity’) or adhikāra (aptitude); b) vishaya (‘subject matter’ or ’the theme’) pertaining to the Jiva-Brahman identity; c) prayojana or * phalasruti* (‘result’ or ‘fruit’) which is atyantika-dukha-nivritti (‘complete cessation of sorrow’) and paramānanda-prāpti (‘attainment of supreme happiness’), and d) sambandha (‘relationship’ or ‘intertextuality’) between adhikāra, vishaya and prayojana....

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....

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....

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....

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”....

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....

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....

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)....

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....

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....

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....

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....