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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....

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....

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’)....

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....

Asi (Mahabharata) (Hindi: असि) appears as a personification of the first weapon ever created according to Hindu epics. ‘Asi’ means ‘sword’. A legend concerning Asi appears in the Shantiparva section of Mahabharata. In Rigvedic Sanskrit Asi is still used as a term for a kind of sacrificial dagger or knife. The common term for sword in Classical Sanskrit is and khanda) in Hindi. Frame narrative Out of curiosity Nakula, the fourth son of Pandu and the master of swordsmanship questioned the Kuru Grandsire Bhishma on his arrow death bed as to which was the best weapon in all kinds of fighting....

Ataptatanu Ataptatanū (अतप्ततनू) refers to someone who has not subjected himself to the heat of tapas). Etymology Ataptatanū** derives from atapta (अतप्त) which means - ’not heated, cool’ (from tapa (तप) meaning ’to burn, heat up’) and tanū (तनू) – means - ‘body, the physical self’; therefore, ataptatanū literally means – ‘he whose body or mass is not prepared in fire’, ‘raw’. History and meaning The compound word ataptatanū appears in the mantras of the Mandala 9 of the Rigveda....

Atharvashikha Upanishad name Atharvashikha Upanishad devanagari अथर्वशिखा उपनिषद् sanskrit_transliteration Atharvaśikhā Upaniṣad meaning Tip of the Atharvan composition_date 1st millennium BCE type Shaiva veda Atharvaveda chapters 2 The Atharvashikha Upanishad (IAST: ) is a Sanskrit text that is one of the minor Upanishads of Hinduism. It is among the 31 Upanishads associated with the Atharvaveda. It is classified as a Shaiva Upanishad, focussing on the destroyer god, Shiva. The text is composed through the voice of the Sage Atharvan, to whom the Atharvaveda is eponymously attributed....

Atharvashiras Upanishad name Atharvashiras devanagari अथर्वसिरस् sanskrit_transliteration Atharvaśiras meaning Main point of the Atharvaveda composition_date 1st millennium BCE type Shaiva veda Atharvaveda chapters 7 philosophy Pashupata, Vedanta The Atharvashiras Upanishad (अथर्वसिरस् उपनिषत्) is a Sanskrit text that is one of the minor Upanishads of Hinduism. It is among the 31 Upanishads associated with the Atharvaveda. It is classified as a Shaiva Upanishad focussed on god Rudra. The Upanishad is notable for asserting that all gods are Rudra, everyone and everything is Rudra, and Rudra is the principle found in all things, their highest goal, the innermost essence of all reality that is visible or invisible....

Atmabodha Upanishad name Atmabodha devanagari आत्मबोध sanskrit_transliteration Āṭmabodha meaning Instruction of the inner self composition_date अत्मबोध type Samanya veda Rig Veda chapters 2 verses 18 philosophy Vedanta Atmabodha Upanishad (आत्मबोध उपनिषत्) or ** Atmabodhopanishad ** (आत्मबिधोपनिषत्) is one of the 108 Upanishadic Hindu scriptures, written in Sanskrit. It is one of the 10 Upanishads associated with the Rigveda. It is a general (Samanya) or Vedanta Upanishad. The Atmabodha Upanishad begins with a hymn to the god Vishnu (Narayana), but then focuses on its core theme Atmabodha, meaning “State of knowledge of the inner self”....

Atmano mokshartham jagat hitaya cha !Office Building Top with Emblem - Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama - Sargachi - Murshidabad 2013-03-23 7322 Atmano mokshartham jagat hitaya cha (translation: for the salvation of our individual self and for the well-being of all on earth) is a sloka of the Rig Veda. Vivekananda would often use it, and it became the motto of the Ramakrishna Mission that he founded in 1897 and the related Ramakrishna Math....

Auroville name Auroville native_name Aurore (French) native_name_lang La ville de l’aube settlement_type Town image_skyline File:Town Hall of Auroville.jpg image_caption Town hall of Auroville nickname City of Dawn pushpin_map India Tamil Nadu pushpin_label_position right coordinates 12.00694°N, 79.81056°W subdivision_type Country subdivision_name India subdivision_type1 State subdivision_type2 District subdivision_name1 Tamil Nadu and Puducherry) subdivision_name2 Viluppuram established_date 1968 founder Mirra Alfassa named_for Sri Aurobindo government_type Self-governance in collaboration with Central Govt. governing_body Resident’s assembly unit_pref Metric population_total 2,814 population_as_of 2018 population_density_km2 auto population_demonym Aurovilian, Aurovilien,Aurovillian, timezone1 IST utc_offset1 +5:30 postal_code 605101 area_code 0413 area_code_type Telephone code registration_plate TN-16, PY-01 website www....

Avadhuta Gita Avadhuta Gita (Devanagari: अवधूत गीता, IAST: ) is a Sanskrit text of Hinduism whose title means “Song of the free soul”. The text’s poetry is based on the principles of Advaita and Dvaita schools of Hindu philosophy. The text is attributed to Dattatreya, and extant manuscripts have been dated to approximately the 9th or 10th century CE. It consists of 289 shlokas (metered verses), divided into eight chapters. The first seven chapters are the text’s oldest layer, and the eight chapter is likely a later interpolation....

Avadhutaka Upanishad devanagari अवधूत name Avadhuta Upanishad sanskrit_transliteration Avadhūta meaning Liberated person composition_date 14th or 15th century veda Krishna Yajurveda type Sannyasa chapters 2 philosophy Vaishnavism, Vedanta The Avadhuta Upanishad (अवधूत उपनिषद) is a medieval era Sanskrit text and is one of the minor Upanishads of Hinduism. The text is attached to the Krishna Yajurveda, and is one of the 20 Sannyasa (renunciation) Upanishads. The text is also titled the Brihadavadhuta Upanishad, Laghuavadhuta Upanishad, and the Avadhutopanishad....

Avula Parthasarathy name Avula Parthasarathy birth_date June 8, 1927 birth_place Chennai, India nationality Indian alma_mater Loyola College, Chennai occupation Philosopher and author spouse Kausalya Parthasarathy children Sunanda Leelaram website https://www.vedantaworld.org/ Avula Parthasarathy, popularly known as Swamiji (born 8 June 1927), is an Indian philosopher and exponent of Vedanta, one of the ancient philosophies of India. He translates the subtle philosophical themes into a practical technique of living. He has multiple degrees in literature, science and law, and completed a postgraduate degree in international law from London University....

Avyakta Avyakta, meaning “not manifest”, “unmanifest” etc., is the word ordinarily used to denote Prakrti on account of subtleness of its nature and is also used to denote Brahman, which is the subtlest of all and who by virtue of that subtlety is the ultimate support (asraya) of Prakrti. Avyakta as a category along with Mahat (Cosmic Intelligence) and Purusa plays an important role in the later Samkhya philosophy even though the Bhagavad Gita III....