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Devi Kanya Kumari type Hindu name Devi Kanya Kumari script_name Tamil script தேவி கன்யா குமாரி affiliation Shaktism, Shaivism, Vaishnavism abode Kanyakumari mantra kātyayanāya vidmahe kanyakumāri dhīmahi tanno durgiḥ pracodayāt weapon Rosary mount Tiger or Lion !Kanyakumari Temple|||Entrance to the Bhagavati Kumari Amman Temple, Kanyakumari. !A view of Kumariamman temple and Indian ocean|||A view from atop the temple towards the Indian Ocean Devi Kanya Kumari (தேவி கன்னியா குமரி, देवी कन्या कुमारि) is a manifestation of the Hindu goddess Mahadevi in the form of an adolescent girl....

Devi Mahatmya !Devimahatmya (Glory of the Goddess) manuscript LACMA M.88.134.7_manuscript_LACMA_M.88.134.7.jpg?width=300) The Devi Mahatmya or Devi Mahatmyam (देवीमाहात्म्यम्) is a Hindu philosophical text describing the Goddess as the supreme power and creator of the universe. It is part of the Markandeya Purana. Devi Mahatmyam is also known as the Durgā Saptashatī (दुर्गासप्तशती) or Śata Chandī (शत् चण्डी). The text contains 700 verses arranged into 13 chapters. Along with Devi-Bhagavata Purana and Shakta Upanishads such as the Devi Upanishad, it is one of the most important texts of Shaktism (goddess) tradition within Hinduism....

Devi Upanishad devanagari देवी sanskrit_transliteration Devī meaning Goddess composition_date 9th- to 14th-centuries CE type Shakta Upanishads veda Atharvaveda chapters 1 verses 32 philosophy Shaktism, Vedanta The Devi Upanishad (Sanskrit:देवी उपनिषत्), is one of the minor Upanishads of Hinduism and a text composed in Sanskrit. It is one of the 19 Upanishads attached to the Atharvaveda, and is classified as one of the eight Shakta Upanishads. It is, as an Upanishad, a part of the corpus of Vedanta literature collection that present the philosophical concepts of Hinduism....

Devi-Bhagavata Purana author Vyasa religion Hinduism language Sanskrit verses 18, 000 chapters 318 volumes 12 !Devi bhagavata The Devi Bhagavata Purana (देवी भागवतपुराणम्, ‘), also known as the Srimad Devi Bhagavatam, Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhagavata Purana or simply Devi Bhagavatam,’’’ is one of the eighteen Mahapuranas of Hinduism. Composed in Sanskrit by Veda Vyasa, the text is considered as a major purana for Devi worshippers. It promotes bhakti (devotion) towards Mahadevi, integrating themes from the Shaktadvaitavada tradition (syncretism of Samkhya and Advaita Vedanta....

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....