Dictionary: Trinavarta

Trinavarta !Krishna_Kills_The_Tornado_Demon_Trinavarta,Folio_from_the‘Tularam’Bhagavata_Purana(Ancient_Stories_of_the_Lord)_LACMA_M.71.49.9_LACMA_M.71.49.9.jpg?width=300) Trinavarta (तृणावर्त, IAST: ) is an asura who is featured in Hindu literature, most prominently in the Bhagavata Purana. He is described to be a whirl-wind asura dispatched by Kamsa to murder Krishna, but is slain by the deity instead. Legend Kamsa sent Trinavarta to kill his nephew. Assuming the form of a whirl-wind, Trinavarta carried away the sitting Krishna. He enveloped the whole of Gokulam with a cloud of dust and darkness, the resultant cover of sand particles causing great distress to Yashoda, who attempted to find her son with the help of the gopis....

February 15, 2023 · 2 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Tripura Sundari

Tripura Sundari type Hindu name Tripura Sundari deity_of Mother Goddess; One of the Highest Forms of Mahadevi, The Governess of the Universe, Para Brahman, the Supreme Being affiliation • Brahman, , • Ishvari, , • Shakti, , • Mahadevi, , • Bhuvaneshvari, , • Durga, , • Mahavidya abode Manidvipa / Śrī Nagara weapon Pasha) (noose), Ankusha (elephant goad), arrow and sugarcane bow children Bala Tripurasundari festivals Lalita Jayanti on Magha Purnima · Lalita Panchami · Navaratri · Adi-Puram member_of The Ten Mahavidyas other_names Rajarajeshwari, Lalita, Bhavani, Lalitambika, Parvati, Kamakshi, Kameshwari, Shodashi, Lilavati, Sri Mata, Sarveshwari, Kalavati mount Lion symbols Om · Sri Yantra texts • Brahmanda Purana, , • Tripura Rahasya, , • Devi Bhagavata Purana, , • Bahvricha Upanishad, , • Tripura Upanishad, , • Tantraraja Tantra gender Female equivalent1_type Oria equivalent1 Kamakhya sa त्रिपुर सुन्दरी (Tripura Sundarī) hi त्रिपुरा सुन्दरी (Tripura Sundarī) mr त्रिपुरा सुंदरी (Tripura Sundarī) bn ত্রিপুরা সুন্দরী (Tripura Sundarī) kn ತ್ರಿಪುರ ಸುಂದರಿ (Tripura Sundari) pa ਤ੍ਰਿਪੁਰ ਸੁੰਦਰੀ (Tripura Sundarī) ta திரிபுரசுந்தரி Tripura Sundarī) ml ത്രിപുര സുന്ദരി (Tripura Sundarī) te త్రిపుర సుందరి (Tripura Sundarī) Tripura Sundari (Sanskrit: त्रिपुरा सुन्दरी, IAST: Tripura Sundarī), also known as Rajarajeshwari, Shodashi, Kamakshi, and Lalita is a Hindu goddess, worshipped as a principal aspect of supreme goddess Mahadevi mainly venerated in Shaktism, the goddess-oriented sect of Hinduism....

February 15, 2023 · 14 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Tripura Upanishad

Tripura Upanishad devanagari त्रिपुरा sanskrit_transliteration Tripurā meaning Three cities composition_date ~15th-century CE veda Rigveda type Shakta chapters 1 verses 16 philosophy Shaktism, Vedanta The Tripura Upanishad (त्रिपुरा उपनिषद्, IAST: Tripurā Upaniṣad) is a medieval era minor Upanishad of Hinduism. Composed in Sanskrit, the text is classified as a Shakta Upanishad and attached to the Rigveda. It is, as an Upanishad, a part of the corpus of Vedanta literature collection that present the philosophical concepts of Hinduism....

February 15, 2023 · 6 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Tripuratapini Upanishad

Tripuratapini Upanishad devanagari त्रिपुरातापिनी sanskrit_transliteration Tripurātāpinī meaning Devotee of the three cities composition_date 12th- to 15th-century CE veda Atharvaveda type Shakta chapters 5 philosophy Shaktism, Vedanta The Tripuratapini Upanishad (त्रिपुरातापिनी उपनिषद्, IAST: Tripurātāpinī Upaniṣad) is a medieval era Sanskrit text and one of the minor Upanishads of Hinduism. It is classified as one of the eight Shakta Upanishads and attached to the Atharvaveda. The Upanishad is a notable goddess and tantra-related text....

February 15, 2023 · 4 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Triputipratyaksavada

Triputipratyaksavada Tripuṭi-pratyakṣavāda , this term refers to Prabhakara’s Theory of Knowledge, more precisely to his Doctrine of Triple Perception. Prabhakara advocates the theory of simultaneous revelation of knower, known and knowledge (Tripuṭi-pratyakṣavāda). He holds the Nayayika view that the self is essentially unconscious but maintains that knowledge is self-luminous, which knowledge reveals the self as the subject and the known thing as the object simultaneously with itself. In every knowledge-situation the self is simultaneously revealed as the subject of that knowledge....

February 15, 2023 · 2 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Trishikhibrahmana Upanishad

Trishikhibrahmana Upanishad devanagari त्रिशिखब्राह्मण sanskrit_transliteration Triśikhi-brāhmaṇa meaning Three-flamed or Trident Brahman type Yoga veda Shukla Yajurveda chapters 2 verses 164 philosophy Yoga, Vedanta The Trishikhibrahmana Upanishad (Sanskrit:त्रिशिखब्राह्मण उपनिषत्, IAST: Triśikhi-brāhmaṇa Upaniṣad), also known as Trisikhibrahmanopanisad, is one of the minor Upanishads of Hinduism and a Sanskrit text. It is attached to the Shukla Yajurveda and is classified as one of the 20 Yoga Upanishads. The text discusses the non-relative nature of the metaphysical reality (Brahman), soul (Atman), and describes eight limb yoga as a means to self-knowledge....

February 15, 2023 · 6 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Trishna (Vedic thought)

Trishna (Vedic thought) Trishna (Sanskrit: तृष्णा) means – ’thirst’ (Caitanya Caritamrta Adi 4.149), ‘aspiration’ (Caitanya Caritamrta Antya 14.44), ’longing’, ‘craving’ or ’lusty desires’ (Srimad Bhagavatam 9.19.18), or as तृष्णज् meaning covetous, greedy or thirsting. Trishna is the Eighth Nidana, spiritual love. Meaning The Sanskrit root of the word **Tṛishṇā (तृष्णा) is Tṛish (तृष्) meaning to be thirsty, to thirst, to thirst for (metaphorically), strong desire or long for. In the Vedas the accent is on the first syllable as in - Tṛishyā (to be thirsty), Tṛishṇākshaya (cessation of desire, tranquillity of mind, resignation, patience, content), Tṛishnāghna (quenching the thirst), Tṛishṇāmaya (ill with thirst), Tṛishṇāmāra (dying of thirst), Tṛishṇāri (enemy of thirst), Tṛishālu (thirsting much, very thirsty), Tṛishyat (thirsting) or Tṛishya (thirst)....

February 15, 2023 · 5 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Turiyatitavadhuta Upanishad

Turiyatitavadhuta Upanishad devanagari तुरीयातीतावधूत sanskrit_transliteration Turīyatītāvadhūta meaning Liberated person beyond Turiya composition_date 14th or 15th century veda Shukla Yajurveda type Sannyasa chapters 1 philosophy Vedanta The Turiyatitavadhuta Upanishad (तुरीयातीत अवधूत उपनिषद्, IAST: Turīyatītāvadhūta Upaniṣad) is a medieval era Sanskrit text and is one of the minor Upanishads of Hinduism. The text is attached to the Shukla Yajurveda, and is one of the 20 Sannyasa (renunciation) Upanishads. The Upanishad is notable for its description of the nature and life of a self-realized monk called Turiyatita-Avadhuta, literally a totally liberated man, also called a Avadhuta or Jivanmukta....

February 15, 2023 · 4 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Turvasu Druhyu and Anu Dynasties

Turvasu Druhyu and Anu Dynasties !LUNAR_DYNASTY_(Chandravamsha).png?width=300) The Turvasu dynasty (तुर्वसुवंश), Druhyu dynasty (द्रुह्युवंश) and the Anu dynasty (अनुवंश) are the names of three legendary cadet branches of the Lunar dynasty in Hindu literature, featured in the Puranas and the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata. Legend According to Hindu mythology, King Yayati surreptitiously married the daitya princess and his wife Devayani’s maid, Sharmistha, after she begged him to bear her children. When Devayani learnt of her husband’s infidelity to her, she hastened to inform her father, the sage Shukra....

February 15, 2023 · 2 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Tvarita

Tvarita type Hindu affiliation Shaktism, Tripura Sundari weapon Noose, elephant-goad gender Female texts Tantras) name Tvarita Tvarita (त्वरिता) is a goddess primarily featured in Tantric Hinduism). She is depicted to be a member of the group of nine yoginis called the nityas, and an aspect of Adi Parashakti. Iconography Tvarita is depicted to be dark-complexioned. She has a crown on her head, which contains a peacock’s tail. Her garments are made of leaves....

February 15, 2023 · 2 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Tyāga

Tyāga Tyāga (Sanskrit: त्याग) is a Sanskrit word that means “sacrifice, giving up in generosity, forsaking, resigning” anything of value, as well as “renunciation” depending on the context. It is an ethical concept in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. Etymology Tyāga means – sacrifice, renunciation, abandonment, resignation, donation, forsaking, liberality, withdrawal Tyāga which is not merely physical renunciation of the world is different from Sannyasa; Sannyasa which comes from the root as means – “giving up entirely”, Tyāga means – “giving up with generosity what one could probably have kept”....

February 15, 2023 · 6 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Udayana

Udayana religion Hinduism birth_place Kariona, Mithila (Bihar),, India Udayana, (Devanagari: उदयन) also known as Udayanācārya (Udyanacharya, or Master Udayana), (circa 975 - 1050 CE) was an Indian philosopher and logician of the tenth century of the Nyaya school who attempted to devise a rational theology to prove the existence of God using logic and counter the attack on the existence of God at the hands of Buddhist philosophers such as Dharmakīrti, Jñānaśrī and against the Indian school of materialism (Chārvaka)....

February 15, 2023 · 5 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Unifying Hinduism

Unifying Hinduism name Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History author Andrew J. Nicholson language English genre philosophy, Hinduism, history of Hinduism, Indian philosophy publisher Columbia University Press, Permanent Black pub_date 2010 pages 266 isbn 0231149875 oclc 881368213 Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History is a book Andrew J. Nicholson on Indian philosophy, describing the philosophical unification of Hinduism, which it places in the Middle Ages....

February 15, 2023 · 11 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Unshaken

Unshaken name Unshaken cover D’Angelo - Unshaken cover art.png type single artist D’Angelo album The Music of Red Dead Redemption 2 (Original Soundtrack) released January 4, 2019 genre Neo soul · country-western · soul length 3:53 label RCA writer Michael Archer · Rocco DeLuca · Daniel Lanois producer Daniel Lanois prev_title Betray My Heart) prev_year 2015 “Unshaken” is a song by American singer-songwriter D’Angelo. It was produced by Daniel Lanois, who wrote the track with D’Angelo and Rocco DeLuca....

February 15, 2023 · 6 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Upanishad Brahmayogin

Upanishad Brahmayogin Upanishad Brahmayogin is the cognomen of Rāmachandrendra Sarasvati (fl. 1800 CE), a sannyasin and Advaitin scholar of the Upanishads. He is credited with having written commentaries on all 108 Upanishads of the Muktika canon. His works have been translated and published by the Adyar Library. He was born Śivarāma of Vādhūla gotra in Brahmapuram, a village on the river Palar. This would date to the middle of the 18th century, based on tales of his association, as an older contemporary, with Tyagaraja (1767–1847 CE)....

February 15, 2023 · 2 min · TheAum