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Varaha Upanishad devanagari वराह meaning Boar composition_date c. 13th–16th century CE authors Ribhu and Vishnu type Yoga veda Krishna Yajurveda chapters 5 verses 247 philosophy Vaishnavism, Yoga Varaha Upanishad (वराह उपनिषद्, “boar”) is a minor Upanishad of Hinduism composed between the 13th and 16th centuries CE. Composed in Sanskrit, it is listed as one of the 32 Krishna Yajurveda Upanishads, and classified as one of 20 Yoga Upanishads. The text has five chapters, structured primarily as a discussion between Vishnu in his Varaha (boar) avatar and the sage Ribhu....

Varanasi official_name Varanasi other_name Benares, Banaras, Kashi settlement_type Metropolis image_caption Left to right, top to bottom: Manikarnika Ghat, the holy cremation ground on the Ganges river front; Shehnai maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan; Faculty of Arts, Benares Hindu University; Goswami Tulsidas, composer of the Ramcharitmanas; Weaving Silk Brocade; Benares Sanskrit College, India’s oldest Sanskrit college (founded in 1791); and Munshi Ghat. map_caption1 Interactive map of Varanasi coordinates 25.31889°N, 83.01278°W subdivision_type Country subdivision_name India subdivision_type1 State subdivision_type2 Division subdivision_type3 District subdivision_name1 Uttar Pradesh subdivision_name2 Varanasi subdivision_name3 Varanasi government_type Municipal Corporation governing_body Varanasi Municipal Corporation leader_party BJP leader_title Mayor leader_name Mridula Jaiswal leader_title1 Deputy Mayor area_total_km2 82 area_metro_km2 163....

Varanasi North Assembly constituency name Varanasi North mla Ravindra Jaiswal party Bharatiya Janta Party year 2022 state Uttar Pradesh district Varanasi reservation None electors 4,04,345 (2019) Varanasi North is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Varanasi North in the Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh, India. Varanasi North is one of five assembly constituencies in the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency has been numbered 388 amongst 403 constituencies....

Varanasi Police Commissionerate agencyname Varanasi Police Commissionerate patch Uttar Pradesh Logo.png patchcaption Varanasi Police Commissionerate flag Uttar Pradesh Police Flag.svg flagcaption Flag of Varanasi Police commonname Varanasi Police motto Surakṣā āpakī, saṃkalpa hamārā (Hindi) mottotranslated “Your Safety, Our Pledge” formed 25 preceding1 Varanasi Police country India divname Uttar Pradesh legaljuris Varanasi and Ramnagar town police Yes local Yes speciality1 Prevention of Crime speciality2 Civilian Safety & Protection speciality3 VIP Protection speciality4 Maintaining Law & Order overviewbody [[Department of Home (Uttar Pradesh) headquarters Kacheri Parisar, Opposite Circuit House Gate, Varanasi electeetype Minister minister1name Yogi Adityanath (Chief Minister) minister1pfo Minister of Home Affairs chief1name Mutha Ashok Jain IPS chief1position Commissioner of Police parentagency Uttar Pradesh Police child1agency Cyber Crime child2agency Crime Against Women child3agency Traffic Police child4agency River Police child5agency Anti-Human Trafficking child6agency Dial 112 child7agency Crime Branch officetype Commissionerate stationtype Thana stations 30 (including Mahila Thana & Paryatak Thana) vehicles1 Dial 112, PRV, Bikes, Boats post Commissioner body Varanasi Police incumbent Ashok Mutha Jain incumbentsince 25 March 2021 residence Varanasi Cantonment Area appointer Department Of Home & Confidential first A....

Varuna River The Varuna River is a minor tributary of the Ganges River in Uttar Pradesh, India. It originates at Phulpur in the Prayagraj district and merges into the Ganges near Sarai Mohana in the Varanasi district. The 6 km stretch between Sarai Mohana and Sadar, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh is prone to flooding. The name ‘Varanasi’ is originated from the name of two rivers, Varuna and Assi. According to the Vamana Purana, the river was created by the gods alongside the Asi River....

Vasavi Kanyaka Parameswari type Hindu name Vasavi Kanyaka Parameshvari region Andhra Pradesh affiliation Lakshmi, Parvati, Adi Parashakti texts Vasavi Puranamulu venerated_in Vaishnavism, Shaivism, Shaktism adherents Komati community Vasavi Kanyaka Parameshvari is a Hindu goddess, primarily revered by the Komati) community of Andhra Pradesh. She is primarily recognised by her adherents as a virgin form of Parvati, and sometimes also identified as a form of Lakshmi in Vaishnava tradition. She is regarded to be a kuladevata by members of the Komati community, as well as the Arya Vaishya, Kalinga Vaishya, Arava Vaishya, Marathi Vaishya, Beri Vaishya, and the Trivarnika Vaishya communities, as per the various versions of the Vasavi Puranamulu, written in Telugu during the 18th century CE....

Vashistha Dharmasutra The Vashistha Dharmasutra is one of the few surviving ancient Sanskrit Dharmasutras of Hinduism. It is reverentially named after a Rigvedic sage Vashistha who lived in the 2nd millennium BCE, but the text was probably composed by unknown authors between 300 BCE – 100 CE. It forms an independent text and other parts of the Kalpasūtra, that is Shrauta- and Grihya-sutras are missing. It is written in sutra style, and contains 1,038 sutras....

Vasudeva Upanishad devanagari वासुदेव sanskrit_transliteration Vāsudeva meaning Son of Vasudeva or Krishna type Vaishnava veda Samaveda Vasudeva Upanishad (वासुदेव उपनिषत्, or Vasudevopanishad is one of 108 Upanishadic Hindu texts, written in Sanskrit language. It belongs to the Vaishnava sect, which worships Vishnu and his avatar Krishna, and this late medieval era minor Upanishad is attached to the Samaveda. It is one of the 14 Vaishnava Upanishads dedicated to Vaishnava sacred marks, including the Urdhva Pundra - the Vaishnava tilaka....

Vasukra is a rishi with patronymic Aindra, author of RV 10.27, 29, and part of 28, and the name of another rishi, son of Vasishtha, author of two verses, RV 9.97.28-30. “wife of Vaskura” is the name of the author of the verse RV 10.28.1.

Vatapi Ganapatim !Muthuswami Dikshitar 1976 stamp of India “Vatapi Ganapatim”, also known as “Vatapi ganapatim bhajeham” or “Vatapi ganapatim bhaje”, is a Sanskrit kriti) song by the South Indian poet-composer Muthuswami Dikshitar (1775–1835), one of the “Trinity of Carnatic music”. The panegyrical hymn praises Vatapi Ganapati, Ganesha (Ganapati) worshipped in a shrine in Tiruchenkattankudi Utrapatishwaraswamy Temple dedicated to lord Shiva in Thiruvarur district in the Tamil Nadu state of India. The hymn is composed in Hamsadhvani raga (musical mode); however, in tradition of kritis, individual performers add their own variations in the tune as a part of improvisation....

Vātsyāyana name Vātsyāyana occupation Philosopher nationality Indian subject Aspects of Hindu philosophy pertaining to pleasure-oriented faculties of human life notableworks Kama Sutra Vātsyāyana was an ancient Indian philosopher, known for authoring the Kama Sutra. He was a brahmin, and lived in India during the second or third century CE, probably in Pataliputra (modern day Patna in Bihar). He is not to be confused with Pakṣilasvāmin Vātsyāyana, the author of Nyāya Sutra Bhāshya, the first preserved commentary on Gotama’s Nyāya Sutras....

Vedanga The Vedanga (वेदाङ्ग , “limbs of the Veda” ) are six auxiliary disciplines of Hinduism that developed in ancient times and have been connected with the study of the Vedas: List of the Vedanga Shiksha (): phonetics, phonology, pronunciation. This auxiliary discipline has focused on the letters of the Sanskrit alphabet, accent, quantity, stress, melody and rules of euphonic combination of words during a Vedic recitation. Chandas (): prosody). This auxiliary discipline has focused on the poetic meters, including those based on fixed number of syllables per verse, and those based on fixed number of morae per verse....

Vedanta Vedanta (वेदान्त, ), also known as Uttara Mīmāṃsā, is a Hindu philosophical tradition that is considered one of the six orthodox (āstika) schools of Hindu philosophy. The word “Vedanta” means “end of the Vedas”, and encompasses the ideas and philosophies present in the Upanishads, with a focus on knowledge and liberation. Vedanta developed into many sub-traditions, all of which base their ideas on the authority of a common group of texts called the Prasthānatrayī, translated as “the three sources”: the Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita....

Vedas religion Hinduism language Vedic Sanskrit period c. 1500–1200 BCE (Rigveda), , c. 1200–900 BCE (Yajurveda, Samaveda, Atharvaveda) verses 20,379 mantras wikisource The Vedas The Vedas (,, वेदः) are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India. Composed in Vedic Sanskrit, the texts constitute the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest scriptures of Hinduism. There are four Vedas: the Rigveda, the Yajurveda, the Samaveda and the Atharvaveda....

Vedi (altar) !Homa during Sri Thimmaraya swamy Pratishthapana. Vedi (वेदी) is the sacrificial altar in the Vedic religion. Such altars were an elevated outdoor enclosure, generally strewed with Kusha grass, and having receptacles for the sacrificial fire; it was of various shapes, but usually narrow in the middle. They were used in various types of Yajna rituals, of which the lengthiest was the agnicayana, lasting twelve days. In Vedic times, offerings, often including animals, were burnt in the fire, and fully consumed by it....