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Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 4 - Chapter 1 - Verse 49-52 Sanskrit: पितृभ्य एकां युक्तेभ्यो भवायैकां भवच्छिदे ।श्रद्धा मैत्री दया शान्तिस्तुष्टि: पुष्टि: क्रियोन्नति: ॥ ४९ ॥बुद्धिर्मेधा तितिक्षा ह्रीर्मूर्तिर्धर्मस्य पत्नय: ।श्रद्धासूत शुभं मैत्री प्रसादमभयं दया ॥ ५० ॥शान्ति: सुखं मुदं तुष्टि: स्मयं पुष्टिरसूयत ।योगं क्रियोन्नतिर्दर्पमर्थं बुद्धिरसूयत ॥ ५१ ॥मेधा स्मृतिं तितिक्षा तु क्षेमं ह्री: प्रश्रयं सुतम् ।मूर्ति: सर्वगुणोत्पत्तिर्नरनारायणावृषी ॥ ५२ ॥ ITRANS: pitṛbhya ekāṁ yuktebhyobhavāyaikāṁ bhava-cchideśraddhā maitrī dayā śāntistuṣṭiḥ puṣṭiḥ kriyonnatiḥ Translation: One of the remaining two daughters was given in charity to the Pitṛloka, where she resides very amicably, and the other was given to Lord Śiva, who is the deliverer of sinful persons from material entanglement....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 4 - Chapter 1 - Verse 54-55 Sanskrit: दिव्यवाद्यन्त तूर्याणि पेतु: कुसुमवृष्टय: ।मुनयस्तुष्टुवुस्तुष्टा जगुर्गन्धर्वकिन्नरा: ॥ ५४ ॥नृत्यन्ति स्म स्त्रियो देव्य आसीत्परममङ्गलम् ।देवा ब्रह्मादय: सर्वे उपतस्थुरभिष्टवै: ॥ ५५ ॥ ITRANS: divy avādyanta tūryāṇipetuḥ kusuma-vṛṣṭayaḥmunayas tuṣṭuvus tuṣṭājagur gandharva-kinnarāḥ Translation: In the heavenly planets, bands began to play, and they showered flowers from the sky. The pacified sages chanted Vedic prayers, the denizens of heaven known as the Gandharvas and Kinnaras sang, the beautiful damsels of the heavenly planets danced, and in this way, at the time of the appearance of Nara-Nārāyaṇa, all signs of good fortune were visible....

1860 Boden Professor of Sanskrit election !Monier Monier-Williams The election in 1860 for the position of Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford was a competition between two candidates offering different approaches to Sanskrit scholarship. One was Monier Williams, an Oxford-educated Englishman who had spent 14 years teaching Sanskrit to those preparing to work in British India for the East India Company. The other, Max Müller, was a German-born lecturer at Oxford specialising in comparative philology, the science of language....

A Vedic Word Concordance A Vedic Word Concordance (Sanskrit: ) is a multi-volume concordance) of the corpus of Vedic Sanskrit texts. It has been under preparation from 1930 and was published in 1935–1965 under the guidance of Viśvabandhu Śāstrī (1897–1973), with an introduction in Sanskrit and English. It aims to be “a universal vocabulary register” of “Vedic works, with complete textual reference and critical commentary) bearing on phonology, accent, etymo-morphology, grammar, metre, text-criticism, and Ur-Aryan philology”....

Abhayananda Abhayananda (born 1842), born Marie Louise, was the first woman initiated into Vivekananda’s mission. She was also the first American female and a female Westerner to have become a swami monk. Louise was initiated by Vivekananda at Thousand Island Park in 1895. She was given the monastic name Abhayananda. She later disassociated herself from Vivekananda and preached philosophy, retaining the same name. Abhayananda claimed to be the only female swami in the entire world....

Abhimāna " The antahkarana (internal organ, the mind) has its seat in these, the eye and other organs of the body identifying itself with them with the sense of “I” by reflection of the ātman in it. " – Vivekachudamani (105) " The antahkarana (internal organ, the mind) has its seat in these, the eye and other organs of the body identifying itself with them with the sense of “I” by reflection of the ātman in it....

Ādeśa Ādesha or Ādeśa (Sanskrit: आदेश) means ‘an order’, ‘command’ or ‘advice’, ‘instruction’, ‘precept’, ‘rule’ Meaning The word, Ādesha appears to be a semantically polyvalent compound representing two homonymous compounds of different origin and formation; it was surmised that ādeśa- in the sense of “substitute” owes its origin to a combination of ā- and deśa-, whereas ādeśa- in the sense of “advice” belongs to the verb ā- diś- “to point out, to teach”; it is the combination of ā- meaning ’toward’, and diś meaning ’to show or direct’....

Adhikari-bheda Adhikari-bheda, the Sanskrit expression which is a combination of two words – “adhikari”, meaning the rightful or the qualified, and “bheda”, meaning distinction or difference, basically refers to the distinction between qualified persons or to the difference of the qualified aspirants capable of apprehending the same truth. The principle of Adhikari-bheda, universally accepted by the Hindus, is the foundation on which the teachings of the Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita which texts contain though not contradictory various doctrines meant for people at different stages of spiritual evolution, are based, in which principle the method of Arundhati-darsananyaya i....

Adhyatma Upanishad name Adhyatma devanagari अध्यात्म sanskrit_transliteration Adhyātma meaning spiritual type Samanya veda Shukla Yajurveda chapters 1 verses 71 Not to be confused with Hemachandra’s Jain text which is also known as Yogashastra Adhyatma Upanishad or Adhyatmopanishad is one of the 108 Upanishadic Hindu scriptures, written in Sanskrit. It is one of the 19 Upanishads under the Shukla Yajurveda or White Yajurveda. It is classified as a Samanya (non-sectarian) Upanishad. It is also known as Ṭurīyāṭīṭa Avaḍhūṭa Upanishaḍ....

Adhyavasāya Adhyavasāya (Sanskrit: अध्यवसाय ) generally means – ‘apprehension’, ‘clinging to’, ‘mental effort’ and also ‘perseverance’, ‘having decided’. Vedic interpretation " The purusha full of kama or desire is bound having adhyavasaya, sankalpa and abhimana as his lingas (characteristics) ; he who is Nārāyana Tīrtha, in his Sāmkhya-Candrikā, explains adhyavasāya as " a modified condition of the intellect (buddhi) the determination in such a form as – such an act is to be done by me “....

Ādityahṛdayam !Surya poster.jpg Ādityahṛudayam (आदित्यहृदयम्, ) is a Hindu devotional hymn dedicated to Āditya or Sūrya (the Sun God) found in the Yuddha Kānda (6.105) of Vālmīki’s Rāmāyana. It was recited by the sage Agastya to Rāma in the battlefield before fighting with the Rakshasa king Rāvaṇa. In it, Agastya teaches Rāma the procedure of worshiping Āditya ( for strength ) to defeat the enemy. Etymology Āditya (आदित्य, lit. “son of Aditi”) refers to the Sun....

Adṛṣṭa The Fifth Chapter of the Vaisheshika Sutras of Kanada) deals with the notion of action and the connected concept of effort; and also deals with the various special phenomenon of nature to the supersensible force, called Adrishta. Meaning The Sanskrit term, Adrishta (Sanskrit: अदृष्ट) or Adrsta, as an adjective means - not seen, unseen, unobserved, unforeseen, unknown, invisible, unexpected, not experienced, destiny, fate, luck, not permitted or sanctioned, illegal, virtue or vice as the eventual cause of pleasure or pain....

Advaita Bodha Deepika Advaita Bodha Deepika, Lamp of Non-Dual Knowledge, is an Advaita Vedanta text written by Sri Karapatra Swami. Contents The Advaita Bodha Deepika is set as a dialogue between a master and a student. Just like other medieval Advaita Vedanta texts, samadhi is added to sravana, manana) and nididhyasana. Appreciation The Advaita Bodha Deepika was highly regarded by Ramana Maharshi. Further reading Lamp of Non-dual Knowledge & Cream of Liberation: Two Jewels of Indian Wisdom, Wisdom Publications External links Advaita Bodha Deepika (pdf)

Advaita Vedanta !Raja Ravi Varma - Sankaracharya Advaita Vedanta (अद्वैत वेदान्त, ) is a Hindu sādhanā, a path of spiritual discipline and experience, and the oldest extant tradition of the orthodox Hindu school Vedānta. The term Advaita (literally “non-secondness”, but usually rendered as “nondualism”, and often equated with monism) refers to the idea that Brahman alone is ultimately real, while the transient phenomenal world) is an illusory appearance (maya)) of Brahman....

Advayataraka Upanishad devanagari अद्वयतारक sanskrit_transliteration Advayatāraka meaning “non-dual deliverer” type Yoga veda Shukla Yajurveda chapters 1 verses 19 philosophy Yoga, Vedanta Advayataraka Upanishad is an ancient Sanskrit text and a minor Upanishad of Hinduism. It is one of the 19 Upanishads attached to the Shukla Yajurveda. It is classified as a Yoga Upanishad. The Upanishad is notable for its discussion of Guru (teacher). The text discusses three goals of introspection, Taraka yoga and the nondual nature of Reality (Brahman)....