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Mamuni Mayan (Tamil: மாமுனி மாயாசுரன், romanized: Māmuṉi Māyāsuran) is an ancient sage referenced in Tamil literature.He is featured in works of Sangam literature such as the Cilappatikaram, Manimekalai, and Civaka Cintamani, identified with the asura Mayasura of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. [1]
The couple abandoned him at birth and Veerambrahmam was brought up at Atri Mahamuni ashram near Varanasi. [citation needed] Later Veerabhojayacharya, Head of the Papagni Mutt, Chikballapur, Karnataka, was on a pilgrimage with his wife. [citation needed] The couple visited the Sage Atri ashram, and sage Atri gave the child to the couple.
Vinayaka Krishna Gokak (9 August 1909 – 28 April 1992), abbreviated in Kannada as Vi. Kru. Gokak, was an Indian writer in the Kannada language and a scholar of English and Kannada literatures. He was the fifth writer [ 1 ] to be honoured with the Jnanpith Award in 1990 for Kannada language , for his epic Bharatha Sindhu Rashmi .
The Ashvalayana Grihya Sutra mentions him as Mahabharatacharya.He is also mentioned in the Taittiriya Aranayaka and the Ashtadhyayi of Pāṇini. [3]Vyasa is regarded to have taught the Mahabharata of 100,000 verses to Vaishampayana.
A major annual pagoda festival known as the 'Mahamuni Paya Pwe' ('pwe' meaning "festival") is held in early February, at the end of the Buddhist Lent to celebrate the history of the pagoda. During this festival, aside from the daily rituals, the Paṭṭhāna from a "Book of Conditional Relations" in Abhidhamma Piṭaka is recited. [32]
The first book covers Savarkar’s life from birth to his release in 1924. [7] There are details about other Indian independence activists like Shyamji Krishna Verma and Virendranath Chattopadhyay. [7] [8] The book narrates Savarkar's atheism and rationalism, and his strong opposition to orthodox Hindu beliefs.
The word Vedanta is made of two words : . Veda (वेद) — refers to the four sacred Vedic texts.; Anta (अंत) — this word means "end". The word Vedanta literally means the end of the Vedas and originally referred to the Upanishads.
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar [a] (28 May 1883 – 26 February 1966) pronunciation ⓘ was an Indian politician, activist and writer. Savarkar developed the Hindu nationalist political ideology of Hindutva while confined at Ratnagiri in 1922.