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A mandala, (Sanskrit: मण्डल, romanized: maṇḍala, lit. 'circle', [ˈmɐɳɖɐlɐ] ) is a geometric configuration of symbols. In various spiritual traditions, mandalas may be employed for focusing attention of practitioners and adepts, as a spiritual guidance tool, for establishing a sacred space and as an aid to meditation and ...
With the objective of reviewing the Sanskrit Bible and making it freely available online: SanskritBible.in. The project relies on volunteers to encode the Sanskrit text into Devanagari script based on the digitized copies of the Sanskrit Bible published by the Calcutta Baptist Missionaries. The site has also stated the revision of the Sanskrit ...
The Nāsadīya Sūkta (after the incipit ná ásat, or "not the non-existent"), also known as the Hymn of Creation, is the 129th hymn of the 10th mandala of the Rigveda (10:129). It is concerned with cosmology and the origin of the universe. [1] The Nāsadīya Sūkta has been the subject of extensive scholarly attention.
The word mandala literally means a circular, symmetrical pattern that is used in Hindu and Buddhist symbolism. The word vatika refers to garden, grove, parterre or plantation, and comes from Sanskrit usage. In Hinduism, deities are represented and invoked through unique sacred, geometrical patterns inscribed in yantras and mandalas. These are ...
While according to Mookerji, understanding the meaning (vedarthajnana [84] or artha-bodha [85] [note 12]) of the words of the Vedas was part of the Vedic learning, [85] Holdrege and other Indologists [86] have noted that in the transmission of the Samhitas, the emphasis is on the phonology of the sounds and not on the meaning of the mantras.
[1] [2] Bindu is the point around which the mandala is created, representing the Universe. [3] Bindu is often merged with [seed] (or sperm) and ova. In the Yogachudamani Upanishad Bindu is a duality, with a white Bindu representing shukla (pure) and a red Bindu representing maharaj .
The Kālacakra deity and his consort reside in the center of the Kālacakra mandala in a palace consisting of four mandalas, one within the other: the mandalas of body, speech, and mind, and in the very center, wisdom and great bliss. [54] The deities of the mandala are classified into various sets of families or clans (kula) as follows: [55]
The Mahāyāna sūtras are a broad genre of Buddhist scripture that are accepted as canonical and as buddhavacana ("Buddha word") in certain communities of Mahāyāna Buddhism. They are largely preserved in Sanskrit manuscripts, and translations in the Tibetan Buddhist canon and Chinese Buddhist canon.