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A subhashita (Sanskrit: सुभाषित, subhāṣita) is a literary genre of Sanskrit epigrammatic poems and their message is an aphorism, maxim, advice, fact, truth, lesson or riddle. [1] Su in Sanskrit means good; bhashita means spoken; which together literally means well spoken or eloquent saying.
The Sharngadhara-paddhati is one of the best known collections of the subhashita-genre poems. [2] It contains a description of Hatha Yoga. James Mallinson calls the text's analysis of yoga "somewhat confused", noting that it splits Hatha Yoga into two types, namely Gorakhnath's and Markandeya's, and then equates Hatha Yoga with Gorakhnath's six limbs of yoga, which are asana, pranayama ...
The Dattatreya Upanishad (Sanskrit: दत्तात्रेय उपनिषद्), also called the Dattatreyopanishad, is a Sanskrit text and one of the minor Upanishads of Hinduism. It is attached to the Atharvaveda , and classified as a text of the Vaishnava sect, which worships the god Vishnu .
The title Manasollasa (मानसोल्लास) is a compound Sanskrit word, consisting of manas (मनस्) or "mind" and ullasa (उल्लास) or "rejoicing, delighting". [2] It means "the joy, delighter or entertainer of the mind". [3] [4] Alternatively, the compound word can be broken as manasa and ullasa, which mean ...
The metrical part "discusses and repeatedly explains many basic problems of Advaita or "non-dualism" from different points of view" in a non-systematical way. [7] Positing that the "I," Atman, is self-evident, Shankara argues that Atman, Awareness, Consciousness, is the True Self, and not the mind and the body.
The sandesha kavya (Sanskrit: सन्देशकाव्य, romanized: sandeśakāvya) or a duta kavya is a literary form and genre of Sanskrit poetry. [1 ...
Vaiśeṣika Sūtra (Sanskrit: वैशेषिक सूत्र), also called Kanada sutra, is an ancient Sanskrit text at the foundation of the Vaisheshika school of Hindu philosophy. [1] [2] [3] The sutra was authored by the Hindu sage Kanada, also known as Kashyapa.
The text is named after the Vedic sage Narada, the musical genius and monk who also appears in numerous Upanishads. [7]Manuscripts of nearly all the major puranas acknowledge the existence of a major purana named either Narada or Naradiya, suggesting it was an important text in Hindu mythology. [8]