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Sanskrit Name Name Mantra Name Meaning Name Name Mantra गजानन ॐ गजाननाय नमः। Elephant-faced Lord Gajanana Om Gajananaya Namah
The Annapurna Sahasranam is dedicated to the goddess and praises her one thousand names, while the Annapurna Shatanama Stotram is dedicated to her 108 names. A few temples exist that are dedicated to her, some of the most prominent being the Annapoorneshwari Temple established by Agastya at Horanadu and Annapurna Devi Mandir in Varanasi .
Krishna states the thousand names of Shiva to Yudhishthira in the 17th chapter of Anushāsanaparva in the epic Mahabharata. Linga Purana (version 1, LP 1.65.54-168) is close to the Mahabharata Anushasanaparvan version. Linga Purana (version 2, LP 1.98.27-159) has some passages in common with LP version 1, but also with other sources ...
Name Transliteration Translation अच्युत: Acyuta: He who is infallible [6] माधव: Mādhava: He who is the lord of knowledge; [7] He who is like honey गोविन्द: Govinda: He who is a cow-protector [8] जनार्दन: Janārdana: He who is the original abode and protector of all living beings केशव: Keśava
[1] The canon is part of a dialogue between Rama and Hanuman dealing with the inquiry into mukti in the Muktikā Upanishad (108 in the list). The other collections of Upanishads include Oupanekhat , a Persian language anthology of 50 Upanishads; the Colebrooke Collection of 52 Upanishads, and the 52 Upanishad Collection of Nārāyana.
In classical Sanskrit, the word ambaka denotes "an eye", and in the Mahabharata, Shiva is depicted as three-eyed, so this name is sometimes translated as "having three eyes". [203] However, in Vedic Sanskrit, the word ambā or ambikā means "mother", and this early meaning of the word is the basis for the translation "three mothers".
The Shiva Purana contains chapters with Shiva-centered cosmology, mythology, and relationship between gods, ethics, yoga, tirtha (pilgrimage) sites, bhakti, rivers and geography, and other topics. [ 10 ] [ 2 ] [ 11 ] The text is an important source of historic information on different types and theology behind Shaivism in early 2nd-millennium ...
Shiva Puja in Hinduism is the way by which one worships Shiva through traditional and ancient rites with the use of mantra, tantra, yantra, kriyas, mudras, and abhishekam. Part of a series on Shaivism