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  2. Śatakatraya - Wikipedia

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    The Sanskrit scholar Barbara Stoler Miller translated these sections as Among Fools and Kings, Passionate Encounters and Refuge in the Forest respectively. Especially in the Vairāgyaśataka , but also in the other two, his poetry displays the depth and intensity of his renunciation as he vacillates between the pursuits of fleshly desires and ...

  3. Shataka - Wikipedia

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    A shataka (Sanskrit: शतकम्, romanized: śatakam) is a genre of Sanskrit literature. [1] It comprises works that contain one hundred verses. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is also a popular genre of Telugu literature .

  4. Book of Life - Wikipedia

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    Depiction of the book of life. In Judaism, Christianity and Islam ( Angels) the Book of Life (Biblical Hebrew: ספר החיים, transliterated Sefer HaḤayyim; Ancient Greek: βιβλίον τῆς ζωῆς, romanized: Biblíon tēs Zōēs Arabic: سفر الحياة, romanized: Sifr al-Ḥayā) is an alleged book in which God records, or will record, the names of every person who is ...

  5. Bhartṛhari - Wikipedia

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    [1] [3] [4] He was associated with the court of Valabhi (modern Vala, Gujarat) but decided to follow the path of Indian sages and renounced a sensual life to find higher meaning. [2] He attempted to live a monastic life but was unable to successfully detach from worldly pleasures. After some time, he lived a life as a yogi in Ujjain till his ...

  6. Amaru Shataka - Wikipedia

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    Wife awaits her Husband, Verse 76, Amaru Shataka by Amaru, early 17th-century painting. The Amaruśataka or Amarukaśataka (अमरुशतक, "the hundred stanzas of Amaru"), authored by Amaru (also Amaruka), is a collection of poems dated to about the 7th [1] or 8th century.

  7. Goraksha Shataka - Wikipedia

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    The first verse states that the text is for ascetics who had renounced ordinary life to attain liberation. [1] The text explains how to control the breath in pranayama, [3] using novel techniques such as sūryabhedana, "the piercing of the sun". [1] It teaches śakticālanīmudrā ("stimulating Sarasvatī") along with the three bandhas. [4] "

  8. Manmohan Acharya - Wikipedia

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    Manmohan Acharya was a poet and lyricist from India.His Sanskrit poems and lyrics have been put to music and danced to in the Odissi classical Indian dance form. A devotional song from his Gitamohanam was featured in the 2009 Bollywood movie, The Desire.

  9. Three marks of existence - Wikipedia

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    In Buddhism, the three marks of existence are three characteristics (Pali: tilakkhaṇa; Sanskrit: त्रिलक्षण trilakṣaṇa) of all existence and beings, namely anicca (impermanence), dukkha (commonly translated as "suffering" or "cause of suffering", "unsatisfactory", "unease"), [note 1] and anattā (without a lasting essence).