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The word puja is roughly translated into English as 'reverence, honour, homage, adoration, or worship'. [3] Puja (পুজো / পুজা in bangla), the loving offering of light, flowers, and water or food to the divine, is the essential ritual of Hinduism. For the worshipper, the divine is visible in the image, and the divinity sees the ...
Nityakarma (Sanskrit: नित्यकर्म, romanized: Nityakarma) refers to obligatory Vedic duties that are prescribed for daily practice in Hinduism. [1] [2] Nityakarma is among the three ritual actions classified by the Mimamsa philosophy, along with nisiddhakarma and kamyakarma. [3] It is also featured in the Shaiva Siddhanta ...
'king's sacrifice') is a śrauta ritual of the Vedic religion. It is ceremony that marks a consecration of a king. [1] According to the Puranas, it refers to a great sacrifice performed by a Chakravarti – universal monarch, in which the tributary princes may also take part, at the time of his coronation, as a mark of his undisputed sovereignty.
'the eternal law that sustains/upholds/surely preserves'), [3] [4] amongst many other expressions. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Hinduism has no single founder, and is formed of diverse traditions, [ 7 ] including a wide spectrum of laws and prescriptions of "daily morality" based on the notion of karma, dharma, and societal norms.
Homa rituals remain an important part of many Hindu ceremonies, and variations of homa continue to be practiced in current-day Buddhism, particularly in parts of Tibet and Japan. [4] [5] It is also found in modern Jainism. [4] [6] A homa is also called yajna in Hinduism, sometimes for larger public fire rituals, or jajnavidhana or goma in Buddhism.
Rituals of Śrāddha in a Hindu family. Śrāddha (Sanskrit: श्राद्ध), is a ritual that some Hindus perform to pay homage to their pitṛs (dead ancestors). [1] They believe that the ritual would provide peace to the ancestors in their afterlife. It is performed on the death anniversaries of the departed as per the Hindu Calendar.
'salutation to (Goddess) Twilight', or 'salutation during the twilight') is a mandatory religious ritual centring around the recitation of the Gayatri mantra, traditionally supposed to be performed three times a day by Dvija communities of Hindus, [1] [2] particularly those initiated through the sacred thread ceremony referred to as the ...
The Hindu devotional Bhakti traditions place a focus on repetitive prayer, known as japa. Prayer is centred on the personal forms of gods and goddesses, such as Vishnu's avatars, most notably Rama and Krishna , Shiva, or Shiva's sons such as Kartikeya and Ganesha , as well as Mahadevi , the supreme goddess, and her forms, such as Lakshmi or Kali .