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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 ...
The Avadānaśataka (A Hundred Tales) is a Buddhist anthology in Sanskrit of one hundred Buddhist avadāna legends associated with the Mūlasarvāstivāda school. [1] [2] The Sanskrit text's composition date is uncertain, with an approximate origin around 100 CE or later, between the second and fourth centuries CE. [2] [3]
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]
[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 ...
Sumati Satakam has been extremely popular for a long time with parents and teachers who try to teach the right conduct and social values to young children. The language used is very simple. The poems have the musical quality of classical meters. Most of the words are simple Telugu. The use of Sanskrit words is very limited.
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 ...
Avadāna (Sanskrit; Pali: Apadāna) [1] is the name given to a type of Buddhist literature correlating past lives' virtuous deeds to subsequent lives' events.. Richard Salomon described them as "stories, usually narrated by the Buddha, that illustrate the workings of karma by revealing the acts of a particular individual in a previous life and the results of those actions in his or her present ...
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] "