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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 ...
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]
It mentions three "knots" (granthis), a kind of chakra, which have to be pierced to allow the Kundalini to pass through. The three are the knots of Brahma at the base of the Sushumna channel, of Vishnu at the heart, and of Rudra , between the eyebrows.
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.
Suka-Rambha Samvadamu (1893–1894) is translation into Telugu from the poets' own work of the same name in Sanskrit. Buddha Caritramu, 1899–1900; Vairagya Sataka of Appaya Dikshita, 1899–1900; Bala Ramayana of Rajasekhara, [2] 1901–1912; Mudra Rakshasa of Vishakhadatta, 1901–1912; Mrichchakatika of Shudraka, 1901–1912
The Dayashataka (Sanskrit: दयाशतकम्, romanized: Dayāśatakam) is a Sanskrit hymn composed by the Hindu philosopher Vedanta Desika. [1] Comprising one hundred verses [2] in ten decads, the hymn was written in praise of Venkateshvara, a form of Vishnu who is the principal deity of the Venkateshvara Temple, Tirupati. [3]
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]
Three types of settlements are named in the inscriptions: nagara (city), nigama (town) and gama (village). [27] The Nashik prashasti inscription calls him ekabrahmana. One interpretation of this word is "a peerless Brahmin" [13] or "a staunch Brahmin", [44] since the same inscription also states that he destroyed the haughtiness of other ...