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  2. Shukra - Wikipedia

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    Shukra represents women, beauty, wealth, luxury, and sex. According to classical astrological texts, a powerfully placed Shukra, aspected by benefic planets such as Jupiter, and in favourable signs and houses in the birth chart, ensures material well-being. Its beej mantra is "Om Draam Dreem Draum Sah Shukraya Namaha". It is associated with ...

  3. Śakra (Buddhism) - Wikipedia

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    "Śakra" is a Sanskrit word meaning ""mighty"" or "powerful," and is used as an epithet of Indra in hymn 5.34 of the Rigveda. The related Pāli lexeme "Sakka" seems to have been the standard name of the king of heaven in Buddhist tradition.

  4. List of Nakshatras - Wikipedia

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    Lord: Shukra (Venus) Symbol: Yoni, the female organ of reproduction; Deity: Yama, god of death or Dharma; Indian zodiac: 13° 20' - 26°40' Mesha; Western zodiac 7°06' - 20°26' Taurus; 3 Krittika - कृत्तिका an old name of the Pleiades; personified as the nurses of Kārttikeya, a son of Shiva. Pleiades: Lord: Surya (Sun) Symbol ...

  5. Kacha (sage) - Wikipedia

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    Shukra accepts him as his disciple, and the latter accepts the task of offering him a thousand years of service. Devayani is infatuated by the youth, and the two become an inseparable couple. The asuras , however, are suspicious of Kacha's intentions, guessing correctly that he wished to know the secret of the life-restoring mantra.

  6. Sinhala idioms and proverbs - Wikipedia

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    Sinhala idioms (Sinhala: රූඩි, rūḍi) and colloquial expressions that are widely used to communicate figuratively, as with any other developed language.This page also contains a list of old and popular Sinhala proverbs, which are known as prastā piruḷu (ප්‍රස්තා පිරුළු) in Sinhala.

  7. Devayani - Wikipedia

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    When Shukra serves as the counsellor of the daitya king Vrishaparvan, Devayani becomes a friend of Sharmishtha, a princess, and the daughter of the daitya king. One day, the two go for a bath in a forest brook, accompanied by their retinue of maids, leaving their clothes on the bank of the stream.

  8. Sukra - Wikipedia

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    Shukra may refer to: Shukra, an ancient lineage of sages who counselled Asuras in Vedic history; Sukra, alternate spelling of Shukra, the Sanskrit name for Venus;

  9. Mantra - Wikipedia

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    A mantra (Pali: mantra) or mantram (Devanagari: मन्त्रम्) [1] is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words (most often in an Indo-Iranian language like Sanskrit or Avestan) believed by practitioners to have religious, magical or spiritual powers.