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A japamala, jaap maala, or simply mala (Sanskrit: माला; mālā, meaning 'garland' [1]) is a loop of prayer beads commonly used in Indian religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism.
Vaikhari japa is spoken loud enough so that, although this is not why it is so loud (unless it is a group japa session), nearby people can hear it recited. It may be useful when there are other sounds nearby (though some consider this to be a mistake) [ 16 ] or when concentration is difficult and is thus considered most suitable for beginners.
The other twelve Latin consonants not needed for composing kanas (b, c, d, f, g, j, l, p, q, v, x, z) are composed on the voiceless consonants by swiping them up, or right, or even left (swiping k for q or g; swiping s for j or z; swiping t for c or d; swiping h for f, b or p; swiping m for l; swiping y for x; swiping w for v).
Japa (or japam) means repeating or remembering a mantra (or mantram), and ajapa-japa (or ajapajapam) means constant awareness of the mantra, or of what it represents. [1] [page needed] [2] The letter A in front of the word japa means without (it should be understood, that ajapa means "no chanting", thus ajapa means to stop thinking about anything material, and japa means to think about ...
Etymology: The na used with nouns (including na-adjectives) is a form of the copula. Na or naa at the end of a sentence is a variant of ne, implying more reflection. Verb (plain non-future) Suru-na するな: Don't do (something). Verb (stem) Tabe-na 食べな (short form of 食べなさい) Do eat / Please eat. Na-adjectives hen na hito 変な ...
Mala Sinha was constantly paired in roles opposite Uttam Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Dev Anand, Dharmendra, Raaj Kumar, Rajendra Kumar, Biswajeet, Manoj Kumar, Rajesh Khanna. She was the highest-paid actress from 1958 to 1965 with Vyjayanthimala , second with Vyjayanthimala from 1966 to 1967, then shared the second spot with Sharmila Tagore from 1968 ...
Top to bottom: 倭; wō in regular, clerical and small seal scripts Wa [a] is the oldest attested name of Japan [b] and ethnonym of the Japanese people.From c. the 2nd century AD Chinese and Korean scribes used the Chinese character 倭; 'submissive', 'distant', 'dwarf' to refer to the various inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago, although it might have been just used to transcribe the ...
Rama is a point and click adventure game, developed and published by Sierra On-Line, and released on DOS and Microsoft Windows in 1996; PlayStation version was released in 1998, but exclusively in Japan.