The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism (2 Vol Set)

xix Mundan 449 Naimittika Karma 455 Naivedya 456 Namakarana 457 Namaskara 458 Nazar 470 Nishkramana 477 Nitya Karma 477 Niyoga 4 ...

xx Achara 4 Acharya 5 Adhvaryum 7 Adivasi 10 Aghori 14 Agni Akhara 15 Agnikula 16 Agrahara 17 Ahir 19 Akshar Purushottam Samstha ...

xxi Pancharatra 493 Panchayat 493 Pani 497 Panth 497 Paramahamsa 498 Parivrajaka 502 Parvata Dashanami 503 Pashupata 505 Peshwa ...

xxii Aihole 19 Alakananda River 26 Alandi 27 Allahabad 29 Amarkantak 30 Amarnath 30 Andhra Pradesh 38 Anga 39 Angkor 40 Aravalli ...

xxiii Abhang 1 Abhijnanashakuntala 1 Abhimanyu 2 Abhinavagupta 3 Abhinaya 3 Adhiratha 6 Adigranth 8 Aditya 10 Agama 13 Aiteraya ...

xxiv Gandhari 233 Gandiva 236 Gayatri Mantra 245 Ghatotkacha 247 Gitagovinda 249 Gopichand 255 Gorakhshatakam 257 Grhastha 262 G ...

xxv Alchemy 28 Apana 48 Ayurveda 75 Baiga 80 Blood 118 Charaka Samhita 142 Dhatuvada 192 Drugs 207 Kapha 307 Mercury 436 Nadi 45 ...

xxvi Danava 169 Dashavatar 175 Dattatreya 176 Datura 176 Deities 181 Demons 181 Deva 183 Devaki 184 Devasena 185 Dhanvantari 188 ...

xxvii Pret 527 Prthivi 529 Prthu 529 Pulaha 530 Pulastya 531 Punya 532 Purana Kassapa 533 Pururavas 536 Pushan (1) 538 Pushan (2 ...

xxviii Abhava 1 Achintyabhedabheda 5 Adharma 6 Adhyasa 10 Advaita Vedanta 12 Aham Brahmasmi 17 Ahamkar 17 Aims of Life 19 Ajivik ...

xxix Ajna Chakra 22 Anahata Chakra 34 Anima 40 Antaryaga 44 Antinomianism 45 Asana 58 Ashtanga Yoga 65 Bahiryaga 79 Bhadrasana 9 ...

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A Abhang (“unbroken”) Poetic form characteristi- cally used by the saint-poets of the Varkari Panth, a religious community cente ...

is usually preceded by trial and tribula- tion. The other is that the drama’s dialogue is in two different languages. Characters ...

counter the chakravyuha. While Abhimanyu was in his mother’s womb, he heard his father describe how to penetrate it. Once Abhima ...

Achala Ekadashi Festival falling on the eleventh day (ekadashi) of the dark (waning) half of the lunar month of Jyeshth (May–Jun ...

woman’s opportunities for a good mar- riage or produce an illegitimate child. Acharya Traditional term of respect for a religiou ...

burn me”). The rite’s success stems from the truthfulness of the first condition— that the power of truth in the condition actua ...

One can read this dissonance in the epic’s recognition that the hierarchical, occupationally based social model is an idealized ...

reality. For the Advaita Vedanta school, there is ultimately only one real idea in the universe, namely Brahman. All things are ...