The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism (2 Vol Set)

temple to the god Shiva, and as with many southern Indian temples, the tem- ple is located in the heart of the city and forms a ...

various components, both good and bad. One product is the deadly halahala poison, which is neutralized by having Shivahold it in ...

experience was the same as that gained from his earlier devotional practices. This inner experience of identity was a pivotal ex ...

and sculpture, in which the line of the body has three distinct breaks, or changes in direction. In this pose, the body’s weight ...

Triphala Another name for the Urdhvapundra, the characteristic forehead mark of renunciant ascetics who are devotees (bhakta) of ...

single arrow through all three, kindling a fire that burns the cities and destroys their inhabitants. This story illustrates one ...

section devoted to pilgrimage in general, giving the rules for its performance, and continues with three sections giving the pre ...

Tryambakeshvar in the form of a linga, the pillar-shaped image that is his sym- bolic form. The Tryambakeshvar linga is one of t ...

cursed to be born as a stone (the shala- gram); and Lakshmi, who tries only to mediate the quarrel, is cursed to be born as a pl ...

celebrated on the eleventh day of the bright (waxing) half of the lunar month of Kartik. It is also celebrated as Devotthayan Ek ...

characterized by perceptions of subject and object; the second is dream sleep, which is sheer subjectivity; the third is deep sl ...

Tyag (“renunciation”) Practice of renuncia- tion stressed most by ascetics, but even among this group, some stress it more than ...

U Udana In traditional Indian physiology, one of the five bodily “winds” considered to be responsible for basic bodily functions ...

the devotional (bhakti) literature, Uddhava is most famous for the mes- sage he carries from Krishna back to the gopis, the cowh ...

Pradesh, about 100 miles west of Bhopal, the state capital. Ujjain is the traditional center of the Malwaplateau and has a long ...

ulatbamsi, see Appendix A in Linda Hess and Shukdev Singh (trans.), The Bijak of Kabir, 1983. Uma Epithet of the goddess Parvati ...

concede—namely, that there were real objects in the world, that they were made from other things, and that these things underwen ...

this entitlement came responsibilities, particularly to observe puritylaws, to which younger children were not subject. If nothi ...

being continuous identity; the idea of reincarnation (samsara) commensurate with one’s deeds; the concept that some single unify ...

not very common, it has a long-attested history as an asceticpractice. As with all such harsh physical asceticism, this is belie ...