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(This text is in the public domain in the US, because it was published prior to 1923) (th) The last 10 jataka before the Buddha, ISBN 978-616-18-0913-3; Photos of the murals with accompanying texts are of the sala (pavilion) of temple "bridge three" (Thai: วัดสะพานสาม wat saphan saam), Phitsanulok, Thailand, 2015. License ...
A murti of Akka Mahadevi consecrated in temple at her birthplace, Udutadi A popular vachana (poem) composed by Akka Mahadevi. Akka Mahadevi (c. 1130–1160) was an early poet of Kannada literature [1] and a prominent member of the Lingayatism founded in the 12th century. [2]
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Hinduism is an ancient religion, with denominations such as Shaivism, Vaishnavism, Shaktism, among others. [1] [2] Each tradition has a long list of Hindu texts, with subgenre based on syncretization of ideas from Samkhya, Nyaya, Yoga, Vedanta and other schools of Hindu philosophy.
Peter Skilling has published English translations of these texts in his two volume "Mahasutras" (Pāli Text Society, 1994). According to 84000.co , a site of Tibetan Canon translations, the Degé Kangyur catalogue states that sutras Toh 287-359 of the General Sutra section are " Śrāvakayāna " works "probably extracted from the Āgamas of the ...
The text is a series of 450 verses organized into 27 chapters. The verses are aphoristic, often enigmatic, and extremely short. The text's arguments are presented in a highly compressed and concise form. This is because the text is a karika-style work. Such texts were meant to be memorized as an aid to learning by students.
The Mahāvastu (Sanskrit for "Great Event" or "Great Story") is a canonical text of the Mahāsāṃghika Lokottaravāda school of Early Buddhism which was originally part of the school's Vinaya pitaka. [1] [2] The Mahāvastu is a composite multi-life hagiography of the Buddha Shakyamuni. Its numerous textual layers are held by scholars to have ...
The latter half of the text comprise the Shakta version of the Ramayana, the legend of Krishna, where he is depicted as an embodiment of Mahadevi, and the defeat of Vritra at the hands of Indra. [4] It describes the Shakti Pithas as the sites where a grieving Shiva meditated after the death of Sati at the Daksha Yajna , the deity proclaiming ...