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The first phase of a person's life where he goes to live with his guru to learn the different studies. Brahman The Supreme Transcendental Awareness which pervades and yet transcends the manifest universe. Not to be confused with the god Brahma or the varna Brahmin. Brahmin The class or varna of people consisting of priests, teachers, sages, and ...
A sacred language, liturgical language or holy language is a language that is cultivated and used primarily for religious reasons (like church service) by people who speak another, primary language in their daily lives. Some religions, or parts of them, regard the language of their sacred texts as in itself sacred.
The meaning of the first line of the Mantra can be translate in English as "O God! May a Brahmin teacher who is endowed with the light of knowledge arise in our nation." The translation of the second line of the Mantra is "May there arise brave, skilled archers, great warriors, rulers and soldiers Kshatriyas in our nation."
Sacrifice: (from a Middle English verb meaning 'to make sacred', from Old French, from Latin sacrificium : sacer, sacred; sacred + facere, to make) Commonly known as the practice of offering food, or the lives of animals or people to the gods, as an act of propitiation or worship.
[307] [308] [309] It is the divine in these that makes each sacred and worthy of reverence, rather than them being sacred in and of themselves. This perception of divinity manifested in all things, as Buttimer and Wallin view it, makes the Vedic foundations of Hinduism quite distinct from animism , in which all things are themselves divine. [ 307 ]
The Bhagavad Gita (/ ˈ b ʌ ɡ ə v ə d ˈ ɡ iː t ɑː /; [1] Sanskrit: भगवद्गीता, IPA: [ˌbʱɐɡɐʋɐd ˈɡiːtɑː], romanized: bhagavad-gītā, lit. 'God's song'), [a] often referred to as the Gita (IAST: gītā), is a Hindu scripture, dated to the second or first century BCE, [7] which forms part of the epic poem Mahabharata.
In a poster condemning the consumption of beef, the sacred cow Kamadhenu is depicted as containing various deities within her body. According to Indologist Madeleine Biardeau , Kamadhenu or Kamaduh is the generic name of the sacred cow , who is regarded as the source of all prosperity in Hinduism. [ 5 ]
Srinagar, nagar meaning "city", is the capital of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir; Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, the administrative capital of Sri Lanka. Sri Maha Bodhi, a sacred fig tree in the Mahamewna Gardens, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. Srivijaya, a former kingdom centered on Sumatra, Indonesia. Siak Sri Indrapura, the capital seat of ...