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During a Hindu wedding, the mangalasutra is tied around the neck of the bride by the groom. The ceremony is known as the Mangalya Dharanam ( Sanskrit for 'wearing the auspicious'). Mangalasutra literally means "an auspicious thread" [ 1 ] that is knotted around the bride's neck and is worn by her for the remainder of her marriage.
Alf trisar šuialia (The 1012 Questions) (DC 36 [complete, with all 7 books], DC 6 [incomplete]) Šarh d-qabin d-Šišlam Rabbā (The Wedding of the Great Šišlam) (DC 38) Šarh d-Traṣa d-Taga d-Šišlam Rabbā (The Coronation of the Great Šišlam – describes a ritual for the ordination of the Mandaean clergy)
The Maṅgala Sutta is a discourse (Pali: sutta) of Gautama Buddha on the subject of 'blessings' (mangala, also translated as 'good omen' or 'auspices' or 'good fortune'). [1]
The rituals related ancient texts are of two kinds: (1) the Śrautasūtras, which are based on the śruti, and (2) the Smārtasūtras, or rules based on the smriti or tradition. The first versions of the Kalpa Sutras text were probably composed by the 6th-century BCE, and they were attributed to famous Vedic sages out of respect for them in the ...
A mangalacharana (Sanskrit: मङ्गलाचरणम्, romanized: maṅgalācaraṇam) [1] or a mangalashloka [2] is a benedictory verse traditionally ...
Part mystery, part adventure, all word game -- in today's Game of the Day, The Book of Treasures, you play as Jessica, a librarian hunting for a lost Egyptian manuscript.One day, Jessica finds a ...
The Ritual Decalogue [1] is a list of laws at Exodus 34:11–26. These laws are similar to the Covenant Code and are followed by the phrase " Ten Commandments " ( Hebrew : עשרת הדברים aseret ha-dvarîm , in Exodus 34:28 ).
The subjects of the hymns cover a wider spectrum than in the other books, dedicated not only to deities or natural phenomena, including deities that are not prominent enough to receive their own hymns in the other books (Nirrti 10.59, Asamati 10.60, Ratri 10.127, Aranyani 10.146, Indrani 10.159), but also to objects like dice (10.34), herbs (10.97), press-stones (for Soma, 10.94, 175) and ...