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Barren women desiring to conceive and mothers seeking to ensure the protection of their children will worship Shashthi and request her blessings and aid. She is especially venerated in eastern India. Also known as Chhathi Maiya (छठी मईया), the sixth form of Devi Prakriti and Lord Surya's sister is worshipped during Chhath Puja.
In verses 2.67–2.69 and 5.148–5.155, Manusmriti preaches that as a girl, she should respect and seek protection of her father, as a young woman her husband, and as a widow her son and should receive the same respect from them as well, and that a woman should always worship her husband as a god and vice-versa.
Pyrite is used with flintstone and a form of tinder made of stringybark by the Kaurna people of South Australia, as a traditional method of starting fires. [17] Pyrite has been used since classical times to manufacture copperas (ferrous sulfate). Iron pyrite was heaped up and allowed to weather (an example of an early form of heap leaching ...
All the gods are believed to reside in the body of Kamadhenu—the generic cow. Her four legs are the scriptural Vedas; her horns are the triune gods Brahma (tip), Vishnu (middle) and Shiva (base); her eyes are the sun and moon gods, her shoulders the fire-god Agni and the wind-god Vayu and her legs the Himalayas. Kamadhenu is often depicted in ...
Sati appears in Hindi and Sanskrit texts, where it is synonymous with 'good wife'; [17] the term suttee was commonly used by Anglo-Indian English writers. [18] The word sati , therefore, originally referred to the woman, rather than the rite.
Kama (Sanskrit: कामदेव, IAST: Kāmadeva), also known as Kamadeva and Manmatha, is the Hindu god of erotic love, desire, pleasure and beauty. He is depicted as a handsome young man decked with ornaments and flowers, armed with a bow of sugarcane and shooting arrows of flowers.
Children Ṛumaṇvān, Suhotra, Vasu, Viśvāvasu, Parashurama [ 2 ] Mahur Renuka , also known as Yellamma Devi , is a Hindu mother goddess worshipped predominantly in the South Indian states of Kerala , Karnataka , Tamil Nadu , Telangana , Andhra Pradesh , Maharashtra . [ 3 ]
[2] [1] She is linked to the creator god Brahma, either as his consort or creation. In this role, she represents his creative power ( Shakti ), giving reality a unique and distinctly human quality. She becomes linked with the dimension of reality characterized by clarity and intellectual order. [ 1 ]