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  2. Amrita - Wikipedia

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    Amrita plays a significant role in the Samudra Manthana, and is the cause of the conflict between devas and asuras competing for amrita to obtain immortality. [3] Amrita has varying significance in different Indian religions. The word Amrit is also a common first name for Sikhs and Hindus, while its feminine form is Amritā. [4]

  3. Glossary of Hinduism terms - Wikipedia

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    (Akasha is a Sanskrit word meaning "sky", "space" or "aether") In the religion of theosophy and the philosophical school called anthroposophy, the Akashic records are a compendium of all universal events, thoughts, words, emotions and intent ever to have occurred in the past, present, or future in terms of all entities and life forms, not just ...

  4. List of English words of Sanskrit origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English words of Sanskrit origin. Most of these words were not directly borrowed from Sanskrit. The meaning of some words have changed slightly after being borrowed. Both languages belong to the Indo-European language family and have numerous cognate terms; some examples are "mortal", "mother", "father" and the names of the ...

  5. Amritapuri - Wikipedia

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    The name "Amritapuri" is derived from Amma's name (Mata Amritanandamayi) and consists of two Sanskrit words: "Amrita" and "Puri," which carry deep spiritual significance."Amrita" (अमृत): The word "Amrita" in Sanskrit means "immortal" or "nectar of immortality", similar to the Greek ambrosia.

  6. Sanskrit - Wikipedia

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    The basis of Sanskrit morphology is the root, states Jamison, "a morpheme bearing lexical meaning". [232] The verbal and nominal stems of Sanskrit words are derived from this root through the phonological vowel-gradation processes, the addition of affixes, verbal and nominal stems.

  7. Amritasiddhi - Wikipedia

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    Each three-line group consists of C S, a line of Sanskrit in handwriting that imitates an East Indian style of the Devanagari script; C T, a line of transliteration of the Sanskrit into dbu can Tibetan letters; and C tr, a line of translation into Tibetan, using dbu med letters. The C tr translation, however, is not of the Sanskrit of the first ...

  8. Amrit Sanskar - Wikipedia

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    Amrit Sanskar (Punjabi: ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤ ਸੰਸਕਾਰ, romanized: Amrita sasakāra, pronunciation: [ãːmɾʱɪt̪ sә̃nskäːɚ], lit. "nectar ceremony") is one of the four Sikh Sanskaars. [1] The Amrit Sanskar is the initiation rite introduced by Guru Gobind Singh when he founded the Khalsa in 1699. [2] [3]

  9. Amritabindu Upanishad - Wikipedia

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    Mircea Eliade suggests that Amritabindu Upanishad was possibly composed in the same period as the didactic parts of the Mahabharata, the chief Sannyasa Upanishads and along with other early Yoga Upanishads: Brahmabindu (probably composed about the same time as Maitri Upanishad), Ksurika, Tejobindu, Brahmavidya, Nadabindu, Yogashikha, Dhyanabindu and Yogatattva Upanishad. [14]