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according Achárya adopted adoration Aghoris alms amongst ANANDA GIRI appears ascetic authority Básava Bauddhas Benares Bengal Bhagavat BHAIRAVA Bhakta Málá Bháratí Bhasha body Brahmans caste celebrated century ceremonies CHAITANYA character Cheritra chief Dandís deity devotion Digambaras disciples distinct divine division doctrines established existence faith followers founder GAUTAMA Gosains Guru HARI HEMACHANDRA Hindu Hindustan India Jainas Jains Jangama JAYADEVA Jina Jogis Kabir Kabir Pant'his KRISHNA latter legends Linga MAHA'VI'RA Mahant Mahavira Mantra Maths Mathura mendicants Mohammedan Moksha Nának notions objects observed origin peculiar person popular practice Prakriti present principal profess Purána RA'DHA RA'MA RA'MA'NAND RA'MA'NUJA Rádhá Raja Ráma Rámánandi Rámánujas religion religious residence rites saint Saiva Sakti SANKARA Sanscrit Sanyásis shrine Sikhs SIVA spirit Sri Vaishnavas Supreme Súri Sútra teachers temple tenets term texts Tirthankaras Tulasi upper India Vairágis VALLABHA various Vedas veneration VISHNU votaries Vrindavan whilst worship Yoga
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Page 224 - The Creed of the lover differs from other Creeds. God is the faith and creed of those who love him, but to do good is best for the follower of every faith.
Page 142 - ... short of positive testimony can afford, that the worship of SIVA, under this type, prevailed throughout India at least as early as the fifth or sixth century of the Christian era. Considered as one great branch of the universal public worship, its prevalence, no doubt, dates much earlier; but the particular modifications under which the several types received their local designations , and became entitled to special reverence, are not in every case of remote antiquity. One of the forms in which...
Page 197 - Jina ; and at the age of seventy-two years, the period of his liberation having arrived, "he resigned his breath," and his body was burned by Indra and other deities, who divided amongst them such parts as were not destroyed by the flames, as the teeth and bones, which they preserved as relics ; the ashes of the pile were distributed amongst the assistants : the gods erected a splendid monument on the spot, and then returned to their respective heavens.
Page 171 - His body is smeared with ashes from a funeral pile, around his neck hangs a string of human skulls, his forehead is streaked with a black line, his hair is...
Page 31 - RA'MA'NUJA : we shall have occasion to infer, hereafter, from the accounts given of the dates of other teachers, that RA'MA'NAND was not earlier than the end of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth, century.
Page 29 - Veddnta doctrines, they deny that the deity is void of form or quality, and regard him as endowed with all good qualities, and with a two-fold form: the supreme spirit, Paramdtmd, or cause, and the gross one, the effect, the universe or matter.
Page 154 - ... is invested, considered as the especial object of veneration, depends upon the bias entertained by the individuals towards the adoration of VISHNU or SIVA. In the former case the personified SAKTI is termed LAKSHMI, or MAHA LAKSHMI, and in the latter, PARVATT.
Page 194 - Brahmana of the Gotama tribe, and others. These converts to Jaina principles are mostly made in the same manner: each comes to the saint prepared to overwhelm him with shame, when he salutes them mildly, and, as the Jainas hold, solves their metaphysical or religious doubts. Thus...
Page 26 - Rdmdnujas cook for themselves, and should the meal during this process, or whilst they are eating; attract even the looks of a stranger, the operation is instantly stopped, and the viands buried in the ground...
Page 53 - Musalman during the Ramazan. Who formed the remaining months and days that you should venerate but one. If the Creator dwell in Tabernacles, whose residence is the universe ? who has beheld...