Tapas (Sanskrit: तपस्, romanized: tapas) is a variety of austere spiritual meditation practices in Indian religions. In Jainism, it means asceticism (austerities...
38 KB (4,645 words) - 01:15, 27 May 2024
Airborne Platform for Aerial Surveillance Beyond Horizon-201 or TAPAS BH-201(Sanskrit: तपस् ; lit. Heat) (formerly referred to as Rustom-II until 2016)...
29 KB (2,767 words) - 13:46, 6 July 2024
Tapas or Tapasya is an Indian given name. It may refer to: Tapas (Sanskrit: तपस्) is a concept in Indian religions that refers to a variety of ascetic...
844 bytes (122 words) - 06:02, 28 August 2022
Hiranyakashipu (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Hiranyakashipu decided to gain a boon of invulnerability by performing tapas to propitiate Brahma. After his subjugation of the three worlds, he was...
14 KB (1,717 words) - 01:54, 8 July 2024
his whole life, Swami was mostly known for his Tapas (Sanskrit: तप) as he had started doing a deep Tapas for the last 30 years of his life at his resident...
11 KB (980 words) - 16:08, 26 February 2024
appears in his true form and finally accepts her and breaks her tapas. During the entire tapas Pravati was feeding herself with belpatra and river water. Her...
8 KB (772 words) - 06:14, 9 February 2024
Baba Hari Dass (section Vow of silence and tapas)
be part of a larger body of practices called tapas (Sanskrit: तपस्). Overall, mauna as practice of tapas would not be viewed as penance but rather "as...
98 KB (12,704 words) - 16:59, 13 May 2024
Rishi (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
regards the rishis as "great yogis" or "sages" who after intense meditation (tapas) realized the supreme truth and eternal knowledge, which they composed into...
12 KB (1,383 words) - 22:44, 6 July 2024
Sanskrit prosody or Chandas refers to one of the six Vedangas, or limbs of Vedic studies. It is the study of poetic metres and verse in Sanskrit. This...
48 KB (5,186 words) - 15:08, 3 July 2024
Char Dham (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Badrinath became prominent when Nara-Narayana, an avatar of Vishnu, performed tapas there. As the area then had a profusion of berry trees, the site was initially...
18 KB (1,797 words) - 17:24, 11 July 2024
Kriyā (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali 2.1 defines three types of kriyā, namely tapas (ascetic devotion), svadhyaya (study of the self or the scriptures), and...
3 KB (309 words) - 06:28, 19 May 2024
Shambuka (category CS1 Sanskrit-language sources (sa))
happened due to a violation of a rule of tapas (austerities). Narada informed him that a shudra was performing tapas, which was prohibited in the age of Treta...
17 KB (1,798 words) - 02:26, 15 June 2024
Shivabalayogi (section Initiation in Tapas)
years of arduous tapas, meditating in samādhi (a state of total absorption) for an average of twenty hours a day. After completing tapas, he was given the...
26 KB (3,589 words) - 22:05, 23 March 2024
Om Tat Sat (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Om Tat Sat (Sanskrit: ओम् तत् सत्, Om Tat Sat) is the group of three mantras in Sanskrit found in verse 17.23 of the Bhagavad "Om Tat Sat" is the eternal...
4 KB (451 words) - 02:02, 13 April 2024
Shukra (category CS1 Sanskrit-language sources (sa))
Shukra (Sanskrit: शुक्र, IAST: Śukra) is a Sanskrit word that means "clear" or "bright". It also has other meanings, such as the name of a sage who counselled...
12 KB (1,110 words) - 18:25, 5 July 2024
Vyākaraṇa (redirect from Sanskrit grammarians)
Vyākaraṇa (Sanskrit: व्याकरण, lit. 'explanation, analysis', IPA: [ˈʋjaːkɐrɐɳɐ]) refers to one of the six ancient Vedangas, ancillary science connected...
30 KB (3,866 words) - 02:42, 27 May 2024
Indo-Aryan languages descend from Old Indo-Aryan languages such as early Vedic Sanskrit, through Middle Indo-Aryan languages (or Prakrits). The largest such languages...
76 KB (5,797 words) - 11:40, 17 July 2024
Kripa (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Kripa (Sanskrit: कृप, lit. 'pity', IAST: Kṛpa), also known as Kripacharya (Sanskrit: कृपाचार्य, IAST: Kṛpācārya), is a figure in Hindu mythology. According...
10 KB (1,138 words) - 08:05, 21 July 2024
Ashtanga (eight limbs of yoga) (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Ashtanga yoga (Sanskrit: अष्टाङ्गयोग, romanized: aṣṭāṅgayoga, "the eight limbs of yoga") is Patanjali's classification of classical yoga, as set out in...
39 KB (4,368 words) - 18:23, 9 June 2024
Om (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. Om (or Aum) (listen; Sanskrit: ॐ, ओम्, romanized: Oṃ, ISO 15919: Ōṁ) is a symbol representing a sacred...
90 KB (8,495 words) - 13:26, 19 July 2024
Jyotirlinga (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
A Jyotirlinga (Sanskrit: ज्योतिर्लिङ्ग, romanized: Jyotirliṅga, lit. 'lingam of light') or Jyotirlingam is a devotional representation of the Hindu god...
18 KB (667 words) - 15:07, 27 June 2024
Niyama (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
(सन्तोष): contentment; disinterest in acquiring more than one's needs of life. Tapas (तपस्): austerity, self-discipline, persistent meditation and perseverance...
18 KB (2,063 words) - 00:38, 19 June 2024
Bhuvaneshwar, where he performed his tapas. When Ganapati was staying in Varanasi he learned of an assembly of Sanskrit scholars in the city of Nabadwip in...
5 KB (459 words) - 21:02, 12 July 2022
Urdhva lokas (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
The Urdhvalokas (Sanskrit: ऊर्ध्वलोक, romanized: Ūrdhvaloka) or upper spheres of the world, are composed of seven lokas or worlds, according to Hindu mythology...
5 KB (621 words) - 04:15, 26 May 2024
Shiva (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Shiva (/ˈʃɪvə/; Sanskrit: शिव, lit. 'The Auspicious One', IAST: Śiva [ɕɪʋɐ]), also known as Mahadeva (/məˈhɑː ˈdeɪvə/; Sanskrit: महादेव:, lit. 'The Great...
168 KB (18,146 words) - 16:38, 19 July 2024
Lake Manasarovar (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Lake Manasarovar (Sanskrit: मानसरोवर, romanized: Mānasarōvara), also called Mapam Yumtso (Tibetan: མ་ཕམ་གཡུ་མཚོ།, Wylie: ma pham g.yu mtsho, THL: ma pam...
17 KB (1,706 words) - 10:07, 15 July 2024
Sādhanā (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Sādhanā (Sanskrit: साधना; Tibetan: སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་, THL: druptap; Chinese: 修行; pinyin: xiūxíng) is an ego-transcending spiritual practice. It includes a variety...
11 KB (1,327 words) - 18:15, 13 July 2024
Madhu-Kaitabha (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Madhu (Sanskrit: मधु, IAST: Madhu) and Kaitabha (Sanskrit: कैटभ, IAST: Kaiṭabha), also rendered Madhu-Kaiṭabhas, are the names of two asuras in Hindu scriptures...
6 KB (720 words) - 11:30, 22 June 2024
Hinduism and Buddhism are no longer the major religions of Indonesia, Sanskrit, the language vehicle for these religions, is still held in high esteem...
48 KB (290 words) - 14:54, 6 June 2024
Samaveda (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Samaveda (Sanskrit: सामवेद, IAST: Sāmaveda, from सामन्, "song" and वेद, "knowledge"), is the Veda of melodies and chants. It is an ancient Vedic Sanskrit text...
26 KB (3,110 words) - 14:46, 28 June 2024