Bindu (Sanskrit: बिंदु) is a Sanskrit word meaning "point", "drop" or "dot". In Hindu metaphysics, Bindu is considered the point at which creation begins...
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Chandrika Bindu (Sanskrit: चन्द्रिका बिंदु) is a Sanskrit work on Dvaita philosophy written by Satyapriya Tirtha. It is a lucid adaptation of the well-known...
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Look up bindu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bindu (Sanskrit: बिंदु) is a term meaning "point" or "dot". Bindu may also refer to: Bindu (symbol),...
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Anusvara (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Anusvara (Sanskrit: अनुस्वार, IAST: anusvāra, IPA: [ɐn̪usʋaːrɐh, ənʊswaːr]), also known as Bindu (Hindi: बिंदु, IPA: [bin̪d̪uː]), is a symbol used in many...
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Hatha Yoga Pradipika (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā (Sanskrit: haṭhayogapradīpikā, हठयोगप्रदीपिका or Light on Hatha Yoga) is a classic fifteenth-century Sanskrit manual on haṭha yoga...
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A bindi (from Sanskrit bindú meaning "point, drop, dot or small particle") is a coloured dot or, in modern times, a sticker worn on the centre of the forehead...
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Sahasrara (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Sahasrara (Sanskrit: सहस्रार, IAST: Sahasrāra, English: "thousand-petalled", with many alternative names and spellings) or the crown chakra is considered...
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encompassing the cosmic and human realms around a central point called the bindu. This configuration is sometimes termed the "Navayoni Chakra". The Sri Yantra...
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Muladhara (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Muladhara (Sanskrit: मूलाधार or मूलाधारा; IAST: Mūlādhāra, lit. "root of Existence." Mula means root and dhara means flux.) or the root chakra is one of...
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Nadabindu Upanishad (redirect from Nad-Bindu Upanishad)
Yoga Upanishads in the four Vedas. It also known as Amrita Nada Bindu Upanishad.(Sanskrit: अमृतनादबिन्दु उपनिषद) The text exists in two significantly different...
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Svadhishthana (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
innermost circle, is a moon-white वं vaṃ. Above the mantra that is within the bindu, or dot, is the deity Vishnu. He is dark blue and wears a yellow dhoti....
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Amritasiddhi (category Sanskrit books)
role of bindu in the yogic body, and how to control it using the Mahamudra so as to achieve immortality (Amṛta). The implied model is that bindu is constantly...
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Vishuddha (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Vishuddha (Sanskrit: विशुद्ध, IAST: viśuddha, English: "very pure"), or vishuddhi (Sanskrit: विशुद्धी), or throat chakra is the fifth primary chakra according...
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Khecarī mudrā (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
The goal is to attain liberation in the body, by sealing in the energy of bindu in the head so that it is not lost. Haṭha yoga is a branch of the largely...
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hatha yoga texts (11th-13th c.) describe methods to raise and conserve bindu (vital force, that is, semen, and in women rajas – menstrual fluid). This...
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Yantra (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
symbolism of the colors and geometric shapes. Bindu The central point of traditional yantras have a bindu or point, which represents the main deity associated...
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Bīja (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
is used as a metaphor for the origin or cause of things and cognate with bindu. Various schools of Buddhist thought held that karmic effects arose out...
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Viparita Karani (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
downflow and loss of the life-giving substance (Bindu) through the use of gravity. In the early Bindu Model of Hatha Yoga, as described in the Hatha Yoga...
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Thai script (section Sanskrit and Pali)
pronounced. This is the phinthu, which is a solid dot (also called 'Bindu' in Sanskrit) below the consonant. อ๎ Yamakkan (ยามักการ) is an obsolete symbol...
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Manipura (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Manipura (Sanskrit: मणिपूर, IAST: Maṇipūra) is the third primary chakra according to Vedic tradition. Located above the navel, Manipura translates from...
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Vishrava (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Vishrava (Sanskrit: विश्रवा, lit. 'Renown', IAST: Viśravā), also called Vishravas, is the son of Pulastya, and a powerful rishi (sage), as described in...
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Hrishikesh Mukherjee, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Asrani, Bindu, and David. The film is perhaps best remembered for its songs, composed...
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Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Assamese, Nepali, Bhojpuri, Arabic, French, Urdu, Sanskrit, Tulu, Gujarati, Punjabi,Tiwa, Rajasthani, & Braj Bhasha. She also sang...
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Chandrabindu (redirect from Chandra bindu)
Chandrabindu (IAST: candrabindu, lit. 'moon dot' in Sanskrit) is a diacritic sign with the form of a dot inside the lower half of a circle. It is used...
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Tripundra (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Tripundra (Sanskrit: त्रिपुण्ड्र tripuṇḍra "three marks") is a Hindu Shaivite tilaka, worn by Shaivas as an indication of their affiliation with Shiva...
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Satish Chandra Vidyabhusan (category The Sanskrit College and University alumni)
July 1870 – 25 April 1920) was a Bengali scholar of Sanskrit and Pali Language and principal of Sanskrit College. Satish Chandra Vidyabhusan was born in 1870...
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Pushkar Sarovar Manasarovar Bindu Sarovar Pampa Sarovar Narayan Sarovar According to Hindu theology, there are five sacred lakes; collectively called...
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Virama (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Virama (Sanskrit: विराम/हलन्त, romanized: virāma/halanta ्, IPA: [ʋiraːmɐ, ɦɐlɐn̪t̪ɐ]) is a Sanskrit phonological concept to suppress the inherent vowel...
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Anahata (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Anahata (Sanskrit: अनाहत, IAST: Anāhata, English: "unstruck") or heart chakra is the fourth primary chakra, according to Hindu Yogic, Shakta and Buddhist...
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Longest words (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
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