Bindu (Sanskrit: बिंदु) is a Sanskrit word meaning "point", "drop" or "dot". In Hindu metaphysics, Bindu is considered the point at which creation begins...
7 KB (688 words) - 15:57, 7 November 2024
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),...
1 KB (179 words) - 16:19, 7 November 2024
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...
28 KB (2,810 words) - 15:00, 31 December 2024
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...
54 KB (6,100 words) - 21:23, 7 November 2024
encompassing the cosmic and human realms around a central point called the bindu. This configuration is sometimes termed the "Navayoni Chakra". The Sri Yantra...
10 KB (1,208 words) - 06:01, 20 October 2024
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...
2 KB (159 words) - 08:48, 7 November 2024
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...
13 KB (1,489 words) - 11:19, 7 November 2024
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...
24 KB (2,751 words) - 15:56, 19 February 2024
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...
12 KB (1,452 words) - 19:08, 25 July 2024
Anusvara (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Anusvara (Sanskrit: अनुस्वार, IAST: anusvāra), also known as Bindu (Hindi: बिंदु), is a symbol used in many Indic scripts to mark a type of nasal sound...
21 KB (1,662 words) - 02:29, 25 December 2024
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....
8 KB (937 words) - 21:54, 24 December 2024
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...
7 KB (887 words) - 00:59, 12 August 2024
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...
4 KB (206 words) - 16:36, 24 December 2024
Sahasrara (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
a moonlit night, with a point or bindu above it. This is the white bindu, with which yogis try to unite the red bindu below. It is said to be the point...
13 KB (1,525 words) - 19:59, 27 December 2024
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...
16 KB (1,841 words) - 11:08, 8 November 2024
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...
100 KB (5,616 words) - 05:33, 19 December 2024
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...
12 KB (1,319 words) - 18:45, 6 November 2024
Vishuddha (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Vishuddha (Sanskrit: विशुद्ध, IAST: Viśuddha, English: "especially pure"), or Vishuddhi (Sanskrit: विशुद्धी), or throat chakra is the fifth primary chakra...
9 KB (1,067 words) - 06:46, 26 October 2024
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...
10 KB (924 words) - 03:57, 7 November 2024
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...
12 KB (1,602 words) - 02:48, 25 November 2024
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...
7 KB (761 words) - 19:32, 6 November 2024
Rudraksha (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Rudraksha is a Sanskrit compound word consisting of "Rudra"(Sanskrit: रुद्र) referring to Shiva and "akṣa"(Sanskrit: अक्ष) meaning "eye". Sanskrit dictionaries...
27 KB (2,518 words) - 12:43, 2 January 2025
Subramaniam (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
be a surname for males and females. The etymology of the name is from Sanskrit; however, a common translation is "pure, white, fresh", or "clarity in...
9 KB (976 words) - 08:42, 16 December 2024
Hrishikesh Mukherjee, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Asrani, Bindu, and David. The film is perhaps best remembered for its songs, composed...
15 KB (1,098 words) - 19:04, 2 December 2024
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...
6 KB (632 words) - 02:24, 21 November 2024
Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Assamese, Nepali, Bhojpuri, Arabic, French, Urdu, Sanskrit, Tulu, Gujarati, Punjabi,Tiwa, Rajasthani, & Braj Bhasha. She also sang...
155 KB (974 words) - 18:20, 28 December 2024
Pushkar Sarovar Manasarovar Bindu Sarovar Pampa Sarovar Narayan Sarovar According to Hindu theology, there are five sacred lakes; collectively called...
5 KB (488 words) - 16:50, 23 December 2024
Kundalini (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
In Hinduism, kundalini (Sanskrit: कुण्डलिनी, romanized: kuṇḍalinī, lit. 'coiled snake', pronunciation) is a form of divine feminine energy (or Shakti)...
38 KB (4,662 words) - 15:31, 25 December 2024
Vajroli mudra (Sanskrit: वज्रोली मुद्रा vajrolī mudrā), the Vajroli Seal, is a practice in Hatha yoga which requires the yogi to preserve his semen, either...
16 KB (1,955 words) - 03:23, 14 April 2024
Virama (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
Virama (Sanskrit: विराम/हलन्त, romanized: virāma/halanta ्) is a Sanskrit phonological concept to suppress the inherent vowel that otherwise occurs with...
11 KB (711 words) - 07:28, 20 December 2024