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    an āgama (आगम Sanskrit and Pāli, Tibetan ལུང་ (Wylie: lung) for "sacred work" or "scripture") is a collection of early Buddhist texts. The five āgama together...
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  • attain sixfold desires. These canonical texts are in Sanskrit and Tamil. The three main branches of Agama texts are Shaiva, Vaishnava and Shakta. The Agamic...
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  • The Ekottara Āgama (Sanskrit; traditional Chinese: 增壹阿含經; ; pinyin: zēngyī-ahánjīng) is an early Indian Buddhist text, of which currently only a Chinese...
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    king Chamaraja Wodeyar formally opened a Sanskrit School in 1876. The colleges offers courses in Veda, Agama and Shastra in traditional methods. The campus...
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    (dohas) which may be found within esoteric Sanskrit texts. The earliest Jain scriptures, the Jain Agamas, were composed and orally transmitted in Prakrit...
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    Gujarat. The list is as follows. There are 45 Agamas (11 Angā Agamas and 34 Angā Bahya Agamas). Āyāraṃga (Sanskrit: Ācāranga, meaning: 'On monastic conduct')...
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  • The Dirgha Agama is one of the Buddhist Agama. It corresponds to the Digha Nikaya of the Pāli Canon. A Chinese translation of the text attributed to the...
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    collection of Sanskrit Agama sutras Marcus Bingenheimer, Editor in Chief; Bhikkhu Anālayo and Roderick S. Bucknell, Co-Editors. The Madhyama Agama: Middle Length...
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    Sanskrit (/ˈsænskrɪt/; attributively संस्कृत-; nominally संस्कृतम्, saṃskṛtam,) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European...
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  • 26). The title means "Middle Collection." It is one of the four Āgamas of the Sanskritic Sūtra Piṭaka located in the Chinese Buddhist Canon and contains...
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    ᬳᬶᬦ᭄ᬤᬸᬯᬶᬲ᭄ᬫᬾᬩᬮᬶ, Hindusmé Bali), also known in Indonesia as Agama Hindu Dharma, Agama Tirtha, Agama Air Suci or Agama Hindu Bali, is the form of Hinduism practised...
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  • Nikāya (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
    is often used like the Sanskrit word āgama (आगम) to mean "collection", "assemblage", "class" or "group" in both Pāḷi and Sanskrit. It is most commonly used...
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  • called Kavya (or Kāvya; Sanskrit: काव्य, IAST: kāvyá). The Ramayana and the Mahabharata, which were originally composed in Sanskrit and later translated...
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  • S. The Structure of the Sanskrit Dīrgha-āgama from Gilgit vis-à-vis the Pali Dīgha-nikāya. in 'Research on the Dīrgha-āgama' (2014) edited by Dhammadinnā...
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    The Āgama Section (pinyin: Āhán Bù; Japanese: Agon Bu) is a division of the Taishō Tripiṭaka that contains sūtras related to the Āgamas, roughly corresponding...
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  • Parashurama Kalpasutra (category CS1 Sanskrit-language sources (sa))
    The Parashurama Kalpasutra (Sanskrit: परशुरामकल्पसूत्रम्, romanized: Paraśurāmakalpasūtram) is a Shakta Agama, a Hindu text on Shri Vidya practices ascribed...
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  • 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...
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  • widely travelled monk mentored by Acharya Tulsi. With knowledge of Jain Agamas, Sanskrit and Prakrit he performed 500 or more avadhanams on one day. Muni Mahendra...
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    to the Saṃyukta Āgama found in the Sutra Pitikas of various Sanskritic early Buddhists schools, fragments of which survive in Sanskrit and in Tibetan translation...
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  • Buddhist canons (category Pages with Sanskrit IPA)
    discovery in Afghanistan of roughly two-thirds of Dīrgha Āgama in Sanskrit." The Madhyama Āgama (Taishō Tripiṭaka no. 26) was translated by Gautama Saṃghadeva...
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    Iconography of Shiva temples in Tamil Nadu (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
    is governed by the Shaiva Agamas (IAST:Āgama) that revere the ultimate reality as the Hindu deity, Shiva. Āgama (Sanskrit: आगम, Tamil:ஆகமம்) in the Hindu...
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  • Shaiva Siddhanta Tantras, or Śaiva Siddhānta Āgamas. Tantra are mainly two types: Agama and Nigama. Agamas are those texts in which Goddess asked questions...
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    Sadasiva (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
    faces and ten hands, and is considered one of the 25 forms of Shiva. Shiva Agamas conclude that the lingam, especially the mukhalingam, is another form of...
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  • Buddhist Sarvāstivāda tradition meanwhile has the following in their Samyukta Agama: All conditioned things are impermanent (sarvasaṃskārā anityāḥ) All dharmas...
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  • and became a transcendent being and one with all beings. The Pancharatra Agamas constitute some of the most important texts of many Vaishnava philosophies...
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    The Dharmaguptaka (Sanskrit: धर्मगुप्तक; Chinese: 法藏部; pinyin: Fǎzàng bù; Vietnamese: Pháp Tạng bộ) are one of the eighteen or twenty early Buddhist schools...
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    smeared with yellow paste and he carries a sword in his hand. In Kārana Agama, he sits on a throne with his right leg folded while his left leg is hanging...
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  • some ascribe to deep, consciousness-expanding meditation. Vatula Agama, one of the Agama texts of Hinduism This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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  • Vyākaraṇa (Sanskrit: व्याकरण, lit. 'explanation, analysis', IPA: [ˈʋjaːkɐrɐɳɐ]) refers to one of the six ancient Vedangas, ancillary science connected...
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    Shaivism (category CS1 Sanskrit-language sources (sa))
    of practice. These canonical texts exist in Sanskrit and in south Indian languages such as Tamil. The Agamas present a diverse range of philosophies, ranging...
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