Shantilal Nagar
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Hanuman is the most important warrior of Ramayana. Though he had been a silent soldier with Sugriva, but his personality gained importance after his coming in contact with Rama. He played a leading role in the Kiskindha, sundara and Yuddha-kanda of the Ramayana. Indeed it would be no exaggeration to say that he is the auspicious, brave and the illustrious hero of the Sundara-kanda and the selfless service rendered by him to Rama, Sugriva, Laksmana, Sita besides ...
Brahma is one of the most important god of the Hindu trinity, the others being Visnu and Siva. He is the creator of the universe and possesses the knowledge of the Vedas. Sarasvati happens to be his spouse. He is known as Prajapati in the Vedic literature while with Puranic literature he is mostly known as Brahma who emerged from the navel of Visnu seated over a lotus. He earned a blemish because of his incestuous relationship with his own daughter as a result of ...
Ravana the hero of Lanka had a great personality which had its own importance in the story of the Ramayana. In fact several heroic and valorous episodes are attributed to him in the Ramayana in which he is depicted as an extremely strong, stubborn willful and unshakable king of Lanka. Inspite of the being a man of wisdom bravery well vered in all the scriptures it is the abouction of Sita, the spouse of Rama, which resulted in his downfall and ultimate death.
Laksmi in Indian religious thought happens to be the spouse of lord Visnu, she is said to have emerged as one of the gems from the churning of the ocean, jointly undertaken by the demons and the gods. Immediately after her emerging from the ocean she accepted lord Visnu as her lord. She has been in worship since time immemorial as an individual goddess as well as in the company of her lord Visnu. She had been a popular goddess not only with Hindus, but also with ...
Siva is the ancient most god of the Hindu trinity and his worship is India is of great antiquity, traces of which are found in the Harappan culture, in Vedic literature and the Puranas besides the Upanisads etc. His temples are found from Kashmir to kanyakumari and from Bengal to the western regions of the country. He indeed had been the great god with enormous following throughout the country. The present account provides the glimpses of his life in brief.
Rama has been dominating the Indian religious scene from the time immemorial. The initial epic story on Rama had been composed by Valmiki followed by other poets of Sanskrit and other Indian languages. He indeed is the epic hero and his brief life sketch has been provided in this work, which would surely interest the readers.
The Vedic evidence points to strong priestly institutions, who could compose verses, not only for the daily worship of the people but also for the performing of homas or yajnas, beside other religious rites relating to the birth, marriage and death of the people in the contemporary society, some of which have come down to the present times.
The Rsis, though were mostly the Brahmanas, but it was not exclusively so. The supreme knowledge was not confined to a ...
The Ramayana has been popular with the masses of the country from the time immemorial. Initially it was known in fragments or in the form of folk tales but after the composition of the Ramayana by the sage Valmiki, there had been a boost in its popularity. The importance of the story of Rama became quite widespread and it influenced the hearts of the poets irrespective of the religious barriers. After the composition of the text by the sage Valmiki, the text ...
The present work "The Holy Journey of a Divine Saint" relates to the thoughts, teachings as well as the lifestyle of revered Jagadguru Svami Ramabhadracarya besides his literary and spiritual activities. He is currently engaged in spiritualism and literary pursuits of high calibre, besides enlightening the people about the deep mysteries of the Hindu religion and faith. The most divine and astonishing aspect of his personality has been that in spite of ...
Eversince the composing of the Ramayana by the Sage Valmiki, the popularity of the story of Rama went on increasing gradually and soon it became a legend with the masses, who started patronising the theme in various ways, including its recitation, the listening, writing and several other means. The most important means of the popularity of the theme was the patronising of the same in the performing art, in which the story of the Ramayana or an event connected ...
Mantra Ramayanam was composed by Nilakantha, a great Sanskrit Scholar of the seventeenth century, who hailed from Karpuragrama of the Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra. In this connection, it may also be kept in view that Nilakantha tried to trace the origin of most of the characters and events of the Ramayana in the Rgveda. In the Mantra Ramayanam, a collection of Vedic hymns have been projected by Nilakantha which are indirectly connected with the story of ...
An attempt has been made in this work to project a descriptive account of nearly three hundred religious edifices belonging to different period of Indian history in the twelve districts of the state, arranged in a chronological order, also classifying them in (i) Sakti temples; (ii) Siva temples; (iii) Vaishnava temples and (iv) Temples of the other deities.
Though the adoration of the female principle in the country is an old as the Harappan culture or even earlier and the traces of the same are also visible in the Vedic literature, but the period that followed continued to hold her in high esteem, which culminated into the definite concept in the Kena Upanisad in which she established her superiority among the gods because it was she who knew what the Brahman was and all other gods were ignorant of the same. Soon ...
The story of Rama has been dominating the Indian religious scene from time immemorial. For the spread of the Ramayana with the masses, the texts composed in the regional languages, particularly in the medieval times, played a great role. The prominent among these have been the Ramacharitamanasa by Tulasidas, Girdhara Ramayana (in Gujarati), Madhava Kandali Ramayana (in Assamese), Krttivasa Ramayana (in Bengali), The Kamba Ramayana (in Tamil), Ranganatha Ramayana ...
The Tirthankaras in Jainism enjoy the highest position in both the Svetambara as well as the Digambara sects. Each one of the twenty four Tirthankaras have their own glory and importance as cult figures and are revered not only by the Jaina followers in the country but the world over. The first as well as the last few of them are considered to be historical figures. They are adored in the form of sculptures and other means of the plastic art ...
The Ramayana was composed first by the sage Valmiki who happens to be the foremost of all the poets in the country, which relates to the story of the Rama, the son of Dasaratha, the Iksvaku king of Ayodhya. It has seven Kandas starting from Bala-kanda or Adi-kanda and concluding with Uttara-kanda, completing the story from the beginning to the end. There are various versions of Ramayana popular throughout India. Not only this, the popularity of ...
The story of Ramayana has been dominating the Indian religious scene from the time immemorial. After the composition of the story by the great sage Valmiki in the form of Ramayana, there had been a great boost in its popularity, which very much impressed the masses in general. Soon the story was patronized in regional languages by the local authors but there was no dearth of the literature in Prakrt as well. In due course of time the story was patronoised in ...
After composing of the Ramayana by Maharsi Valmiki, the story of Rama, has the mass appeal and was patronised by people at large. Soon there-after Ramakatha was patronised by the later Sanskrit poets like Kalidasa and others. So forceful had been the appeal of Ramakatha among the masses that in due course of time even the composers of the Puranas and other Sanskrit literature, could not resist the temptation of including the said story in the epic of the ...
The Purana is a distinct branch of learning. It is treated as one of the Vidyas like the Samkhya and the Vedanta, it has its distinct theory of cosmology. The major Puranas are considered to be eighteen in numbers, known by Maha-puranas. One of the important Purana among the eighteen Maha-puranas is Kurma Mahapurana, in which the narrator is Lord Visnu himself, in the form of a Kurma (tortoise). Kurma Purana is divided into two sections, viz., Purva-bhaga and ...