Dasa

The Dasa are a tribe identified as the enemies of the Aryans in the Rig-Veda. The word Dasa, later acquired derogatory connotations, meaning 'servant', implying that they were subordinated by the Aryans. The identity of the Dasa has caused much debate, closely tied to arguments over Indo-Aryan migration, the claim that the Indo-Aryan authors of the Rigveda entered India from outside, displacing its earlier inhabitants. During the nineteenth century Western scholars identified the Dasa with dark-skinned Dravidian-speaking people ...

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• Dasa - Etymology of Dasa and related terms
• Dasa - Dasa
• Dasa - Dasyu
• Dasa - Related terms
• Dasa - Anasa
• Dasa - The religion of the Dasas/Dasyus
• Dasa - Symbolical and spiritual interpretations
• Dasa - The Dasas/Dasyus and krsna or asikni
• Dasa - Tvac
• Dasa - Literature

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Dasa - a servant; a servant of Krsna.

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dasa

lit., “servant” (masculine). An appellation which along with a name of Krishna or one of His devotees is given to a devotee at the time of initiation.

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Dasa - state, condition; disposition; phase, stage.

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dasa:

dasa (dhaasa). Servant.

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Dasa, Dasi:

Dasa, Dasi: (servant) instrument of the will of God, Krishna.

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Dasa (Sanskrit) The numerical adjective ten.

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Mukta-dasa - the liberated state.

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Baddha-dasa - the state of bondage; the state of the jivas in material existence.

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dasa marga: (Sanskrit) "Servant's path." See: pada.

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Arya-dasa (Sanskrit) (from arya noble + dasa man of knowledge, barbarian, slave, servitor)

A great sage and arhat of the Mahasamghika school (cf TG 32).

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Arya-Dasa (Sanskrit) Lit., "Holy Teacher". A great sage and Arhat of the Mahasamghika school.

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Dasa-sil (Pali.) The ten obligations or commandments taken by and binding upon the priests of Buddha; the five obligations or Pansil are taken by laymen.

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In the Rig Veda, Dasa, Dasyu and similar terms (e.g. Pani) occur sometimes in conjunction with the terms krsna ("black") or asikni ("black"). This was often the basis for a "racial" interpretation of the Vedic texts. But Sanskrit is a language that uses many metaphors. The word cow for example can mean Mother Earth, sunshine, wealth, language, Aum etc. Words like "black" have similary many different meanings in Sanskrit, as it is in fact the case in most languages. Thus "black" has many symbolical, mythological, psychological ...

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Dasa, Dasa - Etymology of Dasa and related terms, Dasa - Dasa, Dasa - Dasyu, Dasa - Related terms, Dasa - Anasa, Dasa - The religion of the Dasas/Dasyus, Dasa - Symbolical and spiritual interpretations, Dasa - The Dasas/Dasyus and krsna or asikni, Dasa - Tvac, Dasa - Literature

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Kanaka Dasa was one of the devotees of Krishna and an influential person in the Vaishnava bhakti movement in Karnataka. Kanaka Dasa - Overview. In the 16th century, the laws of the time prohibited lower caste people from entering into the sanctum sanctorum of Hindu Temples, and in Kanaka Dasa's case it was Udupi Sri Krishna Temple. According to one legend, however, a portion of the wall of the temple is said to have broke, the Krishna murti turned around, and by Krishna's grace, he was given darshan of the ...

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• Kanaka Dasa - Overview
• Kanaka Dasa - Biography
• Kanaka Dasa - Major works

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Vrindavana Dasa Thakura (1507-1589 CE) was the author of the Chaitanya Bhagavata, the first full-length biography of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu written in the Bengali language. Vrindavana Dasa Thakura - Early Life. Vrindavana Dasa was born in Mamgachi in the Navadvipa area of West Bengal. His mother was Narayani, the niece of Srivasa Pandita, a direct follower of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Vrindavana Dasa’s father, Vaikunthanatha Vipra, was from Sylet in East Bengal. However, it is said that his father died before he was b ...

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• Vrindavana Dasa Thakura - Early Life
• Vrindavana Dasa Thakura - Chaitanya Bhagavata
• Vrindavana Dasa Thakura - Praise of Vrindavana Dasa
• Vrindavana Dasa Thakura - Bibliography

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Asta-dasa (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root as to remove, finish + dasa state, condition)

Perfect, supreme wisdom; the finished, ended, or completed state, thus pointing directly to a cosmic monad which has become supreme for and in its own hierarchy, and hence for such hierarchy is perfect, supreme wisdom -- a title of the controlling divinity of the hierarchy over which it presides.

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Dasa-mula - ‘ten-roots’. In the Ayur-veda, the science of herbal medicine, there are ten roots which, when combined together produce a tonic which sustains life and counteracts disease. Similarly, there are ten ontological principles. When these are properly understood and realized, they destroy the disease of material existence and give life to the soul.

The first of these principles is known as pramana, the evidence which establishes the existence of the fundamental truths. The other nine principles are known as prameya, the truths which are to be established.

·      The pramana refers to the Vedic literature and in particular to the Srimad-Bhagavatam.

·      The Bhagavatam is the essence of all the Vedas; it reveals the most intimate loving feature of the Lord‚ as well as the soul’s potential to unite with the Lord and His eternal associates in their play of divine loving exchange.

·      Of the nine prameyas, the first seven relate to sambandha-jnana, knowledge of the interrelationship between Sri Bhagavan, His energies, and the living beings, both conditioned and liberated.

·      The eighth prameya relates to abhidheya-jnana, knowledge of the means by which the living entity can become established in an eternal loving relationship with Him.

·      The ninth prameya relates to prayojana, the ultimate goal to be attained by pursuit of the transcendental path. That goal is known as krsna-prema, and it takes on infinite varieties when manifest in the different bhaktas possessing variegated moods of divine love.

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