Encyclopedia - Grantha: Encyclopedia - Grantha
Grantha (from Sanskrit ग्रन्थ grantha meaning book or manuscript) is an ancient script that was prevalent in South India. It ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grantha: Encyclopedia Ii - Grantha - Sanskrit And Grantha
Although Sanskrit is now almost exclusively written in the Devanagari script, the language lacked a standard script during its early hist...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Grantha: Sanskrit Hinduism Dictionary Iii On Grantha
grantha: grantha. Scriptural text or book.   (See also: grantha , Hinduism, Hinduism Dictionary, Sanskrit Dictionary, Body ...   » Read the article

Article - The Alankaras: The Alankaras In The Hindu Scriptures
The Alankaras are grand rhetorical texts, treating of the science of perfection and beauty of ornamental language and of effective compos...   » Read the article

Article - Peace Of Mind: Ramayana's Tips For Good Governance
The Ramayana, the saga of Rama's life written by Valmiki, is widely acclaimed as among the greatest of all Indian epics. The narrative...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Grantha: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Grantha
grantha: (Sanskrit) Literally, "knot," a common name for book.   A term thought to refer to the knot on the cord that b...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Grantha: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Grantha
Gravitation Attraction, and hence gravitation, is a manifestation of cosmic desire, which draws together separate things into unities....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tamil Script: Encyclopedia Ii - Tamil Script - The Tamil Letters
Tamil script - Basic Consonants. Consonants are also called the 'body' (mei) letters. Tamil script - Borrowed consonants. Also called...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Malayalam Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Malayalam Language - The Script
In the early ninth century /vattezhuthu/ (round writing) traceable through the Grantha script, to the pan-Indian Brahmi script, gave rise...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tamil Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Tamil Language - Writing System
Tamil is atrocioulsy non-phonetic - the language itself could be read as dhamizh or thamizh in the native script. Tamil is subject to wel...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Prakarana Grantha: Indian Hindu Dictionary On Prakarana Grantha
prakarana grantha: introductory Vedantic texts that unfold the entire subject matter of Vedanta with or without reference to any of th...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hridaya-grantha: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary Ii On Hridaya-grantha
hridaya-grantha lit., “the knot in the heart.” Refers to material bondage of the living entity resulting from sexual attra...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Grantha: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Grantha
Grantha (Sanskrit) (from granth to tie, compose)   A tying, binding, stringing together; a verse (particularly one of 32 syllable...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Upagrantha: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Upagrantha
upagrantha: (Sanskrit) "Secondary text." Appendices or additional resources of a book. See: Grantha. (See also: Upagranth...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Panchadasi: Indian Hindu Dictionary On Panchadasi
Panchadasi [fifteen]: Vedantic text of fifteen chapters written by Swami Vidyaranya. It is an advanced introductory text (prakarana gr...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Grand Architect Of The Universe: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Grand Architect Of The Universe
Grantha (Sanskrit) (from granth to tie, compose)   A tying, binding, stringing together; a verse (particularly one of 32 syllable...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tamil: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Tamil
Tamil The principal member of the non-Aryan races in Southern India, generally termed Dravidian, and regarded as aboriginal. Because o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Olai: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Olai
olai: (Tamil) "Leaf."   An ancient form of Indian books used in South India, made of strips of fronds from the palmyra...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Purva-mimamsa: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary On Purva-mimamsa
Purva-mimamsa - the philosophy established by Maharsi Jaimini, also known as jaimini-darsana. To thoroughly examine a topic and arrive...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brahmic Family: Encyclopedia - Brahmic Family
The Brahmic family is a family of abugidas used in South Asia, Tibet and Southeast Asia. The individual abugidas may be called Brahmic sc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sanskrit: Encyclopedia - Sanskrit
Sanskrit (saṃskṛtam संस्कृतम्) is a classical language of India and a liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Malayalam Language: Encyclopedia - Malayalam Language
Malayalam (മലയാളം malayāḷaṁ) is the language of the state of Kerala, in southern India. It is one of the 22 official lan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sanskrit: Encyclopedia Ii - Sanskrit - Phonology And Writing System
Classical Sanskrit distinguishes 48 sounds. Some of these, are, however, allophones. The number of phonemes is smaller, at about 35, see ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brahmic Family: Encyclopedia Ii - Brahmic Family - History
Brahmic scripts are descended from the Brahmi script of ancient India, which in turn is believed to be descended from a Semitic script, t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tamil Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Tamil Language - Sounds
The Tamil alphabet has 12 vowels and 18 consonants. These combine to form 216 compound characters. There is one special character (aaytha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brahmic Family: Encyclopedia Ii - Brahmic Family - History
Brahmic scripts are descended from the Brāhmī script of ancient India, which in turn is believed to be descended from a Semitic script,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Malayalam Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Malayalam Language - Evolution
With Tamil, Kota, Kodava Thakk and Kannada, Malayalam belongs to the southern group of Dravidian languages. Its affinity to Tamil is the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sanskrit: Encyclopedia Ii - Sanskrit - Phonology And Writing System
Classical Sanskrit distinguishes 48 sounds. Some of these, are, however, allophones. The number of phonemes is smaller, at about 35, see ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tamil Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Tamil Language - Examples
A sample passage in Tamil script with a Romanised transcription: ஆசிரியர் வகுப்பறையுள் நுழ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tamil Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Tamil Language - Vocabulary
Modern Tamil vocabulary still retains most of the words from classical Tamil. Due to this and because of the emphasis on learning classic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Malayalam Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Malayalam Language - Development Of Literature
The earliest written record of Malayalam is the vazhappalli inscription (ca. 830 AD). The early literature of Malayalam comprised three t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sanskrit: Encyclopedia Ii - Sanskrit - Grammar
Sanskrit - Grammatical tradition. Main article: Sanskrit grammarians Sanskrit grammatical tradition (vyākaraṇa, one of the six Ved...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sanskrit: Encyclopedia Ii - Sanskrit - Influence
Sanskrit - Modern-day India. Sanskrit's greatest influence, presumably, is that which it exerted on languages that grew from its vocabu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tamil Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Tamil Language - Grammar
Much of Tamil grammar is extensively described in the oldest available grammar book for Tamil, the Tolkāppiyam. Modern Tamil writing is ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sanskrit: Encyclopedia Ii - Sanskrit - History
The adjective saṃskṛta- means "refined, consecrated, sanctified". The language referred to as saṃskṛtā vāk "the refined languag...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Malayalam Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Malayalam Language - Language Variation And External Influence
Variations in intonation patterns, vocabulary, and distribution of grammatical and phonological elements are observable along the paramet...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sanskrit: Encyclopedia Ii - Sanskrit - History
The word saṃskṛta means "refined, consecrated, sanctified". The language referred to as saṃskṛtā vāk "the refined language" has...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sanskrit: Encyclopedia Ii - Sanskrit - Grammar
Sanskrit - Grammatical tradition. Sanskrit grammatical tradition (vyākaraṇa, one of the six Vedanga disciplines) begins in late Vedi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tamil Script: Encyclopedia Ii - Tamil Script - Tamil In Unicode
The Unicode range for Tamil is U+0B80 ... U+0BFF. ... See also:Tamil script, Tamil script - The Tamil letters, Tamil script - Basic Co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tamil Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Tamil Language - History
Like the other Dravidian languages, but unlike most of the other established literary languages of India, the origins of Tamil are indepe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tamil Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Tamil Language - Classification
Tamil is a member of the Tamil language family, which includes the Irula, Kaikadi, Betta Kurumba, Sholaga, and Yerukula languages. This g...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sanskrit: Encyclopedia Ii - Sanskrit - Influence
Sanskrit - Modern-day India. Sanskrit's greatest influence, presumably, is that which it exerted on languages that grew from its vocabu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tamil Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Tamil Language - Geographic Distribution
Tamil is the first language of the majority in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and in northern and northeastern Sri Lanka. The l...   » Read the article

Article - Sanskrit Sitemap I - H
This is a sitemap for Sanskrit - H . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word. The site...   » Read the article