Purana Dictionary - Article Index

Dictionary - Vishnu-purana, Visnu-purana: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Vishnu-purana, Visnu-purana
Vishnu-Purana Visnu-Purana (Sanskrit) One of the most celebrated of the 18 principal Puranas, conforming more than any other to the de...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Amala-purana: Bhakti Yoga Dictionary Ii On Amala-purana
Amala-purana lit., “spotless Purana”; refers to Srimad-Bhagavatam.   (See also: Amala-purana , Bhakti, Bhakti Yoga...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Bhagavata Purana: Vedic Hindu Scriptures Dictionary On Bhagavata Purana
Bhagavata Purana It is the fifth purana in length but is the most popular and influencial among the puranas. It is primarily a vaishn...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Purana Purusha: Hindu Sanskrit Dictionary On Purana Purusha
Purana Purusha: The Ancient Person; God.   (See also: Purana Purusha , Hinduism, Hinduism Dictionary, Sanskrit Dictionary, Bod...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vishnavites: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Vishnavites
Vishnavites.   See VAISHNAVA   (See also: Vishnavites , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body mind and Soul)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Purana: Hinduism Sanskrit Dictionary Iv On Purana
Purana: Purana: Hindu myths and legends.   (See also: Purana , Hinduism, Hinduism Dictionary, Sanskrit Dictionary, Body Min...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Purana: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary Iv On Purana
Purana:   Purana ("Ancient [History]"): a type of popular encyclopedia dealing with royal genealogy, cosmology, philo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Purana: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary V On Purana
Purana: eighteen ancient books consisting of legends and mythological narrations dealing with creation, recreation and the genealogie...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vairagis: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Vairagis
Vairagis (Sanskrit) A class of Hindu mendicants {{BCW 2:457} (see ref from Bairagis)}   (See also: Vairagis , Mysticism, Mysti...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Purana: Spiritual Yoga Dictionary Ii On Purana
PURANA: Hindu myths and legends.   (See also: PURANA ,Yoga, Yoga Dictionary)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Purana: Sanskrit Hinduism Dictionary On Purana
purana: "ancient". a class of sanskrit scriptures concerning brahma, vishnu and shiva written for the masses. There are 18 ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Purana: Tantra Tantric Dictionary On Purana
Purana: Purana. "Ancient". A class of Sanskrit scriptures concerning Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva written for the masses. The...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vehicle Of Life: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Vehicle Of Life
Vehicle of Life Generally, any vehicle of vitality; specifically among ancient Pythagoreans and others, the entire constitution of the...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Whirling Souls: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Whirling Souls
Whirling Souls Used in reference to the Hebrew Gilgulim, the cyclic journeys or whirlings of the monad, and the Qabbalistic teaching t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sutta-pitaka: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sutta-pitaka
Sutta-pitaka (Pali) [from sutta (Sanskrit sutra) dialogue, originally a thread + pitaka basket]   The third section of the Buddhi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Un-nefer: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Un-nefer
Un-nefer (Egyptian) [from un to make manifest + nefer beauty]   The name of Osiris (Asar in Egyptian) in his aspect of the Lord o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Taka Mi Musubi No Kami: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Taka Mi Musubi No Kami
Taka Mi Musubi No Kami (Japanese) Offspring of Heaven and Earth in Japanese cosmogony. {SD 1:214}   (See also: Taka Mi Musubi ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Zmey Gorenetch, Zmej Goronech: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Zmey Gorenetch, Zmej Goronech
Zmey Gorenetch, Zmej Goronech (Russian) [from zmej serpent + goro mountain]   The serpent like a mountain; a favorite character i...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Upper Triad: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Upper Triad
Upper Triad In a hierarchy of ten planes or principles, the summit is a Three-in-One, which may be called the upper triad to distingui...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sveta-lohita: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sveta-lohita
Sveta-lohita (Sanskrit) The white and red; a name of Siva "when he appears in the 29th Kalpa as 'a moon-coloured Kumara' " (...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sripada: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sripada
Sripada (Sanskrit) [from sri holy one + pada foot]   The Lord's foot; the supposed impression of the Buddha's foot; also the name...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Universal Pralaya: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Universal Pralaya
Universal Pralaya.   See MAHAPRALAYA   (See also: Universal Pralaya , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body mind and Soul...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Zim, Zikum: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Zim, Zikum
Zim or Zikum (Chaldean) The spirit of the deep; spirit-substance, primordial matter. In later Babylonian theology, applied to the spir...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vibhuti: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Vibhuti
Vibhuti.   See VIBHUTAYAH   (See also: Vibhuti , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body mind and Soul)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Sulanuth: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Sulanuth
Sulanuth (Hebrew) A monster in the sea described as being ordered by God "to come up and go into Egypt . . . and she had long arm...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Trividya: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Trividya
Trividya (Sanskrit) [from tri three + vidya knowledge, science]   The three knowledges or sciences; the three fundamental axioms ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Unborn: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Unborn
Unborn Applied to the Logos, particularly to the First Logos, which radiates directly from the divine monad; also to kama, signifying ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tsang Btsan: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Tsang Btsan
Tsang bTsan (Tibetan) Strength, might; used particularly as an equivalent for nyingpo or alaya, the world-soul. Alaya is used mainly i...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tsulma': Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Tsulma'
Tsulma' (Chaldean) A shadow, image; used in the Qabbalah in connection with the neshamah and ruah: during the last seven days of man's...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Three Faces: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Three Faces
Three Faces Generally refers to the Hindu Trimurti -- the three-faced deity known as Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva; but also refers to the ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Square: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Square
Square In theosophical literature, occasionally used to represent the quaternary, the four lower principles of nature or of man, the t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tiahuanaco: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Tiahuanaco
Tiahuanaco A region near the southern shore of Lake Titicaca on the borders of Peru and Bolivia, the site of cyclopean ruins of vast e...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Wheel: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Wheel
Wheel Perpetual gyratory motion; a vortex, a center of revolving force. Matter is not only motion itself in low ranges of the cosmos, ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Subrace: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Subrace
Subrace Used to distinguish the major or root-races from the minor races which are offshoots from the mother-race (ML 83). In a planet...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Adbhitanya: Theosophy Dictionary On Adbhitanya
Adbhitanya (possibly corruption of Sanskrit adbhutama or adbhutva from adbhuta marvelous, wonderful)   In the Vishnu-Purana (3:2)...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ajita: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Ajita
Ajita (Sanskrit) (from a not + the verbal root ji to conquer, triumph)   The invisible, unsurpassed; in the Vayu-Purana, the high...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Anda-kataha: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Anda-kataha
Anda-kataha (Sanskrit) (from anda egg + kataha cauldron, semi-spheroidal container, from the verbal root kat to rain, encompass)  ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Prachetasas, Prachetasa, Pracetasas, Pracetasah: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Prachetasas, Prachetasa, Pracetasas, Pracetasah
Prachetasas, Prachetasah pracetasas, pracetasah (Sanskrit) [from pra before + chetas mind, understanding]   The preeminently inte...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Amsamsavatara: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Amsamsavatara
Amsamsavatara (Sanskrit) (from amsamsa (amsa + amsa) portion of a portion, fragment + avatara descent from ava-tri to cross over down,...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ahan: Theosophy Dictionary On Ahan
Ahan (Sanskrit) Day (ahan, ahas are base forms of some of the grammatical cases of ahan). In the Vishnu-Purana (1:5), one of the four ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Purana: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Purana
Purana (Sanskrit) Ancient, old, an ancient tale or legend. The 18 Hindu scriptures known today as the Puranas are ancient legends of o...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Purana: Eastern Philosophy Dictionary On Purana
Purana: Devotional literature of Bhakti Hinduism, the most famous of which is the Bhagavata Purana which describes the life of Krishna...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Purana: Hindu Sanskrit Dictionary On Purana
Purana: Literally "The Ancient." The Puranas are a number of scriptures attributed to the sage Vyasa that teach spiritual pr...   » Read the article

Article - Hinduism: Hinduism Lexicon On B
Hinduism Lexicon on B From backbiting to buddhi chitta.    » Read the article