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... Tara- keswar show a great correspondence to the Puranic Śiva , one can possibly find in the strength of the tradition of treating Tāraknatha as if he were a man a residual feature of earlier Bengali concepts of Śiva , which were not ...
... Tara- keswar show a great correspondence to the Puranic Śiva , one can possibly find in the strength of the tradition of treating Tāraknatha as if he were a man a residual feature of earlier Bengali concepts of Śiva , which were not ...
Page 175
... Tārā , who soothed Śiva after he had consumed the poison . The Tara - tantra makes this association by shared characteristics even more explicit : O great goddess , without decaying , Śiva , the lord of sleep , drank the halähala poison ...
... Tārā , who soothed Śiva after he had consumed the poison . The Tara - tantra makes this association by shared characteristics even more explicit : O great goddess , without decaying , Śiva , the lord of sleep , drank the halähala poison ...
Page 326
... Tara Krishnan . 1962. Bengal Peasant From Time to Time . Bombay : Asia Publishing House . Bateson , Gregory . 1972. Steps to an Ecology of Mind . New York : Ballantyne Books . Beals , Alan R. 1964. ' Conflict and Interlocal Festivals in ...
... Tara Krishnan . 1962. Bengal Peasant From Time to Time . Bombay : Asia Publishing House . Bateson , Gregory . 1972. Steps to an Ecology of Mind . New York : Ballantyne Books . Beals , Alan R. 1964. ' Conflict and Interlocal Festivals in ...
Contents
The Gauramandala conceived as lotus 2 VästupuruşamandalaThe temple as puruşa Plates between pages 104 and 105 | 1 |
a Goswamy and his CaitanyaViṣṇupriya shrine | 2 |
GauraNitãi Caitanya and Nityananda | 3 |
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activities Advaitic ākhāḍās ascetics aspects Āśrama association avatāra Bābā Bakreswar Bārī bathing behaviour Benares bhakti Bharamalla bhoga Birbhum body Brahman Burdwan Caitanya Calcutta caste cent cremation ground cult culture darśana deity devotion dharnă dharnā-jātris District divine earthly festival Gajan Ganges Ganguly Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas Gauranga Mandira Giri goddess Gosvāmin Goswamys guru Hindu Hinduism holy Hooghly District important India individual institution jātris journey Kālī kirtana Kṛṣṇa līlā linga located mahanta mantra matha Māyā Mayapur Muslim Navadvip number of pilgrims offering perform pilgrimage centre pilgrimage tradition pilgrims pīṭhas place of pilgrimage popular practices prasāda priests pūjā Purāņa purohit Rādhā religious ritual river sacred places sacrifice sadhus Śākta Sākta pithas Śakti Samāj sannyāsis Sanskrit sect shrine siddhis Śiva śmaśāna social songs spiritual Śrī Kṛṣṇa symbolic Tantric Tārā Tarakeswar Tāraknatha Tarapith temple tion tirtha town Vaiṣṇava Vāmā Vāmākhepā Vasistha village visited vows Vṛndāvana West Bengal worship