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Tapati
TapatiTapati (Sanskrit: तपती, tapatī), as mentioned in Mahabharata, is a daughter of Surya (the Sun god) and Chhaya one of the wife’s of surya, sister of Savitri and the wife of Samvarana, and the mother of Kuru, the founder of Kuru dynasty. Tapati name literally means the “warming”, “the hot one”, “burning one”. It had been said that no…
Time
Time (Kala) Vedic and Puranic texts describe units of Time (Kala) measurements, from Paramaṇu (about 17 microseconds) to Manvantara (311.04 trillion years). According to these texts, the creation and destruction of the universe is a cyclic process, which repeats itself forever. Each cycle starts with the birth and expansion (lifetime)…
Tirtha
Tirtha Tirtha (तीर्थ, IAST: Tīrtha) is a Sanskrit word that means “crossing place, ford”, and refers to any place, text or person that is holy. It particularly refers to pilgrimage sites and holy places in Hinduism as well as Jainism. The process or journey associated with Tirtha is called Tirtha-yatra, while alternate terms such as Kshetra, Gopitha and Mahalaya are used in some Hindu traditions to…
Treta Yuga
Treta Yuga (Devanagari: त्रेता युग) is the second out of the four yugas, or ages of mankind, in the religion of Hinduism. It follows the Satya Yuga and is followed by the Dvapara Yuga and Kali Yuga. Treta means ‘a collection of three things’ in Sanskrit, and is called so because during the Treta Yuga, there were…
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Tapati
TapatiTapati (Sanskrit: तपती, tapatī), as mentioned in Mahabharata, is a daughter of Surya (the Sun god) and Chhaya one of the wife’s of surya, sister of Savitri and the wife of Samvarana, and the mother of Kuru, the founder of Kuru dynasty. Tapati name literally means the “warming”, “the hot one”, “burning one”. It had been said that no…
Time
Time (Kala) Vedic and Puranic texts describe units of Time (Kala) measurements, from Paramaṇu (about 17 microseconds) to Manvantara (311.04 trillion years). According to these texts, the creation and destruction of the universe is a cyclic process, which repeats itself forever. Each cycle starts with the birth and expansion (lifetime)…
Tirtha
Tirtha Tirtha (तीर्थ, IAST: Tīrtha) is a Sanskrit word that means “crossing place, ford”, and refers to any place, text or person that is holy. It particularly refers to pilgrimage sites and holy places in Hinduism as well as Jainism. The process or journey associated with Tirtha is called Tirtha-yatra, while alternate terms such as Kshetra, Gopitha and Mahalaya are used in some Hindu traditions to…
Treta Yuga
Treta Yuga (Devanagari: त्रेता युग) is the second out of the four yugas, or ages of mankind, in the religion of Hinduism. It follows the Satya Yuga and is followed by the Dvapara Yuga and Kali Yuga. Treta means ‘a collection of three things’ in Sanskrit, and is called so because during the Treta Yuga, there were…