Alternative spellings of this word include Punragaman.

In Hinduism

Ganapatya (worship of Ganesha)

Source: archive.org: Shiva Purana - (Ganesha)

Punarāgamana (पुनरागमन) refers to “(the mantra associated with) welfare and return again” (used during the worship of Gaṇeṣa), according to the Śivapurāṇa 2.4.18 (“Gaṇeśa crowned as the chief of Gaṇas”).—Accordingly, as Śiva said to Gaṇeśa: “[...] The devotee shall keep awake at night and perform worship in the morning. After that the rites of formal dismissal with the mantra ‘kṣemāya punarāgamanāya ca’ (For welfare and return again) (punarāgamana) shall be performed. The benediction as well as good wishes shall be received from the boy. In order to make the Vrata complete, handfuls of flowers shall be offered. [...]”.

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Ganapatya (गाणपत्य, gāṇapatya) represents a tradition of Hinduism where Ganesha is revered and worshipped as the prime deity (ishta-devata). Being a minor though influential movement, Ganapatya evovled, llike Shaktism and Shaivism, as a separate movement leaving behind a large body of literature.

In Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: OSU Press: Cakrasamvara Samadhi

Punarāgamana (पुनरागमन) means “to return again”, according to the Guru Mandala Worship (maṇḍalārcana) ritual often performed in combination with the Cakrasaṃvara Samādhi, which refers to the primary pūjā and sādhanā practice of Newah Mahāyāna-Vajrayāna Buddhists in Nepal.—Accordingly, “Oṃ you have done the aim of all beings, granting the success that follows, Go away, to disperse in the Buddha sphere and return again (punarāgamana)! Oṃ Āḥ Hūṃ dismissal of the vajra mandala Mūḥ”.

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Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

punarāgamana (पुनरागमन).—n (S) Coming back or coming again, returning.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

punarāgamana (पुनरागमन).—n Coming back, returning.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Punarāgamana (पुनरागमन).—coming back, return; भस्मीभूतस्य देहस्य पुनरागमनं कुतः (bhasmībhūtasya dehasya punarāgamanaṃ kutaḥ) Sarva. S.; इष्टकामप्रसिद्ध्यर्थं पुनरागमनाय च (iṣṭakāmaprasiddhyarthaṃ punarāgamanāya ca) Pūja Mantram.

Derivable forms: punarāgamanam (पुनरागमनम्).

Punarāgamana is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms punar and āgamana (आगमन). See also (synonyms): punarāgama.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Punarāgamana (पुनरागमन).—n.

(-naṃ) Returning, coming back. E. punar and āgamana coming.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Punarāgamana (पुनरागमन):—[=punar-āgamana] [from punar] n. idem, [Mahābhārata; Rāmāyaṇa] etc.

2) [v.s. ...] being born ag°, re-birth, [Sarvadarśana-saṃgraha]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Punarāgamana (पुनरागमन):—[punarā+gamana] (naḥ-nā-naṃ) a. Returning.

[Sanskrit to German]

Punaragamana in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Punarāgamana (पुनरागमन) [Also spelled punragaman]:—(nm) return, coming again; recurrence.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Punarāgamana (ಪುನರಾಗಮನ):—

1) [noun] a coming again.

2) [noun] the act or an instance of recurring (as of a season); reoccurrence.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

Nepali dictionary

Source: unoes: Nepali-English Dictionary

Punarāgamana (पुनरागमन):—n. return; second coming;

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Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Punar, Agamana.

Ends with: Apunaragamana.

Full-text: Apunagamana, Punaragama, Punragaman, Agamana, Bhasmibhu, Dviragamana, Gaurava, Atandrita.

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