Tara in Hinduism
author: Bikas Kumar Bhattacharya
edition: 2003, Eastern Book Linkers
pages: 414
ISBN-10: 8178540215
Topic: Hinduism
Sakti in the Upanisads
This page describes Sakti in the Upanisads from pages 16-17 in the book: Tara in Hinduism by Bikas Kumar Bhattacharya. This book represents a study of the Goddess Tara (तारा, tārā) and collects various standpoints regarding her cult from both Buddhist and Brahmanical sources. This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms.
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The Gita’s Ethics (A Critical Study) [by Arpita Chakraborty]
There is nothing other than it in this world “says the Brihadaranyaka Upanisad and Katha Upanishad. This extreme position is modified by the former Upanisad itself by saying that the manifested world is reality real and therefore Brahman is the “Reality of realities” or Truth of truths (11 1-20) which means that the world is not wholly unreal....
Read full contents: 7. Ultimate Reality
Garga Samhita (English) [by Danavir Goswami]
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning: तताड गदया तं वै गदाधारी गदाग्रजः द्विधाभूता महा-शक्ती रुक्मेः सूतं जघान ह tatada gadaya tam vai gadadhari gadagrajah dvidhabhuta maha-shakti rukmeh sutam jaghana ha tatada—struck; gadaya—with His club; tam—that; vai—indeed; gadadhari—holding a club; gadagrajah—the elder brother of Gada; dvidhabhuta—cut in two; maha-shaktithe two sakti weapons; rukmeh—of Rukmi; sutam—the charioteer; jaghana—hit; ha—indeed....
Read full contents: Verse 6.7.18
A History of Indian Philosophy Volume 1 [by Surendranath Dasgupta]
The collection of Upanisads translated by Dara shiko, Aurangzeb s brother, contained 50 Upanisads. The Muktika Upanisad gives a list of 108 Upanisads. With theexception of the first 13 Upanisads most of them are of more or less later date. The Upanisads dealt with in this chapter are the earlier ones. Amongst the later ones there are some which repeat the purport of these, there are others which deal with the Shaiva, Shakta, the Yoga and the Vaisnava doctrines....
Read full contents: Part 1 - The place of the Upanishads in Vedic literature
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