Introduction

Alternative spellings of this word include Charpati.

In Hinduism

Yoga (school of philosophy)

Source: Wisdom Library: Yoga

Carpaṭī is one of the eighty-four Siddhas associated with eighty-four Yogic postures (āsanas), according to popular tradition in Jodhpur, Rājasthān. These posture-performing Siddhas are drawn from illustrative sources known as the Nava-nātha-caurāsī-siddha from Vȧrāṇasī and the Nava-nātha-caruāsī-siddha-bālāsundarī-yogamāyā from Puṇe. They bear some similarity between the eighty-four Siddhas painted on the walls of the sanctum of the temple in Mahāmandir.

The names of these Siddhas (e.g., Carpaṭī) to 19th-century inscription on a painting from Jodhpur, which is labelled as “Maharaja Mansing and eighty-four Yogis”. The association of Siddhas with yogis reveals the tradition of seeing Matsyendra and his disciple Gorakṣa as the founders of haṭhayoga.

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Yoga is originally considered a branch of Hindu philosophy (astika), but both ancient and modern Yoga combine the physical, mental and spiritual. Yoga teaches various physical techniques also known as āsanas (postures), used for various purposes (eg., meditation, contemplation, relaxation).

In Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: Wisdomlib Libary: Vajrayana

Carpati or Carbaripa is the name of a mahāsiddha, of which eighty-four in total are recognized in Vajrayāna (tantric buddhism). His title is “the petrifier”. He lived somewhere between the 8th and the 12th century AD.

These mahāsiddhas (e.g., Carpati) are defined according to the Abhayadatta Sri (possibly Abhayākaragupta) tradition. Its textual origin traces to the 11th century caturāsiti-siddha-pravṛtti, or “the lives of the eighty-four siddhas”, of which only Tibetan translations remains. Carpati (and other Mahāsiddhas) are the ancient propounders of the textual tradition of tantric or Vajrayana Buddhism.

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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

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Carpaṭī (चर्पटी).—A thin cake or biscuit of flour (piṣṭakabheda).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

Carpaṭi (चर्पटि) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—a medical author. Quoted in Sarvadarśanasaṃgraha Oxf. 247^a, by Trimalla in Yogataraṅgiṇī.

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

Carpaṭī (चर्पटी):—[from carpaṭa] f. a thin biscuit of flour (cf. parp), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

[Sanskrit to German] (Deutsch Wörterbuch)

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch

Carpaṭi (चर्पटि):—m. Nomen proprium eines Autors [Weber’s Verzeichniss No. 647. 940. 941.]

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Carpaṭi (चर्पटि):—, carpaṭin [Oxforder Handschriften 233,b,4 v. u.] [HALL 16.] curpatī [WILSON, Sel. Works 1, 214.]

context information

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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Starts with: Carpatika, Carpatin, Carpatinatha.

Full-text: Crip, Curpati, Carpata, Carbaripa.

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