A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism
author: Swami Harshananda
edition: 2008, Ramakrishna Math
pages: 2084
ISBN-13: 9788179070574
Topic: Hinduism
Encyclopaedia of Hinduism - Guna
This page describes Guna which is located on page 667 of the first volume in the book: A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism by Swami Harshananda. This book, known as “a concise encyclopaedia of hinduism”, includes a vast amount of topics covering general aspects on Hinduism, but also contains important aspects regarding Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms, as well as information if you want to buy this book.
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You can look up the meaning of the phrase “Guna” according to 152 books dealing with Hinduism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
Mudrarakshasa (literary study) [by Antara Chakravarty]
Guna: It s classification and components. kavyashobhayah kartaro dharma gunah// With these words for the first time Vamana defined guna, denoting, the qualities that generates the beauty of a literary creation. He differentiated alamkara from guna by saying that, alamkaras are those objects which only enhance the beauty of a kavya— tadatishayahetavastvalamkarah....
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Garga Samhita (English) [by Danavir Goswami]
Sanskrit text, transliteration and word-by-word meaning: परम् धामा परम् ब्रह्मा पौरुसा प्रक्र्तिः परा तत-स्था गुन-भुर् गिता गुनागुनमयि गुना param dhama param brahma paurusa prakrtih para tata-stha guna-bhur gita gunagunamayi guna . . ....
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Sahitya-kaumudi by Baladeva Vidyabhushana [by Gaurapada Dasa]
Consequently there is no universal rule that sweet phonemes, for instance, are necessarily suggestive of madhurya-guna. Therefore the gunas are figuratively said to inhere in the phonemes (8. 11), as in the term “sweet phoneme”: This is the conventional sense of the term guna. Anandavardhana s definition of a guna implies that there is no universal rule that a second-rate rasa-dhvani, such as the rasavat ornament, must involve a guna....
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