A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism
author: Swami Harshananda
edition: 2008, Ramakrishna Math
pages: 2084
ISBN-13: 9788179070574
Topic: Hinduism
Encyclopaedia of Hinduism - Saunaka
This page describes Saunaka which is located on page 260 of the third 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 “Saunaka” according to 68 books dealing with Hinduism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
Brahma Sutras (Ramanuja) [by George Thibaut]
From the inferential mark that Shaunaka Kapeya and Abhipratarin Kakshaseni are said to have been sitting together at a meal we understand that there is some connexion between Abhipratarin and the Kapeyas. Now another scriptural passage runs as follows: The Kapeyas made Caitraratha perform that sacrifice (Tand Bra. XX, 12, 5), and this shows that one connected with the Kapeyas was a Caitraratha; and a further text shows that a Caitraratha is a Kshattriya....
Read full contents: Sutra 1.3.35
The Garuda Purana [by Manmatha Nath Dutt]
Learn this to be a general synopsis, O Shaunaka, of the rules of pleasure and pain. Misery follows happiness and happiness follows misery like the spokes of a wheel. What is gone is gone for good. What is future is still remote. He who acts only in the living present, knows no affliction....
Read full contents: Chapter CXIII - Injunctions as to the appointments of the honest and the erudite in the king’s service etc.
The Devi Bhagavata Purana [by Swami Vijnanananda]
Thus ends the first chapter of the first Skandha on the questioning about the Purana by Saunaka and other Rishis in the Mahapurana Shrimad Devi Bhagavatam of 18,000 verses by Maharshi Veda Vyasa. Here ends the First Chapter of the First Skandha of Shrimad Devi Bhagavatam on the questions by Shaunaka and other Risis....
Read full contents: Chapter 1 - On the questions by Shaunaka and others
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