Puranic


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Adj.1.Puranic - of or relating to the Purana
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The battle or competition today is about puranic boasts, bovine breed, yoga centres, devotions and ablutions.
When You Are Strong
Deshmukh and his PhD student Balakrishnan, along with USC PhD student Xin Qin and master's student Aniruddh Puranic, teamed up with three Arizona State University researchers to investigate the problem.
Fixing Errors in Autonomous Cars' Perceptions Before They Hit the Road
It is true, of course, that the reference to brahman is probably occasioned by the fact that Bhattanayaka is commenting on the first verse of the Natyasastra, which refers to the Puranic god Brahma, and that as a commentator he must therefore gloss this term (Dezso 2007: 134-35).
Bhattanayaka and the Vedanta Influence on Sanskrit Literary Theory
The second group of narrative reliefs depict some of the titans of epic and Puranic mythology.
Art, Ritual and Belief at the Mirkula Devi Temple in Lahaul, Himachal Pradesh
Drazen Puranic (1,2,3), Ena Rankovic (1), Marijo Vodanovic (1), Mario Lusic (4), Ana Boban (1,2), Silva Zupancic Salek (1,2,3) and Damir Nemet (1,2,3)
EXTENSIVE DEEP VENOUS THROMBOSIS IN A YOUNG MALE PATIENT AS THE FIRST MANIFESTATION OF A RARE VENOUS ANOMALY--INFERIOR VENA CAVA DUPLICATION: CASE REPORT
Their topics include the appropriation of the goddess into the Puranic narrative: integration/appropriation in the Vamanapurana, the Yaksini Devi of Mangaon: appropriation of a Jain goddess by Bhrahminic Hinduism, whether Ravidas and the Ganga represent appropriation or contestation, the goddess Chinnamasta's severed head as a re-appropriation of the cosmic sacrifice, from a Saktipitha to Kuladaivata: the appropriation of goddess Jogai of Ambe, and Ekveera Devi and the son Kolis of Mumbai: whether the Kilis appropriated the Karle Buddhist Chaitya.
Conceiving the Goddess: Transformation and Appropriation in Indic Religions
An understanding of the Puranic and Sramanic (Buddhist and Jaina) as well as poetic texts has to begin by relating them to their social functions and being aware of what is selected and what is left out.
The Past Before Us: Historical Traditions of Early North India
(37) As we shall see later, the place-name Dvaravati or Dvaraka (the modern Dwarka), in western Gujarat, was considered the legendary capital of Lord Krsna in Indian epic and puranic literature.
Dvaravati and Zhenla in the seventh to eighth centuries: a transregional ritual complex
In the Vedic and Puranic era, if a woman or a lower-caste person
Breaking the Shackles of Patriarchal Ideology: Engagement of Men in Prevention of Violence against Women
The sculptures and inscriptions show both Puranic (worship of Vedas) and Tantric (Sexual imagery) Hinduism.
Reality Premedia Released iOS and Android App for Khajuraho Temples
The enthusiasm with which folk artists such as the chitrakars have taken up such novel themes has not only led to a vastly expanded range of narrative subjects, but also to a new classification of themes into traditional (puranic) and social (samajik).
Repetition, improvisation, tradition: Deleuzean themes in the folk art of Bengal
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