Meaning “creation” in Sanskrit, it is one of the cosmic acts of deities in the Hindu religious tradition. It is primarily associated with the Hindu deity, Brahma, and is also one of the five acts (panchakriya) of Shiva in his form as Nataraja.
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An illustrated manuscript of the epic poem celebrating the reign of Hussain Nizam Shah (r. 1553–65). The poem, composed in…
Earliest extant text from the Vedic corpus, dated roughly between 1700 and 1200 BCE. Like the other Vedas, the Rigveda…
A group of sixty-three Shaivite poet-saints in Tamil Nadu between the third to eighth century CE. Belonging to diverse castes,…
An important religious text within Islam, it is a record of the traditions or sayings of the Prophet Muhammad. Its…
Hindu concept in which a deity manifests in earthly, embodied form to restore cosmic and moral order, primarily applied to…
A metaphor for a mode or method of spiritual practice in Buddhism, which refers to the vehicles of teaching imparted…
A philosophical concept in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism, and a spiritual principle of cause and effect wherein the actions…
Also called vimoksha, vimukti, mukti and nirvana, it is an Indian philosophical concept that signifies liberation from the cycle of…