lit. new mandapa
ritual act to invoke and honour a deity, performed by presiding Brahman priests at temples, by village priests at local shrines, or by householders at household shrines
part of the bodigai or bodhika
religious merit
war genre in Tamil poetics
decoration of coiffure
The pustaka (पुस्तक) is a book of palm-leaves cut long and narrow or a manuscript which looks like one. In Buddhist tradition, it represents the Prajñāpāramitā scripture of Transcendental Wisdom. This book is supposed to have been given by the… Continue Reading →
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