Results for "Four Arms"

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… seated, elephant head with one intact and one broken tusk, four arms holding an aṅkuśa, pāśa, modaka, and a hand in abhaya mudrā, the mouse Mūṣika at his feet|entity-ganesha-005-p …

The supreme goddess of prosperity, beauty, and grace. Rising from the Churning of the Cosmic Ocean upon a fully bloomed lotus, she chose Vishnu as her eternal consort, sealing the …

Why the day before Dīpāvalī is named after a demon: Kṛṣṇa's war on Narakāsura in the Purāṇas, the women he freed, the question of Satyabhāmā's part, the bath before dawn and the la…

Viṣṇu's ten avatāras read as a parallel to biological and social evolution — from Matsya the fish to Kalki the future rider — with the Vedāntic twist that the Lord *descends* (avat…

Kept twelve or thirteen times a year rather than once, broken only after the moon itself is sighted — and, on the one Bhādrapada Chaturthī this vrata isn't kept on, that same moon …

How a religious requirement to build fire-altars of exactly the right shape and area produced the Śulbasūtras — the world's oldest surviving geometry manuals, including the earlies…

A symbol of well-being, shared independently across Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism for over two thousand years, appropriated by a German political party in 1920 and now unrecogniz…

… of the **aṣṭamaṅgala** (eight auspicious symbols), and its four arms carry a specific, well-documented meaning: the **four states of existence (gati)** a soul may be reborn into a …

… ition:** the aṣṭamaṅgala (eight auspicious symbols) and the four-*gati* reading of the swastika's arms, standard Jain iconographic doctrine. - **Buddhist tradition:** the swastika …

Four children of the same sage, the same forest, the same terrible discipline — and four boons that reveal what each of …

Before the war, Rāvaṇa went looking for one more king to defeat and found a monkey at his evening prayers. What happened next is the strangest humiliation in the Rāmāyaṇa — and it …

When Devahūti, daughter of Manu and mother of the sage Kapila, asks her divine son how the soul can be freed from sorrow, he teaches her the complete science of Sāṅkhya and bhakti …

Brahmā hides the cowherd boys and calves of Vraja to test Kṛṣṇa. What is a single moment for Brahmā passes as a full year on Earth — and Brahmā himself cannot tell the difference.