Results for "Padma"

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 …

… lden egg; Viṣṇu Purāṇa the lotus from Viṣṇu's navel — hence Padmanābha. Brahmā personifies Mahat, animated by Rajas Guṇa.

… , and within its petals Brahmā is born — hence the epithet *Padmanābha* ('the lotus-navelled one'). Brahmā, finding himself amid darkness, descends the lotus stalk for centuries s …

The supreme preserver and protector within the Hindu Trinity (Trimurti). Within Vaishnavism, he is the Supreme Absolute Reality (Para Brahman), who descends to Earth in various inc…

… strength, and the laws of cause and effect (Karma). - **The Padma (lotus)** — spiritual liberation, beauty and purity blooming unpolluted out of the mud of material life.

A comparative study of Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Śiva — Vedic antecedents, Upanishadic identifications, Purāṇic narratives, and the non-dual paradigm of Kashmiri Trika Shaivism.

Before Sāwan Somvār, Karva Chauth or the Friday fast for Santoshi Mata, there is the word vrata itself — older than fasting, meaning cosmic ordinance before it ever meant a vow. Yo…

… ar day, twice a month, for Viṣṇu — is prescribed across the Padma, Skanda and Bhavishya Purāṇas alike. Alongside the Purāṇas sits a whole genre of *nibandha* — digest — literature …

… ce (Varuṇa's *vratāni*); Bhaviṣya Purāṇa, Skanda Purāṇa and Padma Purāṇa on vrata prescriptions and Ekādaśī, consulted via named Purāṇa-summary compilations rather than a critical …

Already named three times over in this series' first essay as one of Purāṇic tradition's two great paths of expiation — this is the essay that finally gives Ekādaśī its own telling…

… ithout ever giving it its own essay — prescribed across the Padma, Skanda and Bhaviṣya Purāṇas alike, and one of Purāṇic tradition's two major recognised paths of *prāyaścitta* (ex …

The Padma Purāṇa, in a chapter devoted specifically to Ekādaśī's origin, tells of the asura **Mura**, a threat the *devas* c …

- **Primary scripture.** Padma Purāṇa, chapter 38, for the Mura-demon origin story and Ekādaśī's personification as a goddess born from Viṣṇu; Bh …

A six-day vow building to a single reenacted battle — and, in the moment of the demon's defeat, a transformation the Tamil retelling insists on keeping: not death, but the enemy re…

The story: the demon **Sūrapadman**, empowered by boons won through austerity, tyrannises the three worlds until Kārtikeya, born specifically to de …

- **Primary scripture.** Skanda Purāṇa, for the Sūrapadman narrative within Śaiva literature broadly, consulted via named secondary summaries rather than a critical edition …

Viṣṇu asleep on the causal waters, a lotus rising from his navel, and Brahmā born on it with no memory of where he came from — the Bhāgavata's account of creation, and why it makes…

Four children of the same sage, the same forest, the same terrible discipline — and four boons that reveal what each of them actually wanted. The Rāmāyaṇa's own account of how its …