Results for "Prāṇa"

… h and universal life-force — the macrocosmic counterpart of prāṇa in the human body. He fathered Hanumān through Añjanā and Bhīma through Kuntī, gifting both sons his prodigious sp …

… the rite that opened the festival in the first place. What prāṇa-pratiṣṭhā and its reversal actually claim, kept as three separate kinds of reason rather than one overclaiming sto …

Indra, Agni, Varuṇa, Sūrya, Vāyu and the other Vedic devas were once celestial sovereigns; in the Purāṇic era they appear subordinate to Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva. Not a replacement …

… - **Vāyu** — the cosmic breath, macrocosmic counterpart of *prāṇa* in the body. Father of Hanumān and Bhīma. - **Uṣas** — the goddess of dawn, one of the most beloved of Vedic devī …

… — the same laws that govern the universe govern the body. **Prāṇa** operates in the body through a fivefold physiological division, each corresponding to a macrocosmic force: - ** …

… re a festival mūrti is worshipped, it is **consecrated** — *prāṇa-pratiṣṭhā*, "the establishing of life-breath." The rite is Āgamic, not incidental: drawn from Pāñcarātra Āgama lit …

That prāṇa entered the mūrti at consecration and departs at immersion is not offered here as an externally verifiable fact. I …

… uding the Vaikhānasa Saṃhitā) and the *nyāsa* sequence, for prāṇa-pratiṣṭhā's textual basis — consulted via named secondary summaries of the Āgamic corpus rather than a direct crit …