Results for "White Lotus"

Sarasvatī is usually shown in white, holding a vīṇā, a book and a rosary, seated on a lotus with a **haṁsa** (हंस) beside her or beneath her. This is …

… nowledge, speech, music, and the arts. Draped in immaculate white, she plays the Veena and embodies the pure, discriminating intellect that recognises truth.

In the Ṛgvedic layer, Varuṇa is the sovereign moral overseer — the deva who witnesses every human deed, binds untruth with his noose (pāśa), and upholds Ṛta, the cosmic order that …

Pradakṣiṇā, temple bells, kīrtana, touching an elder's feet, tilaka, and offering water to the Sun each carry real, textually grounded meaning — reverence, purification, remembranc…

Sarasvatī, goddess of learning, rides a white swan (haṁsa). How a Ṛgvedic river goddess came to ride a bird, where the famous milk-and-water story actually come …

An epic cosmic event where the celestial Devas and the demonic Asuras form a temporary alliance to churn the primeval Ocean of Milk, extracting the nectar of immortality (Amrita) a…