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Bandhu Navami
Bandhu (1), Sanskrit for ''friend,'' connected with ''bandhana'' or ''ties,'' which are the connections that, according to the Vedas, link the outer and the inner worlds. Vedas, Vedic texts speak, for example, of the 360 bones of the fetus that fuse into the 206 bones of the adult (after the 360 days of the year). As per Dharma traditions, 'Bandhutva' exists in all planes/fields, connecting them together. Few noteworthy fields are Nrittya (Dance), Sangeeta (Music), Jyotishya (Astrology), Vastu-Shastra, Yoga, and Ayurveda (Medicine). References {{reflist * Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.14.6, https://web.archive.org/web/20120411150550/http://vedabase.net/sb/1/14/6/ Hindu philosophical concepts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late Bronze Age. Sanskrit is the sacred language of Hinduism, the language of classical Hindu philosophy, and of historical texts of Buddhism and Jainism. It was a link language in ancient and medieval South Asia, and upon transmission of Hindu and Buddhist culture to Southeast Asia, East Asia and Central Asia in the early medieval era, it became a language of religion and high culture, and of the political elites in some of these regions. As a result, Sanskrit had a lasting impact on the languages of South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia, especially in their formal and learned vocabularies. Sanskrit generally connotes several Old Indo-Aryan language varieties. The most archaic of these is the Vedic Sanskrit found in the Rig Veda, a colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
