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• Knowledge Acquisition Process
  ...o that we named our country ‘Bharat’ which latterly means a land of people in pursuit of knowledge. Knowledge is considered very holy, very pure and a ma # Nature of elements found in the creation can be defined as its ‘guna dharma’ (गुणधर्म
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• Gurukul in the 21st century
  ...n front of us is that of a natural environment in a jungle with an ashram, in the ashram there are many small, thatched huts and rishis are doing yagya. ...imagery of a traditional Gurukul. A lot seems to have changed since those days. This includes the uniforms, language, subjects, context, mentality of the
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• Upanayana (उपनयनम्)
  ...e Saṁskāras with [[Varnashrama Dharma (वर्णाश्रमधर्मः)|Varna and Āśramas]] in the sense of duty has been established by many authors and historians. ...e upadesha of Gayatri mantra which prepares him for the study of vedas, or in more modern terms the child enters the schooling phase of life ([[Brahmacha
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• Rivers in Rigveda (ऋग्वेदे नदीनां विवेचनम्)
  ...rn region of India and they represent some of the oldest human settlements in the world.
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• Aranyaka (आरण्यकम्)
  ...ere works to be read in the forest’ as against the Brahmanas used by those in grhastha ashrama.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":0" /> ...fe of man. The speculative and intuitive thinking appears to be developing in that stage. Meditative thinking is conspicuous. The Vedic man seems to be t
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• Vidyarthi's Qualities (विद्यातुराणां लक्षणानि)
  ...ls and inferiors. These rules afforded an imperceptible but effective help in the formation of character of a student.<ref name=":0" /> ...uld have given in texts like Smritis, Mahabharata, Chanakyaneeti and later day sources like Subhashitas.
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• Nakshatras (नक्षत्राणि)
  ...(1900), Shabda Sagara, First Edition, Entry: [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.195943/page/n375/mode/2up Nakshatra.]</ref> ...ra) near which the moon was seen, resulting in calling the asterism as the day's nakshatra, from which the 27 asterismal segments of the zodiac came into
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• Jnana Sopanam (ज्ञानसोपानम्) - Buddhi Yoga (बुद्धियोगम्)
  ...rsha. Today, countless number of people play this game all over the globe. In this series of articles presented here we bring forward to you the evolutio Snakes and Ladders is game can be found in various versions with various names across Bharatavarsha. Vaikuntha Pali, M
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• Srirangam
  ...orm of Sri Ranganatha is seen reclining on the coils of Adisesha. A temple in tamil is called 'koil'. However, among the Vaishnavas, the common noun koil ...has its own pushkarini (pond). And it is mostly, geographically, situated in the vicinity of a river.
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• Snataka Dharma (स्नातकधर्मः)
  ...(स्नातकः ॥ a graduate), that is, those who have completed their education in the [[Brahmacharyashrama (ब्रह्मचर्याश्रमः) ...्मः)|Varnashrama Dharma]] in the various Smrti texts. Manusmrti elaborates in detail about the code of conduct for a Snataka. His personal as well as soc
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• Pramanas for Dharma (धर्मप्रमाणानि)
  ...ood ground since time immemorial. That Vedas are the source of all Dharma (in moral, social, religious, judicial, and adhyatmik sense) is irrefutably adv ...oneously and loosely in the sense of sanctioning various unrighteous deeds in the name of changing society and times by different people all over the glo
  31 KB (3,835 words) - 12:41, 5 January 2021
• Pathya (पथ्यम्)
  ...imen to be practiced for a healthy living directed by principles laid down in Ayurveda shashtra for samagra jivana vidhana (holistic lifestyle). Our scie ...ed population and moreover world of machines has created unlimited desires in human mind on the one hand, while on the other hand, it has originated anxi
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• Agnihotra (अग्निहोत्रम्)
  ...tyakarma. The procedure to perform Yajnas including Agnihotra is described in Brahmanas and Aranyakas of Veda (also called as Shrutis), thus they are cal ...tually maintaining Agni at home is vested with a grihastha. In the present days, very rarely, grihasthas are maintaining Agni at homes nor are conducting r
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• Daivavyapashraya Chikitsa (दैवव्यपाश्रया चिकित्सा)
  ...re beyond understanding of a normal human being these methods are included in one group separated from regular pharmacological treatment. Moreover, these ...Acharyas have suggested this modality of treatment for better results like in Rajayakshma (राजयक्ष्मा),<ref>Charaka Samhita (Chikitsa
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• Grhyasutras (गृह्यसूत्राणि)
  ...e, the description of the setting up of this fire finds an important place in the Grhyasutras.<ref name=":0">Gopal, Ram. (1959) ''India of Vedic Kalpasut ...They are the oldest manuals on the [[Samskaras (संस्काराः)|samskaras]] and in the whole set of [[Kalpa Vedanga (कल्पवेदाङ्गम्)|
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• Ramanujacharya (रामानुजाचार्यः)
  ...Samskrit : रामानुजाचार्यः) belonging to the 11th century, was instrumental in the establishment of the doctrines pertaining to Visishtadvaita (the philos ...was born on Thursday 4th April 1017 A.D. (Pingala Chaitra Sukla Panchami) in the star of Arudra corresponding to Saka year 939, and Kali year 4118. His
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• Kala (कालः)
  ...period" in a broad sense. The concept of time is explained systematically in [[Vedanga Jyotisha (वेदाङ्गज्योतिषम्)|vedan ...humb|450x450px|'''Kala Chakram. Time is depicted as a Wheel. Konark Temple in Odisha, India houses an elaborate architectural construction of the Surya's
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• Upavasa or Fasting (उपवासः)
  ...ly studied by Ayurveda scholars thousands of years ago and was implemented in Ayurveda treatments effectively. In Shabdakalpadruma, the term upawasa is explained as below,
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• Puranas (पुराणानि)
  ...as show the significance and ancientness of these texts. They are eighteen in number and are associated with the Upapuranas. They describe a wide variety ...that the puranas were the main source of bhagavata katha traditions found in India; the bond that has woven the cultural threads among different peoples
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• Antyesti (अन्त्येष्टिः)
  ...[[Sanatana Dharma (सनातनधर्मः)|Sanatana Dharma]]. It is the last samskara in the life of a person and specifically deals with the conclusive activities ...this term is not an exact translation of Antyeshti, or the crematory rites in the context of Sanatana Dharma.
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