शब्दावली
वे शब्द जिन पर कथा टिकी है
हर शब्द का अर्थ, और पुस्तकों में वह कहाँ आता है।
- कलियुग Kali Yuga
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The fourth and present age in the cycle of four: Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali.
इसमें आता है पुस्तक ० · पुस्तक १ · Why devotion tires: Bhakti’s sleeping sons and an age of distraction · Why does the Bhagavata need a preface? The Mahatmya, explained
- ज्ञान Jnana
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Knowledge — understanding of what is real. One of Bhakti’s two sons in the Mahatmya.
इसमें आता है पुस्तक ० · Why devotion tires: Bhakti’s sleeping sons and an age of distraction
- धर्म Dharma
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Right order — what upholds a person, a community and the world. Book One opens on the question of where it lives now.
इसमें आता है पुस्तक १ · Satyaṃ paraṃ dhīmahi — the phrase that opens and closes the Bhagavata
- नैमिषारण्य Naimisharanya
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The forest where the rishis gathered and Suta recited the Bhagavata. The press is named for it.
इसमें आता है पुस्तक १
- भक्ति Bhaktiभक्ती
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Devotion — loving attention to the Divine. In the Mahatmya she is a young woman whose two sons have grown old.
इसमें आता है पुस्तक ० · Why devotion tires: Bhakti’s sleeping sons and an age of distraction · Who is Narada? The wanderer between the worlds
- माहात्म्य Mahatmya
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A text that tells the greatness of another text. The Bhagavata Mahatmya, from the Padma Purana, is Book Zero.
इसमें आता है पुस्तक ० · Why does the Bhagavata need a preface? The Mahatmya, explained
- यज्ञ Yajña
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A sacrificial rite. At Naimisharanya the rishis were tending a long yajña when they asked Suta to speak.
इसमें आता है पुस्तक १
- वैराग्य Vairagya
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Detachment — freedom from craving for what passes. Bhakti’s other son.
इसमें आता है पुस्तक ० · Why devotion tires: Bhakti’s sleeping sons and an age of distraction
- सप्ताह Saptaha
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A seven-day hearing of the Bhagavata. The Mahatmya prescribes it, and the eight volumes follow it.
इसमें आता है पुस्तक ० · पुस्तक १ · Why does the Bhagavata need a preface? The Mahatmya, explained
- स्कन्ध Skandhaस्कंध
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One of the twelve divisions — often called cantos — of the Srimad Bhagavata.
इसमें आता है पुस्तक १