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Parthenogenesis (/ˌpɑːrθɪnoʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs, -θɪnə-/; from the Gr**** παρθένος, parthénos, 'virgin' + γένεσις, génesis, 'creation') is a
natural form of a****ual...
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three main
branches of
Agama texts are Shaiva,
Vaishnava and Shakta. The
Agamic traditions are
sometimes called Tantrism,
although the term "Tantra" is...
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while Nigamas refers to the
Vedas and the
teachings of
Shakti to Shiva. In
Agamic schools of Hinduism, the
Vedic literature and the
Agamas are
equally authoritative...
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initiations may also
include Vedic Yajna rites, or
alternatively be
based on
Agamic rituals. The word
yajna (Sanskrit: यज्ञ, romanized: yajña) has its root...
- on the
myths and
ritual ideologies of the Vedas, as
distinguished from
Agamic,
Tantric and
sectarian forms of
Indian religion,
which take
recourse to...
- Pāñcarātra
Samhitas developed from the 7th or 8th
century onward, and
belongs to
Agamic or Tantras,
setting them at odds with
vedic orthodoxy.
Vishnu worshipers...
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kings of the
Vijayanagara Empire and
shifted their allegiance from
Advaitic Agamic Shaivism to
Brahmanical Advaita orthodoxy.
Hagiographies dating from the...
- the
Agamic scripts (a set of
scriptures regulating the
temple cult). More often, however, the
temple is not
completed in
accordance with
Agamic scriptures...
- form of
Hinduism in that they were
either historically or are at
present Āgamic. The
Agamas are non-vedic in
origin and have been
dated either as post-vedic...
- (follower),
after the
formal diksha (initiation). Such knowledge,
whether agamic, spiritual, scriptural, architectural, musical, arts or
martial arts, is...
