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- term kapāla, meaning "skull", and kāpālika can be translated as the "skull-men" or "skull-bearers". The Kāpālikas were an extinct sect of Shaivite ascetics...
- ascetic order, the Kāpālikas, or 'wearers of skulls'." According to David Lorenzen, there is a paucity of primary sources on the Kāpālikas, and historical...
- with it. The 6th-century Varāhamihira mentions Kapalikas in his literary works. Some of the Kāpālika practices mentioned in these texts are those found...
- from kapāla, meaning "skull", and Kāpālika means the "skull-men". The Kāpālikas were an extinct sect of Shaivite ascetics devoted to the Hindu god Shiva...
- emblematic staff of the early Indian Shaivite yogis, known as kapalikas or "skull-bearers". The kapalikas were originally miscreants who had been sentenced to...
- faces with a black streak and were contemporary to another sect known as Kapalikas. Their religious dogmas are not clear except for some inscriptions which...
- Lin****ats, along with Shaiva Siddhanta followers, Naths, Pashupatas, Kapalikas and others constitute the Shaivite po****tion. The word 'Lin****at' is...
- mysterious and horrific events at the centre of which lies a cult of Kapalikas that worships Kali. Robert Luczak is sent by the American literary magazine...
- the Kapalikas in his Sri Bhasya work, in which he noted them as eating from a skull and keeping wine. Such practices were common for the Kapalikas but...
- of Svātmārāma. verse 1.58–63, pp. 19–21. Lorenzen, David (1972). The Kāpālikas and Kālāmukhas. University of California Press. pp. 186–190. ISBN 978-0-520-01842-6...