- the
Smartas of
South India add a
sixth god
Kartikeya (see Shanmata).
According to Basham, any upper-class
Hindus still prefer the way of the
Smartas to...
- The hjärta &
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highest principle in the
universe and
pervades all of existence. Generally,
Smartas worship Brahman in one of five forms: Ganesha, Shiva, Shakti, Vishnu, and...
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Shiva is one of the five
equivalent deities in
Panchayatana puja of the
Smarta tradition of Hinduism.
Shiva has many aspects,
benevolent as well as fearsome...
- worshipper's
favourite deity. It is
especially significant to both the
Smarta and
Bhakti schools,
wherein practitioners choose to
worship the form of...
-
almost synonymous,
though not all
Advaitins are
Smartas.
Shankara was a
Smarta, just like Radhakrishnan.
Smartas believe in the
essential oneness of five (panchadeva)...
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Ultimate Reality called nirguna Brahman. The five or six
icons are seen by
Smartas as
multiple representations of the one
Saguna Brahman (i.e., a personal...
- of
their affiliation with Shiva. It is also one of the
tilakas worn by
Smarta Hindus.[citation needed] It
consists of
three horizontal lines (and sometimes...
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Smarta Advaita tradition,
Shakti is one of the five
equal personal forms of God, as in the
panchadeva system,
advocated by Adi Shankara. The
Smarta tradition...
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Kalpa (Sanskrit: कल्प)
means "proper, fit" and is one of the six
disciplines of the Vedānga, or
ancillary science connected with the
Vedas – the scriptures...
