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Imperial, royal, noble, gentry and chivalric ranks in West, Central, South Asia and North Africa. Raja ( / ˈrɑːdʒɑː /; from Sanskrit: राजन्, IAST rājan-) is a royal Sanskrit title that was historically used in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. The title was used by Indian sovereign monarchs, vassal rulers and highest ...
Rajas. Rajas ( Sanskrit: रजस्) is one of the three guṇas (tendencies, qualities, attributes), a philosophical and psychological concept developed by the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy. [1] [2] The other two qualities are sattva (goodness, balance) and tamas (lethargy, violence, disorder). Rajas is innate tendency or quality that ...
In Sanskrit texts, Rāja yoga ( / ˈrɑːdʒə ˈjoʊɡə /) was both the goal of yoga and a method to attain it. The term also became a modern name for the practice of yoga [1] [2] in the 19th-century when Swami Vivekananda gave his interpretation of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali in his book Raja Yoga. [3] Since then, Rāja yoga has variously ...
Raja (festival) Girls swinging on Raja swing. Raja Parba ( Odia: ରଜ ପର୍ବ, pronounced [ɾɔdʒɔ pɔɾbɔ] ), also known as Mithuna Sankranti, is a three-day-long festival of womanhood celebrated in Odisha, India. The second day of the festival signifies beginning of the solar month of Mithuna, from which the season of rains starts.
Yama. Yama ( Sanskrit: यम, lit. 'twin'), also known as Kāla and Dharmarāja, is the Hindu god of death and justice, responsible for the dispensation of law and punishment of sinners in his abode, Naraka. [12] [13] He is often identified with Dharmadeva, the personification of Dharma, though the two deities have different origins and myths.
Hinduism. Kshatriya ( Sanskrit: क्षत्रिय, romanized : Kṣatriya, from Sanskrit kṣatra, "rule, authority"; also called Rajanya) [1] is one of the four varnas (social orders) of Hindu society and is associated with the warrior aristocracy. [2] The Sanskrit term kṣatriyaḥ is used in the context of later Vedic society wherein ...
The coloured version, released in April 2008, was a commercial success. The Tamil popular hit of Harichandra is a 1968 Tamil-language Hindu mythological film, directed by K. S. Prakash Rao starred by Sivaji Ganesan. Also, in popular colloquial usage, Raja Harishchandra is synonymous with absolute adherence to the truth.
Description. A rajarshi may be described to be a king (raja) who adopted a path of devotion, thereby becoming a royal sage (rishi). A rajarshi does not have to leave the kingship to become rishi, as in the example of Vishvamitra (who later becomes a Brahmarishi ), but could attain the status of a sage through self-realisation during his reign.