Sanskrit term, lit. an act performed with faith (śraddhā); in Hinduism, refers to rites for the dead.
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Examples for "shraaddha"
Examples for "shraaddha"
1The worship of this new religion is the commemoration and veneration of the dead.
1How early the decay of ancestor worship began it is impossible to say.
2Does the primitive tendency to ancestor worship in part explain this?
3Religion is mainly ancestor worship or vague spirit worship; ghosts are propitiated with food.
4From this same idea sprang ancestor worship, or the deification of the past vital spark.
5One consequence of this ancestor worship is that enormous areas of China are covered with graves.
1They remain so for one year, till the Sapindikarana Sraddha is performed.
2One should never perform a Sraddha under the constellation of one's nativity.
3With concentrated attention he then conceived the idea of a Sraddha.
4In former times, the Rishi Jamadagni proposed to perform a Sraddha.
5Those men who perform the Sraddha on the sixth day acquire great splendour.
6The Sraddha, however, is not regarded as stained in any way.
7A mortal, by performing the Sraddha under Punarvasu, makes such again by agriculture.
8Even this is the high ritual in respect of the Sraddha, O monarch!
9Even this is the ordinance in respect of the Sraddha.
10Even this is the ordinance that has been declared in respect of the Sraddha.
11Nor should one eat at the Sraddha of an enemy.
12They, O king, who perform the Sraddha on the fifth day, get many sons.
13A Sraddha with Tila or sesame should never be done without desire for fruit.
14The man that is desirous of growth and advancement should perform the Sraddha under Pushya.
15Without doubt, the offerings one makes unto the Pitris at such a Sraddha become inexhaustible.
16Arrived there, I commenced the Sraddha of my father.