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