Sanskrit term, lit. an act performed with faith (śraddhā); in Hinduism, refers to rites for the dead.
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Examples for "śrāddha"
Examples for "śrāddha"
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.
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.
Translations for shraaddha