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