zig-zag
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zig-zag. 1. Romanesque decorative Z- or V- and inverted V-(Λ) shaped device (
chevron or
dancette), either incised or in relief, occurring in a continuous
band or
string (as at Southwell
Minster, Notts.), as an ornament around an arch or series of arches (see
order), or cut into the drum of a
pier (as at Durham Cathedral). This architectural ornament has several variations
2. Plan-form of fortifications with gun-emplacements built outwards with
salient angles.
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U IS FOR THE UPANISHADS
Newspaper article from: Evansville Courier & Press; 11/18/2006; ; 468 words
; The Upanishads are a collection of...Translated, the word "Upanishad" means "sitting close...Press is for the Upanishads The Upanishads are a collection of...Translated, the word "Upanishad" means "sitting close...
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Your own living river of Upanishad
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 6/1/2007; 700+ words
; ...God as defined in the Upanishads and echoed by Bhakti...all things. The Isha Upanishad (1:15) affirms...Guru Nanak and the Upanishads). Then, from across...voice of the Maitri Upanishad: "Only when the mind...failed' to rubbish the Upanishads (usually without ever...
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Essence of the Upanishads.(Essence of the Upanishads: A Key to Spirituality)(Brief article)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch; 8/1/2009; 405 words
; Essence of the Upanishads Eknath Easwaran Nilgiri PO Box 256, 3600...com Every culture has its fables, and the Upanishads is one of India's most treasured. "Essence of the Upanishads: A Key to Spirituality" is a westerner...
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Scientist taps Matrix Trilogy's inner Upanishads
Newspaper article from: India Abroad; 7/2/2004; 690 words
; ...more than 150 texts, the Upanishads constitute the essence of...of the universe, and the Upanishads provide that answer." Those...quotes from nine different Upanishad texts and starts with a well...is similar to that of the Upanishads, where the teacher imparts...
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Two chariots: the justification of the best life in the Katha Upanishad and Plato's Phaedrus.
Magazine article from: Philosophy East and West; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Introduction: The Two Chariots The Katha Upanishad presents a remarkable dialogue between...remarkable similarities between the Katha Upanishad and the Phaedrus certainly give rise...Thus, as the Phaedrus and the Katha Upanishad each provide an image of the self as...
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Vedas and Upanishads acting as signposts.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 12/30/2003; 428 words
; Pondicherry, Dec 30 (PTI) Vedas and Upanishads are acting as signposts for the trouble-torn contemporary...Padmanabhan, who spoke on the occasion, said that Vedas and Upanishads were more relevant now than ever before as Dharma in thought...
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Adapted from Last Four Verses of the Isha Upanishad.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients; 6/1/2002; ; 440 words
; Adapted from Last Four Verses of the Isha Upanishad. The threshold of Reality is veiled by golden light Lord, reveal it, for my path is to know the Truth. You are like the brilliant...
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Indian and cross-cultural philosophy in the works of Ramakrishna Puligandla.(Breaking Barriers: Essays on Asian and Comparative Philosophy in Honor of Ramakrishna Puligandla)(That Thou Art: Wisdom of the Upanishads)(Sprache and Wirklichkeit: Eine interkulturelle Perspektive)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Philosophy East and West; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Hoffman and Godabarisha Mishra. Fremont, CA: Asian Humanities Press, 2003. Pp. ix + 359. That Thou Art: Wisdom of the Upanishads. By R. Puligandla. Fremont, CA: Asian Humanities Press, 2002. Pp. xviii + 145. Sprache and Wirklichkeit: Eine interkulturelle...
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The influence of Hinduism in William Butler Yeats's "Meru".(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Yeats Eliot Review; 12/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Yeats's interest in the Upanishads is reflected in "Meru...according to the teachings of the Upanishads, a structure which augments...Universe!" (Yeats, "Mandukya Upanishad" 479-481). Yeats's...the Absolute taught by the Upanishads. In the first quatrain the...
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Urology in ancient India.
Magazine article from: Indian Journal of Urology; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...later mystical writings of the Upanishads compiled around 800 BC were...This large body of about 108 Upanishads contained teachings of esoteric...appear sporadically in several Upanishads. The productive process of...chapter of the Brihadaranyak Upanishad, several cantos mention the...
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Upanishads
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Upanishads The Upanishads, literally teachings received while sitting at the feet of a master...of devotion, temple sacrifice, and the following of rules. The Upanishads represent a radical shift in perspective that developed around 1000...
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Upanishad
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Upanishad each of a series of Hindu sacred treatises written in Sanskrit c. 800–200 bc, expounding the Vedas . The Upanishads mark the transition from ritual sacrifice to a mystical concern with the nature of reality; polytheism is...
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Cosmology: Asia
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...x2014; like much of the Upanishads — on the basis of...parts to the cosmos, the Upanishads distinguish seven, including...from its insides ( Chandogya Upanishad III.xix; see also Shatapatha...Brahmana XI, 1, 6). While the Upanishads mark the end of the Vedas...
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Yoga
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...Vedic period, the Upanishads of the third or fourth...undistracted" (Katha Upanishad 3.6; 6.11...existence" (Maitri Upanishad 6.25). As the yogin...Shvetashvatara Upanishad 2.13). The final...also depicted in the Upanishads — and will...
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Consciousness: Indian Thought
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...According to the Upanishads , however, the atman...prominently in several Upanishads. In the Katha Upanishad, for example, a...described in the Upanishads as pure being ( sat...According to the Katha Upanishad, the sufferings...
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