A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism
author: Swami Harshananda
edition: 2008, Ramakrishna Math
pages: 2084
ISBN-13: 9788179070574
Topic: Hinduism
Encyclopaedia of Hinduism - Karana
This page describes Karana which is located on page 150 of the second volume in the book: A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism by Swami Harshananda. This book, known as “a concise encyclopaedia of hinduism”, includes a vast amount of topics covering general aspects on Hinduism, but also contains important aspects regarding Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms, as well as information if you want to buy this book.
Full contents not available online!
To read the full text of A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism, you can buy Swami Harshananda’s book from Exotic India
You can look up the meaning of the phrase “Karana” according to 122 books dealing with Hinduism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
Bhagavatpadabhyudaya by Lakshmana Suri (study) [by Lathika M. P.]
The antah karana is situated within the body, and is made up of the sattva parts of the five rudimentary elements, and being extremely transparent, comes in to touch with the sense objects through the specific senses and assumes their forms. The interior part of the antah karana is the ego or the agent. The interviewing part has the action of knowledge also called Vritti-Jnana....
Read full contents: The Gross Body
Vakyapadiya of Bhartrihari [by K. A. Subramania Iyer]
So they acquire special names such as ‘karana according to the nature of their own minor acts. While retaining this character or rather because of that, they participate in the accomplishment of the main action, that is, they are karaka in addition to being ‘karana etc. Under the direction of the agent (karta) they perform their own minor actions and thus become karana etc. as well as karaka. It is only when they become karana etc. that the agent attains his ‘kartritva ....
Read full contents: Verse 3.7.20-21
Rig Veda (translation and commentary) [by H. H. Wilson]
yuvam | vandanam | nih-ritam | jaranyaya | ratham | na | dasra | karana | sam | invathah | kshetrat | a | vipram | janathah | vipanyaya | pra | vam | atra | vidhate | damsana | bhuvat...
Read full contents: Rig Veda 1.119.7
Total 122 books found: See all results here.
Summary:
You can return to the book Index to buy or shop for other books, or you can read the available online pages below:
[A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism: index]
[About The Author (Swami Harshananda)]
[Preface]