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    The Paramahamsa Parivrajaka Upanishad (IAST: Sanskrit: परमहम्स परिव्रजक उपनिस्हद्), is a medieval era Sanskrit text and a minor Upanishad of Hinduism...
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  • The Parivrajaka (IAST: Parivrājaka) dynasty ruled parts of central India during 5th and 6th centuries. The kings of this dynasty bore the title Maharaja...
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    Patrick Olivelle, and resembles a "medieval legal compendia". The word Parivrajaka means "roaming ascetic". The title refers to the teachings of the Vedic...
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    distinguishes Rishi from other types of sages, such as sanyāsi, bhikṣu, parivrājaka, tapasvi, muni, brahmachāri, yati, etc. The term Rishi found mentions...
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    lives as their master lived. In 1888, Narendra left the monastery as a Parivrâjaka – a wandering monk, "without fixed abode, without ties, independent and...
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  • the present-day Unchehara. The Uchchhakalpas were neighbours of the Parivrajakas, and appear to have been feudatories of the Gupta Empire. The dynasty...
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    Praśna Ātmā, Sūrya, Prāṇāgnihotra Āśrama, Nārada-parivrājaka, Paramahamsa, Paramahaṃsa parivrājaka, Parabrahma Sītā, Devī, Tripurātapini, Bhāvana Nṛsiṃhatāpanī...
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    texts such as the Dharmaśāstra more commonly used terms like pravrajita, parivrajaka, parivrat, bhiksu, śramaṇa, and yati for ascetics. The lives of Rama...
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  • existence and unity in diversity" throughout British India. He then as a Parivrajaka Sanyasi, a "wandering" or itinerant monk, travelled all over India from...
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    were called Sannyasi, Sadhu, Yati, Bhiksu, Pravrajita/Pravrajitā and Parivrajaka in Hindu texts. The term with a meaning closer to asceticism in Hindu...
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  • Film Critics Award for Best Sanskrit film. Shandilya is the disciple of Parivrajaka, a Buddhist monk. He comes across Vasanthasena, a courtesan. Vasanthasena...
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    Sanyasis are also known as Bhiksu, Pravrajita/Pravrajitā, Yati, Sramana and Parivrajaka in Hindu texts. Jamison and Witzel state early Vedic texts make no mention...
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  • dynasty, based in Mithila were Maithil Brahmins.[better source needed] Parivrajaka dynasty, ruled parts of central India during the 5th and 6th centuries...
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  • Upanishad Turiyatitavadhuta Upanishad Brihat-Sannyasa Upanishad Paramahamsa Parivrajaka Upanishad Malika Upanishad Avyakta Upanishad Ekakshara Upanishad Annapurna...
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    Nikaya. The Divyavadana version states that Pingalavatsa was an Ajivika parivrajaka (wandering teacher). Bindusara asked him to assess the ability of the...
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    works, later became sites for major temples and Hindu pilgrimage. Narada Parivrajaka Upanishad identifies four characteristics of a Vānaprastha stage of life...
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  •  109 Mukunda et al. 1974, p. 12 Mukunda et al. 1974, p. 2 Bhāradvāja & Parivrājaka 1959 Maharshi Bharadwaaja & Shastry 1973 Mukunda et al. 1974 Mukunda...
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    Samudragupta's conquests of Central India (c. 4th century CE) Gupta Empire Parivrajaka dynasty Gupta Victory Gupta–Saka Wars (c. 375 to 413 CE) Gupta Empire...
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    in the 4th and 5th centuries, which was India's "classical age". The Parivrajaka and the Uchchhakalpa dynasties ruled as feudatories of the Guptas in...
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  • Maharaja Hastin (category Parivrajaka maharajas)
    Hastin was a feudatory of the Gupta Dynasty and a member and ruler of the Parivrajaka dynasty. He is known from the Khoh copper plate land grant, records a...
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  • 1888, Swami Vivekananda left the monastery[clarification needed] as a Parivrâjaka— the Hindu religious life of a wandering monk, "without fixed abode,...
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    relief of the famine was carried out. Swami Vivekananda's days as a parivrajaka (wandering monk) before his visit to Parliament of Religions, took him...
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    of wandering monks in ancient India is partly untraceable. The term 'parivrajaka' was perhaps applicable to all the peripatetic monks of India, such as...
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    could express what happens to an Arahant after his death. In reply to a Parivrājaka named Vaccha, the Buddha said that terms like 'born' or 'not born' do...
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  • words should be spoken, even when violently pulled by another. — Narada Parivrajaka Upanishad, Atharva Veda, Akrodha, states Manickam[clarification needed]...
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  • Tishya Raksha Mohan Babu as Malavasimha Rudradeva Gummadi as Bouddha Parivrajaka Satyanarayana as Rayani Rachamallu Ranganath as Bindusara Ramakrishna...
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    dharma, the comical play was intended to satire heretical doctrines Parivrajaka – monk or master Shandilya – disciple Vasantsena – courtesan Ramilaka –...
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    region may have been located in central India: the inscriptions of the Parivrajaka dynasty, which ruled in this area, state that their ancestral kingdom...
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    called the "Vallabhi" era in the Maitraka-ruled territory. Shashanka Parivrajaka dynasty of central India Uchchhakalpa dynasty of central India Recent...
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  • order to lure Sita out of her hermitage, Ravana disguises himself as a Parivrajaka begging for alms. When she subsequently offers him bhiksha, he abducts...
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