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  • [[Nama Mantras|Nama mantras]] are the most popular and widely used class of mantras. As the name suggests, they are centered on the names of devatas. Nama [[mantra]] is an approach to salvation, and not just [[a]] class of mantras. It is about transcendence through continuous rememberance and devotion for
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  • Rakṣoghna-mantras literally means ‘mantras that destroy evil spirits’. ==Rakṣoghna-mantras Definition==
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  • Paitṛka-mantras literally means ‘sacred formula associated with the pitṛs or manes’. ==Origin of Paitṛka-mantras==
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  • ...even such Gāyatri Mantras are given below. Chanting or meditating on these mantras is to be done only as per the teaching of the [[Guru]].
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  • Paitṛka-mantras literally means ‘sacred formula associated with the pitṛs or manes’. ==Origin of Paitṛka-mantras==
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  • ==Types of Vedic Mantras== The Vedic mantras used in yāgas or sacrifices are of four types:
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  • Rakṣoghna-mantras literally means ‘mantras that destroy evil spirits’. ==Rakṣoghna-mantras Definition==
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  • The rahasyatraya comprises of three mantras: # The dvaya - a pair of mantras pertaining to Nārāyaṇa and surrendering at his feet
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  • #REDIRECT [[Gāyatri mantras of Several Gods]]
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  • #REDIRECT [[Gāyatri Mantras of Several Gods]]
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  • ==Origin of Mantras== ...science of the mantras, both extensively and intensively. Various types of mantras for the various [[deities]] of the pantheon along with different bījākṣ
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  • ...,552 mantras or verses. There are two well-known systems of dividing these mantras into books, sections or chapters. ...to eight sections, each called as an ‘aṣṭaka,’ keeping the total number of mantras in each aṣṭaka almost the same.
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  • Pañcabrahmamantras literally means ‘five mantras concerning five aspects of [[Brahman]]’. ...is sometimes praised as Brahman Himself. In one such description, the five mantras on the five aspects of [[Śiva]] given in the Mahānārāyaṇa [[Upaniṣa
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  • ...These are generally termed as [[Śāntis|śāntis]]. Even in some early Vedic mantras we find the idea of counteracting the evil effects of bad [[dreams]].<ref>[ * In the Taittiriya Āranyaka<ref>Taittiriya Āranyaka 4.42</ref> there are 37 mantras of śānti, of which 7 are from the [[Rgveda]].
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  • ...ṣṇava [[Upaniṣads]]. It is assigned to the [[Atharvaveda]]. It has just 20 mantras. Some of them are in verses and the rest in prose. ...ealth. The Upaniṣad is a reply to this question. It mainly deals with some mantras of Lord [[Hayagriva]] by the repetition of which one can get wealth, knowle
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  • ...ad are Nārada, Brhatsena, [[Indra]] and [[Bharadvāja]]. It comprises of 25 mantras which are mostly in prose. * Mantras 2 to 4 give the usual preliminaries that include:
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  • ...a]] is in praise of all the waters of all the seven rivers. The next three mantras are addressed to the river [[Sindhu]] along with its tributaries. These tri ...from [[Gaṅgā]], [[Yamunā]] and [[Sarasvatī]] up to Suṣomā. The rest of the mantras, four in number, are in praise of Sindhu, not only as a nourishing river, b
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  • ...al father mutters over the navel or in the right ear of the child, certain mantras invoking the bestowal of long life. These mantras, begin with ‘agne āyuraśi’. It is taken from the [[Kāthaka Samhitā]
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  • This is a technical term used to indicate the twelve mantras of the [[Ṛgveda]].<ref>Ṛgveda 2.36 and 37</ref> ...gods like [[Indra]], [[Aśvins]] and Draviṇodā are also requested in these mantras to drink the [[soma]] juice that is offered and give the sacrificer good he
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  • ...rose, deal with the details of sacrificial rites and quote the appropriate mantras (sacred formulae) to be used in the rites. ...y, the [[nigada]], is sometimes added. Nigadas are, strictly speaking, not mantras but instructions uttered loudly by one priest to another, during a sacrific
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  • ...a|śrāddha]],’ appropriate mantras (incantations) are chanted. One of those mantras containing the wish that the offerings be imperishable, chanted by the perf
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  • In [[prapatti]], one has to receive three mantras or sacred formula from a competent [[Ācārya|ācārya]].<ref>[[Ācārya]] ...ed as being with Śrī or Lakṣmī. Though the commentators declare that these mantras are part of the Kathaśruti, the recensions available now do not contain th
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  • ==Mantras for Pumsavana== Generally the mantras chanted during this rite are from the [[Ṛgveda]].<ref>[[Ṛgveda]] 1.1.3<
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  • ...s from left to right, sprinkling the water on the house with the śantātīya mantras. These are the fifteen mantras of the [[Ṛgveda]].<ref>[[Ṛgveda]] 7.35.1-15</ref> Since the word śam (
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