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Samayā

Index Samayā

Samaya or Samayam is a Sanskrit term referring to the "appointed or proper time, right moment for doing anything." In Indian languages, samayam, or samay in Indo-Aryan languages, is a unit of time. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 29 relations: Agni Purana, Arihant (Jainism), Avasarpiṇī, Bengali language, Carnatic music, Dravidian languages, Gujarati language, Hasta (unit), Hindi, Hindu cosmology, Hindu mythology, Indian classical music, Indo-Aryan languages, Jain cosmology, Jainism, Kannada, Languages of India, Malayalam, Marathi language, Moksha (Jainism), Palya, Prahara, Raga, Religious cosmology, Sanskrit, Shiva, Siddhashila, Tamil language, Universe.

  2. Hindu cosmology

Agni Purana

The Agni Purana, (अग्नि पुराण) is a Sanskrit text and one of the eighteen major Puranas of Hinduism.

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Arihant (Jainism)

Arihant (italic, lit) is a jiva (soul) who has conquered inner passions such as attachment, anger, pride and greed.

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Avasarpiṇī

Avasarpiṇī is the descending half of the cosmic time cycle in Jainism and the one in which the world is said to be at present.

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Bengali language

Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family native to the Bengal region of South Asia.

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Carnatic music

Carnatic music, known as or in the South Indian languages, is a system of music commonly associated with South India, including the modern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana.

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Dravidian languages

The Dravidian languages (sometimes called Dravidic) are a family of languages spoken by 250 million people, mainly in southern India, north-east Sri Lanka, and south-west Pakistan, with pockets elsewhere in South Asia.

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Gujarati language

Gujarati (label) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat and spoken predominantly by the Gujarati people.

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Hasta (unit)

The hasta (हस्त (hásta)) is a traditional Indian unit of length, measured from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger.

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Hindi

Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.

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Hindu cosmology

Hindu cosmology is the description of the universe and its states of matter, cycles within time, physical structure, and effects on living entities according to Hindu texts.

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Hindu mythology

Hindu mythology is the body of myths attributed to, and espoused by, the adherents of the Hindu religion, found in Hindu texts such as the Vedas, the itihasa (the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana) the Puranas, and mythological stories specific to a particular ethnolinguistic group like the Tamil Periya Puranam and ''Divya Prabandham'', and the Mangal Kavya of Bengal.

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Indian classical music

Indian Classical Music is the classical music of the Indian Subcontinent.

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Indo-Aryan languages

The Indo-Aryan languages (or sometimes Indic languages) are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family.

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Jain cosmology

Jain cosmology is the description of the shape and functioning of the Universe (loka) and its constituents (such as living beings, matter, space, time etc.) according to Jainism.

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Jainism

Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.

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Kannada

Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ), formerly also known as Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states.

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Languages of India

Languages spoken in the Republic of India belong to several language families, the major ones being the Indo-Aryan languages spoken by 78.05% of Indians and the Dravidian languages spoken by 19.64% of Indians; both families together are sometimes known as Indic languages.

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Malayalam

Malayalam is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people.

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Marathi language

Marathi (मराठी) is an Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by Marathi people in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Moksha (Jainism)

Sanskrit or Prakrit mokkha refers to the liberation or salvation of a soul from saṃsāra, the cycle of birth and death.

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Palya

A palya is a length of time used in Jainism to describe when the Lord Adinath ("First Lord") came to India, 100,000,000,000,000 palyas ago. Samayā and palya are units of time.

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Prahara

Prahara is a Sanskrit term for a unit of time, or subdivision of the day, approximately three hours long.

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Raga

A raga (also raaga or ragam or raag) is a melodic framework for improvisation in Indian classical music akin to a melodic mode.

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Religious cosmology

Religious cosmology is an explanation of the origin, evolution, and eventual fate of the universe from a religious perspective.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Shiva

Shiva (lit), also known as Mahadeva (Category:Trimurti Category:Wisdom gods Category:Time and fate gods Category:Indian yogis.

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Siddhashila

Siddhashila is an area in Jain cosmology at the apex of the universe, which is where the Jains believe people who have become arihants and tirthankaras go after they die and attain moksha.

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Tamil language

Tamil (தமிழ்) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia.

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Universe

The universe is all of space and time and their contents.

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See also

Hindu cosmology

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samayā

Also known as Samay chakra.