aarti
आरती aartiThe ritual offering of light, in which lit lamps are circled before a deity or sacred river; the Ganga aarti at Varanasi is among the most famous.
Where this term appears
- Who is Ganga? Deities
…places the river is worshipped with fire in the rite called the Ganga Aarti, ranks of priests swinging great lamps to the current while bells ring and the crowd sends small leaf-boats of flame out onto the blac…
- A walk down the ghats Treatise
…wded of the ghats by day, and at dusk the setting for the great Ganga aarti, the offering of lamps to the river we watched in the last chapter.
- How Shiva lost his city Treatise
Dashashwamedh , the ghat of the ten horse-sacrifices, is the scar of a failed mission, and every evening the lamps of the Ganga aarti are swung above the water where Brahma's ruse came to nothing.
- The city in the mirror Treatise
…t, to photograph the ghats at sunrise from a hired boat, to watch the aarti as a spectacle, and, at the darkest edge of it, to point a camera at a stranger's cremation as though a family's grief were a piece of…
- The steps to the river Treatise
The Ganga aarti and the burning ground, the tradition says, are the same light.
- Two Worships, Four Yagas Treatise
…te, the flowers, the incense, the lamp, the food, the betel leaf, the aarti , the prostration - mudras as transitional seals between operational stages, meeting at the bindu at the centre, closing with the prop…