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आचार achara

Established custom and right conduct; in practice one of the working sources of dharma, often overriding the letter of the law-books.

Where this term appears

  • The Law of Manu Treatise

    Beyond that frame it descends into detail. There are rules of conduct, achara .

  • Kameshvara - And The Four Acharas Treatise

    The chapter that follows walks the divergence through the framework the tradition has used to organize it: the four acharas .

  • The Court Treatise

    … the chapter where lineage divergence becomes load-bearing - the four acharas the front matter named diverge most sharply on how the Shiva-Shakti union the consort represents is to be related to operationally.

  • The Name Treatise

    …ashi variants, the figure the Saubhagya and Samaya and Kaula and Vama acharas have approached through their four modes, the figure Tirumular meditated on through his Navakkari , the figure the Kashmir Shaiva su…

  • The Shape Of The Whole Treatise

    …oddess-architecture, the mantric variants, the lineage diversity, the Achara distinctions — all operate within an architectural commonality that the streams genuinely share.

  • Two Worships, Four Yagas Treatise

    How the four lineages weight them The four lineage-modes (the acharas Volume 2 named) weight the four yagas differently.

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