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अन्न annaFood. In the Taittiriya Upanishad the outermost sheath, the annamaya kosha, is the physical body, said to be 'made of food.'
Where this term appears
- What is bhakti? Essentials
Raman thinks the simile of relatively recent coinage, and traces the earliest mention she can find to a Tamil text, the Palanatai Vilakkam of Tirumalicai Anna Ayyangar, no earlier than the nineteenth century.
- What is the Sri Yantra? Lineages
Anna Golovkova calls the Vamakeshvarimata the earliest extant tantra on the worship of the goddess Tripurasundari, works across the tenth to the fourteenth centuries, and dates the text itself to the early elev…
- Not This, Not This Treatise
The outermost is the annamaya kosha , the sheath made of food, anna , which is to say the physical body, built of what we eat and returning to the earth that food comes from.
- The Golagi matha: the monastery that survives only in its own praise Lineages
ārabhya viprān anivāritānāṃ caṇḍāla-paryantam upāgatānām … anna-pradānāya ca sarvakālam akalpayad rājagurur mahātmā …and for the giving of food, at all times, to those who have come and are not turned away, beg…