divya
दिव्य divyaThe 'divine'; in tantra the highest temperament of practitioner, for whom worship is wholly internal and spontaneous.
Where this term appears
- The Kularnava Tantra: The Kaula Path and the True Guru Lineages
…ey belong only to the disciplined vira , and dissolve, for the rarest divya or "divine" practitioner, into something wholly inward.
- The Pāñcarātra Saṃhitās Lineages
Their four thousand Tamil verses, the Nālāyira Divya Prabandham , became for their tradition a Tamil Veda, sung in the temples beside the Sanskrit, and they mapped a sacred geography of a hundred and eight divy…
- What is Vaishnavism? Lineages
Their hymns were gathered into a corpus of four thousand stanzas, the Nalayira Divya Prabandham , which the southern tradition reveres as a Tamil Veda.
- Shruti and Smriti: what counts as Hindu scripture? Scriptures
The collection, the Nalayira Divya Prabandham , was compiled in its present form by the teacher Nathamuni around the ninth or tenth century.
- The Bhakti Movement History
Their collected Vaishnava hymns came to be called the Nalayira Divya Prabandham , the "Four Thousand Divine Compositions," and the tradition honoured them with a startling title: the Tamil Veda.
- The Bhakti Saints Philosophy
The Alvars' four thousand verses, gathered as the Divya Prabandham , were called the Tamil Veda, set beside the Sanskrit Veda as equal.
- The Four Streams of Hinduism Essentials
In the Tamil south there is a further treasure, the hymns of the Alvars , twelve poet-saints of the sixth to ninth centuries whose Divya Prabandham is revered as a Tamil Veda.
- Tirupati: The Temple of Venkateshwara Temples
Tirumala is one of the 108 Divya Desam s, the holy abodes of Vishnu celebrated in the songs of the Alvars .