doha
दोहा dohāA rhyming couplet of two lines; two dohas open the Hanuman Chalisa and one closes it.
Where this term appears
- What is the Hanuman Chalisa? Worship
Two dohas (couplets, two lines each) open it, like a door and its frame.
- A genre that was always bilingual Treatise
And Kabīr, at the turn of the fifteenth century, names the eighty-four siddhas in his dohās and names Gorakh and Bharthari among them, in the Nāgarī Pracāriṇī edition.
- Śavaripa the hunter Treatise
A Buddhist adept named Śabara stands fifth on the Tibetan list of the eighty-four Mahāsiddhas, the perfected ones, four places down the roll from the founder of the…
- The name on everybody's lips Treatise
Kabīr reaches for the eighty-four Siddhas in his dohās and names Gorakh and Bharthari, which Bagchi cites to the Nāgarī Pracāriṇī edition of the Kabīr-granthāvalī .
- The power in the phoneme Treatise
In the Tantric traditions a mantra is a constructed sonic object with named parts, transmitted through initiation from a living teacher and kept private afterwards.…
- The verse that was never about mantras Treatise
…icārikā of Bābā Jānakīdās of Ayodhyā, a ṭīkā on the first forty-three dohās of the Bālkāṇḍ ; the Mānas-mārtaṇḍa of Bābā Jānakīśaraṇ, a tilak over the same span; the Mānas Abhiprāya-dīpak of Gurusahāylāl; the Mā…
- Vācā, phuro, ājñā Treatise
Two of the three words counted here are features of the printed popular Śābara corpus, and the third is a feature of one book. *Vācā*, speech, and *phuro*, a verb…