kanda

The Sanskrit text gives all of this in roughly 24,000 verses, the units called shlokas , in its commonly transmitted form. The poem organises that mass into seven books, called kandas .

The nadis are said to spring from a common root called the kanda , a bulb low in the pelvis.

In the forty-fifth canto of the Ramayana 's Bala Kanda, Vishvamitra tells Rama the story of the churning of the ocean.

The first is ritual action, karma-kanda , the performance of sacrifice and rite.

… vast systematising Rasaratna-samuccaya , and the South Indian Ananda-kanda build out a whole technical literature: how to purify mercury through a long sequence of operations, how to "kill" or fix its volatili…

The first is the karma-kanda , the "action portion": the hymns and the elaborate ritual manuals, the Samhitas and Brahmanas, which are concerned with what to do , the sacrifices and rites that sustain the order…

Here Vijayadashami means the day Rama killed Ravana, the event narrated in the Yuddha Kanda , the war book of Valmiki's Ramayana .

…rns to the deeds — the events of the Ramayana , above all the Sundara Kanda , that every listener already knows: the saving of Lakshmana, Rama's embrace, the leap across the sea with Sita's ring, and, in verse …