kumbha
कुम्भ kumbhaA pot or pitcher; the pot of nectar (amrita) that gives the Kumbh Mela its name.
Where this term appears
- The Kumbh Mela Temples
The word kumbha means "pot" or "pitcher." A mela is a fair or a gathering.
- Pranayama: Working with the Breath Yoga
Rechaka is exhalation, the emptying. Between them sits kumbhaka , retention, from kumbha , a pot.
- What is Jyotisha? Scriptures
…arriage prospects narrowed, particularly for women, and the remedy of kumbha vivaha , a symbolic marriage to a clay pot or a banana tree, performed to absorb the flaw before the real wedding.
- Aniconic Forms: Shaligrama and Yantra Deities
The purna-kumbha , a plain pot filled with water and topped with mango leaves and a coconut, is installed and honoured as the deity at the threshold of countless rites.
- Why is a coconut broken in Hindu ceremonies? Journal
Whole and unbroken, set on the mouth of a pot filled with water and crowned with mango leaves, it becomes the purna-kumbha or kalasha , the vessel of fullness, and in that form it is not smashed at all.
- Devipuram And The Open-Access Model Treatise
The principal temple, Sahasrakshi Meru Temple , was constructed between 1985 and 1994, with the Kumbha Abhisheka (consecration) ceremony in 1994.
- The Pot of Nectar Treatise
… at last the physician of the gods rising from the waters bearing the kumbha , the pot, the nectar of immortality in his hands.