matha
मठ mathaA Hindu monastery or monastic establishment, headed by an acharya and anchoring a sampradaya; often a centre for the copying and custody of manuscripts, and a home for those in sannyasa.
Where this term appears
- The Char Dham Temples
The four mathas, which are not the four dhams Now the part that trips almost everyone.
- Vijayanagara: The Empire Built to Hold the Line History
Vidyaranya became head of the Sringeri matha only decades later, and his earliest firm mention comes around 1375, well after the founding.
- What is a Sampradaya? Philosophy
The acharya and the matha A lineage of individuals needs something to anchor it across the centuries, and the tradition supplies two things.
- What is Advaita Vedanta? Philosophy
…y Mandana's own learned wife, Ubhaya Bharati; of the founding of four mathas , monastic seats at Sringeri in the south, Dwaraka in the west, Puri in the east, and Joshimath in the north, each headed to this day…
- Who Was Adi Shankara? Philosophy
…s that he ringed the subcontinent with four monasteries, the cardinal mathas at Sringeri in the south, Dwaraka in the west, Puri in the east and Jyotirmath in the north, each placed in the charge of a chief dis…
- Leaf and Bark Treatise
Temples held collections; so did the matha , the monastic establishment, the seat of a teaching lineage.
- The Dashanami Order Philosophy
…g the order's monasteries according to traditional schemes, with each matha claiming particular names, though the exact arrangement varies between sources and should be held as the usual pattern rather than a f…
- Who Was Madhva? Philosophy
He established the worship of Krishna at Udupi and, around it, the Ashta Matha , the eight monasteries he is traditionally said to have founded, each headed by a swami in his line.