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parampara

परम्परा paramparā

An unbroken succession: the line of guru and disciple through which a sampradaya is transmitted, one after another, back to its founder or to God.

Where this term appears

  • What is a Guru? Lineages

    He stands in a parampara , a chain of transmission passed hand to hand, and he can name his own guru , and that guru 's guru , back up the line.

  • What is a Sampradaya? Philosophy

    Its close companion is parampara , which means an unbroken succession, one after another after another, a line of teachers stretching back without a gap.

  • How the Vedas Were Preserved History

    It ran on people, and on a discipline of transmission the tradition calls guru-shishya parampara — the unbroken succession from teacher to student.

  • Four in the Morning Treatise

    …he institutional mathas, the Tamil Siddha adheenams, the Bhaskararaya parampara at Kadi and Bhaskararajapuram, the Kerala Shakta lineages at Meppad, the Devipuram lineage in Andhra and New York, the household i…

  • The Caste And Gender Question Treatise

    … a Brahmin householder, his disciple Umanandanatha was a Brahmin, the parampara has been transmitted through Brahmin households since the 18th century.

  • The Continuity Question Treatise

    …nama , having received Saubhagya-Kadi diksha through the Bhaskararaya parampara two generations after the master’s own lifetime.

  • The Dispute Frame Treatise

    The first is within the Bhaskararaya parampara — the Saubhagya-Kadi line Volume 4’s Chapter 4 walked.

  • The Door Treatise

    This is what Bhaskararaya’s parampara, through Umanandanatha, has been transmitting since the early 18th century as the standard typology of Sri Vidya diksha.

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