prashna
प्रश्न praśna'Question' - horary astrology, in which a chart is cast for the moment a question is asked rather than for a birth. Not to be confused with the Prashna Upanishad.
Where this term appears
- What is Jyotisha? Scriptures
…chart: muhurta , the choosing of an auspicious moment for an act, and prashna , horary, which reads the chart of the moment a question is asked rather than the moment a person was born.
- What are the Upanishads? Scriptures
The list typically runs: Isha , Kena , Katha , Prashna , Mundaka , Mandukya , Taittiriya , Aitareya , Chandogya , Brihadaranyaka , and Shvetashvatara , with the Kaushitaki and Maitri often added to round out th…
- Ten names in one breath Treatise
…ूक्यतित्तिरिः । ऐतरेयं च छान्दोग्यं बृहदारण्यकं तथा ॥ isha-kena-katha-prashna-munda-mandukya-tittirih aitareyam cha chandogyam brihadaranyakam tatha The Isha, Kena, Katha, Prashna, Mundaka, Mandukya, Taittiriya…
- The Aitareya Upanishad: the Self that entered through the skull Treatise
The Prashna Upanishad had crowned breath as chief of the faculties; the Aitareya dethrones it, and puts the Self in its place.
- The Mandukya Upanishad: twelve verses, four states, one sound Treatise
…e beginning of the common era," ascribed, like its two neighbours the Prashna and the Mundaka, to the Atharva Veda, with the same caveat attached that Atharvan ascriptions are somewhat suspect.
- The Mundaka Upanishad: two birds, and the lower knowledge Treatise
…urns the whole treatise, the one that supplies the doorstep scene the Prashna would later dramatise as a classroom: "Let a Brahmana, after he has examined all these worlds which are gained by works, acquire fre…
- The Prashna Upanishad: six questions, one year of waiting Treatise
…the firewood that marks a student presenting himself for instruction (Prashna 1.1, tr.
- The Thirteen and the Hundred Treatise
…atha , Isha , Mundaka , and Shvetashvatara ; and the late short texts Prashna , Mandukya , and Maitri .