purva
पूर्व pūrvaEast; also before, prior, or in front. In Sanskrit the same word names the east and the front, so to face east is to face forward, and it is along this direction that a temple's brahmasutra is most often laid.
Where this term appears
- Why do so many temples face east? Temples
In Sanskrit, the word for east is purva , and purva also means "before," "prior," "in front." The word for west, pashchima , likewise means "behind," "the back," "the last." The other common name for east, prac…
- The 64 Śākta Tantras Lineages
The scheme is the āmnāya , the "transmission," and it maps the streams onto the faces of Shiva and the points of the compass: pūrva east, dakṣiṇa south, paścima west, uttara north, and ūrdhva above.
- The Four Ashramas: the stages of life Essentials
Is the point of a religious life to do the rites, or to leave them? The ritualists of the Purva Mimamsa school defended action.
- The Gayatri Mantra Worship
Jaimini argues it in the Purva Mimamsa Sutra at 6.1.25 to 38, the Apashudradhikarana ; Shankara argues the parallel case for Vedanta on Brahma Sutra 1.3.34 to 38.
- The Three Paths to Liberation: Karma, Bhakti and Jnana Essentials
The whole school of Purva Mimamsa grew up to interpret this portion, reading the Veda essentially as a book of commands to act.
- What Are the Six Darshanas? Philosophy
Yoga , the practical discipline that puts Samkhya's map to use. Purva Mimamsa , the inquiry into Vedic ritual and duty.
- What is Mimamsa? Philosophy
Its full name is Purva Mimamsa , the earlier inquiry, paired with the later inquiry, Vedanta.
- What is Vedanta? Philosophy
Vedanta, also called Uttara Mimamsa, is the darshana grounded in the *prasthana-traya*: the principal Upanishads, the Brahma Sutra of Badarayana, and the Bhagavad…