sangam
सङ्गम sangamA confluence of rivers, held especially sacred, such as the Triveni Sangam at Prayagraj.
Where this term appears
- The Kumbh Mela Temples
The first is Prayagraj (long known as Allahabad), at the Triveni Sangam , the meeting of three rivers.
- What is Tirtha? Pilgrimage in Hindu Life Temples
Many of the most famous tirtha -sites sit on a sangam , a confluence where two or more rivers meet.
- Tirupati: The Temple of Venkateshwara Temples
You will read that the temple was constructed from around 300 CE, or that its origins reach back to the Tamil Sangam age around 300 BCE.
- Sarasvati: The River That Vanished History
At Prayag , today's Prayagraj, pilgrims bathe at the Triveni Sangam , the meeting of three rivers, where the brown Ganga and the green Yamuna join a third that no eye can see.
- The Chola Age and the Temple as Institution History
They are named already in the Sangam poems of the early centuries of the Common Era, alongside the Cheras and the Pandyas, as one of the three crowned kings of the Tamil land.
- The Tamil Stream: Sangam, Bhakti, and the Temple South History
The oldest voice in the language Long before the temples, the Tamil country was already speaking, in a literature we call Sangam , after the legendary academies of poets said to have met at Madurai.
- Who is Ganga? Deities
At Prayag she meets the Yamuna and the invisible, remembered Sarasvati at the confluence called the Sangam, the setting of the Kumbh Mela, the largest human gathering in the world.
- Who is Murugan? Deities
He appears in the Sangam poetry of the first centuries of the Common Era as Seyon , "the Red One," the god of the hills and of war and of the ecstatic dance, and the Tirumurukarruppatai , an early poem that ser…