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skandha

स्कन्ध skandha

A 'book' or canto; the Bhagavata Purana is arranged in twelve skandhas.

Where this term appears

  • The Book of the Lord Treatise

    The teaching of devotion The Bhagavata Purana , also called the Srimad Bhagavatam , the beautiful book of the Lord, runs to twelve books, the skandhas , and around eighteen thousand verses.

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