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Definition of Agamas
1. agama [n] - See also: agama
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agamas
Literary usage of Agamas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dancing With Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Catechism by Himalayan Academy, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, Master Subramuniya (2003)
"... and Vaishnavism each exalts its own array of agamas, many over zooo years old.
... Most agamas are of four pants, ..."
2. An Outline of the Religious Literature of India by John Nicol Farquhar (1920)
"The rise of the, agamas' is the chief literary event in the history of ...
whose date is not far removed from AD 900, all refer to the agamas, ..."
3. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The agamas have always two pairs of well-developed limb«. ... The majority of
the ground-agamas, and the most common species of the plains, deserts or rocky ..."
4. Merging with Śiva: Hinduism's Contemporary Metaphysics = Śiva Sāyujy by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, Subramuniya, Master Subramuniya (2002)
"The agamas themselves express that they are entirely consistent with the ...
They are based firmly on the Vedas and aiva agamas, and thus have much in ..."
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