Definition of Sraddha

1. sradha [n -S] - See also: sradha

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sraddha

squopped
squopping
squops
squoyle
squoyles
squoze
sqush
squshed
squshes
squshing
squush
squushed
squushes
squushing
sr.
sraddha (current term)
sraddhas
sradha
sradhas
srang
sravya
srawls
src
src-family kinases
src-related intestinal kinase
src homology domains
srebrodolskite
sri
srilankite
sriracha

Literary usage of Sraddha

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of India from the Earliest Ages by James Talboys Wheeler (1869)
"The sraddha, or feast of the dead, was thus in «»TORY OF its earliest form a ... 2nd, The Monthly sraddha, to be performed in propitiation of the more ..."

2. The Rites of the Twice-born by Sinclair Stevenson (1920)
"For instance, no matter on what actual date a ' fortu- / nate' woman died, her Mahalaya sraddha is performed on the ninth of the fortnight, and in actual ..."

3. Occult Science in India and Among the Ancients: With an Account of Their by Louis Jacolliot (1901)
"The Brahmin who has been invited to the sraddha of the spirit of the deceased should be entire master of his senses. He should not read the sacred ..."

4. Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit by David Edwin Pingree (1970)
"(sraddha). Baroda 8703. 61 ff. and 9ff. ... (sraddha). BORI 251 of 1887/91. BORI 355 of 1891/95. ... The samskara and sraddha kandas were edited by De- ..."

5. A Classical Dictionary of India: Illustrative of the Mythology, Philosophy by John Garrett (1871)
"Obsequies—See sraddha. Ocean—Churning of. See Amrita. Odra—The ancient name of Orissa. ... sraddha ..."

6. Natives of Northern India by William Crooke (1907)
"The sraddha. Rites of the Mohammedans. THE chief methods of disposal of the dead are cremation and earth burial, the former prevailing among all the tribes ..."

7. Occult Science in India and Among the Ancients: With an Account of Their by Louis Jacolliot (1901)
"The Brahmin who has been invited to the sraddha of the spirit of the deceased should be entire master of his senses. He should not read the sacred ..."

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