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Definition of Mandalas
1. mandala [n] - See also: mandala
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mandalas
Literary usage of Mandalas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature So Far as it Illustrates the by Friedrich Max Müller (1859)
"of the mandalas, was the result of a previous agreement, and that the mandalas
... Another indication of the systematic arrangement of the mandalas ..."
2. Kamandakiya Nitisara: Or, The Elements of Polity, in English by Kāmandaki (1896)
"... namely, minister &c., of each these six kings, taken together, compose what
persons conversant with the formation of mandalas designate as the Mandala ..."
3. The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, with Historical Surveys by Charles F Horne (1917)
"They have placed his hymns first in each of the ten mandalas. After the first
and oldest Mandala, the Rig presents seven mandalas containing the hymns ..."
4. Dancing with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Catechism by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (2003)
"An upanishad is a collection of one, two or three mandalas. 3. The thirty-one
chapters, called mandalas, each containing five slokas, may be studied one ..."
5. A Short History of Indian Literature by Ernest Philip Horrwitz (1907)
"... mandalas or cycles of song, each sacred round containing, on an average, a
hundred hymns. In a political sense, mandalas are arrondissements or shires. ..."
6. The Ruling Races of Prehistoric Times in India, Southwestern Asia, and by James Francis Katherinus Hewitt (1894)
"... the same number of times which they are spoken of in the hymns of the second,
third, fourth, fifth, seventh, and eighth mandalas taken together.4 In ..."
7. Architectural Bodies by Ad Graafland, Michael Speaks (1996)
"The first circles, also called mandalas, are as yet hardly distinguishable from the
... The mandalas, which are often connected with order and harmony, ..."
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