Ekadashimahatmya, Ekādaśīmāhātmya, Ekadashi-mahatmya: 2 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Ekādaśīmāhātmya can be transliterated into English as Ekadasimahatmya or Ekadashimahatmya, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Hinduism
Pancaratra (worship of Nārāyaṇa)
Source: archive.org: Catalogue of Pancaratra Agama TextsEkādaśīmāhātmya (एकादशीमाहात्म्य) (lit. “eulogy of ekādaśī-observances”) is the name of chapter 5 of the (fourth section of the) Bṛhadbrahmasaṃhitā: a Pāñcarātra text containing over 4600 Sanskrit verses dealing primarily with Vaiṣṇava theology and practical matters concerning the Śrī-Vaiṣṇava community but also discussing aspects of Viśiṣṭādvaita philosophy.
Description of the chapter [ekādaśīmāhātmya]: Brahmā proposes to tell the sages the virtues of observing the ekādaśī vows (1). He relates what the Lord once told Śrī about japa, vrata, tapas, and the samāśraya appropriate for the ekādaśi commemorations—the japa being of the aṣṭākṣara-mantra, the vrata being the one designated for ekādaśī day, the tapas being happiness, and the samāśraya being the resort to Lakṣmī Herself (2-15). The ekādaśī-vrata is for three days, and the details of this vrata are given along with some of the rewards that accrue to those who observe the various parts on each of the three days throughout his life (16-135). (It may be noted that a good deal of attention and interest concentrates also upon dvādaśī—day observances in this recital-particularly those dvādaśī days connected with śayana etc., the śayanī, bodhinī, parivartinī and the mārgaśīrṣa Śukla Ekādaśī sacred to Varāha-incarnation. (75ff.)].
Pancaratra (पाञ्चरात्र, pāñcarātra) represents a tradition of Hinduism where Narayana is revered and worshipped. Closeley related to Vaishnavism, the Pancaratra literature includes various Agamas and tantras incorporating many Vaishnava philosophies.
Languages of India and abroad
Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum1) Ekādaśīmāhātmya (एकादशीमाहात्म्य) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—L. 2579. B. 2, 38. Ben. 51. Kāṭm. 1. Pheh. 4. Oppert. 2779. 3593. 5917. Ii, 47.
—from Brahmavaivartapurāṇa. W. p. 340. K. 22.
—from Skandapurāṇa. Burnell. 195^b.
—by Acyutakṛṣṇānanda. Rice. 82.
2) Ekādaśīmāhātmya (एकादशीमाहात्म्य):—read Ii, 46.
3) Ekādaśīmāhātmya (एकादशीमाहात्म्य):—from several Purāṇa. Fl. 57.
4) Ekādaśīmāhātmya (एकादशीमाहात्म्य):—Ulwar 768.
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
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Partial matches: Ekadashi, Mahatmya.
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