auspiciousness


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I29, 29A unpacks in detail a variety of prescribed behaviors for optimizing a married woman's auspiciousness and capacity to bear the most important kind of fruit, namely the sons who will save her husband from the eternal death of preta-hood.
The fructification of the tale of a tree: the Parijataharana in the Harivamsa and its appendices
One probably should not make much of another 1976 publication that served to indicate the auspiciousness of the moment.
Rule, Victoria: an America by another name
In the mood of the New Year and for the sake of auspiciousness, shopkeepers usually grasped the Caishen slip in haste, and threw a few copper coins to the beggar.
BECOMING URBAN: MENDICANCY AND VAGRANTS IN MODERN SHANGHAI
Universally popular as the god of auspiciousness and good fortune, images of Ganesha are found throughout Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain art.
Elephant composite
In a passage of rather contrived auspiciousness that refers back to the scene in Portrait, for example, Joyce admonishes him to have confidence in his own powers: "The English language / belongs to us.
Tracing Seamus Heaney
Gold has traditionally been a popular investment in China, where the color yellow signifies royalty and auspiciousness.
Chinese Gold Demand Has NACF CEO Bullish on New JV's Prospects
The position of the motif at the entrance of the shrine, thereby indicating its auspiciousness and emblematic of a purna-ghata or full vase and hence of life (praana) itself would have been perhaps more relevant and enlightening.
Three Indian and Himalayan art books from Britain
com, the auspiciousness of the timing of this launch, and the seamlessness of the process for international customers.
Overstock.com Opens Door to International Consumers
Ethical behavior serves as a corrective to address pass wrongs and as a way of forging new pathways in the present to guarantee future states of auspiciousness.
Asceticism and the environment
The very first auspiciousness that the Buddha pointed out to us was not to keep fool as our friend.
Life before death
For their appearance at CragRats, the dancers will be performing their fascinating Mangalamplay, using traditional dancing, storytelling and music to bring "that feeling of auspiciousness when everything is right in your world - you can achieve anything and are at peace with everyone".
Of dance and dinner
This chapter neatly summarizes views on caste, varna and jat, purity, auspiciousness and marginality and how these concepts are embedded in the anthropology of the Hindu caste system in Nepal.
Cameroon, Mary M. 1998. On the Edge of the Auspicious Gender and Caste in Nepal

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