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Vikalaratri, վٰī: 2 definitions

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Vikalaratri means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

In Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

: archive.org: The Indian Buddhist Iconography

Vikālarātri (विकालरात्र�) is one of the twenty-four Goddesses surrounding ܻ󲹰첹 in the ܻ󲹰첹ṇḍ, according to the 5th-century 󲹲Բ (a collection of 󲹲Բ texts that contain detailed instructions for rituals).—ܻ󲹰첹� refers to one of the various emanations of ṣoⲹ and the 󲹲Բ says that when Heruka is embraced by Citrasenā he gets the name of ܻ󲹰첹.—Vikālarātri stands in the north-west of the outermost circle. She has a blue colour two arms, one face, ornaments of bones, brown hair rising upwards but no garlands of heads. She carries the in the left and the kartri in the right, and dances in the 󲹱貹ⲹṅk attitude.

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Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (Բ) are collected indepently.

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Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

[«𱹾dzܲ Ա»] � Vikalaratri in Sanskrit glossary
: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

վٰī (विकालरात्री).—name of a goddess: 󲹲Բ 502.11.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम� (ṃsṛt), 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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