skanda
IPA: skˈændʌ
Root Word: Skanda
noun
- (Buddhism) a bodhisattva in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism
- (Hinduism) epithet of Kartikeya, the Hindu god of war.
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Examples of "skanda" in Sentences
- So you get these wraithike scraps of torn-up identity, strands of skanda.
- He manifested in the form of a huge pillar of fire Anala-skanda whose beginning and end could not be seen.
- But it's a multiple perspective agency, skanda strands of memory from multiple origins -- hence the shift from third person to first-person plural.
- On this day manifested the great & also the first ever effulgent (Jyotirmaya) form (Anala-skanda or a pillar of fire) of Lord Shiva in front of Lord Vishnu & Brahmaji.
- And you get other skanda strands which have attached themselves to a semblance of form but remain, to all intents and purposes, lacking in that agency, bereft of any real consciousness; those are the shabtis.
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