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and Namdev. The Sanskrit word nātha नाथ literally means "lord, protector, master". The related Sanskrit term Adi Natha means first or original Lord, and

black wool rope. A local custom in Chamba was to give the Jogi of the Natha sect a cotton maikhal sheet to wear over the head during the Nuwala ceremony

Bariapara) and some 3 miles west of the khetlal road is a settlement of the Natha sect of Saiva sannyasis, known as Yogir-bhavan, forming the eastern section

Eknath (IAST: Eka-nātha, Marathi pronunciation: [eknath]) (1533–1599), pronunciationwas an Indian Hindu Vaishnava saint, philosopher and poet. He was

great vimāna Aparijita. The tīrthaṃkara-s Abhinandana (4th) and Sumati-nātha (5th) both traveled through the sky in the "Jayanta-vimāna", namely the

obtained the grace of Kali. The shrine is dedicated to a leader of the Natha sect of Shaivism- Matsyendranath. It is also venerated by Muslims. Excavations

recent times, some western-educated Theravādins have attempted to identify Nātha with Maitreya Bodhisattva; however, traditions and basic iconography (including

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Wisdom" Maitreya-nātha, the reputed co-author of a number of Yogacara Buddhist treatises Maitreya Great Tao, a Yiguandao splinter sect founded by Wang

Natha by the time of the ninth Sikh guru, Tegh Bahadur. Sangat Shutrashasi was a temple that belonged to the Suthrashahi sub-sect of the Udasi sect which