LINGAYAT

Meaning of LINGAYAT in English

[Lin.ga.yat] n [Kannada lingayata] (1901): a member of a Saiva sect of southern India marked by wearing of the lingam and characterized by denial of caste distinctions

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LINGAYAT — noun Etymology: Kannada lingāyata Date: 1901 a member of a Saiva sect of southern India marked by wearing of the …
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LINGAYAT — Member of a Hindu sect that worships Shiva as the only deity. It has a wide following in southern India. …
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LINGAYAT — noun also lin·ga·yit liŋˈgäyə̇t ( -s ) Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: Kanarese liṅgāyata, from Sanskrit liṅga : a member of …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
LINGAYAT — /ling gah"yit/ , n. Hinduism. a member of the Lingayata cult. [ 1665-75; lingayata; see LINGA ]
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LINGAYAT — noun Etymology: Kannada lingāyata Date: 1901 : a member of a Saiva sect of southern India marked by wearing of …
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LINGAYAT — also called Virasaiva member of a Hindu sect with a wide following in South India that worships Siva as the …
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LINGAYAT — Member of a Hindu sect that worships Shiva as the only deity. It has a wide following in southern India. …
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LINGAYAT — Pronunciation: li ŋ - ' gä-y ə t Function: noun Etymology: Kannada ling ā yata Date: 1901 : a member …
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KALACURI DYNASTY — or Kalachuri dynasty Any of several dynasties in Indian history. Apart from the dynastic name and perhaps a belief in …
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LINGAYIT — noun see lingayat
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SAIVISM — also spelled Shaivism cult of the Indian god Siva, with Vaisnavism and Saktism, one of the three principal forms of …
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MAHA-SIVARATRI — (Sanskrit: Great Night of Siva), the most important sectarian festival of the year for devotees of the Hindu god Siva. …
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KANNADA LITERATURE — also spelled Kannada, also called Kanarese, the literature written in Kannada, which, like the other languages of South India, is …
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KALACURI DYNASTY — any of several dynasties in Indian history, disparately placed in time and space. Apart from the dynastic name and perhaps …
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BASAVA — flourished 12th century, , South India Hindu religious reformer, teacher, theologian, and administrator of the royal treasury of the Calukya …
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BADAGA — any member of the largest tribal group living in the N ilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. …
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KALACURI DYNASTY — or Kalachuri dynasty Any of several dynasties in Indian history. Apart from the dynastic name and perhaps a belief in …
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DENOMINATION — Synonyms and related words : Amish, Anglicanism, Anglo-Catholicism, Arianism, Athanasianism, Boehmenism, Calvinism, Catholicism, Christian Science, Confucianism, Congregationalism, Conservative Judaism, Eleusinianism, …
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