Your Trail:
Glossary
- Namaskāra-mantra
- Type of termDefinition
- TermNamaskāra-mantra
- Alternative TermsNamaskar mantra, Namaskara mantra, Navakāramantra, Navakaramantra, Navakāra-mantra, Navakar mantra, Navakār-mantra, Navakarmantra, Navkār-mantra, Navkar-mantra, Navkārmantra, Navkarmantra, Navkar mantra, Navkarmantra, Namokar mantra, Namokarmantra, Pañca-namaskāra-mantra
- Replaced with-
- Short Description-
- Long Description
Sanskrit for 'homage formula', the Namaskāra-mantra is the fundamental religious formula of the Jains. A daily prayer always recited in the original Prākrit, it pays homage to the supreme beings or five types of holy being:
- arhat - enlightened teacher
- siddha - liberated soul
- ācārya - mendicant leader
- upādhyāya - preceptor or teacher
- sādhu - mendicant
Note that chanting the mantra is not praying for something, material or otherwise. Also known as the Pañca-namaskāra-mantra or 'Fivefold Homage mantra', it is also called the Navakāra-mantra or Navkār-mantra in modern Indian languages.
- Term Language-
- A to Z Index
- Sitemap
- Pronunciation
- Accessibility
- Privacy
- Copyright
- © 2009–2019 Institute of JainologyInstitute of Jainology
http://www.jainpedia.org/resources/glossary.html?cHash=c72f2bcef252b572e8834998bb4d4c7e&tx_contagged%5Bsource%5D=default&tx_contagged%5Buid%5D=200 - All text is © JAINpedia / Institute of Jainology 2019 under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 licence The Jain universe online at www.jainpedia.org
Unless images are explicitly stated as either public domain or licensed under a Creative Commons licence, all images are copyrighted. See individual images for details of copyright.
Unless images are explicitly stated as either public domain or licensed under a Creative Commons licence, all images are copyrighted. See individual images for details of copyright.