{"id":47591,"date":"2025-05-15T12:28:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T06:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=47591"},"modified":"2025-05-29T13:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:00:13","slug":"agamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/agamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Agamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Agamas Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Supreme Court recently requested a committee formed by the Madras High Court to identify Agamic temples as against non-Agamic temples in Tamil Nadu in three months.<\/p>\n<h2>About Agamas<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Agamas are a\u00a0<strong>collection of scriptures of Hindu devotional schools.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The term\u00a0<strong>literally means tradition or &#8220;that which has come down<\/strong>&#8220;, and the Agama texts\u00a0<strong>describe cosmology, epistemology, philosophical doctrines, precepts on meditation\u00a0<\/strong>and practices, four kinds of\u00a0<strong>yoga, mantras, temple construction, deity worship, and ways to attain sixfold desires.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>origin\u00a0<\/strong>and chronology of Agamas is\u00a0<strong>unclear<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>3 main branches<\/strong>\u00a0of Agama texts are\u00a0<strong>Shaivism\u00a0<\/strong>(of Lord Shiva),\u00a0<strong>Vaishnavism\u00a0<\/strong>(of Lord Vishnu), and\u00a0<strong>Shaktism\u00a0<\/strong>(of Adi Shakti).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Agamic traditions are\u00a0<strong>sometimes called Tantrism,<\/strong>\u00a0although the term &#8220;Tantra&#8221; is usually used specifically to refer to Shakta Agamas.<\/li>\n<li>The Agamas\u00a0<strong>do not derive their authority from the Vedas,<\/strong>\u00a0but are\u00a0<strong>not antagonistic to them<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They are\u00a0<strong>all Vedic in spirit and character.\u00a0<\/strong>That is the reason why they are regarded as authoritative.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Many South Indian temples<\/strong>, especially in Tamil Nadu,\u00a0<strong>follow Agamic traditions for daily rituals and festivals.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Agamas FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0What are the Agamas primarily known for?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Scriptures of Hindu devotional schools<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0How do Agamas relate to the Vedas?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0They do not derive authority from the Vedas but are in harmony with them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong>\u00a0In which region of India are Agamic traditions especially followed in temple rituals?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0South India (especially Tamil Nadu)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/supreme-court-requests-panel-to-identify-agamic-temples-in-tamil-nadu\/article69574604.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Agamas are sacred scriptures of Hindu devotional schools, detailing rituals, temple architecture, and spiritual practices across various traditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":47595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[454,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-47591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-agamas","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}