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DAMAYANTI
A legendary princess whose story is told in Mahabharata. She chose her own husband, King Nala, who later lost both her and his kingdom at a gambling tournament. They were reunited and regained there many years of separation. DANDAKYA King of the Bhojas, a people whose country lay to the south of the Vindhya mountains. While out hunting he saw a Brahmin girl in the forest and, overcome by lust, raped her. Her father laid a curse upon him and destroyed him, his family and every living thing in his kingdom under a thick rain of dust. DASA Major planetary period DATTAKA The sage who was approached by Virasena, chief of the courtesans of Pataliputra, to lecture them on the sixth part of Babhravya’s work. He was said to have been turned into a woman after polluting a rite of Shiva and to have experienced lovemaking with both sexes. A fragmentary metrical resume of his work has apparently recently been unearthed. DEVAS Gods DHANURASANA Bow DHANURASANA Shooting Bow DHANUS Sagittarius DHARANA Concentration DHARMA Career, honor or status DHARMA. Eternal principles of righteousness that uphold all creation; man’s inherent duty to live in harmony with these principles. See also Sanatan Dharma. DHAUTI A kriya for cleansing the stomach, by swallowing a cloth DHYANA Meditation DIKSHA. Spiritual initiation; from the Sanskrit verb-root diksh, to dedicate oneself. See also disciple and Kriya Yoga. DISCIPLE. A spiritual aspirant who comes to a guru-seeking introduction to God, and to his end establishes an eternal spiritual relationship with the guru. In Self-Realization Fellowship, the guru-disciple relationship is established by diksha, initiation, in Kriya Yoga. DIVINE MOTHER. The aspect of God that is active in creation; the shakti, or power, of the Transcendent Creator. Other terms for this aspect of Divinity are Aum, Shakti, Holy Ghost, Cosmic Intelligent Vibration, Nature of Prakriti. Also, the personal aspect of God embodies the love and compassionate qualities of a mother. DRAUPADI The heroine of the Mahabharata and polyandrous wife to the five Pandava brothers. Arjuna won her in an archery contest in which he defeated the assembled kings and princes of India. It was during the exile of the Pandavas that she was insulted by Kichaka. DREKKANA decanate, 1/3 of a sign DRISHTI Planetary aspect DURGA The Goddess as the demon-slayer; related to Rahu DUSHTANAS Difficult houses –6,8 & 12 DUSHYANTA The King who. While out hunting, fell in love with Shakuntala, the daughter of the sage Kanva, and married her according to the Gandharva rite. The story of their love affair is the subject of Kalidasa’s greatest play, the Abhijnana Shakuntala. DVISVABHAVA RASIS Dual-natured or mutable signs 
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