Crossword-Solution: SIVAISM
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Hint 1 meaning
The apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the
sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the
daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night.
Hint 2 anagram
CAR
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Sentences with SIVAISM (5)
This frantic Sivaism is developed from the conception which makes the world the product of blind will, the principle of everything.
For one the religious life of India is fundamentally monotheistic and Vishnuite: for another philosophic Sivaism is its crown and quintessence: a third maintains with equal truth that all forms of Hinduism are tantric.
Thus south Indian religion is characterized when we first know it by its emotional tone and it resulted in the mediaeval Sivaism of the Tamil country.
But though Sivaism has undergone fewer changes and produced fewer great names, it must not be thought of as lifeless or decadent.
Sivaism is for the most part _harshly ascetic_, as regards its office-bearers and orthodox followers; yet all faiths give way at certain solar periods, and all Hindoo sects are as bad as Romans at the spring 'hilaria or carnival,' the more so if Ceres or Kybele is propitious, and more apparently so in countries where writings have not yet supplanted pictures.
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Appears in: WSJ.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2017).