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- noun Alternative form of
Saivite .
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Both Sivaite and Vishnuite lay great stress on the frequent recital of the numerous names of their respective supreme gods, and to facilitate this piety, each carries with him, often about his neck, a rosary, varying in material and the number of beads according as it is dedicated to Siva or
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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The Sivaite takes his white stone pebble, the conventional phallic emblem which he always carries with him, and while muttering his mantra, sprinkles it with water and applies to it cooling Bilva leaves.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Sivaite element predominant but the Buddhist figures are concerned less with the veneration of the Buddha than with accessory mythology.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896
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Hindu and Mohammedan ideas are clearly blended, but it may be that the theology of Râmânuja and Madhva, of the Lingayats and Sivaite sects of the south, owes something to Islam.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896
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Not far from Boroboedoer and apparently of about the same age is the Sivaite temple of Banon, and the great temple group of Prambanam is close to Kalasan and to the other Buddhist shrines mentioned above.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896
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The cultus was probably similar to what may be seen in the Sivaite temples of India to-day.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896
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It is true that Buddhism invented gods for itself and became more and more like Hinduism and that the later Vedantist and Sivaite schools have a strong bent to monotheism.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896
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The more theistic forms of Indian religion, whether Sivaite or Vishnuite, tend to regard individual souls and matter as eternal.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896
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