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Hare Krishna
Sign in to saveAlso known as Maha Mantra, Hare Krishna Mahamantra, Hare Krishna Maha Mantra, Hare Krishna Mantra, Mahamantra
Vaishnava mantra
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mantra
- Religion
- Hinduism
- Country of origin
- Delhi Sultanate
- Image
- Hare Krishna Mahamantra in Siddham, IAST and Chinese.svg
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- first line
- 𑖮𑖨𑖸 𑖎𑖴𑖬𑖿𑖜 𑖮𑖨𑖸 𑖎𑖴𑖬𑖿𑖜
- last line
- 𑖨𑖯𑖦 𑖨𑖯𑖦 𑖮𑖨𑖸 𑖮𑖨𑖸
- title
- 𑖮𑖨𑖸 𑖎𑖴𑖬𑖿𑖜 𑖦𑖮𑖯𑖦𑖡𑖿𑖝𑖿𑖨
- Commons category
- Hare Krishna mantra
- inception
- 1500-00-00
- published in
- Kali-Saṇṭāraṇa Upaniṣad
- language of work or name
- Sanskrit
- copyright status
- public domain
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Encyclopedic overview
Hare Krishna (Maha Mantra) in the Devanagari (devanāgarī) script. Hare Krishna (Maha Mantra) in the Bengali script The Hare Krishna (Devanagari: हरे कृष्ण) mantra, also referred to reverentially as the Mahā-mantra (Devanagari: महामन्त्र; lit. 'Great Mantra'), is a 16-word Vaishnava Hindu mantra mentioned in the Kali-Santāraṇa Upaniṣad. In the 15th century, it rose to importance in the Bhakti movement following the teachings of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. This mantra is composed of three Sanskrit names – "Krishna", "Rama", and "Hare".
Since the 1960s, the mantra has been widely known outside India through A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and his movement, International Society for Krishna Consciousness (commonly known as the Hare Krishnas or the Hare Krishna movement).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hare Krishna” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.