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darshana

darshana is the alternative form of darshan.

Meaning of darshan

Noun (1)

darshan (countable and uncountable, plural darshans)

  1. (Hinduism) Hierophany, theophany; being in the presence of the divine or holy (as a person or object).
    • A common sight in India is a crowd of people gathered in the courtyard of a temple or at the doorway of a streetside shrine for the darshan of the deity.2002, S. Brent Plate, Religion, Art, and Visual Culture: A Cross-Cultural Reader, →ISBN, page 171

Noun (2)

darshan (plural darshanim)

  1. (Judaism) An exegete.
  2. (Judaism) A preacher.

Forms of darshana

pluraldarshanas

Questions about darshana

What is darshana the alternative form of?
Darshana is the alternative form of darshan.

Words near darshana in the dictionary

  1. darsen't
  2. Darsey
  3. Darseys
  4. Darsham
  5. darshan
  6. darshana
  7. darshanas
  8. darshans
  9. darsn't
  10. darst
  11. Darsts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: darshana (page history and authors); darshan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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