Name: Dharani

Gender: Female

Usage: Dharani, of sanskrit origin, is not a popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.

People having the name Dharani are in general originating from India.

Meaning: The meaning of the name Dharani is: Bearing, Earth.

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The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 1. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: individualistic, determined, pioneering, bold, athletic, independent, active, self-confident.

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Qualities: Leader, Determined
Ruling planet: Sun
Colors: Yellow, Orange, Gold
Gemstones: Topaz, Amber

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The name Dharani is ranked on the 19,570th position of the most used names. It means that this name is rarely used.

We estimate that there are at least 10900 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Dharani has seven characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.

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In the Sanskrit language, a dharani is a type of ritual discourse similar to a mantra although it is used in different contexts.

The word dhāraṇī comes from the Sanskrit root dhri ('catch' or 'carry').

Like mantras, dharanis are attributed magical powers, such as driving away evil spirits. That is why in many Hindu and Buddhist rituals dharanis are used to prevent the ghost of a deceased human being from interfering with or reversing the auspicious results of a sacrifice.

It is considered that whoever recites a dharani is protected against the influence of evil spirits and natural calamities.

Japanese scholar Ryuichi Abe (b. 1954) and American scholar Jan Nattier (b. 1960s) have claimed that dharanis could be mnemonic rules that summarize the meaning of a chapter of Buddhist sutras. This is perhaps related to the use of the summary verses found at the end of some sacred texts.

The Japanese Buddhist monk Kobo Daishi or Kukai (774-835), the founder of Shingon Buddhism, once drew a distinction between dharanis and mantras, a distinction he used as the basis of his theory of language. The mantra is restricted to the practices of deeper Vashraian Buddhism (esoteric), while dharanis can be used in rituals of any level, both deep and everyday (superficial or exoteric). Kobo Daishi coined the term shingon (literally, 'true word') as a Japanese translation of the Sanskrit term "mantra".

It is difficult to make a distinction between dharanis and mantras. All mantras are dharanis but not necessarily all dharanis are mantras. Mantras are generally shorter. Both tend to contain a certain amount of unintelligible sounds, such as om, hum, jrim, klim, which is why they are sometimes considered essentially meaningless. Kobo Daishi claimed that mantras are a special kind of dharanis, and assumed that each syllable of a dharani is a manifestation of the true nature of reality-in Buddhist terms, that every sound is a manifestation of shuniata (or emptiness of its own nature). Thus, rather than being devoid of meaning, Kobo Daishi suggests that dharanis are loaded with meaning: each syllable is symbolic on multiple levels.

Jan Nattier states that mantras were already used in the Rig-veda (the oldest text in India, from the middle of the second millennium BC.C.), and instead the dharani prayers do not predate Buddhism (which began to develop in the third century BC.C.).

According to the American Buddhist writer Red Pine ('red pine', Bill Porter, b. 1943), originally Buddhists used the words mantra and dharani as interchangeable, but at some point dharani began to be used for meaningful and intelligible phrases, while mantras are the syllabic formulas that are not meant to be understood.

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