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47-449: 50% of the area's population engage in agriculture, the rest of the economic activity is mainly focused on livestock and medicinal plants. Every Thursday in center of Gjinar takes place bazaar day. There you can buy fresh products from villages nearby that comes to sell products. As a touristic center there can be enjoyed weekends in the fresh air, beautiful nature and can have good meals in restaurants that are in area The etymology of

94-603: A Slavic loanword "csütörtök". In Chinese , it is 星期四 xīngqīsì ("fourth solar day"). In Estonian it's neljapäev , meaning "fourth day" or "fourth day in a week". The Baltic languages also use the term "fourth day" ( Latvian ceturtdiena , Lithuanian ketvirtadienis ). Greek uses a number for this day: Πέμπτη Pémpti "fifth," as does Portuguese : quinta-feira "fifth day," Hebrew : יום חמישי ‎ ( Yom Khamishi – day fifth) often written 'יום ה ‎ ("Yom Hey" – 5th letter Hey day), and Arabic : يوم الخميس ("Yaum al-Khamīs" – fifth day). Rooted from Arabic,

141-404: A Thursday, either weekly or fortnightly. Shopping malls see this as an opportunity to open longer than usual, generally until 9 pm, as most pay cheques are cleared by Thursday morning. In Norway, Thursday has also traditionally been the day when most shops and malls are open later than on the other weekdays, although the majority of shopping malls now are open until 8 pm or 9 pm every weekday. In

188-640: A consequence, some call Thursday "thirstday" or "thirsty Thursday". In the United Kingdom , all general elections since 1935 have been held on a Thursday, and this has become a tradition, although not a requirement of the law — which merely states that an election may be held on any day "except Saturdays, Sundays, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Good Friday, bank holidays in any part of the United Kingdom and any day appointed for public thanksgiving and mourning". Additionally, local elections are usually held on

235-403: A fifth myth, sage Atri was very old when young Anusuya married him and they sought the help of the trimurti gods for a child. As the trinity were pleased with them for having brought light and knowledge to the world, instantly granted the boon, which led Dattatreya to be born with characteristics of all three. While his origins are unclear, stories about his life are clearer. He is described in

282-528: A human being: Iccha, Vasana, Asha and Trishna. In these interpretations, Dattatreya is that yogi Guru (teacher) who has perfected all these, rules them rather than is ruled by them, and is thus the Guru Dattatreya is beyond them. The Dattatreya Upanishad (tantra-focussed), Darshana Upanishad (yoga-focussed) and particularly the Avadhuta Upanishad (advaita-focussed) present the philosophy of

329-450: A prelude to and something that evolved into Dattatreya iconography. Always be learning The investigators of the true nature of the world are uplifted by their own efforts in this world. The self is the infallible guide of the self: through direct perception and through analogy one can work out one's salvation. – Dattatreya, Bhagavata Purana XI.7 Translated by Klaus Klostermaier The historic Indian literature has interpreted

376-643: A selected Thursday. And graduation day in Thai universities, which can vary depending on each university, almost always will be held on a Thursday. In the Thai solar calendar , the colour associated with Thursday is orange. In the United States, Thanksgiving Day is an annual festival celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November. In Australia, most cinema movies premieres are held on Thursdays. Also, most Australians are paid on

423-767: Is a paradigmatic Sannyasi (monk) and one of the lords of yoga , venerated as a Hindu god . He is considered to be an avatar and combined form of the three Hindu gods Brahma , Vishnu , and Shiva , who are also collectively known as the Trimurti , and as the manifestation of Parabrahma , the supreme being, in texts such as the Bhagavata Purana , the Markandeya Purana , and the Brahmanda Purana , though stories about his birth and origin vary from text to text. Several Upanishads are dedicated to him, as are texts of

470-510: Is a "honey bee" Yogin: one whose character and teachings are developed by gathering varieties of Yoga's flowers. For all religious groups whose propensity it is to include ideas, practices, and teaching from the ocean of traditions, Dattātreya is truly a paradigm. Another distinctive aspect of Dattatreya iconography is that it includes four dogs and a cow. The four dogs represent the Vedas, as trustworthy all-weather friends, company and guardians, while

517-888: Is a free statue where Dattatreya is standing, has one head and four hands. In his various hands, he carries a Trishula of Shiva, a Chakra of Vishnu, a Kamandalu of Brahma, and a rosary common to all three. Like the Badami relief work, the Ajmer iconography of Dattatreya shows the swan of Brahma, the Garuda of Vishnu and the Nandi of Shiva carved on the pedestal with him. Some scholars such as James Harle and TA Gopinatha Rao consider iconography that presents Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva together as Hari Hara Pitamaha to be synonymous with or equivalent to Dattatreya. Antonio Rigopoulos questions this identification, and suggests that Harihara Pitamaha iconography may have been

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564-489: Is a means to learning. The 24 teachers of Dattatreya are: Dattatreya is typically shown with three heads and six hands, one head each for Brahma , Vishnu and Shiva who represent the Trimurti , the 3 main gods in Hinduism, and one pair of hands holding the symbolic items associated with each of these gods: Japamala and Kamandalu of Brahma, Shakha and Sudarshana Chakra of Vishnu, Trishula and Damaru of Shiva. He

611-539: Is a special occasion for happiness which cancels them. Formal Druze worship is confined to weekly meeting on Thursday evenings, during which all members of community gather together to discuss local issues before those not initiated into the secrets of the faith (the juhhāl, or the ignorant) are dismissed, and those who are "uqqāl" or "enlightened" (those few initiated in the Druze holy books) remain to read and study their holy scriptures . In Finland and Sweden , pea soup

658-507: Is associated with the Navagraha Brihaspati , whom devotees of this graha will fast pray and fast on Thursdays. The day is dedicated to the deity Vishnu or his avatars , such as Rama , Parshurama , Narasimha , and Buddha . However, Wednesday is dedicated to his avatars of Krishna and Vithoba . Devotees usually fast on this day in honor of Vishnu and his avatars, especially Vaishnava Hindus. In Islam , Thursdays are one of

705-683: Is called "Enjte". In the Nahuatl language , Thursday is Tezcatlipotōnal ( Nahuatl pronunciation: [teskat͡ɬipoˈtoːnaɬ] ) meaning "day of Tezcatlipoca ". In Japanese, the day is 木曜日 (木 represents Jupiter, 木星), following East Asian tradition . In Slavic languages and in Chinese, this day's name is "fourth" ( Slovak štvrtok , Czech čtvrtek , Slovene četrtek , Polish czwartek , Russian четверг chetverg , Bulgarian четвъртък, Serbo-Croatian четвртак / četvrtak , Macedonian четврток, Ukrainian четвер chetver ). Hungarian uses

752-645: Is chronologically significant because this ancient text is dated to have been complete between the 3rd century BCE and 3rd century CE. Tripura Rahasya is also an important ancient text attributed to Dattatreya. Dattatreya is mentioned in the Mahabharata and the Ramayana . Dattatreya is mentioned in the ancient chapter 9 of the Sattvata Samhita and chapter 5 of the Ahirbudhnya Samhita , both among

799-615: Is not the traditional guru of the Nath Sampradaya but instead was co-opted by the Nath tradition in about the 18th century as a guru, as a part of Vishnu-Shiva syncretism. This is evidenced by the Marathi text Navanathabhaktisara , states Mallinson, wherein there is syncretic fusion of the Nath Sampradaya with the Mahanubhava sect by identifying nine Naths with nine Narayanas. An annual festival in

846-823: Is prevalent. His pursuit of simple life, kindness to all, sharing of his knowledge and the meaning of life during his travels is reverentially mentioned in the poems by Tukaram , a saint-poet of the Bhakti movement . According to Rigopoulos, in the Nath tradition of Shaivism , Dattatreya is revered as the Adi-Guru (First Teacher) of the Adinath Sampradaya of the Nathas, the first "Lord of Yoga" with mastery of Tantra (techniques), although most traditions and scholars consider Adi Nath to be an epithet of Shiva . According to Mallinson, Dattatreya

893-474: Is the 4th day of the week. In countries which adopt the "Sunday-first" convention, it is the fifth day of the week. The name is derived from Old English þunresdæg and Middle English Thuresday (with loss of -n-, first in northern dialects, from influence of Old Norse Þórsdagr ) meaning "Thor's Day". It was named after the Norse god Thor . Thunor, Donar (German, Donnerstag ) and Thor are derived from

940-686: Is the Thursday before Easter — the day on which the Last Supper occurred. Also known as Sheer Thursday in the United Kingdom, it is traditionally a day of cleaning and giving out Maundy money there. Holy Thursday is part of Holy Week . In the Eastern Orthodox Church , Thursdays are dedicated to the Apostles and Saint Nicholas . The Octoechos contains hymns on these themes, arranged in an eight-week cycle, that are chanted on Thursdays throughout

987-422: Is traditionally served on Thursdays. In Indonesia , and Malaysia , in a week, batik clothing is usually worn on Thursday, especially at education and civil servant institutions. For Thai Buddhist , Thursday is considered the "Teacher's Day", and it is believed that one should begin one's education on this auspicious day. Thai students still pay homages to their teachers in specific ceremony always held on

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1034-419: Is typically dressed as a simple monk, situated in a forest or wilderness suggestive of his renunciation of worldly goods and pursuit of a meditative yogic lifestyle. In paintings and some large carvings, he is surrounded by four dogs and a cow, which symbolise the four Vedas and mother earth who nourishes all living beings. In very few older medieval temples of Dattatreya show him with just one head, such as

1081-709: The Indonesian word for Thursday is "Kamis", similarly "Khamis" in Malaysian and "Kemis" in Javanese . In Catholic liturgy , Thursday is referred to in Latin as feria quinta . Portuguese , unlike other Romance languages , uses the word quinta-feira, meaning "fifth day of liturgical celebration", that comes from the Latin feria quinta used in religious texts where it was not allowed to consecrate days to pagan gods. Icelandic also uses

1128-514: The Mahabharata as an exceptional Rishi (sage) with extraordinary insights and knowledge, who is adored and raised to a Guru and an Avatar of Vishnu in the Puranas. Dattatreya is stated in these texts to having renounced the world and leaving his home at an early age to lead a monastic life. One myth claims he meditated immersed in water for a long time, another has him wandering from childhood and

1175-557: The Vedanta - Yoga tradition in Hinduism. One of the most important texts of Hinduism, namely Avadhuta Gita (literally, "song of the free soul") is attributed to Dattatreya. Over time, Dattatreya has inspired many monastic movements in Shaivism, Vaishnavism, and Shaktism, particularly in the Deccan region of India, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Himalayan regions where Shaivism

1222-578: The Dattatreya tradition. Dattatreya is also mentioned in the classic text on Yoga , the Shandilya Upanishad . Other Upanishads where Dattatreya's name appears in lists of ancient Hindu monks revered for their insights on renunciation are Jabala Upanishad , Naradaparivrajaka Upanishad , Bhikshuka Upanishad and Yajnavalkya Upanishad . Of these, his mention in the Jabala Upanishad

1269-502: The Hindu calendar month of Mārgaśīrṣa (November/December) reveres Dattatreya and is known as Datta Jayanti . In Sikh Religion, Guru Gobind Singh has written life history of Dattatreya in his composition called Rudra Avtar including Birth, Spiritual journey includes 24 Gurus and Realization of Akal Purakh . In the Puranas , he was born in an Indian hermitage to Anasuya and her husband,

1316-485: The USSR of the 1970s and 1980s Thursday was the "Fish Day" ( Russian : Рыбный день , Rybny den ), when the nation's foodservice establishments were supposed to serve fish (rather than meat) dishes. For college and university students, Thursday is sometimes referred to as the new Friday. There are often fewer or sometimes no classes on Fridays and more opportunities to hold parties on Thursday night and sleep in on Friday. As

1363-597: The Vedic sage, Atri who is traditionally credited with making the largest contribution to the Rigveda . It is said that they lived in Mahur , Nanded District, Maharashtra. Another states that his father lived in the western Deccan region. A third claims he was born in the jungles of Kashmir near the sacred Amarnath Temple . A fourth legend states he was born along with his brothers Durvasa and Chandra, to an unwed mother named Anusuya, In

1410-479: The cow is a metaphor for mother earth who silently and always provides nourishment. Dattatreya's sculptures with alternate iconography have been identified in 1st millennium CE cave temples and archaeological sites related to Hinduism. For example, in the Badami temple (Karnataka), Dattatreya is shown to be with single head and four hands like Vishnu, but seated in a serene Yoga posture ( padmasana ). Carved with him are

1457-665: The day after this god: Torsdag in Danish , Norwegian , and Swedish , Hósdagur / Tórsdagur in Faroese , Donnerstag in German or Donderdag in Dutch . Finnish and Northern Sami, both non-Germanic ( Uralic ) languages, uses the borrowing "Torstai" and "Duorastat". In the extinct Polabian Slavic language, it was perundan , Perun being the Slavic equivalent of Thor. In most of the languages of India ,

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1504-654: The day is called Bihivāra as derived from the Sanskrit word same like in Hindi vara means day and Bihivāra meaning Bṛhaspati. In Thai , the word is Wan Pharuehatsabodi , also in Old Javanese as Respati or in Balinese as Wraspati – referring to the Hindu deity Bṛhaspati, also associated with Jupiter. En was an old Illyrian deity and in his honor in the Albanian language Thursday

1551-470: The days in a week in which Muslims are encouraged to do voluntary fasting , the other being Mondays. In Judaism , Thursdays are considered auspicious days for fasting. The Didache warned early Christians not to fast on Thursdays to avoid Judaizing , and suggested Fridays instead. In Judaism the Torah is read in public on Thursday mornings, and special penitential prayers are said on Thursday, unless there

1598-551: The emblems ( lañchana ) of the Trimurti, namely the swan of Brahma, the Garuda of Vishnu and the Nandi of Shiva. The right earlobe jewelry and hair decoration in this art work of Dattatreya is of Shiva, but on his left the details are those of Vishnu. Rigopoulos dates this Badami sculpture to be from the 10th to 12th century. A sculpture similar to Badami, but with some differences, has been discovered in Ajmer (Rajasthan). The Ajmer art work

1645-625: The first Thursday in May. The Electoral Administration Act 2006 removed Maundy Thursday as an excluded day on the electoral timetable, therefore an election can now be held on Maundy Thursday; prior to this elections were sometimes scheduled on the Tuesday before as an alternative. Thursday is aligned by the planet Jupiter and the astrological signs of Pisces and Sagittarius . Dattatreya Traditional Dattatreya ( Sanskrit : दत्तात्रेय , IAST : Dattātreya ), Dattā or Dattaguru ,

1692-503: The name of the Germanic god of thunder, Thunraz , equivalent to Jupiter in the interpretatio romana . In most Romance languages, the day is named after the Roman god Jupiter , who was the god of sky and thunder. In Latin, the day was known as Iovis Dies , "Jupiter's Day". In Latin, the genitive or possessive case of Jupiter was Iovis / Jovis and thus in most Romance languages it became

1739-609: The oldest layer of texts in the Vaishnava Agama tradition (Pancaratra). Schrader states these texts and the chronology of Dattatreya are older than the Mahabharata, but Rigopoulos disagrees with him on the chronology. In the Hindu tradition, Dattatreya is the author of Avadhuta Gita , or the "Song of the free". The text's poetry is based on the principles of Advaita Vedanta , one of the subschools of Hindu philosophy . The extant manuscripts have been dated to approximately

1786-521: The one in Mahur , one at Narayanpur on Pune Satara Road , Near Pune, and another in Pandharpur , both in southern Maharashtra . Very few texts such as Agni Purana describe the architectural features for building murti , and for Dattatreya, it recommends him with one head and two hands. In Varanasi , Nepal , north Himalayan foothill states of India, 15th-century Nath temples of Dattatreya show him with just one face. In most parts of India and world ,

1833-552: The representation of Dattatreya symbolically. His three heads are symbols of the Gunas (qualities in Samkhya school of Hinduism). The three Gunas are Sattva, Rajas and Tamas. The six hands have ethical symbolism, namely Yamas , Niyama , Sama, Dama, Daya and Shanti (axiology in Yoga and Vedanta school of Hinduism). The Kamadhenu cow is symbolic Panchabutas , the four dogs are inner forces of

1880-456: The syncretic six armed and three faced iconography is more common. He is the motif of the '"honey bee" Yogin who has realized advaita knowledge. Dattatreya as the archetypal model of syncretism : Furthermore, the unfolding of the Dattātreya icon illustrates the development of Yoga as a synthetic and inclusive body of ideologies and practices. Although fundamentally a jñāna-mūrti , Dattātreya

1927-559: The term fifth day ( Fimmtudagur ). In the Persian language , Thursday is referred to as panj-shanbeh , meaning 5th day of the week. Vietnamese refers to Thursday as Thứ năm (literally means "day five"). Quakers traditionally referred to Thursday as "Fifth Day" eschewing the pagan origin of the English name "Thursday". In the Christian tradition, Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday

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1974-505: The village Gjinar comes from the name Gjin which is of Albanian origin. This suggests the village had an Albanian founder. This article about a specific location in Elbasan County , Albania, is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Thursday Thursday is the day of the week between Wednesday and Friday . According to the ISO 8601 international standard, it

2021-490: The word for Thursday is Guruvāra – vāra meaning day and Guru being the style for Bṛhaspati , guru to the gods and regent of the planet Jupiter . This day marks the worship of Vishnu and his avatars such as Rama , Satyanarayana , Parashurama , Narasimha , and Buddha as well as the deity Dattatreya in Hinduism . In Sanskrit language, the day is called Bṛhaspativāsaram (day of Bṛhaspati ). In Nepali language,

2068-476: The word for Thursday: Italian giovedì , Spanish jueves , French jeudi , Sardinian jòvia, Catalan dijous , Galician xoves and Romanian joi . This is also reflected in the p-Celtic Welsh dydd Iau . The astrological and astronomical sign of the planet Jupiter (♃ [REDACTED] ) is sometimes used to represent Thursday. Since the Roman god Jupiter was identified with Thunor (Norse Thor in northern Europe ), most Germanic languages name

2115-538: The year. At the end of Divine Services on Thursday, the dismissal begins with the words: "May Christ our True God, through the intercessions of his most-pure Mother , of the holy, glorious and all-laudable Apostles, of our Father among the saints Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia , the Wonder-worker …" Ascension Thursday is 40 days after Easter, when Christ ascended into Heaven . In Hinduism , Thursday

2162-417: The young Dattatreya footprints have been preserved on a lonely peak at Girnar (Junagadh, Gujarat) and Dattatreya made a tapa for 12,000 years there. The Tripura-rahasya refers to the disciple Parasurama finding Dattatreya meditating on Gandhamadana mountain , near Rameswaram , Tamil Nadu. Dattatreya is said to have his lunch daily by taking alms at a holy place Pithapuram , Andhra Pradesh, where he

2209-484: Was born as Sripada Sri Vallabha (his first avatar). The young Dattatreya is famous in the Hindu texts as the one who started with nothing and without teachers, yet reached self-awareness by observing nature during his Sannyasi wanderings, and treating these natural observations as his twenty four teachers. This legend has been emblematic in the Hindu belief, particularly among artists and Yogis , that ideas, teachings and practices come from all sources, that self effort

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