Pavarana
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Pavarana is a Buddhist monastic ceremony held at the end of the Vassa rains retreat, during which monks invite mutual admonition and confession to maintain harmony and discipline in the community.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pavarana canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12261995 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pavarana Context triple: [Vassa, relatedConcept, Pavarana]
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A.
Bamakhyapa
Bamakhyapa was a renowned 19th-century Bengali mystic and Tantric saint, celebrated for his intense devotion to the goddess Tara and his unconventional, ecstatic spiritual practices centered around the Tarapith temple.
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B.
Pratikraman
Pratikraman is a Jain ritual of introspection, repentance, and seeking forgiveness for past wrongdoings, performed regularly to purify the soul.
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C.
Suyodhana
Suyodhana is another name for Duryodhana, the primary Kaurava antagonist in the Indian epic Mahabharata.
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D.
Rishipattana
Rishipattana is an alternative name for Isipatana, the sacred Buddhist site near present-day Sarnath in India where Gautama Buddha is traditionally believed to have delivered his first sermon.
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E.
Saravanabhava
Saravanabhava is an epithet of the Hindu god Kartikeya (Murugan), highlighting his mythological birth in the reeds of the Saravana lake.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pavarana Target entity description: Pavarana is a Buddhist monastic ceremony held at the end of the Vassa rains retreat, during which monks invite mutual admonition and confession to maintain harmony and discipline in the community.
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A.
Bamakhyapa
Bamakhyapa was a renowned 19th-century Bengali mystic and Tantric saint, celebrated for his intense devotion to the goddess Tara and his unconventional, ecstatic spiritual practices centered around the Tarapith temple.
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B.
Pratikraman
Pratikraman is a Jain ritual of introspection, repentance, and seeking forgiveness for past wrongdoings, performed regularly to purify the soul.
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C.
Suyodhana
Suyodhana is another name for Duryodhana, the primary Kaurava antagonist in the Indian epic Mahabharata.
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D.
Rishipattana
Rishipattana is an alternative name for Isipatana, the sacred Buddhist site near present-day Sarnath in India where Gautama Buddha is traditionally believed to have delivered his first sermon.
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E.
Saravanabhava
Saravanabhava is an epithet of the Hindu god Kartikeya (Murugan), highlighting his mythological birth in the reeds of the Saravana lake.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.