Dhupa
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title:
Dhupa
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Dhupa (धुप) is, in Indian religions, the ritual offering of incense during puja to an image of a deity, or other object of veneration. It is also the Sanskrit word for incense or perfume itself. The Thai language also borrows this word from Sanskrit to call joss sticks or incense sticks, by omitting "a" in the word Dhupa. So, the word retains the Sanskrit form when it is written in the Thai alphabet as "Dhup" (ธูป). However, Sanskrit's ⟨dh⟩ is pronounced as an aspirated in Thai so that the word
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhupa
date created:
2011-06-27T16:42:44Z
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2024-09-04T01:13:03Z
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