The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (670 page)

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Diptychs
(Gk.,
diptychon
, ‘two-leaved folder’). The lists of names, contained originally on two-winged tablets of ivory or bone or metal, of living and dead Christians for whom special prayer is made in the
liturgy
of both E. and W. churches. In art, the term also applies to an altar-piece with two folding side-wings.
D
rgh
gama
(Indian division of S
tra Pi
aka)
:
D
rghatamas
(Skt., ‘long darkness’). A
g Vedic
i
. D
rghatamas or Dirghatapas (‘long austerity’) is traditionally known as the author of
g Veda
1. 140 and 1. 164, one of the most philosophical and obscure hymns.

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