Encyclopedia of Hinduism

emulating the life of a home with parents and siblings. The orphanage now houses more than 35 children. His Hanuman Fellowship s ...

Further reading: Michael W. Meister with M. A. Dhaky, eds., Encyclopedia of Indian Temple Architecture (Phila- delphia: Universi ...

States and India in 1969, with the declaration “Happiness is your birthright.” The mission of 3HO is to assist the interested pu ...

and rebirth. Vishnu and his wife, Lakshmi, preside over this paradise, where souls may live in efful- gent bliss eternally, in p ...

Curaçao, and Malaysia. In 2002, there were 1,500 members in the United States alone. Swami Rama died on November 13, 1996, witho ...

had fallen in love. In one example, Himavat has a ragged beggar thrown from his house only to learn later that this was Parvati’ ...

subordinates the lives and livelihoods of adivasis (indigenous tribal peoples), Dalits (economically disadvantaged, former “unto ...

the 400+-year-old Babri Mosque at AYODHYA in Uttar Pradesh. According to the Sangh’s mythol- ogy and grievance, the mosque stand ...

Hansen, The Saffron Wave (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999); Zoya Hasan, ed., Forging Identi- ties—Gender, Comm ...

University Press, 1978); W. J. Wilkins, Hindu Mythology, Vedic and Puranic (Calcutta: Rupa, 1973). Hiranyaksha Hiranyaksha (lit. ...

and Taxes,” Available online. http://www.metroactive. com/papers/metro/11.22.95/yogi-9547.html. Accessed August 16, 2005. Holi T ...

tage Summer Camp program was initiated. The success of this undertaking further convinced Indian Hindus that although an America ...

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193 J:AF icons The worship of images of divinities is probably very ancient among the original inhabitants of the Indian subcont ...

(see JAINISM), written around the second century C.E. and considered one of the five great ancient Tamil epics. Tamil tradition ...

sia. True Brahminic Hinduism was to be found only among the aristocracy of Java, Sumatra, and Borneo. The common people either r ...

eyes to justify his common Vedic epithet “thou- sand-eyed one.” Further reading: Jan Gonda, trans., The Indra Hymns of the Rig V ...

find has been made at any Indus Valley site—only remains of the smaller native Indian horse. Undoubtedly, certain Hindu traditio ...

a semimythical figure reputedly born in 203 C.E. in the seaport town of Porto Novo, Tamil Nadu, India. After a life of adventure ...

Further reading: Anne Cushman and Jerry Jones, From Here to Nirvana: The Yoga Journal Guide to Spiritual India (New York: Riverh ...