Encyclopedia of Hinduism

confronted each other, each wanting to take the body for their own rituals. Before they could come to blows, however, they pulle ...

sense of “she who is the ruler of time” it derives from kala (time, spelled slightly differently in SANSKRIT letters). Kali is t ...

and one can live in her endless bliss for longer and longer periods. Kali has been associated with tantric religious forms. TANT ...

rasambhava, a consummate masterpiece about SHIVA and PARVATI and their young son, Kumara. Another of his great works is Meghadut ...

able to defeat the demon Taraka who was plaguing them. They sent the god of love to awaken sexual desire by shooting him with hi ...

ancient sacrificial site, goats are sacrificed to the goddess daily, particularly during the height of festival seasons. Further ...

gain the confidence of and seduce women other than his own wife. Part VI discusses the duties and activities of courtesans and p ...

Kanchipuram Kanchipuram, located about 40 miles southwest of Madras (Chennai), is one of the seven sacred cities of India. It ha ...

the knowledge of Samkhya. Kapila approached him as he was performing sacrifices (as he had been doing for thousands of years). A ...

Further reading: Cornelia Dimmitt and J. A. B. van Buitenen, Classical Hindu Mythology: A Reader in the Sanskrit Puranas (Philad ...

Further reading: J. C. Chatterji, Kashmir Shaivism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986); Mark Dyczkowski, The Doct ...

Kathasaritsagara The Kathasaritsagara, The Ocean of the Rivers of Story, by the Kashmiri writer Somadeva (c. 11th century), is o ...

which involve practicing sexual rituals, eating beef, and drinking alcohol. It focuses on raising the KUNDALINI serpent at the b ...

Kena Upanishad The Kena Upanishad or “By Whom [Kena] Upa- nishad,” takes its name from its first words, which ask the question, ...

Karnataka, in the 1960s. Between 1959 and 1966, Keshavadas made 47 pilgrimage tours of India, singing and speaking about his tea ...

of sexuality and not condemn it. The temples of Khajuraho above all celebrate the feminine form. Women in every pose and posture ...

energy and light, not the bone-muscle structure that we assume to be the body. As Klein taught asanas and yoga, he always gave t ...

temple was decorated with erotic sculpture resem- bling that at KHAJURAHO. Its tower appears to have fallen but is said to have ...

that Dadaji was Lakulish, the 28th incarnation of Lord SHIVA. The vision transformed his life and, after eight months, he took i ...

a baby, dragged it out of the house and used it to fell two trees. Once when Yashoda caught him eating mud, she forced him to op ...