Encyclopedia of Hinduism

qualities. Her benevolent manifestations include Uma, Gauri, Parvati, Lakshmi, Sarasvati; her ter- rifying ones include Chamunda ...

husband. To assuage her grief, Sati throws herself on the fire. She dies but her body does not burn up in the flames. Hearing of ...

Further reading: Abee J. Dubois, A. Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies. Translated and edited by Henry K. Beauchamp, 3d ed. ( ...

Gujarat, and the Sharada Pitha in Shringeri in Karnataka. It is still said that the Dashanamis of the Shan- karacharya Order are ...

of Amrit DESAI, who founded the center for KRI- PALU YOGA in Lenox, Massachusetts. Both Desai brothers were students of Swami Kr ...

min is water, another the Sun, another the wind, and so on. This was the first Brahmana in the Vedas to make explicit the centra ...

Further reading: Ruth S. Freed and Stanley A. Freed, The Two Mother Goddess Ceremonies of Delhi State in the Great and Little Tr ...

so she abandoned it in a bank of reeds. There Karttikeya was born, so named because he was weaned and raised as a child by a gro ...

Gurudev Shivananda (Shivanandanagar: Divine Life Society, 1961). Shivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers (est. 1958) Shivananda Yoga Ved ...

armed conflict. More recently Shiv Sena has begun to recruit members of the lower castes, particu- larly Dalits. In 1992 Shiv Se ...

Dalits, untouchables, who are sometimes referred to as the “fifth” and “unclean” stratum of society. Many of them are employed a ...

The tradition of the Siddhas preserves a list of 84 masters of the lineage. Several of the names are shared in a corresponding T ...

The Science of Identity Foundation (originally the Hari Nama or Holy Name Society) is located in Honolulu, Hawaii. Siddhaswarupa ...

to lead the Sikh community: Guru Amar Das (1479–1574), Guru Ram Das (1534–81), Guru Arjan Dev (1563–1606), Guru Hargobind (1595– ...

Singh, his contributions were added to the Adi Granth, and then the book was declared to be the new guru for the community. Sinc ...

assassins were later executed, they became heroes to Sikhs. Sikhs had largely been confined to India until the 20th century. The ...

Hindu activity in Singapore is dominated by the majority Tamil-speaking community. Local temples tend to be home to devotees of ...

Guru Gobind Singh had three wives. His first marriage was to Mata Jeeto of Lahore, who gave birth to three sons, Jujhar, Zoravar ...

Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta. His interfaith efforts reached a climax when he convened the first World Confe ...

1991); Paula Richman, ed., Questioning Ramayanas: A South Asian Tradition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001). Skan ...