Encyclopedia of Hinduism

and drank it themselves at their rituals. The drink was used in such quantities that the YAJUR VEDA includes a chant to alleviat ...

Sri Ram Chandra Mission (est. 1945) Sri Ram Chandra Mission in India was founded by His Holiness Sri Maharaj RAM CHANDRAJI of Sh ...

lifting up the Govardhana mountain, which is part of the Krishna mythology. The image here is treated as Krishna himself and the ...

Gujarat, Lonka Shaha, who in 1451 C.E. decided to form a new community based on a return to traditional values. He is said to ha ...

The Stotras of Ramanuja’s Immediate Disciples (Bombay: Ananthacharya Indological Research Institute, 1994). Subramaniya See KART ...

cal specifications) temple ever built in the West- ern world. He founded Kauai’s Hindu Monastery, known officially as Kauai Aadh ...

the years when the Asian Exclusion Act was in effect (1924–65). Little is known of Deva Ram Sukul’s early years, the work of his ...

When he was 14, the family farm was sold and he entered four years of apprenticeship in horticul- ture. He had jobs in France an ...

13, 1984. The Sunyata Society of San Anselmo, California, publishes articles and books about his life and teaching. Further read ...

knowledge in India was most frequently commu- nicated from memory. Because of the extreme con- ciseness of the lines of text, mo ...

expression of a religious revival started by Sri Sahajanand Swami (1781–1830), a monk generally known to his followers as Lord S ...

spread of the movement through the post–World War II Indian DIASPORA. At the beginning of the 1970s, Yogiji Maha- raj sent four ...

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433 J:AF Tagore, Rabindranath (1861–1941) poet and writer Rabindranath Tagore, one of the great literary fig- ures of the world ...

and other works. Here, his wife died young and he lost a son and a daughter. His profound grief affected the tone of his work. T ...

respondence, too, with Mohandas Karamchand GANDHI and they were mutual admirers. As a result of his refined aesthetic sensibili- ...

(akasha), contact is connected to air (vayu), form is connected to fire (tejas or agni), taste is con- nected to water (ap or ja ...

Hindu tantrism can be understood as a mar- riage of practices and beliefs from the pre-ARYAN Goddess-oriented cults with the lar ...

Sauras or Sun (SURYA) worshippers, but these do not appear to have an active sectarian presence in India. There are numerous tex ...

sects also develop a range of divinities or special powers that are worshipped only in the context of their particular cult. The ...