Encyclopedia of Hinduism

upon the guards, and Vasudeva was able to sneak the child across the YAMUNA River and leave it with the cowherd Nanda and his wi ...

Black and the White Yajur Vedas; it contains the chants that accompanied most of the important ancient rites. The Sama Veda, the ...

it were being done in their own body and being. This practice was not unprecedented, since the priests of the Atharva Veda, thou ...

(mastery of the ritual details), vyakarana (SAN- SKRIT grammar), nirukta (etymology or derivation of Sanskrit words), chandas (p ...

encompasses all. Swami VIVEKANANDA, a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, first introduced Ramakrish- na’s ideas of Vedanta to the UNIT ...

Sutra and as such is attributed to Badarayana, an ancient sage. A SUTRA is a short aphoristic line of text; Vedanta Sutra can th ...

but were allowed to eat meat received as alms. They were less absolute, but they too discour- aged MEAT-EATING. The Brahminical ...

vidya Vidya (knowledge) from the SANSKRIT root “to know” is an important philosophical term in Hindu tradition. Initially it con ...

Further reading: K. A. Nilakanta Shastri, A History of South India from Prehistoric Time to the Fall of Vijaja- nagar (Madras: O ...

In her hands are a conch, a club, a war discus, and the “fear not” gesture of the hand (ABHAYA MUDRA). Her vehicle is a lion. Sh ...

Press, 2005); K. Ishwaran, Speaking of Basava: Lingayat Religion and Culture in South Asia (Boulder, Colo.: West- view, 1992); A ...

Tamil commentary on the hymns of the Alvars, which became a philosophical backbone for later Vishishtadvaita thought. The most p ...

the world is created Vishnu reigns in his heavenly realm of Vaikuntha. Iconographically, Vishnu is depicted as being of dark blu ...

Hindu nationalist groups. It arose as the religious wing of the militant RASHTRIYA SVAYA M SEVAK SANGH (RSS). The VHP was founde ...

Ahalyabai of Indore. Its magnificent 70-foot spire is totally covered with over a ton of gold plate, giving it its popular name ...

led him as a youth to the BRAHMO SAMAJ, a reform movement founded by Rammohun ROY, but he was not satisfied with the spiritualit ...

vows (vratas) Vows or vratas are a central feature of Hinduism and JAINISM. They are undertaken for myriad reasons, but always w ...

on the YOGA SUTRA is also considered to be the same person. Further reading: Bruce Sullivan, Krsna Dvaipanaya Vyasa and the Maha ...

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499 J:AF women and Hinduism Hinduism, because of its extreme diversity throughout the ages, has encompassed complex systems of t ...