Encyclopedia of Hinduism

as early as 400 C.E., women began to participate as direct actors in the devotional movements and play important roles there. A ...

women and men worked together to improve the conditions of women’s lives. Reform was strongest in Bengal and Maharashtra and ten ...

dess: A Translation of the Devi Mahtamya and a Study of Its Interpretation (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991); V ...

———, The Tantra of the Great Liberation (Mahanirvana Tantra) (London: Luzac, 1913); Shiva Chandra Vidyar- nava Bhattacharya, Pri ...

memorable phrases and stories, Western notions of Hinduism as polytheistic and idolatrous. Vive- kananda’s clear exposition of t ...

Efforts began in the 1980s to gather together the factions. Gradually the idea of forming an association emerged. At a meeting i ...

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507 J:AF yajna Yajna is from the SANSKRIT root yaj, “to honor a god with oblations.” A yajna is a ritual involving oblations in ...

Yajur Veda The Yajur Veda is the VEDA of the sacrificial formula, the YA J U S. The priest of the Yajur Veda, the ADHVARYU, is r ...

Further reading: John Dowson, A Classical Diction- ary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, His- tory, and Literature, 12 ...

Further reading: Madhu Khanna, Yantra, the Tantric Symbol of Cosmic Unity (Rochester, Vt.: Inner Tradi- tions, 2003); P. H. Pott ...

age Dramas from Brindavan (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981). Yasodhara Ashram Society See RADHA, SWA M I SHIVA ...

PATANJALI yoga, but his Yoga Sutra does not list any postures; these may have been later addi- tions to the practice, or they ma ...

Paramahansa Yogananda learned Hindu spiritual- ity early in life. His father, a railway executive, was a disciple of LAHIRI MAHA ...

age, including Mohandas Karamchand GANDHI, Luther Burbank, Therese Neumann, and Rabin- dranath TAGORE. In 1942 he opened the Chu ...

Metaphysical Schematic: Purusa and Prakriti in the Yogasûtra, Adyar Library Pamphlet Series, no. 55 (Chennai: Adyar Library and ...

emblematic form in many Indian traditions. It can take the form of a pot or other vessel, a cleft rock, or a pond, lake, or pool ...

to the nature of their sex. In these ideologies lib- eration (MOKSHA) is possible to humans within this lifetime, but only throu ...

follow one another cyclically; after a long series, the universe undergoes a dissolution, or pralaya. After this interlude, the ...

519 Ali, Syed Mohammed. Hinduism: A Select Bibliography. Gurgaon: Indian Documentation Service, 1984. Ashby, Phillip H. Modern T ...