Encyclopedia of Hinduism

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61 J:AF Baba Baba is a word from the Hindi language that means “father” and is used commonly as an honorific for sages, gurus, a ...

Stories attest to Babaji’s ability to become invisible at will. Because of this and his implicit instruction to his disciples to ...

free of the effects of aging, disease, and death. Since that time, he has continued to exist, main- tain a youthful appearance, ...

Badrinath Badrinath is an important Hindu pilgrimage site located in a glacial area some 10,000 feet high in the central Himalay ...

had appeared to her in England when she was only 15 years old. She later learned that the figure was Koot Houmi, one of the asce ...

Balarama’s mother, DEVAKI, was the wife of VASUDEVA, minister to the evil king Kamsa. When Kamsa learned that a son of Devaki’s ...

daily offerings and participation in village and temple events. Bali has become known in the wider Hindu world for its frequent ...

Goddess of Death and the Mistress of Demons. As Devi Ganga and Devi Danu, she is the goddess of both the lake Bator (the site of ...

Sanskrit and appears to have had a Brahmanical initiation. Basavanna studied the VEDAS and was a devotee of Shiva from an early ...

a SHAKTI PITHA site sacred to the Divine Mother. It is considered the most desirable place where a Hindu can die and be cremated ...

Using the name Dr. Pierre Arnold Bernard, he created the New York Sanskrit College and opened a physiological institute. Around ...

In 1888, she read Blavatsky’s Secret Doctrine, an event that changed her life. She later said that she found in the revelations ...

Another Bhadrabahu (c. sixth century) was the author of the Shvetambara work KALPA SUTRA. Further reading: Paul Dundas, The Jain ...

ers of the Bhagavadgita (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986). Bhagavan Bhagavan in Sanskrit means “one who is glor ...

Bhairava of the very dark complexion was forced to travel the Earth begging alms with the skull as begging bowl. It was he who w ...

recounting favored elements of his or her mythol- ogy. The songs are used to establish a closeness or communion between the sing ...

the start of the Common Era, relied on a ritual process of chanting and making offerings to vari- ous divinities. Compared with ...

the deity. Abjay entered Scottish Churches College in 1916. While still a student he entered into an arranged marriage with Padh ...

who headed the tribe from which all the people of India are said to descend and who gave his name to the MAHABHARATA. Bharata th ...