Encyclopedia of Hinduism

Prapanceshvari appears to be identical to Bhu- vaneshvari; this text is the fullest source for details on Bhuvaneshvari. In most ...

girl, with blue or greenish skin and three eyes, wearing red clothing and accoutrements, seated on a corpse. She has two or four ...

by Yogananda’s SELF-REALIZATION FELLOWSHIP (SRF). After graduation from high school in 1949, Davis went to the fellowship’s head ...

followed a period of study and sacrifice. Swami Chinmayananda, attracted to Natrajan’s earnest- ness and organization skills, in ...

important to the ARYANS; Indra must force him to release them. A later example of a demon or asura, found in the epics and puran ...

center he founded. Many members of the com- munity were saddened by the disclosure of Desai’s behavior, but the Kripalu Yoga and ...

for him to attend the Cours Simon, at the time the most reputed drama school in France. He eventu- ally studied law and politica ...

visiting him every year for one to three months and applying his teaching in daily life. In 1971, after going through a crisis i ...

devadasi Devadasi literally means, “a servant of god.” This term was applied to women who lived in temples as the wives of the m ...

Further reading: Kenneth E. Bryant, Poems to the Child-God: Structures and Strategies in the Poetry of Surdas (Berkeley: Univers ...

devi See GODDESS. Devi, Indra (1899–2002) Western hatha yoga teacher Indra Devi was a highly popular Russian-born yoga teacher. ...

law,” “right conduct,” “duty,” and “social order.” Its root, dhri, means “to hold up.” The social concept of dharma emerges from ...

have estimated the number of Hindus living in particular countries. For example, the sociologist Prema Kurien suggests that Hind ...

ments, retaining strong Hindu traditions. There are, however, some common patterns of Hindu- ism in the sites where Hindu immigr ...

branch. The Digambara Jains, who are relatively few in number, are concentrated in the south of India, while the SHVETAMBARAS (t ...

A person may quite easily undergo several dikshas during his or her lifetime. TANTRIC prac- titioners, for instance, will almost ...

is celebrated in all parts of India. It starts on the 14th day of the lunar month of Ashvayuja and extends to the second day of ...

slave, he can no longer be considered in posses- sion of her and his wager was invalid. Angered at this “arrogance,” DURYODHANA, ...

Telegu and Kannada begin their literary records. Malayalam literature developed later. Scholars of Dravidian linguistics importa ...

Shortly before her death in 1981, she appointed James Mackie (b. 1932) as her successor. Further reading: Ivy Duce, How a Master ...