Religion in India: A Historical Introduction

such perceptions have been left behind. The ultimate state of consciousness or bliss was known as turiya. Individual members of ...

buddhi).Anusam.dha ̄nawas “reflective consciousness,” while anuma ̄nawas inference.Anubhavawas to know the oneness of all things ...

virtually all deities, represented iconographically in the south, were given twoconsorts: one, according to the tradition, repre ...

vernaculars remained underdeveloped under their aegis. There was a proliferation of sub-castes with a division of labor and a hi ...

century.^26 In the meanwhile, Ellora ̄, near Ajanta ̄ in Maharashtra, where Buddhist monks had lived in caves and had overseen a ...

orthoprax mainstream. Its “folk” roots may be linked in an agricultural respect for soil and furrow but manifest themselves in v ...

points on the body (cakra). While these practices were mastered in secrecy, at the next stage one would “go public” inasmuch as ...

appeared in classical contexts but in relatively subsidiary roles – for example, as consorts, wives, adoptive mothers, and atten ...

the “others” being addressed may have been Buddhist, and eventually, Islamic communities. Whatever the factors, there appeared d ...

case, Ra ̄dha ̄ came to embody prakr.ti(matter, earth), the co-eternal essence of the universe; she was also ma ̄ya ̄(the tangib ...

into popular forms of Hinduism. There is evidence of Hindu temples being built upon the site of Buddhist pal.l.is; of Hindu icon ...

tı ̄rthan.karas-in-process. Not least important, in some schools of Jainism, rituals were sanctioned which emulated Hindu pu ̄ja ...

Carman, J. B. The Theology of Rama ̄nuja, An Essay in Inter-religious Understanding. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1974. ...

Brooks, D. R. The Secret of the Three Cities: An Introduction to S ́a ̄kta Hinduism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. ...

Lopez, Donald S. Jr. ed. Religions of India in Practice. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. McDaniel, J. The Madness o ...

Timeline of Chapter 5 South Cultural/political events Religious events BCE 100 1st Early Tamil inscriptions/ Buddhists/Jains in ...

North Cultural/political events Religious events CE 500 6th Late Ajanta ̄ paintings 600 700 c. 757 Rise of Ra ̄s.t.r.aku ̄t.a c. ...

6 The Coming of Islam The origins of Islam Sunnı ̄s and Shı ̄‘ı ̄s Islam in India The political context Diversity of Islam in In ...

The origins of Islam Islam is a product of Muh.ammad’s teachings in the seventh century on the Arabian peninsula. It is best und ...

civil code and just treatment of others was made available across the peninsula. The Arab people were galvanized. By the time of ...