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Ganga
Kelly D. Alley, Georgina Drew
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Ganga Introduction The Ganga (or Ganges) River is iconic in Hindu philosophy, myth, and ritual and also in ecological sciences and climate chan...
Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism
Ravi M. Gupta
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism Introduction The Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava tradition, also known as Caitanya Vaiṣṇavism, began in Bengal with Kṛṣṇa Caitanya in the ...
Geography of Hinduism
Alf Hiltebeitel
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Geography of Hinduism Introduction The classification of contemporary “world religions” into the two categories of missionary religions (Budd...
Goddess
Perundevi Srinivasan
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Goddess Introduction Goddess worship is one of the most important signposts of the cultural landscape of Hinduism. Goddesses are predomin...
Gṛhya Rites
Timothy Lubin
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Gṛhya Rites Introduction The Vedic religion primarily involved veneration of a wide range of divinities by means of formulaic prayers (mantra...
Harivaṃśa
Simon Brodbeck
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Harivaṃśa Introduction The Harivaṃśa collectively designates three books that the Sanskrit Mahābhārata calls khilas (supplements, complements,...
Hinduism and Buddhism
Greg Bailey
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Hinduism and Buddhism Introduction Buddhism and Hinduism were never discrete religio-cultural systems, even if they are often taken as such. Mo...
Historical Traditions in Hindu Texts
Adam Bowles
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Historical Traditions in Hindu Texts Introduction “Hinduism has no sense of history,” or so it has been commonly thought in much of the schola...
Holy Persons
David Gordon White
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Holy Persons Introduction Given the fact that there is no term in Sanskrit or in the modern languages of South Asia that corresponds exactly ...
Iconography
Chandreyi Basu
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Iconography Introduction At a basic level, iconography involves description, identification, and classification of artworks as a means of stu...
Indian Medicine
Dominik Wujastyk
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Indian Medicine Introduction Contemporary India has what anthropologists such as Charles Leslie have termed a “pluralistic medical system” (s...
Inscriptions, Early Historic
Meera Visvanathan
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Early Historic Inscriptions Introduction The early history of Hinduism has often been understood through the prism of textual sources, beginni...
Islam, Hinduism and
Peter Gottschalk
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Hinduism and Islam Introduction For some observers, two religions could not be more distinct than Hinduism and Islam. As Westerners have repor...
Jainism, Hinduism and
Jonathan Geen
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Hinduism and Jainism Introduction For approximately 2,500 years, Hinduism and Jainism have coexisted in South Asia, leading to a long history o...
Kāma and Kāmaśāstra
Lee Siegel
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Kāma and Kāmaśāstra Introduction The term kāma comes from the verbal root kam, meaning “to love, be in love with, or have sexual intercourse ...
Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār
Elaine Craddock
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār Introduction Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār, the “Mother/Woman from Kāraikkāl” in the southeastern Indian state of Tamilnadu, was probab...
Karma
Herman Tull
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Karma Introduction Karma is a central element of South Asian thought, and, as such, it has deeply influenced South Asian religious and so...
Kāvya
Timothy Cahill
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Kāvya Introduction “Kāvya” is a Sanskrit term used to designate poetry variously characterized as classical, ornate, courtly, or stylized. To...
Kerala Hinduism
George Pati
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Kerala Hinduism Introduction Kerala, the southwesternmost state in peninsular India, is situated between the mountain ranges of the Western Gh...
Krishna
Tracy Coleman
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Krishna Introduction Arguably the most popular god in the Hindu pantheon, both in India and beyond, Krishna makes a dramatic appearance in th...
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