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22 unusual facts about Hindu


1950 Barisal Riots

The Hindu jewellery shops were looted in the presence of police officers.

1997 Sangrampora massacre

1997 Sangrampora massacre was the killing of seven Kashmiri Pandit Hindu villagers in Sangrampora village of Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir on 21 March 1997 by alleged Islamic militants.

1998 Chamba massacre

The suspected Pakistan-trained militants massacred 35 Hindus, mostly labourers, and injured 11 in the Chamba district bordering Doda in Jammu on early hours of that day.

2005 Delhi bombings

According to The Hindu website, the eyewitnesses claim that the bomb was placed in a white colour Maruti van whose front and rear mirrors were shattered due to the explosion.

Annie Rix Militz

At the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 in Chicago, Illinois, she met the Hindu teacher Swami Vivekananda, an event that influenced her to turn away from her formerly Christian view of New Thought to become inclusively interfaith.

Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached

The inspirational sloka was Swamiji's message to the Hindus to get out of their hypnotized state of mind.

Charitar 266

This tale is fierce verbal dialogue between Hindu Pundit and Daughter of King Sumati i.e Sri Rann Khamb Kala on different religious principles like Idolatry, Pilgrimage, Trimurti, Charity, Salvation, Enlightenment, Human Worship, Avtarvaad, where Hindu Pundit lost the verbal battle and later accepted the thoughts of Sumati's Daughter after punishment by her.

Gordon Hall

He evangelized the souls of Bombay Presidency and provided medical services, especially in Hindu temples and in bazaars.

Haven of Peace Academy

HOPAC brings together a rich blend of students from 30+ different countries and a variety of religious backgrounds including Christian, Muslim and Hindu.

Hindu

Persian Hindu (and hence in Urdu, and ultimately adopted into Hindustani in general) was used of the native, non-Muslim population ruled by the Muslim Mughal Empire.

Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh

Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh is an organisation that promotes the unity of Hindus worldwide and helps them in "maintaining their Hinduness".

Indravarman VI

The next time Annam would attack, Champa would not receive help from its former Buddhist and Hindu allies.

Mathematics and architecture

For example, in Hindu temples such as the Virupaksha temple at Hampi, the parts and the whole have the same character.

Monkey Thieves

The series tells the story of the "Galta Gang", a sixty-strong troop that lives in the Galta Temple, a beautiful Hindu temple on the outskirts of Jaipur.

Navras

The song contains an adaption of the Asato ma mantra found in the Hindu sacred text the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, section I.iii.28, used in the soundtrack of the movie trilogy The Matrix.

Old Dhaka

The city area was ruled by the Buddhist kingdom of Kamarupa and the Pala Empire before passing to the control of the Hindu Sena dynasty in the 9th century.

Rudra no Hihō

The plot incorporates flavours from Indian religions, centrally the concept of the wheel of time - every 4000 years the world is destroyed and recreated by a Rudra - the name taken from an aspect of the Hindu god of destruction, Shiva.

Sadya

It is a Hindu feast prepared mainly by men, especially when needed in large quantities, for weddings and other special events.

Samachar Darpan

Reformist and liberal Hindus, generally found in the Samachar Darpan a valuable ally because of its strong support in favour of social reform and education.

John Clark Marshman, was the official editor and the editorial staff included some of the most distinguished Bengali Hindu pundits of the time.

Toe ring

It is worn as a symbol of the married state by Hindu women and is called bichiya (pronounced: bee-chee-ya) in Hindi, jodavi(जोडवी) in Marathi, Mettelu (మెట్టెలు) in Telugu, Metti in Tamil (மெட்டி), Kaalungura in Kannada.

Transgenderism and religion

Hindu philosophy has the concept of a third sex or third gender (tritiya-prakriti – literally, "third nature").


2013 Bangladesh anti-Hindu violence

In India, activists of Gairik Bharat burned an effigy of Sheikh Hasina in Silchar, in protest against her failure to protect the Hindu minorities in Bangladesh.

Abdul Rashid Khan

Khan has participated in many national and regional conferences like Sadarang Conference, Godrej Conference, Lucknow Mahotsav, Dover Lance Conference, ITC Sangeet Sammelan, Prayag Sangeet Samiti Sangeet Sammelan all over India and has been felicited by Critics, fellow artists and many reputed recognized institutions like Uttar Pradesh Sangeet Natak Academy, (1981), Banaras Hindu University (1993), Eastern Zone cultural center and Press club Kolkata.

Adinath

Adinath Shiva, a title of the Hindu deity Shiva (sometimes used)

Ahichatra

Nairs and Bunts of Kerala and Tulu Nadu who claim Kshatriya descent from the nagas as well as Namputhiri and Tuluva Brahmins(Hindu philosophers Adi Shankara and Madhvacharya belonging to these communities) trace their origins to this place.

Akali movement

The next day, a Sikh-Hindu conference was organized during the Punjab Congress Provincial Congress at Rawalpindi.

Akilandeswari

Akilandeswari or Akhilāṇḑeśvarī is one of the main forms of the Hindu goddess, Parvati.

Babi ngepet

The association of boar or pig with magic concerning fortune probably originated from Javanese pre-Islamic and pre-Hindu-Buddhist beliefs that associate the boar or pig with domestic richness, fortune and prosperity, similar to its connections with ancient Javanese piggy bank.

Bite the cartridge

One of the alleged causes of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 were rumours that the grease on these cartridges designed to keep them dry was, variously, pork or beef fat (pork being abhorrent to Muslims, cows being sacred to Hindus), thus their refusal to bite them.

Bradford Lakshmi Narayan Hindu Temple

The temple is unusual in housing most of the major deities revered by the Hindu community, in addition to Lakshmi Narayan, the main deities.

C. R. Pattabhi Raman

As Pattabhiraman was born after a Naga Prathistha yagna or a sacrifice to the Hindu god Nāga by Seethamma who had earlier suffered two miscarriages, Pattabhiraman was initially named Nagaraj.

Caste system in India

Forrester, Duncan B., 'Christian Theology in a Hindu Context,' in South Asian Review 8, no. 4 (1975): 343–358.

Chanda Sahib

After his forces were defeated by Robert Clive and the Maratha Empire he attempted to recuperate his losses but was beheaded in a mutiny by Hindu subjects in the Tanjore army.

Chatteshwari Temple

Located in the centre of Chittagong city in Bangladesh, this Hindu temple is dedicated to the Goddess Kali.

Dambulla cave temple

Hindu deities are also represented here, as are the kings Valagamba and Nissankamalla, and Ananda - the Buddha's most devoted disciple.

Dikhit

The Dikhit, also known as Kinwar, are a Hindu Rajput clan found in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.

Eusebeia

The Indian emperor Ashoka in his 250 BCE Edicts used the word "eusebeia" as a Greek translation for the central Buddhist and Hindu concept of "dharma".

Gavli

According to their tradition following a communal riot between Hindus and Muslims, they left their ancestral village of Kharpa in Kannauj District of Uttar Pradesh.

George Arundale

This was considered scandalous: Rukmini belonged to a Hindu Brahmin family orthodox enough to disapprove of Sriram's involvement with the Theosophists, whom they regarded as a bizarre quasi-Christian sect; there were considerations of race, religion and cultural background; and Rukmini was young enough to be Arundale's daughter, being twenty-six years younger than he was.

Glaciers of Bhutan

The study, conducted by the Universities of California and Potsdam and published in the journal Nature Geoscience, was based on 286 glaciers along the Himalaya and Hindu Kush from Bhutan to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

Hindu–Arabic numeral system

the widespread Western "Arabic numerals" used with the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek alphabets in the table below labelled "European", descended from the "West Arabic numerals" which were developed in al-Andalus and the Maghreb (There are two typographic styles for rendering European numerals, known as lining figures and text figures).

Hinduism in Goa

In the 16th century most Hindus fled the Portuguese territories to the territories held by the Hindu rajas of Sonde and the Canara and Malabar Coast where significant communities of Konkani Goan Hindus still survive until today.Very few Hindus continued to exist in the Portuguese held Velha conquistas.

Indian Councils Act 1909

Muslims had expressed serious concern that a ‘first past the post’ British type of electoral system would leave them permanently subject to Hindu majority rule.

Islam in the United Arab Emirates

Unofficial figures estimate that at least 15 percent of the population is Hindu, 5 percent is Buddhist, and 5 percent belong to other religious groups, including Christian, Parsi, Bahá'í, and Sikh.

Kalakala

Kalantaka or Kalakala, aspect of the Hindu god Shiva as destroyer of Death

Kamwala Secondary School

It has since developed into a multiracial, multicultural school, with Christian, Hindu, and Muslim students.

Kumbha of Mewar

A very tall and powerful man, he was about 7 feet tall; he held the Hindu flag flying high in an age when several Hindu kings like Kapilendradeva of east India, Deva Raya II of south India and Man Singh Tomar of central India defeated the Turkic invaders in different parts of India and expanded their kingdoms.

Lakshminarasimha Temple, Haranhalli

The sanctum of the three shrines contain an image of the Hindu god Vishnu; Venugopala, Keshava and Lakshminarasimha.

Muktagachha Shiva temple

The Hindu Rabidas community perform a two-day-long Kattyani Puja, locally known as the 'Shat' Puja, in the Bengali month of Kartik.

Nihal Silva

The character was a stereotypical Tamil Hindu with a bald head, small moustache, police suit and Vibhuti, three lines of ash, on his forehead.

Ninasam

This group also started producing small plays and in the year 1949, they formed a cultural group Ninasam; the name dedicated to the native Hindu God of Heggodu, Nilakanteshwara.

Palwankar Baloo

The (high-caste) Brahmins in the Hindu side were against it, but some Telugu members argued for his inclusion, as did Captain Greig.

Panch pallava

These five leaves used are generally from trees esteemed in Hindu belief, such as the kalamb, rui, agada, and umbar.

Phalgu

The 15 days of the waning moon during the Hindu month of Ashvin are known as pitrapaksh.

Photo Booth: A Graphic Novel

Within the opening scenes, there are visual symbols connected with the Upanishads: philosophical texts considered to be an early source of Hindu religion.

Phyllanthus emblica

According to Hindu tradition, Adi Shankara of Kerala composed and recited the Kanakadhara stotram in praise of Mahalakshmi to make a poor Brahmin lady get wealth, in return for a single amla presented to him as bhiksha on an auspicious dwadashi day.

Ravikumar

Ravikumar is commonly used Indian Hindu name.

Rinchan

The Hindu Brahmin Pandits did not accept Rinchin into Hinduism due to his race and ethnic origin.

Rohini

Rohini Devi, a consort of Vasudeva and mother of Balarama and Subhadra in Hindu mythology

Rudra veena

As Rudra is a name for the Hindu god Shiva, rudra vina literally means "the veena dear to Shiva".

Sacchidananda Bharati III

His spiritual greatness commanded the veneration of the Muslim and Hindu rulers of Mysore, Peshwa Madhava Rao and Peshwa Bajirao, Mahadji Sinde, Nizam Ali Khan and the governors of the East India Company.

Skull Bearers

Kapalika means "Bearer of the Skull bowl" in Hindu culture

Sons of Shiva

Sons of Shiva is a 1985 award-winning American documentary film by ethnographic filmmaker Robert Gardner and Askos Ostor, about the worship of the God Shiva, features practices of Hindu worship and devotion, a four-day Gajan ceremony, a Sacred Thread ceremony in Bishnupur and Baul singers of Bengal.

Spectrophilia

Arabic, Greek, Hindu, and Celtic are just some of the cultures that have spectrophilia folklore.

Sri Mahamariamman Temple, Kuala Lumpur

Once every 12 years, in keeping with Hindu tradition, the temple is reconsecrated.

Surai Sasai

Sasai is one of the main leaders of the campaign to free the Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya from Hindu control.

The Garden of One Thousand Buddhas

The statue of Tara can be used for the Hindu practice of darshan, similar to Buddhist deity-visualization meditations, wherein a worshiper focuses intensely on the symbolism of a temple's principal deity.

Trilinga Kshetras

According to a Hindu legend, Shiva descended as linga on three mountains namely, Kaleswaram, Srisailam and Bhimeswaram, which marked the boundaries of the Telugu country.

Vaddukoddai

An Amman temple at Sangarathai, a Murugan temples at Adaikalam Thottam and Panguru are three of the main Hindu temples found here.

Vazirani

Vaziranis are basically Hindu-Sindhis and worship Lord Jhulelal, an Avatar born according to divine message depicted to humans through Bhagvad Gita to protect Hindu-Sindhis.