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46 unusual facts about Hinduism


Ajiva

In Hinduism and Jainism, ajiva is anything that has no soul or life, the polar opposite of jiva.

Akilandeswari

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

Alpha Andromedae

In the Hindu lunar zodiac, this star, together with the other stars in the Great Square of Pegasus (α, β, and γ Pegasi), makes up the nakshatras of Pūrva Bhādrapadā and Uttara Bhādrapadā.

Arya Samaj in Mauritius

It has provided Hindus with a choice of progressive Hinduism, has promoted education with particular emphasis on Hindi and established orphanages, primary schools, colleges and tertiary institution.

Asvayujau

In Hinduism, Asvayujau is a goddess of good luck, joy and happiness.

ATN Aastha TV

ATN Aastha broadcasts religious and spiritual programming in Hindi, Gujarati, and English, focusing mainly on the teachings and principles of Hinduism.

Badmash.org

Others involve White America's misconception and intolerance about India, Hinduism, and Indian Americans which usually are confrontational.

Banka district

Banka is gradually becoming a religious tourism hotspot for Hinduism and Jainism.

Bhadra

In Hinduism, Bhadra (भद्र) is a goddess of the hunt and one of Shiva's servants.

Bhutamata

In Hinduism, Bhutamata is a terrible and malevolent goddess, a form of Devi.

Chhaya

Chhaya is also personified as the goddess of shadow, the consort of Surya, the Hindu sun god.

Ching-Thang Khomba

He is also credited with spreading Vaishnavism in Manipur after his grandfather Pamheiba made Hinduism the official religion and for creating a unified Manipur.

Curse of Kehama

The poem is twelve books with the first six dealing with various episodes along with introducing Hindu theology.

Dušan Zbavitel

In 1990, he rejoined the faculty, teaching the history of Sanskrit and Bengali literature, ancient Indian poetry and Hinduism and leading courses in the advanced reading of Sanskrit and Bengali texts.

Etymology of Ayyavazhi

They, however, recognise Ayyavazhi as an alternate religious phenomenon against or outside Hinduism.

Freedom of religion by country

However the main religion in Bangladesh is Islam (89.7%), but a significant percentage of the population adheres to Hinduism (9.2%).

Gurudeva

Gurudeva is a generic address to a guru in Hinduism.

Hand washing

Symbolic hand washing, using water only to wash hands, is a part of ritual handwashing featured in many religions, including Bahá'í Faith, Hinduism, and tevilah and netilat yadayim in Judaism.

In symbolic hand washing using water only to wash hands is a part of ritual handwashing as a feature of many religions, including Bahá'í Faith, Hinduism and tevilah and netilat yadayim in Judaism.

International Cultic Studies Association

Finally, Cowan and Bromley criticize the ICSA list as being so broad that even mainstream organizations such as Evangelical Protestantism, the Roman Catholic Church, Buddhism and Hinduism fall within the criteria.

Jagannatha Dasa Babaji

Jagannātha Dāsa Bābājī (1776–1894) was an influential leader (guru) in the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism, and is respected as a Mahatma or saint by followers of his lineage.

Janmangal Namavali

The Janmangal Namavali is the name given in Hinduism to the 108 names of God as composed by the Swaminarayan saint Shatanand Muni.

Kanike

The practice of leaving a Kanike may have stemmed from Jainism, although it is mainly associated with Hinduism, especially lesser Gods, such as Chelamma, the scorpion Goddess.

Karnatakada Haridasaru

The reader of this book gets a fair glimpse into the cravings (or philosophical enquiries) of the human spirit through ages; the way such enquiries coursed through historic times in ancient Sumeria, Assyria, Egypt, Greece and Israel and later in Europe and Arabia and found its fulfilment in the long course of the development of Vedic thought in Hinduism, in the north and south of India through successive phases of Vedic, non-Vedic, Puranic and Darsanic thought.

Karpe Diem

This same event was also in commemoration of the July 22 2011 Norway attacks Magdi of Karpe Diem is a Muslim and Chirag Patel a Hindu.

Katwal

Katwal or Katowal is a surname used by Nepali Hindu community belonging to the Indo-European race originally from Nepal.

Khemukhi

In Hinduism, the term yogini refers to a female yogi in general, but the term 64 yoginis refers to a tantric and secret female cult worshiping Hindu Goddess Durga.

Korkus

The 1901 census report suggested that the tribe may be rapidly converting to Hinduism, as may be gathered from the figures of the census of 1901, which show 140,000 Korkus by race, but only 88,000 speakers of the Korku language.

Land of Gods

Uttarakhand, the 27th State of India, is often referred to as the Land of Gods because it hosts many holy temples and cities which are some of Hinduism's most spiritual and auspicious places of pilgrimage and worship.

Leftovers

Though leftover or partially eaten food (Ucchishta) is never offered to a Hindu deity, the goddess Matangi is prescribed to be offered this taboo oblation to gain her grace to achieve Supreme knowledge and supernatural powers.

Mahavidya

Mahavidyas (Great Wisdoms) or Dasha-Mahavidyas are a group of ten aspects of the Divine Mother Durga or Kali herself or Devi in Hinduism.

Matangi

Menstrual blood is considered polluted in almost all Hindu scriptures and menstruating women are kept away from Hindu worship and temples.

Moral status of animals in the ancient world

Both Hindu and Buddhist societies saw widespread vegetarianism from the 3rd century BCE, in line with ahimsa, the doctrine of non-violence.

Namagiri Thayar

Namagiri Thayar (Tamil: நாமகிரித்தாயார்) or Namagiri Amman (Tamil: நாமகிரியம்மன்) is a form of Hindu goddess Lakshmi worshipped in Namagiri (Namakkal) in modern Tamil Nadu, India.

Nilachal

The Nilachal is a place of high religious significance in Hinduism and is one of the four Char Dhams.

Pancha Bhoota Stalam

According to Hinduism, life and the various species originated by the combination of planetary globes and the five manifestations of nature namely air, water, fire, land and sky.

Parashiva

In Hinduism, Parashiva is the aspect of Shiva, the Absolute which is beyond human comprehension and is beyond all attributes.

Religion in Belgium

Jainism, Hinduism and Sikhism also have growing numbers of adherents in Belgium, but are not recognized by the government.

Religious humanism

In addition, many Indian religions like Hinduism, Buddhism and other Asian religions and belief systems like Confucianism, Taoism, Mohism, Shenism, and Zoroastrianism, that focus on human nature and action more than theology, were always primarily humanistic.

Shatarupa

In Hindu mythology, when Brahma was creating the universe, he made a female deity known as Shatarupa (literally śata-rūpā, she of a hundred beautiful forms).

The Sun in culture

In Hinduism, Surya (Devanagari: सूर्य, sūrya) is the chief solar deity, son of Dyaus Pitar.

Tomoe

Also note that the negative space in between the swirls of a four-fold tomoe, forms the shape of a stylized swastika, which is fairly prominent in many Indian religions such as Hinduism and Jainism.

Udayagiri Caves

The Udayagiri Caves (23:32:11N 77:46:20E) are an early Hindu ritual site located near Vidisha in the state of Madhya Pradesh, Northern India.

Asher identified further potential political allegories in two figures depicted on one of the two projecting walls, who were female personifications of Gaṅgā and Yamunā, the rivers that flowed through the heartland of the Gupta Empire.

William Walker Atkinson

As Ramacharaka, he helped to popularize Eastern concepts in America, with Yoga and a broadly-interpreted Hinduism being particular areas of focus.

In the 1890s, Atkinson had become interested in Hinduism and after 1900 he devoted a great deal of effort to the diffusion of yoga and Oriental occultism in the West.


Airavat

Airavata, the mythical elephant king and the mount of Indra in Hinduism.

Ananta Basudeba Temple

The terracota works depict stories from the great Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata, as well as from lilas of Krishna.

Are Bhashe dialect

Arebhashe is a dialect of the Kannada language, particularly, spoken by the people belonging to ‘Gowda’ community (among Hindus) in the regions of Kodagu district and Sullia of Dakshina Kannada.

Chhaya

Chhaya is usually described as the mother of Shani, the god of the planet Saturn and a feared graha; goddess Tapti, the personification of river Tapti and a son Savarni Manu, who is destined to be the next and eighth Manu (progenitor of mankind) - the ruler of the next Manvantara period.

Dayananda Saraswati

Swami Dayananda's creations, the Arya Samaj, unequivocally condemns practices of different religions and communities that are noted to be prevalent, such as idol worship, animal sacrifice, ancestor worship, pilgrimages, priest craft, offerings made in temples, the castes, child marriages, meat eating and discrimination against women on the grounds that all these lacked original Hinduism.

DuPage County, Illinois

Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, a conservative Hindu sect, has built BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Chicago, a large, intricately carved, marble temple in Bartlett.

Indra's net

While the original Hindu concept was developed and explained in various Dharmic philosophical texts of ancient India, the Buddhist version of the metaphor was later developed by the Mahayana school in the 3rd century scriptures of the Avatamsaka Sutra and later by the Huayan school between the 6th and 8th centuries.

Ivory Carved Dashavtar

Dashavatara of Lord Vishnu is one of the most popular concepts of Hinduism, which has been widely worshiped by the Hindus in one or the other form.

Kadgaon

Hinduism is largest religion with 20,500 people following Hinduism followed Muslim with 187 and followed by Buddhist with 152 people and with 12 Catholic .

Kamptee

Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and Sikhs are well represented in Kampthi, with Buddhist, Hindus and Muslims being the majority.

Khazar University Department of Eastern Languages and Religions Studies

The Department also includes studying religions such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam (as Middle Eastern traditions) and Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Jainism, Shinto, Taoism (as South and East Asian traditions) which appeared in the motherland of these Middle Eastern and Far Eastern languages and turned to be an important part of the world’s civilization.

Modak

During the Ganesh worship ceremony, known in India as Ganesh Chaturthi the puja always concludes with an offering of twentyone modaks to the deity and as prasad.

Namo

Ṇamō, a Sanskrit term, meaning "name of" used mostly in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism (see Namokar Mantra) to express honor to a deity, boddhisattva or a Great person

Neti

Neti neti, a chant or mantra in Hinduism, and in particular Jnana Yoga and Advaita Vedanta

Nirṛti

In Roger Zelazny's novel Lord of Light, set on a world where humans with vastly advanced technology have set themselves up as the gods of Hinduism, Nirriti the Black is one of their enemies.

Nishaan

The second half of his name is Dass meaning "servant," therefore the Satguru of the Ravidassia Hinduism sect is the "Servant of Illumination."

Paul Deussen

Paul Deussen’s name is thus linked with George Boucher, Sir William Jones and Sir John Woodroffe in British India, Anquetil-Duperron and Eugène Burnouf in France, Heinrich Roth, Franz Bopp, Friedrich von Schlegel and Max Müller in Germany, in the European revelation of the wealth of Hinduism as revealed by Sanskrit documents.

Peace Mala

It consists of 16 beads, forming a double rainbow, which represent Christianity, Buddhism, Sikhism, Islam, Judaism, Bahá'í, ISKCON, Zoroastrianism, Tribal and Native Religions, Jainism, Earth Religions, Taoism, Hinduism and Yungdrung Bön.

Ravikumar

Ravikumar is commonly used Indian Hindu name.

Religion in Latin America

Practitioners of the Judaism, Mormonism, Jehovah's Witness, Buddhist, Islamic, Hinduism, Bahá'í Faith, and Shinto denominations and religions also exercise in Latin America.

Rinchan

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

Sadhu Sundar Singh

In April he reached Kalka, a small town below Simla, a prematurely aged figure in his yellow robe among pilgrims and holy men who were beginning their own trek to one of Hinduism's holy places some miles away.

Sadyojata

According to Śaiva Agama, Lord Shiva performs five actions - creation, preservation, dissolution, concealing grace, and revealing grace.

Saka Kingdom

Mahabharata mentions about a whole region inhabited by Sakas called Sakadwipa to the north-west of ancient India, at (6:11):-There in that region are, many delightful provinces where Siva is worshipped, and thither repair the Siddhas, the Charanas, and the Devas.

Shraddha

Śraddhā, the Sanskrit term for "faith", in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism

Sinhalese New Year

The New Year celebration therefore can be thought as a complex mix of Indigenous, Astrological, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions.

Sutram

Unique to Sanskrit literature and Pali literature of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, they are short cryptic sentences, methodically written as memory-aids, stringing step by step a particular topic or text in its entirety.

Tanvir Ahmed Khan

The guru-shishya tradition, lineage, or parampara, denotes a succession of teachers and disciples in traditional Indian culture and religions such as Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism and Buddhism.

Tehatta

The puja is celebrated with much pomp and grandeur during the waxing phase of the moon in the Bengali month of Kartik.

Toran

Toran may also refer to a decorative door hanging in Hinduism, usually decorated with marigolds and mango leaves, or a string that is tied on the door with the flower on it as a part of traditional Hindu culture on the occasion of festivals and weddings.

Vaikkath Pachu Moothathu

Suchindrum and Kanyakumari was a part of the erstwhile Travancore state ruled by the Maharaja of Travancore.The main attraction of the place is the Thanumalayan Temple that is important to both Shaivaites and Vaishnavite sects of Hinduism.

Vasuki

In this legend, Vasuki allowed the devas (gods) and the asuras (demons) to bind him to Mount Mandara and use him as their churning rope to extract the ambrosia of immortality from the ocean of milk.

Water and religion

Many religions also consider particular sources or bodies of water to be sacred or at least auspicious; examples include Lourdes in Roman Catholicism, the Jordan River (at least symbolically) in some Christian churches, the Zamzam Well in Islam and the River Ganges (among many others) in Hinduism.

West Kameng district

Most of the inhabitants are Buddhist, though the Aka, Khowa, and Miji have indigenous religions and those tribe members follow a mix of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Donyi-Polo (a form of Animism).

Wheel of time

The Wheel of time or wheel of history (Kalachakra) is a concept found in several religious traditions and philosophies, notably religions of Indian origin such as Hinduism and Buddhism, which regard time as cyclical and consisting of repeating ages.

Yajur

Yajurveda, the third of the four canonical texts of Hinduism

Yogini Tantra

Yogini Tantra is a 16th-century tantric text by an unknown author from Assam, India and dedicated to the worship of Hindu goddesses Kali and Kamakhya.