Birbal Dhar the kashmiri pandit pleaded with Maharaja Ranjit Singh to save Kashmiri Pandits from Pathans when Kashmir governor Muhammad Azim heard of this he ordered his men to abduct Dhar's women who were abducted and sent to Kabul hearing this Dhar committed suicide however furious by this act of Durrani, Ranjit Singh ordered his most able general Diwan Chand to mount the expedition of Kashmir, he was assisted by Raja Gulab Singh Jamwal a Hindu dogra rajput of Jammu.

A pandit ( Sanskrit: पण ् ड ि त ; paṇḍita or paṇḍit ) is a scholar and a teacher, particularly one skilled in the Sanskrit language, who has mastered the four Vedic scriptures, Hindu rituals, Hindu law, religion, music, and / or philosophy under a Guru in a Gurukul or has been tutored under the ancient vedic Guru Shishya academic tradition.

A candidate for becoming Bernier's " pandit " probably would have come from the circle around Hindu scholars such as Jagannatha Panditaraja, who still was at work under Shah Jahan, or Kavindracharya, who taught Dara Sikhoh Sanskrit.

The Hindu scholar, Lokmanya Tilak credited Jainism with influencing Hinduism and thus leading to the cessation of animal sacrifice in Vedic rituals.

He also met Babu Pramadadas Mitra, the noted Sanskrit scholar, with whom he corresponded on the interpretation of the Hindu scriptures.

According to Angkor scholar Georges Coedès, " Angkor Wat is, if you like, a vaishnavite sanctuary, but the Vishnu venerated there was not the ancient Hindu deity nor even one of the deity's traditional incarnations, but the king Suryavarman II posthumously identified with Vishnu, consubstantial with him, residing in a mausoleum decorated with the graceful figures of apsaras just like Vishnu in his celestial palace.

Sanskrit scholar Maurice Bloomfield referred to Ṛta as " one of the most important religious conceptions of the Rig Veda ", going on to note that, " from the point of view of the history of religious ideas we may, in fact we must, begin the history of Hindu religion at least with the history of this conception ".

In 1931, a Dutch artist and scholar of Hindu and Buddhist architecture, W. O. J.

The scholar B. Bhattacharya studied various texts such as the Buddhist Sadhanamala ( 1156 CE ), Hindu Chhinnamastakalpa and Tantrasara ( 17th century ); he found that the Hindu Chhinnamasta and Buddhist Chinnamunda are the same, though the former wears a serpent as a sacred thread and has an added Rati-Kamadeva couple in the icon.

The caliph invited a scholar of Ujjain by the name of Kankah in 770 A. D. Kankah used the Brahmasphutasiddhanta to explain the Hindu system of arithmetic astronomy.

The Hindu scholar Lokmanya Tilak credited Jainism with influencing Hinduism in the area of the cessation of animal sacrifice in Vedic rituals.

Similarly, Melkote Ramaswamy, an Hindu American scholar, writes that the presence of the phrase “ In God we trust ” on American currency is a reminder that “ there is God everywhere, whether we are conscious or not .”

* Dharmakirti famed logician, author of the Seven Treatises ; student of Dignana's student Ishvarasena ; said to have debated famed Hindu scholar Shankara

They were presented by a Hindu scholar and mathematician, Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja, during the early part of the 20th century.

Accordingly, Fatehullah Shirazi, a renowned scholar and astronomer, formulated the Bengali year on the basis of the Hijri lunar and Hindu solar calendars.

The first quantitative estimate of the speed of light is seen in Indian vedic scholar Sayana's commentary on the Rigveda, one of the main Hindu scriptures.

Recently, in July 2008, Puja Morari Bapu, a renowned Hindu scholar, performed a 9 day lecture known as a katha to several Hindus who gathered in Cincinnati Gardens Arena from all around the world.

Her books both in Hinduism and other fields have been positively reviewed by Indian scholar Vijaya Nagarajan and American Hindu scholar Lindsey B. Harlan, who noted as part of a positive review that " Doniger's agenda is her desire to rescue the comparative project from the jaws of certain proponents of postmodernism ".

Jerusalem based scholar Seth J. Frantzman writes that opposition to Hindu Nationalism and its denunciation by leftists as " fascist " or " racist " are related to their own antisemitism and opposition to Zionism, and that both Zionism and Hindu Nationalism are " united in the aspirations of unique peoples and states ", and " both grew out of a long suppressed and colonized peoples ' dreams for their own country free from foreign rule ".

Writing during the second century BC, the Hindu scholar Patañjali discussed the soul being burdened with an accumulation of impressions that were part of the karma from previous lives.

Although a foreigner, Gerald Shashtri is a scholar of Sanskrit and an expert in Astrology and Hindu Philosophy.

According to historian and scholar Walter Spink, Jogeshvari is the earliest major Hindu cave temple in India and ( in terms of total length ) ' the largest '.