According to one of the principal texts of Hindu philosophy, the Tattwa Kaumudi authored by Vacaspati in the 9th century A. D., the Creator used akasha ( ether ), the most " subtle " element, to create the other four traditional elements ; each element created is in turn used to create the next element, each less subtle than the last.

According to National Geographic, the population consists of 45 % Tajiks, 25 % Hazaras, 25 % Pashtuns, 2 % Uzbeks, 1 % Baloch, 1 % Turkmen, and 1 % Hindu.

According to some Hindu mythological accounts, the god Krishna obtained the Syamantaka from Jambavanta, whose daughter Jambavati later married Krishna.

According to the census of 1998, the religious breakdown of the city was as follows: Muslim ( 96. 45 %); Christian ( 2. 42 %); Hindu ( 0. 86 %); Ahmadiyya ( 0. 17 %); Others ( 0. 10 %) ( Parsis, Sikhs, Bahá ' ís, Jews and Buddhists ).

According to the Hindu philosophy the essence of God or Brahman can never be understood or known since Brahman is beyond both existence and non-existence, transcending and including time, causation and space, and thus can never be known in the same material sense as one traditionally ' understands ' a given concept or object.

According to Karel Werner's Popular Dictionary of Hinduism, " ost Hindu places of pilgrimage are associated with legendary events from the lives of various gods ....

According to the Hindu sage Adi Shankaracharya, the world-as we ordinarily understand it-is like a dream: fleeting and illusory.

According to the Hindu mythology, a land bridge existed between the Indian mainland and Sri Lanka.

According to Hindu scriptures, a journey was made during the Mahabharata by Balrama along the banks of the Saraswati from Dwarka to Mathura.

* According to Hindu tradition, lifetime of Rama, the 7th Avatar of Vishnu

* According to calculations of Aryabhata ( 6th century ), the Hindu Kali Yuga began at midnight ( 00: 00 ) on 18 February 3102 BC.

According to the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy, Akasha is one of the five Mahābhūtas ( grand physical elements ) having the specific property of sound.

According to the ancient Hindu Scriptures, it is said to have covered an area of, and was the capital of the powerful Hindu kingdom of Kosala ( Kaushal ).

According to Hindu tradition, the Ramayana takes place during a period of time known as Treta Yuga.

According to Brahma Kumaris, a spiritual organisation which is based on Hindu philosophy, sex lust is the greatest enemy to mankind and the gateway to hell.

According to Hindu mythology, the area was ruled by the demon Mahishasura.

According to the 2001 Nepal Census, there are 52, 237 Chepang in the country, of which 70. 23 % were Hindu, 18. 75 % were Buddhists and 8. 78 % were Christians.

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.

According to some Hindu traditions, Kundalini yoga is considered a highly developed spiritual awakening which relies upon a technique called shaktipat to attain enlightenment under the guidance of a spiritual master.

According to Savarkar, Hindutva is meant to denote the Hindu characteristic, or Hinduness.

According to traditional Hindu astrology, worship or propitiation of Bṛhaspati or Guru ( Jupiter ) results in cure from ailments affecting the stomach and helps ward off sins.

According to Hindu mythology Chandra has not been very fortunate in life.

According to Hindu legend, Daksha is said to be the son of Brahma.

According to Hindu mythology, Virabhadra or Veerabhadra was a super being created by the wrath of Rudra ( Shiva ), when he stepped in to destroy the Yagna ( fire sacrifice ) of Daksha, after his daughter Dakshayani ( Sati )-consort of Shiva, self-immolated in yagna fire.

According to Bruce L. Olsen, director of public affairs for the church, " The logo re-emphasizes the official name of the church and the central position of the Savior in its theology.

According to Cyril's theology, there were two states for the Son: the state that existed prior to the Son ( or Word / Logos ) becoming enfleshed in the person of Jesus and the state that actually became enfleshed.

According to the theology of the Deuteronomists the terms of the treaty with Yahweh were that he would preserve both the city and the king in return for their worship and obedience to the law-code.

According to Kallistos Ware, some Western theologians, both Roman Catholic and Anglican, see the theology of Palamas as introducing an inadmissible division within God ; however, others have incorporated his theology into their own thinking, maintaining, as Jeffrey D. Finch reports, that there is no conflict between his teaching and Roman Catholic thought.

According to Covenant theology God makes two basic covenants, or agreements, with humans.

According to Jerome, he was the first Christian author to write about theology in Latin.

According to classical theology it is possible for Christ to suffer only in virtue of his human nature.

According to a socio-political study of liberation theology in Latin America, twenty-five per cent of the final Puebla documents were written by theologians who were not invited to the conference.

According to Augustine, Varro drew on the pontiff Mucius Scaevola's tripartite theology:

According to Orthodox theology, when asceticism is increased, prayer must be increased also.

According to the later hagiographical literature, Theodore received an education befitting his family's station, and from the age of seven was instructed by a private tutor, eventually concentrating in particular on theology.

According to Catholic theology man has not lost his natural faculties: by the sin of Adam he has been deprived only of the Divine gifts to which his nature had no strict right: the complete mastery of his passions, exemption from death, sanctifying grace, and the vision of God in the next life.

According to Saiva Siddhanta, which was for many centuries the dominant school of Shaiva theology and liturgy across the Indian subcontinent ( and beyond it in Cambodia ), the linga is the ideal substrate in which the worshipper should install and worship the five-faced and ten-armed Sadāśiva, the form of Shiva who is the focal divinity of that school of Shaivism.

According to a view that has featured prominently in Western theology since early in the 2nd millennium, God's justice required an atonement for sin from humanity if human beings were to be restored to their place in creation and saved from damnation.

According to some scholars like Parrinder, Oduyoye, Vroom and Sheth, the common translation " incarnation " due to its christological implications is somewhat misleading as the concept of avatar corresponds more closely to the view of Docetism in Christian theology, as different from the idea of God ' in the flesh ' in mainstream Christology.

According to the Chronicle of Fredegar, Recared, King of the Wisigoths ( reigned 586 – 601 ) and first Catholic king of Spain, following his conversion to Catholicism in 587, ordered that all Arian books should be collected and burned ; and all the books of Arian theology were reduced to ashes, with the house in which they had been purposely collected.

According to Bernard Lewis, there is nothing in Muslim theology ( with a single exception ) that can be considered refutations of Judaism or ferocious anti-Jewish diatribes.

According to tradition, theology students in Halle put stones on his grave as a token of respect every year before their examinations.

According to Evangelical theologian Charles C. Ryrie, modern liberal theology " gives an exaggerated place to the abilities of man to decide his own fate and to effect his own salvation entirely apart from God's grace.

According to Reformed theology, the " good news " of the gospel of Christ is that God has freely granted the gift of salvation to those the Holy Spirit causes to believe ; what He freely grants to some ( the " elect " individuals ), however, He also withholds from others ( the " reprobate " individuals ).

According to Gaudiya Vaishnava theology, one's original consciousness and goal of life is pure love of God ( Krishna ).

According to the Qur ' an, Tawhid, meaning literally unification or asserting the oneness of Allah ( to be the only God who deserves to be worshiped in truth and confirming all attributes with which He has qualified Himself or that are attributed to Him by His Messenger ), can be categorised into three tenets of theology ; Tawhid al Rubu ` biya, Tawhid al ` Uluhiyya and Tawheed-al-Asma was-Sifaat.

According to Schopenhauer, Kant's original philosophy, with its refutation of all speculative theology, had been transformed by the German Idealists.

According to Christian theology, the transcendent God, who cannot be approached or seen in essence or being, becomes immanent primarily in the God-man Jesus the Christ, who is the incarnate Second Person of the Trinity.