The Guru Granth Sahib also says that Bhagat Namdev and Bhagat Kabir, who were both believed to be Hindus, both attained salvation though they were born before Sikhism took root and were clearly not Sikhs. This highlights and reinforces the Guru's saying that " peoples of other faiths " can join with God as true and also at the same time signify that Sikhism is not the exclusive path for liberation.

Ammonites from the Gandaki river in Nepal are known as saligrams, and are believed by Hindus to be a concrete manifestation of God or Vishnu.

Savarkar similarly believed that the Indian subcontinent ( which includes the area south of the Himalaya and the Hindu Kush or Akhand Bharat ( undivided India, अखण ् ड भ ा रत ) is the homeland of the Hindus.

Hindus believed that the site was the birthplace of Rama, and thus qualified as one of the most sacred sites of Hinduism.

Hindus believed the site was the birthplace of the Lord, and there existed a temple long before the Babri mosque was built after demolishing the temple by Babar, and thus qualified as one of the most sacred sites of Hinduism, where a temple should be reconstructed.

* In Nepal, Kumaris are young girls worshiped as goddesses by Hindus and some Buddhists, at the onset of menarche it is believed the goddess spirit vacates her body and they are returned to ordinary life after a series of rituals.

; Sate Kerbau ( Water buffalo satay ): A variant of satay popular in Kudus, where most Muslim believed that it is forbidden to eat beef in order to respect the Hindus.

Mohandas Gandhi and Allama Mashriqi believed that Hindus and Muslims could and should live in amity.

Gandhi was assassinated soon after Partition by Hindu nationalist Nathuram Godse, who believed that Gandhi was appeasing Muslims at the cost of Hindus.

Mookerjee adopted causes to protect Hindus against what he believed to be the communal propaganda and the divisive agenda of the Muslim League.

The massacre is believed to be a revenge killing for 12 upper-caste Hindus who were killed a week before.

Gandharvans are singers from heaven in Hindu Mythology and their visits to Earth are believed to cast a spell on maidens and is usually dealt with an attitude of fear by the traditional Hindus.

The Ramayana, holy revered text of Hindus, is believed by many archaeologists and historians to be a collection of stories from Hindu mythology concentrating on the work of the gods in the lives of men, and was first written down, as legend states, in the forests of India by Valmiki in the fourth century BC.

Hindus celebrate Janmashtami by fasting and staying up until midnight, the time when Krishna is believed to have been born.

It's believed that thousands of years ago, Goddess Ganga descended to earth and in her honor, many Hindus gather along the sacred Ganges River for ritual baths.

Although there were no official data, it is generally believed that there are also some practicing Hindus, Buddhists, and Jews in the capital city.

Khecheopalri Lake, originally known as Kha-Chot-Palri ( meaning the heaven of Padmasambhava ), is a sacred Lake for both Buddhists and Hindus, which is believed to be a wish fulfilling lake.

Since Brahma is considered the Creator in Sanatana Dharma, it is believed by Hindus that Brahmastra was created by him for the purpose of upholding Dharma and Satya, to be used by anyone who wished to destroy an enemy who would also happen to be a part of his ( Brahma's ) creation.

It is called so because in terms of importance to Hindus it matches Ram Janmabhoomi which is believed by Hindus to be the location of Rama ’ s birth.

He is believed by Hindus to be the " Principal Universal Architect ", the architect who fabricated and designed the divine architecture of the Universe, the Lord of Creation.

Though seldom used in today's context, it has been alleged that Pakistan Military believed in the concept of martial races and they thus thought that they would easily defeat India in a war, especially prior to the Second Kashmir War Based on this belief in the martial supremacy, it was popularly hyped that one Pakistani soldier was equal to four to ten Hindus / Indian soldiers, and thus numerical superiority of the foe could be overcome.

Thus the kumkum is placed at the location of the body which is believed by Hindus to be the most holy.

Jury, judge and executioner were riding the range in the form of a single unknown figure that could materialize anywhere, at any time, to dispense an ancient brand of justice the men of the new West had believed long outdated.

These basic ideas concerning the nature of religion were, Adams believed, some of the major keys to the understanding of history and the movement of society.

Yes, he believed that the Jews were `` enemies of the Reich '', and such a belief is, of course, typical of `` patriotic '' anti-Semites ; ;

Although he later broke with the churches because he believed that they were insufficiently outspoken against social evils, he remained a devout Christian.

But actually these accounts reveal the supernatural powers that the masters were in fact supposed to possess, as well as the extreme degree of popular credulity: `` Hwang Pah ( O Baku ), one day going up Mount Tien Tai which was believed to have been inhabited by Arhats with supernatural powers, met with a monk whose eyes emitted strange light.

Something in the back of his mind was aware that the magnificence of the plan lay in his faith, that the idea would work because he believed in it, since his courage and virility were involved, because it was truly his.

He believed that each culture has to be studied in its particularity, and argued that cross-cultural generalizations, like those made in the natural sciences, were not possible.

Pythagoras believed that behind the appearance of things, there was the permanent principle of mathematics, and that the forms were based on a transcendental mathematical relation.

In 2006 there were believed to be 4, 035 species of amphibians that depended on water at some stage during their life cycle.

The Sadducees were an ancient Jewish sect that generally believed that there was a God but no afterlife.

They believed the continuities of the deepest structures were central to history, beside which upheavals in institutions or the superstructure of social life were of little significance, for history lies beyond the reach of conscious actors, especially the will of revolutionaries.

In this context the use of Alemanni is possibly an anachronism but it reveals that Ammianus believed they were the same people, which is consistent with the location of the Alemanni of Caracalla's campaigns.

Pagi, usually pairs of pagi combined, formed kingdoms ( regna ) which, it is generally believed, were permanent and hereditary.

In New York's Chinatown, the restaurants were known for having a " phantom " menu with food preferred by ethnic Chinese, but believed to be disliked by non-Chinese Americans.

The crusaders believed their oaths were made invalid when the Byzantine contingent under Tatikios failed to help them during the siege of Antioch ; Bohemund, who had set himself up as Prince of Antioch, briefly went to war with Alexios in the Balkans, but was blockaded by the Byzantine forces and agreed to become Alexios ' vassal by the Treaty of Devol in 1108.

He believed that animals were able to infer the relation between cause and effect in the same way that humans do: through learned expectations.

Its name means " no feet " in Greek, and it represents a bird-of-paradise ( which were once believed to lack feet ).

Spencer believed that just as there were many varieties of beetles, respectively modified to existence in a particular place in nature, so too had human society “ spontaneously fallen into division of labour ”.

Carnegie believed that the sons of prosperous businesspersons were rarely as talented as their fathers.

He believed the poor possessed an advantage over the wealthy due to their receiving more attention from their parents, and were taught better work ethics.

Because unlike the Hawaiians, Cubans and Puerto Ricans, the Filipinos were willing to fight for their independence, Carnegie believed that the conquest of the islands is a denial of the fundamental democratic principle, and he also urged William McKinley to withdraw American troops and allow the Filipinos to live with their independence.

Geologists believed prior to the mission that both of these formations were volcanic in origin ; however, samples returned from the lunar surface have since proven this hypothesis is incorrect.

Unfortunately, they were blown back to Aeolia, where Aeolus refused to provide any further help, because he believed that their short and unsuccessful voyage meant that the Gods did not favour them.

* Manpower: Abu Sayyaf forces in Basilan and in Zamboanga Peninsula were, by June 2003, believed to number less than 500, down from more than 1, 000 a year earlier.