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Hindu and legends
Along with the major Hindu myths, he has included legends and folk tales from Muslim, Buddhist, Jain, Syrian Christian and tribal sources.
Multan is one of the oldest cities not only in the Asian subcontinent but also in the world. According to Hindu legends, it was the capital of the Trigarta Kingdom at the time of the Mahabharata war, ruled by the Katoch Dynasty.
It is reasonably certain that he was born into a Hindu Gaur Brahmin family, possibly in 1506, though some legends give it as 1493 ; possibly in the village near Gwalior.
Bhasa and Kālidāsa are major early authors of the first centuries AD, Kālidāsa qualifying easily as the greatest poet and playwright in Sanskrit He deals primarily with famous Hindu legends and themes ; three famous plays by Kālidāsa are Vikramōrvaśīyam ( Vikrama and Urvashi ), Mālavikāgnimitram ( Malavika and Agnimitra ), and the play that he is most known for: Abhijñānaśākuntalam ( The Recognition of Shakuntala ).
Although Thailand is considered a Theravada Buddhist society, the Hindu mythology latent in the Ramakian serves to provide Thai legends with a creation myth, as well as representations of various spirits which complement beliefs derived from Thai animism.
According to Hindu legends and Ramayana Rama, along with his wife Sita and brother Lakshmana, stayed in Panchavati during their Vanvasa period.
In 612, the Empress Suiko had garden built with an artificial mountain, representing Shumi-Sen, or Mount Sumeru, reputed in Hindu and Buddhist legends to be located at the center of the world.
According to Hindu legends, Hemvati was a beautiful young woman for whom the famous temples of Khajuraho have been built.
* According to some Hindu legends, Parashurama shot his arrow into the sea and commanded the Sea God to recede up to the point where his arrow landed.
* Miyan Tansen was a singer for Emperor Akbar, born as Ramtanu Pandey, a Hindu Brahmin, in 1506, though some legends give it as 1493, he was a poet himself.
Several Hindu legends refer to this tree.
Many legends are narrated such as: Guru Padmasambahava preached to sixty-four yoginis here ; it is the residing place of the Goddess Tara Jetsun Dolma and the Khecheopalri Lake is her footprint ; the lake represents the Goddess Chho Pema ; footprints of Macha Zemu Rinpoche are on a stone near the chorten ( stupa ) near the lake ; Hindu god Lord Shiva meditated in Dupukney Cave that is situated above the lake and hence worshipped on " Nag Panchami " day at the lake ; a Lepcha girl named Nenjo Asha Lham was blessed by the lake goddess and was gifted with a precious gem which was lost, and it is the belief of the local people that the gem is hidden in the lake ; the lake water has curative properties and hence permitted to be used only for performing rites and rituals ; and with all these legends, the lake is called a " wish fulfilling lake ".
There are a few more legends of the Mappilas which relate them with early Hindu culture in Kerala ; first one is regarding one Uppukutan Mappila who appears in the legend of Parayi petta panthirukulam ( The twelve tribes born of a Pariah Woman ) and another one is the story of Ouwayi, a Jonaka Mappila, who through extreme devotion made the goddess of Kozhikode appear before him.
He deals primarily with famous Hindu legends and themes ; three famous plays by Kālidāsa are Vikramōrvaśīyam ( Vikrama and Urvashi ), Mālavikāgnimitram ( Malavika and Agnimitra ), and the play that he is most known for: Abhijñānaśākuntalam ( The Recognition of Shakuntala ).
The hill is the subject of many legends in Hindu mythology, and was said to have once been a large sea, inhabited by a demon known as Jalobhava and that the hill grew from a pebble.
There are various legends from Hindu epics Ramayana and Mahabharata and the Puranic scriptures which mention the Pushar Lake and the town of Pushkar surrounding it.
Other scenes come from legends, historical epics such as Sin Xay, stories from local or Hindu mythology, or adaptations of stories from surrounding nations.
When Buddhist monks from other parts of Asia brought their faith to Japan they transmitted dragon and snake legends from Buddhist and Hindu mythology.

Hindu and say
Of a different kind is, for instance, the antithesis between ( say ) the Italian and the American Law, and of a different kind that between the Soviet, Muslim, Hindu, or Chinese Law.
Hindu scriptures such as the Mahabharata say that Bangladesh was divided among the Janapadas: Vanga ( southern Bengal ), Pundra ( northern Bengal ), and Suhma ( western Bengal ) according to their respective totems.
Tilak took up the people's cause by publishing inflammatory articles in his paper Kesari ( Kesari was written in Marathi, and Maratha was written in English ), quoting the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, to say that no blame could be attached to anyone who killed an oppressor without any thought of reward.
Hindu traditional prophecies, as described in the Puranas and several other texts, say that the world shall fall into chaos and degradation.
In recent years, programs derived from yoga, a Hindu religious practice, have been introduced into public schools in the U. S. Advocates for the programs say they help children to relax and concentrate, but critics counter that the programs violate the separation of church and state.
The Census Commissioner had this to say, " The principle suggested as a basis was that of classification by social precedence as recognized by native public opinion at the present day, and manifesting itself in the facts that particular castes are supposed to be the modern representatives of one or other of the castes of the theoretical Hindu system ;".
Hindu protagonists say that they have been demanding the return of the site for centuries, and cite accounts from several western travellers to India during the Mughal rule in India.
Furthermore, to make sure that people of both the Muslim and Hindu religions were listening, Bhagat Kabir say this: " You fashioned all these men and women, Lord.
Some historians say that this rule was on the pattern of a strong Hindu state prevailing in South India for more than three centuries, known as ' Vijaynagar Empire '.
The English writer Alaxendar Kinloch Forbes mentions Vallabhipur or ‘ Wullubheepoor ’ in his book ‘ Ras Mala the Hindu Annals of Western India ’, written around 1856 A. D. informs us in his book ‘ Ras Mala ’ “ Of these princes eighteen are mentioned, the first two of who bore the title of ‘ senapatee or military chief ’, and are conjectured to have been vassals of the Purmar of Oojein or more probably we should say, of the Solunkee of Kuleean ”.
Historians and local traditions say that a Hindu sage named " Ne " established himself in the valley of Kathmandu during prehistoric times, and that the word " Nepal " means the place protected (" pala " in Sanskrit ) by the sage Ne.
Neither is formal conversion to Brahmoism required nowadays, thereby affirming the now very well settled legal controversy that a non-Brahmo Brahmo Samajist does not cease to be ( say ) a Hindu or Sikh by following the Samaj.
Other theories say that barays served primarily a symbolic purpose in Khmer religious life, representing the seas of creation that surround Mount Meru, home of the Hindu gods.

Hindu and Vindhya
It is located north of the Vindhya Range, south of the Hindu Kush segment of the Himalayas, and east of the Central Sulaiman Range in Pakistan.

Hindu and mountains
His empire stretched from the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan to the present-day Bangladesh and the Indian state of Assam in the east, and as far south as northern Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.
Ahmad Shah next sent an army to subdue the areas north of the Hindu Kush mountains.
Gandhara is the name of an ancient Hindu kingdom from the Vedic period and its capital city located between the Hindukush and Sulaiman Mountains ( mountains of Solomon ), although Kandahar in modern times and the ancient Gandhara are not geographically identical.
A great arc of mountains, consisting of the Himalayas, Hindu Kush, and Patkai ranges define the northern Indian subcontinent.
The city serves as the nation's cultural and learning centre, situated above sea level in a narrow valley, wedged between the Hindu Kush mountains along the Kabul River.
On September 26, 1996, as the Taliban with military support by Pakistan and financial support by Saudi Arabia prepared for another major offensive, Massoud ordered a full retreat from Kabul to continue anti-Taliban resistance in the Hindu Kush mountains instead of engaging in street battles in Kabul.
Some Kurdish tribes were deported even farther east, into Gharjistan in the Hindu Kush mountains of present day Afghanistan, about 1500 miles away from their homes in western Kurdistan ( see Displacement of the Kurds ).
The Bactrian king Euthydemus and his son Demetrius crossed the Hindu Kush mountains and began the conquest of the Indus valley.
With walls nearly half a mile long on each side, Angkor Wat grandly portrays the Hindu cosmology, with the central towers representing Mount Meru, home of the gods ; the outer walls, the mountains enclosing the world ; and the moat, the oceans beyond.
It rises in the Hindu Kush mountains, about west of Kabul (), passing north of the Unai Pass, in the eastern proximities of Hazarajat, in Behsud, flows west to Daykundi and Uruzgan.
The Hazarajat (,, also referred to as Hazaristan ) is the homeland of the Hazara people, and lies in the central highlands of Afghanistan, among the Koh-i-Baba mountains and the western extremities of the Hindu Kush.
Surrounded by the mountains of the Hindu Kush, which boil up from the valley floor to the north, east and west, it is the axis of commerce for a huge area of eastern Afghanistan, and has been a strategic location for armies throughout this country ’ s long history of conflict.
It was during this time that many Hindu and Buddhist monuments were built on the plains and mountains around the Kedu Plain.
The great chain of mountains which, under the names of Paropamisade and Hindu Kush, extends from the Caspian Sea to the Pamir Mountains is interrupted some south of Merv.
In the south, the corridor is bounded by the high mountains of the Hindu Kush, crossed by the Broghol pass, the Irshad Pass and the disused Dilisang Pass to Pakistan.
It involved an airdrop into the Hindu Kush mountains by the U. S. 10th Mountain Division and resulted in the killing of Hezbi commander Ghulam Sakhee, a few clashes, and the finding of some minor weapon caches.
Ghor occupies the end of the Hindu Kush mountains.
Kabul | Kabul City, situated 5, 900 ft above sea level in a narrow valley, wedged between the Hindu Kush mountains.
Located on the southern slopes of the Hindu Kush mountains in the northeastern part of the country, Nuristan spans the basins of the Alingâr, Pech, Landai Sin, and Kunar rivers.
Located north of Kabul Province, it was once the name of an ancient town in the Hindu Kush mountains.
To the south they join the Hindu Kush mountains along the Wakhan Corridor in Afghanistan and Gilgit – Baltistan in Pakistan.
Between April and October 1841, disaffected Afghan tribes were flocking to support Dost Mohammad's son, Akbar Khan, in Bamiyan and other areas north of the Hindu Kush mountains, organised into an effective resistance by chiefs such as Mir Masjidi Khan and others.
Pinus wallichiana is a coniferous evergreen tree native to the Himalaya, Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountains, from eastern Afghanistan east across northern Pakistan and India to Yunnan in southwest China.
These regions correspond to a unique geographical passageway between the Himalayas and the Hindu Kush mountains through which most of the interaction between India and Central Asia took place, generating intense cultural exchange and trade.
At its geographical peak, Greek civilization spread from Greece to Egypt and to the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan.

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