They form an important part of the plot of the film Bombay in which the protagonists, a Muslim wife and her Hindu husband, are separated from their children during the riots.

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 legends say that the Vindhya mountains once showed a tendency to grow so high as to obstruct the usual trajectory of the sun.

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.

Princess Junjung Buih, the queen of the Hindu kingdom of Negara Dipa ( situated in Candi Agung area of Amuntai ) married a Javanese prince, Prince Suryanata, and together they ruled the kingdom which is a tributary to the Majapahit Empire ( 1365 ).

This house was the assembly place for the dead before they began the journey to the Otherworld. He is similar in some regards to the Hindu deity Yama.

The Muslims had always been a minority within the subcontinent, and the prospect of an exclusively Hindu government made them wary of independence ; they were as inclined to mistrust Hindu rule as they were to resist the foreign Raj, although Gandhi called for unity between the two groups in an astonishing display of leadership.

It is unclear that Jahangir even understood what a Sikh was, referring to Guru Arjun as a Hindu, who had " captured many of the simple-hearted of the Hindus, and even of the ignorant and foolish followers of Islam, by his ways and manners ... for three or four generations ( of spiritual successors ) they had kept this shop warm.

Buddhist ( and Hindu ) temples were Mandala shaped, they are oriented according to the four cardinal points, the main gate being towards the east. Since building space and materials were scarce, Maldivians constructed their places of worship on the foundations of previous buildings.

Even today, the Arabs called the numerals they use ' Rakam Al-Hind ' or the Hindu numeral system.

During his time, the Buddhists wreaked vengeance on the Hindu Brahmins ( especially the followers of Shaivism ) for the harm they had received earlier from Shankaracharya.

Hindu Hill rajahs fought frequent battles against Guru Gobind Singh because they were largely opposed to Guru Gobind Singh's casteless principles of religion.

He further asserts that the Thugs were highly superstitious and that they worshipped the Hindu goddess Kali, but that their faith was not very different from their contemporary non-Thugs.

The patron deity of the Thuggee was the Hindu Goddess Kali ( or Durga ), whom they often called Bhavani or Bhowanee.

Hindu vegetarians usually eschew eggs but consume milk and dairy products, so they are lacto-vegetarians.

Whether they are Hindu or Tibetan Buddhist, most of them abstain from beef, notably those belonging to the orthodox classes who are vegetarians.

The Hoysalas usually dedicated their temples to Lord Shiva or to Lord Vishnu ( two of the major Hindu gods ), but they occasionally chose a different deity.

In 1888, Vivekananda left the monastery as a Parivrâjaka — the Hindu religious life of a wandering monk, " without fixed abode, without ties, independent and strangers wherever they go.

In various Indo-European mythologies, gigantic peoples are featured as primeval creatures associated with chaos and the wild nature, and they are frequently in conflict with the gods, be they Olympian, Nartian, Hindu or Norse.

It was known that the Kafirs occupied the crest of the Hindu Kush eastwards of the Khawak, but how far they extended north of the main watershed was not ascertainable.

The snake represented freedom in Hindu mythology because they cannot be tamed.

In 1970s India, they were blamed for bringing unwanted Christian and Islamic influences into traditionally Sikh and Hindu areas.

Once granted an honored place in Hindu society because they were thought to possess divine powers, the hijras have lost status as Western notions of gender and sexual identity have crept into Indian culture.

From the tunnels of the palace, they travel through an underground temple where the Thuggee worship the Hindu goddess Kali with human sacrifice.

The votaries of Hindutva believe that the way Muslims and Hindus have treated each other in the past is a one-way compromise and they intend on making society more balanced and fair towards the majority Hindu population.

These include Hindu astrology ( also known as " Indian astrology " and in modern times referred to as " Vedic astrology ") and Chinese astrology, both of which have influenced the world's cultural history.

In a book called Hudud-al-Alam, written in 982, it mentions a village near Jalalabad, Afghanistan, where the local king used to have many Hindu, Muslim and Afghan wives.

Besides the Gregorian calendar, the Julian calendar, the Aztec calendar, and the Hindu calendar have cycles of years that are used to delineate whole time periods ; the Hindu calendar, in particular, summarizes its years into groups of 60, while the Aztec calendar considers groups of 52.

* Tamil does not have any diacritics in itself, but uses the Hindu numerals 2, 3 and 4 as diacritics to represent aspirated, voiced, and voiced-aspirated consonants when the Tamil script is used to write long passages in Sanskrit.

Brubaker notes that ( as examples ): Albanians, Basques, Hindu Indians, Irish, Japanese, Kashmiri, Koreans, Kurds, Palestinians, and Tamils have been conceptualised as diasporas in this sense.

While the monist forces have led to a fusion between some of the goddesses ( 108 names are common for many goddesses ), centrifugal forces have also resulted in new goddesses and rituals gaining ascendance among the laity in different parts of Hindu world.

Seleucus is said to have reach a peace treaty with Chandragupta by given control of the territory south of the Hindu Kush to the Mauryas upon intermarriage and 500 elephants.

More recently, Hindu nationalists have created a version of history for the schools to support their demands for " Hindutva " (" Hinduness ") in Indian society.

However, the form itself is reputed to have been one of the gifts bestowed on man by the gods of Hindu mythology.

In a book called Hudud-al-Alam, written in 982 CE, it mentions a village near Jalalabad where the local king used to have many Hindu, Muslim and Afghan wives.

In addition, there are some Hindu Hindkowan merchants who have settled in Kalat.

Hindu writers, theologians, and philosophers have distinguished nine forms of bhakti, which can be found in the Bhagavata Purana and works by Tulsidas.

Hinduism cannot be said to be purely polytheistic, as all great Hindu religious leaders have repeatedly stressed that while God's forms are many and the ways to communicate with him are many, God is one.

Seleucus is said to have reach a peace treaty with Chandragupta by giving control of the territory south of the Hindu Kush to him upon intermarriage and 500 elephants.

In contemporary Hindu society, many social scientists have expressed a fear of critical compulsion of polyandry in the near future, due to the rise such marriages in the agrarian societies in Malwa region of Punjab to avoid division of farming land.

Here the term " reincarnation " is not strictly applicable, yet Hindu gods are said to have reincarnated ( see Avatar ): Lord Vishnu is known for his ten incarnations, the Dashavatars.

In her book, Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia, she writes that " As for Hinduism, the hierarchical principles of the Brahmanical social order have always been contested from within Hindu society, suggesting that equality has been and continues to be both valued and practiced.

In particular, Gerald Gardner, who first popularized Wicca in England, was a noted folklorist with an interest in Far Eastern culture who spent much of his adult life in Ceylon and Burma, so it seems very plausible that he could have been familiar with this Hindu term.

This can lead to the opinion that Buddhists have adopted religious elements from Hindu traditions in their religious practices.

Since 1984, relations between Sikhs and Hindus have moved towards a rapprochement helped by growing economic prosperity ; however, in 2002 the claims of the popular right-wing Hindu organisation the RSS that " Sikhs are Hindus " angered Sikh sensibilities.

Many Indian restaurants of the sizeable Thai-Indian community will also have vegetarian dishes on offer, due to the fact that vegetarianism is held as an ideal by many followers of the Hindu faith.

Ancient folk tales and myths sometimes involved something akin to travelling forward in time ; for example, in Hindu mythology, the Mahabharata mentions the story of the King Revaita, who travels to heaven to meet the creator Brahma and is shocked to learn that many ages have passed when he returns to Earth.

Kataragama is supposed to be the site at which the Hindu god Skanda or Murugan in Tamil met and married a local tribal girl, Valli, who in Sri Lanka is believed to have been a Vedda.