* Isha Upanishad, a Hindu religious text

The possibility of a curse pertaining to ownership of the diamond dates back to a Hindu text relating to the first authenticated appearance of the diamond in 1306: " He who owns this diamond will own the world, but will also know all its misfortunes.

Political philosophy originates in Ancient India with the Hindu text Manusmṛti, or Laws of Manu and Chanakya's Arthashastra.

The earliest documented use of the word Tantra is in the Hindu text, the Rigveda ( X. 71. 9 ).

An ancient Hindu text may have earlier referred to mainland Southeast Asia as Suvarnabhumi which means land of gold and insular Southeast Asia as Suvarnadvipa which means island or peninsular of gold.

The Kama Sutra (, ) is an ancient Indian Hindu text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by Vātsyāyana.

While sexual practices do exist within the very wide tradition of Hindu Tantra, the Kama Sutra is not a Tantric text, and does not touch upon any of the sexual rites associated with some forms of Tantric practice.

By tradition, the text belongs to the Treta Yuga, second of the four eons ( yuga ) of Hindu chronology.

The Bhagavat Purana Hindu text devotes nine chapters to the adventures of Vamana, a dwarf avatar of Vishnu.

Hindu text Garuda Purana details other kinds of punishments and judgments given out in Hell ; this also given an account of how the spirit travels to nether world.

Manusmriti, an ancient Hindu legal text, assigns cattle rearing as an occupation of Vaisya ; however there are references in available literature that Kshatriyas also owned and reared the cattle and cattle-wealth was the mainstay of their households.

The Nasadiya Sukta of the oldest Hindu text Rigveda states that no one knows when creation has arisen.

* Baudhayana Shrauta Sutra, a Hindu text

However, the ideas that were developed and assimilated into the classical Samkhya text, Samkhyakarika, are visible in earlier Hindu scriptures such as Vedas, Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita.

Earliest mention of dualism in the Rig Veda, a Hindu text that was compiled in second millennium BCE, is in the Indra – Vritra myth.

This literature differs from other sources of Hindu Law, particularly smṛti or “ remembered text ”, because of the purely divine origin of śruti.

He is most known for his composition, the epic poem Gita Govinda, which depicts the divine love of the Hindu deity Krishna and his consort, Radha, and is considered an important text in the Bhakti movement of Hinduism.

Orthodox Hindus, however, do not accept this reference, because no Hindu canonical text allows this ceremony for a girl in the present kalpa.

The Indian epic poem Ramayana, written thousands of years ago in Sanskrit and an important Hindu text, recounts how Rama, with the help of an army of vanaras, built a bridge of stones across the sea to Lanka to rescue his wife Sita from the Asura king Ravana.

* Atharvaveda, aka Atharvaveda-Shaunakiya, a sacred Hindu text

In the same text, however, it is mentioned that " Occasional desecration of Hindu fanes took place ... but such demonstrations were probably rare sops to the official conscience ..".

It has been claimed that Kashyapa, later known as Kanada ( Sanskrit: कण ा द ; also transliterated as Canada as well as other forms ) was a Hindu sage and philosopher who founded the philosophical school of Vaisheshika and authored the text Vaisheshika Sutra.

Sylhet was certainly known by the rest of India, and is even referred to in the ancient Hindu sacred Tantric text, the Shakti Sangama Tantra, as ' Silhatta '.

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.

Dicing is mentioned as an Indian game in the Rigveda, Atharvaveda and Buddha games list ; it also plays a critical role in the great Hindu epic Mahabharata, where Yudhisthira plays a game of dice against the Kauravas for the northern kingdom of Hastinapura, which becomes the trigger for a war.

In this historical construction, Ayurveda traces its origins to the Vedas, Atharvaveda in particular, and is connected to Hindu religion.

Traditional herbal medicine of India, known as Ayurveda, possibly dates back to the second millennium BCE tracing its origins to the holy Hindu Vedas and, in particular, the Atharvaveda.

The following table gives the traditional English names for each month's full moon, the names given by Algonquian peoples in the northern and eastern United States, other common names, and Hindu.

In many respects, the act was almost identical to the Hindu Marriage Act of 1955, which gives some idea as to how secularized the law regarding Hindus had become.

" In the 2010 the High Court verdict that gives two-thirds of the land to Hindu Temple, thousands of pages of the verdict were devoted to quotes from Hindu scriptures.

The latter is termed " homosexual " by contemporary scholars of LGBT and the modern west while the former, just like third-gender male's sexuality for women ( queer-heterosexuality ), has been driven underground through thousands of years of politics of male gender and sexuality in the formal level Although Hindu society does not formally acknowledge sexuality between men, it formally acknowledges and gives space to sexuality between men and third genders as a variation of male-female sex ( i. e., a part of heterosexuality, rather than homosexuality, if analysed in Western terms ).

* Mangalsutra-In many Hindu wedding ceremonies, the groom gives the bride a gold pendant or necklace incorporating black beads or black string.

The film was generally praised by critics / with Chitra Mahesh of The Hindu, saying " Bobby Deol spends the entire first half looking moony eyed and spaced out, but overcomes the stupor towards the end where he actually gives a good performance.

He gives equal billing to all religions, quoting from Hindu, Muslim and Christian sources, but rather than rely on scriptures for inspiration and guidance, Rawat relies on the experience provided by the four techniques of Knowledge.

When used as a technical term in Hindu religious literature it refers to a short introductory section that gives standard details about the work, such as the sage () who is said to have originated the work, the meter in which it is to be chanted, the deity () considered to preside over it, and other technical details of its use.

The essay " Gematria " gives Hindu, Christian, and " Unsectarian " versions of the problem that Crowley intended this magick word to answer.

The Hindu cosmological time cycles explained in the Surya Siddhanta, gives the average length of the sidereal year ( the length of the Earth's revolution around the Sun ) as 365. 2563627 days, which is only 1. 4 seconds longer than the modern value of 365. 2563627 days.

In order to maintain this alignment, Hindu astrology uses an adjustment, called ayanamsa, to take into account the gradual precession of the vernal equinox ( the gradual shift in the orientation of the Earth's axis of rotation ).

Hindu religious texts contain account of saints and hermits practicing what would be called inedia, breatharianism or Sustenance through Light in modern terms.

His account is clearly inspired by Garuda, the bird of the Hindu god Vishnu.

Helmuth von Glasenapp attributed these developments to a Hindu desire to absorb Buddhism in a peaceful manner, both to win Buddhists to Vaishnavism and also to account for the fact that such a significant heresy could exist in India.

The earliest written account of Elaborate codes of hygiene can be found in several Hindu texts, such as the Manusmriti and the Vishnu Purana.

" On the basis of the opinion of the experts, evidence on record, circumstantial evidence and historical account from all or any angle, it transpires that the temple was demolished and the mosque was constructed at the site of the old Hindu temple by Mir Baqshi at the command of Babar.

An excursus, in which Saadia attacks the view of the Hindu sect of the " Barahima " ( Brahmans ) to the effect that man needs no prophets, introduces his account of prophecy and his apology for the Prophets.

The community that originally spoke the Sanskrit language is also called the Vedic civiliation after their semi-legendary account of their community found in Hindu scriptures called the Vedas during the Vedic period from ca.

According to Romila Thapar " If we do not take Hindu theology in account the first historical description of the city dates back recently to the 7th century, when the Chinese pilgrim Xuan Zang observed there were 20 Buddhist temples with 3000 monks at Ayodhya, amongst a large Hindu population.

On account of his sacerdotal office and his profound knowledge of the Hindu religion, he commands wide respect in India, particularly in religious Hindu Brahmin circles.

One account relates that Lalon was born of Hindu Kayastha parents and that, during a pilgrimage to Murshidabad with others of his native village, he contracted smallpox and was abandoned by his companions on the banks of the Ganges, from where Malam Shah and his wife Matijan, members of the weaver community in a Muslim-populated village, Cheouria, took him to their home to convalesce.

The state of Kashmir and Jammu, which was expected to accede to Pakistan on account of its 77 % Muslim majority and its cultural and commercial links to West Punjab ( Pakistan ), but whose Hindu ruler chose to accede to India, became a disputed territory.

According to an account by Patricia Thornton, Ching Hai's recognition as a spiritual leader began in 1982, when she tried to buy a copy of the Hindu sacred work Bhagavad Gita from a small shop beside the Ganges.

However, in this the sixth yuga, the evil was called Kali, ( not the Hindu deity ) and having no physical form ( see Pre-Incarnational Events for this account ) he occupied the mind of people of earth as the Mayai ( illusion ), causing them to behave discourteously.

Mahābhārata, one of the most important Hindu epics, is an account of the life and deeds of several generations of a ruling dynasty called the Kuru clan.

As distinct from the Hegelian world view, Seal espoused that the idea of Western civilization as being the focal point or the culmination of world civilization was fundamentally erroneous, that failed to take into account the myriad richness and complex mosaic of cultural continuum that manifested themselves in Hindu, Islamic, and Chinese civilizations.