Hindu texts used the term shunya ( zero ) to indicate the empty column on the abacus.

Unlike in Hindu and Jain sources, in ancient Buddhist texts ahimsa ( or its Pāli cognate ) is not used as a technical term.

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

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.

For example, ancient Hindu religious texts list clairvoyance amongst other forms of ' clear ' experiencing, as siddhis, or ' perfections ', skills that are yielded through appropriate meditation and personal discipline.

Many kinds of such spirits ( Vetalas, Pishachas, Bhūta ) are recognized in the later Hindu texts.

Within the Vedas the Hindu holy texts, Women were given the highest possible respect and equality.

One orthodox classification of Hindu texts is to divide into Śruti (" revealed ") and Smriti (" remembered ") texts.

The Arabs translated Hindu texts on numerology and spread it to the western world due to their trade links with them.

It is generally asserted that Hindu religious texts are the oldest known literature containing pantheistic ideas.

Unconscious aspects of mentality were referred to between 2500 and 600 BC in the Hindu texts known as the Vedas, found today in Ayurvedic medicine.

Historical texts from the Song dynasty and archaeological evidence suggest that Po-ni was heavily influenced by Hindu civilization, as transmitted by Hindu culture in Java and Sumatra, and not directly from India.

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Hindu and Egyptian mythology frequently feature in 19th century magical texts.

During these years Holst also became interested in Hindu mysticism and spirituality, and this interest led to the composition of several works set to translations of Sanskrit texts, including: Sita ( 1899 – 1906 ), a three-act opera based on an episode in the Ramayana ; Sāvitri ( 1908 ), a chamber opera based on a tale from the Mahabharata ; 4 groups of Hymns from the Rig Veda ( 1908 – 14 ); and two texts originally by Kalidasa: Two Eastern Pictures ( 1909 – 10 ) and The Cloud Messenger ( 1913 ).

The Nyaya Sutras of Aksapada Gautama ( c. 2nd century CE ) constitute the core texts of the Nyaya school, one of the six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy.

The Upanishads (, IAST:, ) are a collection of philosophical texts which form the theoretical basis for the Hindu religion.

The story of a great flood is mentioned in ancient Hindu texts, particularly the Satapatha Brahmana.

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Category: Hindu texts

Various childhood episodes or Lilas of Krishna, growing in Yashoda's household abound in Hindu religious texts, important amongst them are, Krishna giving darshan to Yashoda with his Vishwaroopa or his Divine Form.

There exist several versions of Cosmology in existing Hindu texts.

Zimmer does not explicitly describe the cyclical conception of time as itself " mythical " per se, although he notes that this conception " underl Hindu mythology ".

Hindu scriptures describe hunting as an acceptable occupation, as well as a sport of the kingly.

While this branch of Indian philosophy is today not considered to be part of the six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy, some describe it as a atheistic or materialistic philosophical movement within Hinduism.

The children describe their dramatic recruitment and participation in the Maoist People ’ s Liberation Army during the eleven-year civil war between the Maoist insurgents and the Hindu monarchy controlled government of Nepal.

In an intentional match with Hindu and Buddhist mythology and teachings, the first six chapters of the book describe actions which occur in the ' Great Wheel of Life '.

Just 0. 17 %, 0. 11 %, 0. 07 % and 0. 03 % would describe themselves as Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and Jewish, respectively.

Some Jain and Hindu scriptures describe the ultimate goal of the jiva as being one or more of the following ( depending on the particular philosophical tradition ):

Traditional Hindu sources describe him as a descendant of Manu, a grandson of Brahma.

" The Vedas, the earliest texts on Indian philosophy and Hindu philosophy dating back to the late 2nd millennium BCE, describe ancient Hindu cosmology, in which the universe goes through repeated cycles of creation, destruction and rebirth, with each cycle lasting 4, 320, 000 years.

The word " Khatri " is believed by some to be the Punjabi adaptation of Sanskrit word Kshatriya, used to describe the warriors in the traditional Hindu varna system.

In the eighth chapter, " The Depths Of The Divine ", Wilber uses the accounts of four mystics to describe the possibilities for further individual spiritual development: the Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson on nature mysticism, the Christian saint Teresa of Avila on deity mysticism, Meister Eckhart on formless mysticism, and the Hindu guru Ramana Maharshi on nondual mysticism.

The term Dalit Christian ( sometimes Christian Dalit ) is used to describe those low-caste who have converted to Christianity from Hinduism or Islam and are still categorized as Dalits in Hindu, Christian and Islamic societies in India, Pakistan and other countries.

While the term " Biblical epics " is used to describe films based on Judeo-Christian stories, other films may be based in other religious traditions, such as The Mahabharata, which is based on Hindu mythology, and The Message, which is based on Islamic history.

It is worth emphasizing that Sanskrit contains no word that precisely corresponds to ' law ' or religion and that, therefore, the label " Hindu Law " is a modern convenience used to describe this tradition.

The Hindu scriptures describe as it as " Tirtha-Raj " – the king of pilgrimage sites related to a water-body and relate it to the mythology of the creator-god Brahma, whose most prominent temple stands in Pushkar.

In turn, the film traces the motive for the blasts to the Bombay riots, the term used to describe the bloody warring between the Hindu and Muslim communities from December 1992 to January 1993, which left over 1500 people dead.

This category contains articles on Indian Gotras, kinship structures that describe lineage in the Hindu community.

It needs to be clarified whether the ideal is union or link with ' Waheguru ' ( God ) or merger in God ( Hindu belief ).

* There are some Hindu groups which may be considered animist.

The numeral system came to be known to both the Persian mathematician Al-Khwarizmi, whose book On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals written about 825 in Arabic, and the Arab mathematician Al-Kindi, who wrote four volumes, " On the Use of the Indian Numerals " ( Ketab fi Isti ' mal al -' Adad al-Hindi ) about 830.

In his autobiography, he says that the only religious ideas that appealed to him were those to be found in Hindu philosophical thought.

Thus, in the Hindu schools, if a claim was made that could not be substantiated by appeal to the textual canon, it would be considered as ridiculous as a claim that the sky was green and, conversely, a claim which could not be substantiated via conventional means might still be justified through textual reference, differentiating this from the epistemology of modern science.

A basis can be found in Hindu teachings both for permitting and forbidding the death penalty.

" are considered mere speculation and are thought to be aimed at disrupting Hindu nationalist groups such as the Shiv Sena, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and others.

The Buddhist tradition deems it to be the footprint of the Buddha, in Hindu tradition that of Shiva and in Muslim and Christian tradition that of Adam.

The Cārvākas maintained that the Hindu scriptures are false, that the priests are liars, and that there is no afterlife, and that pleasure should be the aim of living.

Sitting on many trade and migration routes, Afghanistan may be called the ' Central Asian roundabout ' since routes converge from the Middle East, from the Indus Valley through the passes over the Hindu Kush, from the Far East via the Tarim Basin, and from the adjacent Eurasian Steppe.

Ronald Inden writes that by 8th century BCE symbols of Hindu gods replaced Buddha " replaced the Buddha at the imperial centre and pinnacle of the cosmo-political system, the image or symbol of the Hindu god comes to be housed in a monumental temple and given increasingly elaborate imperial-style puja worship ".

Whether to insert an intercalary month in a given year may be determined using regular cycles such as the 19-year Metonic cycle ( Hebrew calendar and in the determination of Easter ) or using calculations of lunar phases ( Hindu lunisolar and Chinese calendars ).

The cartridges had to be bit open, so this upset the Hindu and Muslim soldiers.

" In the same Census of 1901, in the Kashmir Valley, the total population was recorded to be 1, 157, 394, of which the Muslim population was 1, 083, 766, or 93. 6 % and the Hindu population 60, 641.

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

During this period, Gandhi claimed to be a " highly orthodox Hindu " and in January 1921 during a speech at a temple in Vadtal, he spoke of the relevance of non-cooperation to Hindu Dharma, " At this holy place, I declare, if you want to protect your ' Hindu Dharma ', non-cooperation is first as well as the last lesson you must learn up.

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.