Hinduism is a complex of various belief systems that sees many gods and goddesses as being representative of and / or emanative from a single source, Brahman, understood either as a formless, infinite, impersonal monad in the Advaita tradition or as a dual god in the form of Lakshmi-Vishnu, Radha-Krishna, Shiva-Shakti in Dvaita traditions.

In Hinduism, sexual intercourse is seen as a sacred act of procreation within marriage.

Despite being personally opposed to early marriage, Tilak opposed the 1891 Age of Consent bill, seeing it as interference with Hinduism and a dangerous precedent.

Marriage of Daksh & Prasuti was the first marriage in Hinduism.

Personified, is one of the Adityas, a god of wealth and marriage in Hinduism.

Western-educated Hindu elites sought to rid Hinduism of controversial social practices, including the varna caste system, child marriage, and sati.

Gokhale and his fellow liberal reformers, wishing to purge what they saw as superstitions and abuses from their native Hinduism, wished through the Consent Bill to curb child marriage abuses.

His mother converted from Hinduism to Islam before her marriage.

The decision remarks that the decision was not precedent for a peer who had legally married two wives ( at the same time ), and that there is no British law on heirship in the case of a polygamous marriage ; but in this case that difficulty did not arise-and in fact the first Lord Sinha had belonged to the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj, a variety of Hinduism which required monogamy.

Tansen converted to Islam from Hinduism, apparently on the eve of his marriage with Akbar's daughter.

The practice of dowry is not endorsed by orthodox Hinduism and " may be a perversion of Sanskritic marriage prescriptions.

* In Hinduism, according to the Laws of Manu, " householder " ( grihastha ) refers to the second of four stages ( ashrama ) of life, typified by marriage, children and financial stability.

According to Hinduism, marriage is a union between a male and a female with a commitment to pursue Dharma, Artha ( possessions ), Kama ( physical and other desires ) and Moksha ( the liberation ) together.

Of the sixteen sanskaras in Hinduism, the sacrament of marriage or Vivah Sanskara is the most important.

Within the context of the Indian religions, or dharmas, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism, sex is generally either seen as a moral duty of each partner in a long term marriage relationship to the other, or is seen as a desire which hinders spiritual detachment, and so must be renounced.

She converted from Hinduism to Islam before her marriage.

He also convinces Gurucharan to convert himself and his family from Hinduism to Brahmoism as it forbade the giving of dowry in a marriage ( a move which so enrages Nabin Roy that he builds a wall between the two houses ).

But it also differs from traditional Hinduism in marriage as a whole.

In addition to the priest, all the people who witness the marriage will chant the mantras, and praise the couple following the priest, while in Hinduism this was done only by the Priest.

Tagore converted to Islam from Hinduism after her marriage to Khan's father, and changed her name to Begum Ayesha Sultana.

The Jewish synagogue affords a parallel to the Christian congregation, but Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Confucianism, Taoism, Shintoism, although they have sacred scriptures, priests, spiritual disciplines, and places of prayer, do not have a congregation as a local household of faith and love.

Allegory has been used widely in ancient sacred texts of Hinduism and all the religions that have sprouted off it ; and throughout the history of art in all forms of artwork.

The Atharvaveda, a sacred text of Hinduism dating from the Early Iron Age, is the first Indian text dealing with medicine, like the medicine of the Ancient Near East based on concepts of the exorcism of demons and magic.

The cow is considered sacred in Hinduism.

There are religious significance and aspects of the rooster and the cockfight which are exampled by the religious belief of Tabuh Rah, a religious and spiritual cockfight where a rooster is used in religious custom by allowing him to fight against another rooster in the Balinese Hinduism spiritual appeasement exercise of Tabuh Rah, a form of animal sacrifice, where ritual fights usually take place outside the temple and follow an ancient and complex ritual as set out in the sacred lontar manuscripts.

Hymns to the sun can be found in the Vedas, the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism.

Hinduism is a combination of secular and sacred beliefs, rituals, daily practices and traditions that has evolved over the course of over two thousand years and embodies complex symbolism combining the natural world with philosophy.

The earliest surviving description of mead is in the hymns of the Rigveda, one of the sacred books of the historical Vedic religion and ( later ) Hinduism dated around 1700 – 1100 BC.

The Himalayas have profoundly shaped the cultures of South Asia ; many Himalayan peaks are sacred in both Hinduism and Buddhism.

* 700 BC: The Upanishads, a sacred text of Hinduism, are written around this time.

Today people from various religious faiths of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and Jainism live together united, making it a place of enormous sacred importance.

It remains widely used in Indian religions, specifically in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, primarily as a tantric symbol to evoke shakti or the sacred symbol of auspiciousness.

* 700 BC — The Upanishads, a sacred text of Hinduism, are written around this time.

The former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee suggested in 2004 introducing legislation banning the slaughter of cows throughout India, as Hinduism holds cows as sacred and considers their slaughter unthinkable and offensive.

* Orange, or more specifically deep saffron, is the most sacred colour of Hinduism.

* In Hinduism left-handed shells of Turbinella pyrum ( the sacred shankha ) are considered to be sacred to the god Vishnu.

* Rigveda, in Hinduism, a sacred collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns dedicated to the gods

Atri Maharishi is considered to be one of the great discoverers of sacred Mantras of Hinduism.

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.

He spoke on major spiritual traditions including Jainism, Hinduism, Hassidism, Tantrism, Taoism, Christianity, Buddhism, on a variety of Eastern and Western mystics and on sacred scriptures such as the Upanishads and the Guru Granth Sahib.

* Sri Venkateswara Gosamrakshana Trust: Protection of Cow, a sacred animal in Hinduism