There are many examples in Greek, Norse, and Hindu mythology.

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

** Mahābhārata, ascribed to Vyasa ( Hindu mythology )

** Ramayana, ascribed to Valmiki ( Hindu mythology )

These include the epic battle of Mahabharata at Kurukshetra mentioned in the Hindu mythology ( including the recital of the Bhagavad Gita by Krishna ), and the three battles of Panipat.

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

* King Kuru ( Hindu mythology ), the imputed ancestral king of Indo-Aryan Kuru tribe

* Hindu mythology

The final stage is Samādhi — Union with the All, it is considered to be the utmost level of awareness that one could possibly achieve, according to Hindu mythology, one of their main three deities, Shiva, had mastered this and thus was bestowed upon with stupendous power and control.

* Vahana, also called a mount, an animal or mythical entity closely associated with a particular deity in Hindu mythology

* Nandi a bull that serves Lord Shiva in Hindu mythology.

The Hindu tradition describes the sacred Nine Pearls which were first documented in the Garuda Purana, one of the books of the Hindu mythology.

* Hindu mythology

According to the Hindu mythology, a land bridge existed between the Indian mainland and Sri Lanka.

In South Asia, the formation is known as Rama's Bridge, as, according to Hindu mythology, it was constructed during the rule of Rama.

The name of the river Danube is believed to be Celtic in origin, and Celtic river deities are usually female ; Hindu mythology has a goddess called Danu, who may be an Indo-European parallel.

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.

Category: Locations in Hindu mythology

In Hindu mythology, Vega is called Abhijit.

The walls of the temple are covered with an endless variety of depictions from Hindu mythology, animals, birds and Shilabalikas or dancing figures.

In an interview included with the audio book editions of his novels, author Robert Jordan has stated that his bestselling fantasy series The Wheel of Time borrows the titular concept from Hindu mythology.

It was the venue of many events in Hindu mythology.

The Garuda ( Sanskrit: गर ु ड, " eagle ") is a large mythical bird or bird-like creature that appears in both Hindu and Buddhist mythology.

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

Nandini in Bengali means beloved daughter and one of the 108 names for the Hindu Goddess, the God Parvati ( Parvathi ) or Ma Durga who is the wife of the God Shiva.

Prithvi ( Sanskrit:, also ) is the Hindu earth and mother goddess.

* 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.

200 BCE ), author of Sanskrit ( Hindu ) and Pali ( Buddhist ) animal fables in verse and prose, sometimes derived from Jataka tales.

In the Shaivite tradition, the Shri Rudram ( Sanskrit श ् र ि र ु द ् रम ्), to which the Chamakam ( चमकम ्) is added by scriptural tradition, is a Hindu stotra dedicated to Rudra ( an epithet of Shiva ), taken from the Yajurveda ( TS 4. 5, 4. 7 ).

The name Indus comes from the Sanskrit word sindhu, meaning ocean, from which also come the words Sindh, Hindu, and India.

The Pearl or Mukta in Sanskrit is also associated with many Hindu deities.

Some scholars restrict the use of the term " Prakrit " to the languages used by Hindu and Jain writers only ; others include the Buddhist languages, such as Pali and Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, and the inscriptional Prakrits.

Philosophical conceptions of qi from the earliest records of Chinese philosophy ( 5th century BCE ) correspond to Western notions of humours and the ancient Hindu yogic concept of prana, meaning " life force " in Sanskrit.

Sanskrit continues to be widely used as a ceremonial language in Hindu religious rituals and Buddhist practice in the forms of hymns and mantras.

The eastern parts of the Chao Phraya valley were subjected to a more Khmer and Hindu influence as the inscriptions are found in Khmer and Sanskrit.

The Sanskrit word for the various schools of Hindu philosophy is Darshana ( meaning " view " or " viewpoint ").

Hindu ceremonies are usually conducted totally or at least partially in Sanskrit, the language of the Hindu scriptures.

The Hindu zodiac signs and corresponding Greek signs sound very different, being in Sanskrit and Greek respectively, but their symbols are nearly identical.

Krishna ( Sanskrit: क ृ ष ् ण in IAST, pronounced literally " black, dark blue ") is a Hindu deity, a " complete " avatar ( or " incarnation ") of the preserver-god, Vishnu.

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.

He leaves references to the sexual organs as in the original: persistent usage of the words " lingam " and " yoni " to refer to them in older translations of the Kama Sutra is not the usage in the original Sanskrit ; he argues that " to a modern Hindu " lingam " and " yoni " mean specifically the sexual organs of the god Shiva and his wife, and using those words to refer to humans ' sexual organs would seem irreligious.

He also met Babu Pramadadas Mitra, the noted Sanskrit scholar, with whom he corresponded on the interpretation of the Hindu scriptures.

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 ).

In the Hindu religion, Thursday is Guruvaar ( ग ु र ु व ा र ), from Guru, the Sanskrit name for Jupiter, the largest of planets.

Nin Giz Zida is another name for the ancient Hindu concept of Kundalini, a Sanskrit word meaning either " coiled up " or " coiling like a snake ".

( Sanskrit ny-āyá, literally " recursion ", used in the sense of " syllogism, inference ") is the name given to one of the six orthodox or astika schools of Hindu philosophy — specifically the school of logic.

The lingam ( also, linga, ling, Shiva linga, Shiv ling, Sanskrit ल ि ङ ् ग ं,, meaning " mark ", " sign ", " gender ", " phallus ", " inference " or " eternal procreative germ ") is a representation of the Hindu deity Shiva used for worship in temples.

' Utsava ' is the Sanskrit word for Hindu festivals, meaning ' to cause to grow ' upward '.