* Balin ( Hinduism ), a monkey king of Kishkindhya and a son of Indra in Hinduism, killed by Rama

The ten avatars of Vishnu, ( Clockwise, from Left upper corner ) Matsya, Kurma, Varaha, Vamana, Krishna, Kalki, Gautama Buddha in Hinduism | Buddha, Parshurama, Rama and Narasimha, ( in centre ) Krishna

Ten avatars of Vishnu ( Matsya, Kurma, Varaha, Vamana, Krishna, Kalki, Gautama Buddha in Hinduism | Buddha, Parshurama, Rama & Narasimha ).

Hindus believed that the site was the birthplace of Rama, and thus qualified as one of the most sacred sites of Hinduism.

Similar to some Malay versions of the Hikayat Seri Rama, the epic has lost the association with Hinduism and is instead considered a Jataka Story, a previous lifetime of the Buddha.

There are two types of tulsi worshipped in Hinduism: " Rama tulsi " has light green leaves and is larger in size ; " Shyama tulsi " has dark green leaves and is important for the worship of Hanuman.

In Hinduism the God Hanuman is benign and in the Ramayana he and his monkey people are pivotal for Rama to reach Sri Lanka and slay Ravana, probably Howard decided to depict him as a demon after having read Rudyard Kipling's The Mark of the Beast, a short story where a drunken British officer in India is struck by a curse after having defaced a Hanuman statue with his cigar.

Many religions, whether they believe in the soul's existence in another world like Christianity, Islam and many pagan belief systems, or in reincarnation like many forms of Hinduism and Buddhism, believe that one's status in the afterlife is a reward or punishment for their conduct during life.

In Hinduism, the belief is that the body is but a shell, the soul inside is immutable and indestructible and takes on different lives in a cycle of birth and death.

Soul is believed to be indestructible. None of the five elements can harm or influence it. Hinduism through Garuda Purana also describes in detail various types of " Narkas " or Hells where a person after death is punished for his bad Karmas and dealt with accordingly.

According to Hinduism the basic concept of Karma is ' As you sow, you shall reap '.

Likewise a popular Hindu ritual form of worship of North Malabar in Kerala, India is the Tabuh Rah blood offering to Theyyam gods, despite being forbidden in the Vedic philosophy of sattvic Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, Theyyam deities are propitiated through the cock sacrifice where the religious cockfight is a religious exercise of offering blood to the Theyyam gods.

It is an important tenet of some Indian religions ( Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism ).

Like in Hinduism, the aim is to prevent the accumulation of harmful karma.

Decisive in distinguishing Buddhism from what is commonly called Hinduism is the issue of epistemological justification.

For some schools of Hinduism and Buddhism the received textual tradition is an epistemological category equal to perception and inference ( although this is not necessarily true for some other schools ).

Breatharianism is a related concept, in which believers claim food and possibly water are not necessary, and that humans can be sustained solely by prana ( the vital life force in Hinduism ), or, according to some, by the energy in sunlight ( according to Ayurveda, sunlight is one of the main sources of prana ).

Hinduism preaches ahimsa ( or ahinsa, non-violence ), but also teaches that the soul cannot be killed and death is limited only to the physical body.

In Hinduism, celibacy is usually associated with the sadhus (" holy men "), ascetics who withdraw from worldly ties.

In Hinduism, Vayu ( Sanskrit व ा य ु ), also known as Vāta व ा त, Pavana पवन ( meaning the Purifier ), or Prāna, is a primary deity, who is the father of Bhima and the spiritual father of Lord Hanuman.

As the words for air ( Vāyu ) or wind ( Pavana ) it is one of the Panchamahābhuta the " five great elements " in Hinduism.

In Hinduism, it is also the name of the deva, a personification of water, ( one of the Vasus in most later Puranic lists ).

A subject of much scholarship by sociologists and anthropologists, the Hindu caste system is sometimes used as an analogical basis for the study of caste-like social divisions existing outside Hinduism and India.

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

In Hinduism, incarnation generally refers to an Avatar of Vishnu, the preserver in the Trimurti.

Vamana ( Devanagari: व ा मन, IAST: Vāmana ) is described in the Puranic texts of Hinduism as the Fifth Avatar of Vishnu, and the first incarnation of the Second Age, or the Treta yuga.

In Hinduism, Kalki ( Devanagari: कल ् क ि) is the tenth and final Maha Avatar ( great incarnation ) of Vishnu who will bring to an end the present age of darkness and destruction known as Kali Yuga.

In Hinduism, an avatar (; ; from Sanskrit अवत ा र in the Devanagari script, meaning " descent ") is a deliberate descent of a deity to earth, or a descent of the Supreme Being ( i. e., Vishnu for Vaishnavites ) and is mostly translated into English as " incarnation ," but more accurately as " appearance " or " manifestation ".

In Hinduism, for example, epiphany might refer to the realization of Arjuna that Krishna ( incarnation of God serving as his charioteer in the " Bhagavad Gita ") is indeed representing the Universe.

For example, some strains of Hinduism consider the Buddha an incarnation of Vishnu sent to deceive people.

Buddhist monks associated with the temple claim that this represents an attempt by Hindu nationalist elements to assert control over the temple, and to establish the primacy of Hinduism by advancing the claim that the Buddha was an incarnation of the god Vishnu.

In Hinduism, Kalki ( Devanagari: कल ् क ि; also rendered by some as Kalkin and Kalaki ) is the tenth and final Maha Avatara ( great incarnation ) of Vishnu who will come to end the present age of darkness and destruction known as Kali Yuga.

In Hinduism, Shakambari is an incarnation of Ishwari, consort to Shiva.

Kumaon is believed to have been derived from " Kurmanchal ", meaning land of the Kurmavatar ( the tortoise incarnation of Lord Vishnu, the preserver according to Hinduism ).

* Krishna, incarnation or Avatar of Vishnu, the supreme God in Hinduism, said in the Gita: In whatever way men identify with Me, in the same way do I carry out their desires ; men pursue My path, O Arjuna, in all ways.

CE ) was the author of the Chaitanya Charitamrita, a hagiography on the life of the mystic and saint Chaitanya Mahaprabhu ( 1486 – 1533 ), who is considered by the Gaudiya Vaishnava school of Hinduism to be an incarnation of Radha and Krishna combined.

In Hinduism, an acharya ( आच ा र ् य ) is a mahāpuruśa ( मह ा प ु र ु श, divine personality ) who is believed to have descended as an avatāra ( अवत ा र, incarnation ) to teach and establish bhakti in the world and write on the siddhānta ( स ि द ् ध ां त, doctrine ) of devotion to Bhagwan ( भगव ा न ्, lord, God, blessed one, see also iśvara ).

The name Muralitharan is derived from murli dhar ( Devnagri: म ु रल ी धर ) meaning " the bearer of the flute ", which is a synonym for Lord Krishna, a deity in Hinduism who is said to play upon his bamboo flute while looking after cattle.

In Hinduism, the perfectly ripe mango is often held by Lord Ganesha as a symbol of attainment, regarding the devotees potential perfection.

In Hinduism, the god Shiva is simultaneously destroyer and creator, portrayed as Shiva Nataraja ( Lord of the Dance ), which is proposed as the source of the Western notion of " creative destruction ".

In Roger Zelazny's novel Lord of Light, set on a world where humans with vastly advanced technology have set themselves up as the gods of Hinduism, Nirriti the Black is one of their enemies.

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 was a firm believer in Hinduism and is known to have worshipped Lord Vishnu.

It makes several departures from mainstream Hinduism and propounds monotheism through worship centered on Lord Shiva.

According to Hinduism, Lord Shiva, the destroyer of ignorance and illusion, resides at the summit of a legendary mountain named Kailāsa, where he sits in a state of perpetual meditation along with his wife Pārvatī.

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.

In Hinduism, the divine providence is associated with Lord Shiva, a major Hindu deity, who is one with great powers, yet lives a life of a sage and is known to keep himself intoxicated and meditating with bhang so that the world remains safe from his anger.

However, the essential similarities between the Samkhya and Patañjali's system remained even after the addition of the Isvara principle, with Max Müller noting that " the two philosophies were in popular parlance distinguished from each other as Samkhya with and Samkhya without a Lord ...." The Bhagavad Gita, one of the chief scriptures of Hinduism, is considered to be based on this synthetic Samkhya-Yoga system.

Powell stated that Sanat Kumara ( whom he refers to as the Lord of the World ) is in continuous telepathic rapport with the Spirit of the Earth ( i. e., the Planetary Logos – equivalent to the goddess known in some religions as Gaia or as Prithivi in Hinduism ). C. W.

In Hinduism, this same divine being is called Vishvakarman or Vishvakarma, and is described as being the " Principal Universal Architect " and the " Lord of Creation.

This grass is given significant importance in Hinduism due to its medicinal values and dedicated especially to Lord Ganesha, and is used in traditional cultures for toothache and amibiasis ( dysentry ).

The Brahma Sutras by Veda Vyasa say, “ God is not biased in giving happiness and misery to anyone but gives the fruits of one ’ s karmas .” ( 2-1-34 ) However, unlike general schools of Hinduism, the Swaminarayan followers believe in Lord Swaminarayan as the supreme God, which is not believed by followers of Hinduism.

Charas plays an important and often integral role in the culture and ritual of certain sects of the Hindu religion, especially among the Shaivs — the sub-division of Hinduism holding Lord Shiva is the supreme god )— and it is venerated by some as being one of the aspects of Lord Shiva.

The community professes Hinduism, with emphasis on the worship of Lord Shiva and faith in Shakti cults.

Shiva as Nataraja is worshipped as the Lord of Dance in Hinduism.

Bhagavata ( Bhāgavata, a vrddhi formation from Bhagavan, meaning " pertaining to Bhagavan " (" the Lord ", i. e. God )") signifies in the context of Hinduism.

Lord Shiva is also worshipped in other forms such as " Batara Guru " and " Maharaja Dewa " ( Mahadeva ) are closely identified with the Sun in local forms of Hinduism or Kebatinan, and even in the genie lore of Muslims.