In Hinduism, Yama () or Yamarāja ( यमर ा ज ) is the god of death, belonging to an early stratum of Vedic mythology.

When Hinduism first came to Java, Yama was still the same as Yama in Hindu myth.

Later, as Islam replaced Hinduism as the majority religion of Java, Yama was demystified by Walisanga, who ruled at that time.

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Burmese literature has also been enriched by Hinduism, including the Burmese adaptation of the Ramayana, called Yama Zatdaw.

The messengers of Yama ( Hinduism ) arrived at his bedside to carry his soul to Yama ( Hinduism ).

In Hinduism, it is believed that the dog is a messenger of Yama, the god of death, and dogs guard the doors of Heaven.

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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, Anala (" fire " in Sanskrit ) is one of the Vasus, gods of the material world.

Atharvan ( ; an n-stem with nominative singular ) was a legendary Vedic sage ( rishi ) of Hinduism who along with Angiras is supposed to have authored (" heard ") the Atharvaveda.

In Hinduism, a Brahmarshi ( Sanskrit, a tatpurusha compound of and ) is a member of the highest class of Rishis (" seers " or " sages "), especially those credited with the composition of the hymns collected in the Rigveda.

Formally adhering to Hinduism, she took the name Savitri Devi (" Sun-rays Goddess " in Sanskrit ).

In Saivite traditions of Hinduism, the term is used as part of the compound " Maheshvara " (" great lord ") as a name for Shiva.

Rudraksha ( also Rudraksh ; Sanskrit: (" Rudra's eyes ") is a large evergreen broad-leaved tree whose seed is traditionally used for prayer beads in Hinduism.

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

The Bhāgavat religion of early Hinduism is documented epigraphically from around 100 BCE, such as in the inscriptions of the Heliodorus pillar, in which Heliodorus, an Indo-Greek ambassador from Taxila to the court of a Sunga king, describes himself as a Bhagavata (" Heliodorena bhagavatena "):

Jambudvīpa ( Devanagari: जम ् ब ु द ् व ी प ) is the dvipa (" island " or " continent ") of the terrestrial world, as envisioned in the cosmologies of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, which is the realm where ordinary human beings live.

The ARIS study of 2001 found some 1. 1 million adherents of Hinduism in the United States (" American Hindus "), corresponding to 0. 4 % of US population.

It can also be analyzed as an ' instrumental bahuvrīhi: " through whom the wheel is moving " in the meaning of " through whom the Dharmacakra (" Wheel of the Dharma ) is turning " ( most commonly used in Buddhism and Hinduism ).

The Guardians of the Directions ( Sanskrit: द ि क ् प ा ल, Dikpāla ) are the deities who rule the specific directions of space according to Hinduism and

* In Hinduism, lokapāla refers to the Guardians of the Directions associated with the four cardinal directions.

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.

In some lineages of Hinduism, Purusha ( Sanskrit, प ु र ु ष " man, Cosmic man ", in Sutra literature also called " man ") is the " Self " which pervades the universe.

In Hinduism and Buddhism, a mudra ( Sanskrit, literally " seal ") is a symbolic gesture made with the hand or fingers.

The Vishnusahasranama ( Sanskrit, a tatpurusha compound translating literally to " the thousand names of Vishnu ") is a list of 1, 000 names ( sahasranama ) of Vishnu, one of the main forms of God in Hinduism and the personal supreme God for Vaishnavas ( followers of Vishnu ).

In Hinduism, Devadasi tradition ( द े वद ा स ी / ದ ೇ ವದ ಾ ಸ ಿ; " servant of god ") is a religious tradition in which girls are " married " and dedicated to a deity ( deva or devi ) or to a Hindu temple and includes performance aspects such as those that take place in the temple as well as in the courtly and mujuvani or home context.

The Yajurveda ( Sanskrit:, a tatpurusha compound of " sacrificial formula ', + " knowledge ") is one of the four canonical texts of Hinduism, the Vedas.

Shaktipat or Śaktipāta ( Sanskrit, from sakti-"( psychic ) energy "-and pāta, " to fall ") refers in Hinduism to the conferring of spiritual " energy " upon one person by another.

The Atiratra Agnicayana ( " the building up of the fireplace performed overnight ") or Athirathram (); the piling of the altar of Agni is a Śrauta ritual of the Vedic religion, the predecessor of modern day Hinduism which is considered to be the greatest ritual as per the Vedic ritual hierarchy.

Āstika ( ; " it exists ") and Nāstika (, ; " it doesn't exist ") are technical terms in Hinduism used to classify philosophical schools and persons, according to whether they accept the authority of the Vedas as supreme revealed scriptures, or not, respectively.

In Hinduism, ( Sanskrit प ु र ु ष ा र ् थ: " that which is sought by man ; human purpose, aim, or end ") refers to a goal, end or aim of human existence.