All goddesses in Hinduism are sometimes grouped together as the great goddess, Devi.

:* In Indian Hinduism, the star goddess Tara is a manifestation of the queen of time, Kali

In Hinduism, Diti () is an earth goddess and mother of the Maruts with Rudra.

* Uma ( goddess ), in Hinduism, an alternate name of the goddess Parvati

In Hinduism, Aranyani is a goddess of the forests and the animals that dwell within them.

* Arundhati ( Hinduism ), the Hindu goddess of the sky, stars and night time

In Hinduism, is the goddess of death and corruption, one of the dikpāla ( Guardians of the directions ), representing the southwest ( or — according Monier-Williams ’ s Sanskrit-English Dictionary — the south ).

In Hinduism, Asvayujau is a goddess of good luck, joy and happiness.

In Hinduism, Banka-Mundi is a goddess of the hunt and fertility.

In Hinduism, Bhadra ( भद ् र ) is a goddess of the hunt and one of Shiva's servants.

In Hinduism, Bhutamata is a terrible and malevolent goddess, a form of Devi.

In Hinduism, Budhi Pallien is a fearsome goddess of forests and jungles, who roams northern India in the form of a tiger.

The Hinduism of Champa was overwhelmingly Shaivist, that is, focussed on the worship of Shiva, and it was liberally combined with elements of local religious cults such as the worship of the Earth goddess Yan Po Nagar.

The Thuggee were a secret cult of assassins who worshipped the Hinduism | Hindu goddess Kali.

In Hinduism it is said that by proper worship, with a meticulous prayer procedure ( Sanskrit: Shri Lakshmi Sahasranam Pujan Vidhi ) the blessings of Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of money and fortune, may be obtained.

Matangi is regarded as a Tantric form of Sarasvati, the goddess of knowledge and the arts of mainstream Hinduism, with whom she shares many traits.

In Hinduism, a shrine is a place where a god or goddess is worshipped.

In some cases, particularly among devotees of the goddess Kālī in northern India, animals are sacrificed to the deity ( animal sacrifice is not a part of Hinduism ).

She is worshiped as goddess Pattini in Sri Lanka by the Sinhalese Buddhists, Kannaki Amman by the Sri Lankan Tamil Hindus ' ( See Hinduism in Sri Lanka ) and as Kodungallur Bhagavathy and Attukal Bhagavathy in the South Indian state of Kerala.

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.

The temple is dedicated to Mariamman, the goddess who followers of Hinduism believe controls smallpox and other infectious diseases.

Ratri, often also called Ratridevi, is the goddess of night in the Vedas and the mythology of India and Hinduism.

She has also been identified with the Hindu mother warrior goddess, and Kali, the black mother goddess of destruction, transformation and protection in Hinduism.

It is said that Tara Ma's footprints are preserved in the smashan ; this is a common theme in Hinduism, where deities or their especially holy followers are said to leave their footprints in rocks.

Prasād ( Sanskrit: प ् रस ा द, Bengali: প ্ রস া দ, Marathi: प ् रस ा द, Hindi / Urdu: प ् रश ा द / پرشاد / prashad, Kannada: prasāda ಪ ್ ರಸ ಾ ದ, Gujarati: પ ૃ સ ા દ, Oriya: ଭ ୋ ଗ, Tamil: ப ி ரச ா தம ் and Malayalam: പ ് രസ ാ ദ ം prasādam, Punjabi: ਪ ੍ ਰਸ ਾ ਦ ਿ, Telugu: prasadam, Bhojpuri: persādi ) is a material substance that is first offered to a deity in Hinduism and then consumed.

In Hinduism, Jagaddhatri or Jagadhatri ( Devnagri: जगद ् ध ा त ् र ी, Bengali: জগদ ্ ধ া ত ্ র ী, Oriya: ଜଗଦ ୍ ଧ ା ତ ୍ ର ୀ, ' the Protector of the World ') is a form of Devi, the supreme goddess.

Kumkum ( Sanskrit क ु ङ ् क ु मम ् kuṅkumam, Marathi क ुं क ू kunku, Bengali ক ু মক ু ম kumkum Tamil க ு ங ் க ு மம ் kunkumam, Telugu క ుం క ు మ kumkuma, Kannada ಕ ುಂ ಕ ು ಮ Kumkuma, Malayalam ക ു ങ ് ക ു മ ം Kungkumam ), is a powder used for social and religious markings in Hinduism.

Hinduism and Sanskrit literature were his lifelong interests.

Khmer has been considerably influenced by Sanskrit and Pali, especially in the royal and religious registers, through the vehicles of Hinduism and Buddhism.

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.

This period heralded the beginning of much of what became classical Hinduism, with the composition of the Upanishads, later the Sanskrit epics, still later followed by the Puranas.

In addition to the Vedas, the principal texts of Hinduism, the core themes of the Sanskrit epics Ramayana and Mahabharata are said to have their ultimate origins during this period.

The actual process of change from one life to the next is called punarbhava ( Sanskrit ) or punabbhava ( Pāli ), literally " becoming again ", or more briefly bhava, " becoming ", and some English-speaking Buddhists prefer the term " rebirth " or " re-becoming " to render this term as they take " reincarnation " to imply a fixed entity that is reborn .< ref >" Reincarnation in Buddhism: What the Buddha Didn't Teach " By Barbara O ' Brien, About. com < sup > Popular Jain cosmology and Buddhist cosmology as well as a number of schools of Hinduism posit rebirth in many worlds and in varied forms.

Sanskrit (, originally, " refined speech "), is a historical Indo-Aryan language, the primary liturgical language of Hinduism and a literary and scholarly language in Jainism and Buddhism.

In Hinduism, the term sin ( in Sanskrit ) is often used to describe actions that create negative karma by violating moral and ethical codes, which automatically brings negative consequences.

* Emergence of the Brahmana period of Vedic Sanskrit, probable composition of the Shatapatha Brahmana, and the first beginning of the Upanishadic and Vedantic traditions of Hinduism.

Traditionally Hinduism has adopted an ancient Sanskrit phrase Vasudha eva kutumbakam,

Naga ( Sanskrit :) is the Sanskrit / Pāli word for a deity or class of entity or being, taking the form of a very large snake, found in Hinduism and Buddhism.

** Sanskrit ( Hinduism )-words like guru ( teacher )

The earliest evidence of the group is from Vedic Sanskrit, the language used in the ancient preserved texts of the Indian subcontinent, the foundational canon of Hinduism known as the Vedas.

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

* Pāpa, in Hinduism, the Sanskrit word for the concept of sin

Hindu mythology is a large body of traditional narratives related to Hinduism, notably as contained in Sanskrit literature, such as the Sanskrit epics and the Puranas.

Hinduism is known to its followers as ( a Sanskrit phrase meaning " the eternal law that sustains / upholds / surely preserves "), amongst many other expressions.

In Hinduism, the gandharvas ( Sanskrit: गन ् धर ् व, gandharva, Kannada: ಗ ಂ ಧರ ್ ವ, Tamil: கந ் தர ் வர ், Telugu: గ ం ధర ్ వ ) are male nature spirits, husbands of the Apsaras.

In Hinduism, Chandra ( Sanskrit चन ् द ् र lit.

In Hinduism, Prajapati ( Sanskrit: ( IAST: )) " lord of creatures " is a Hindu deity presiding over procreation, and protector of life.

Matsya () ( Fish in Sanskrit ) was the first Avatar of Vishnu in Hinduism.

In Hinduism and Buddhism, the Sanskrit lexical item svāhā ( Romanized Sanskrit transcription ; Devanagari: स ् व ा ह ा, chi.