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Like most of other Hindu deity, Jagaddhatri is also known as other names like Karindrasuranisudini ( Slayer of the Elephant Demon ), Maheswari ( the Great Goddess ), Shaktacharpriya ( the Goddess who loves to be worshiped as according to the practices of the Sakta sect of Hinduism, or Shaktism ), Adharabhuta ( the Bearer of the World ) etc.

Starting with the rituals of Jagannath temple in Puri it was regularly performed in Shaivite, Vaishnavite and Sakta temples in Orissa.

*( a ) Bhattacharyya, N. N., History of the Sakta Religion, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt.

* Kapoor, Subodh, A Short Introduction to Sakta Philosophy, Indigo Books ( New Delhi, 2002, reprint of c. 1925 ed.

* Sarma, Dr. S. A., Kena Upanisad: A Study From Sakta Perspective.

* Woodroffe, Sir John, Sakti and Sakta: Essays and Addresses on the Shâkta Tantrashâstra, Ganesh & Company ( Madras, 9th Ed.

The Bhattacharyas were Sakta brahmins — a family of hereditary priests.

After a four-hour battle in which most of his soldiers were either killed or captured, Rana Pratap escaped with the help of his estranged brother Sakta Singh.

*" Sakta vi gå genom stan " (" Walkin ' My Baby Back Home " with Swedish lyrics by Beppe Wolgers.

In 1962, Monica Zetterlund with Georg Riedel's Orchestra recorded a version of this song with Swedish lyrics by Beppe Wolgers entitled Sakta vi gå genom stan ( lit.

* Brooks, Douglas R. The Secret of the Three Cities: An Introduction to Hindu Sakta Tantrism.

The Agamas are predominantly divided into Saiva, Sakta and Vaishnava Agamas.

The coastal Karnataka has a different tradition of praying to spirits ( see also Folk Hinduism ).

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 ).

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.

Ancient hymns include the Egyptian Great Hymn to the Aten, composed by Pharaoh Akhenaten ; the Vedas, a collection of hymns in the tradition of Hinduism ; and the Psalms, a collection of songs from Judaism.

... While often employing concepts shared with Hinduism and Buddhism, the result of a common cultural and linguistic background, the Jain tradition must be regarded as an independent phenomenon.

In the Bhakti tradition within Hinduism, it is believed that execution of devotional service to God leads to the development of Love for God ( taiche bhakti-phale krsne prema upajaya ), and as love for God increases in the heart, the more one becomes free from material contamination ( krishna-prema asvada haile, bhava nasa paya ).

As an old religion, Hinduism inherits religious concepts spanning monotheism, polytheism, panentheism, pantheism, monism, and atheism among others ; and its concept of God is complex and depends upon each individual and the tradition and philosophy followed.

The hymn is an early example of enumerating the names of a deity, a tradition developed extensively in the sahasranama literature of Hinduism.

According to the particular tradition, with the experience of nirvana the mind ( Buddhism ) or soul ( Jainism ) or spirit ( Hinduism ) has ended its identity with material phenomena and experiences a sense of great peace.

Hoysala temples were not limited to any specific organised tradition of Hinduism and encouraged pilgrims of different Hindu devotional movements.

Hinduism – predominant and indigenous religious tradition of the Indian Subcontinent.

* A. C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada who founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness ( the ' Hare Krishnas ') in New York in 1965, an organization following the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism.

Hinduism has a long tradition of veneration of saints, expressed toward various gurus and teachers of sanctity, both living and dead.

Hinduism has a longstanding and living tradition of reverence toward saints, with the line often blurring between humanity and divinity with some Hindu deities.

Outside the European tradition of the philosophia perennis, one of the best known traditions to propose a similar idea of a common truth residing within all religions is Sanatana Dharma of Hinduism.

The idea of a single religious truth was more apparent among Sufi mystics, who borrowed from both the Judaeo-Christian tradition and from Hinduism, than it was among orthodox scholars, who accepted the Jewish and Christian truths, but rejected all beliefs that ran counter to Islam ( such as the Trinity, the sonship of Christ, or the reality of the crucifixion ).

This mode of worship is largely unchanged today within Hinduism ; however, only a small fraction of conservative Śrautins continue the tradition of oral recitation of hymns learned solely through the oral tradition.

Historically significant systems of mentorship include traditional Greek pederasty, the guru-disciple tradition practiced in Hinduism and Buddhism, Elders, the discipleship system practiced by Rabbinical Judaism and the Christian church, and apprenticing under the medieval guild system.

The archives of the Hinduism Today publication appear to be a solid and faithful storehouse of Hindu theory and practice ; they seem to be an ideal starting point for those interested in this ancient religious tradition.

In April 2010, Hindu American Foundation co-founder Aseem Shukla, on a Washington Post-sponsored blog on faith and religion, criticized Chopra for suggesting that yoga did not have origins in Hinduism but is an older Indian spiritual tradition which predated Hinduism.

Its importance stems from its association with the indigenous cultures that inhabited these islands prior to the influences of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity or the West, making Kulintang the most developed tradition of Southeast Asian archaic gong-chime ensembles.

Hinduism has a long tradition of aarti songs, simply referred to as ' Aarti ', sung as an accompaniment to the ritual of aarti.

Some other authors have suggested that there are many similarities between the Kanun and the Manusmṛti, the earliest work of the Dharmaśāstra textual tradition of Hinduism, which indicate a common origin.

After becoming the " Acharya " in the Ramanuja tradition, Swami Desikan left for Thiruvahindhipuram ( near Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu ), as per the orders of his Guru Swamy Kidambi Appullar and spent some years there meditating on Garuda and had the darshan of Lord Hayagriva, from then on, Sri Lakshmi Hayagriva became his personal deity.

The park occupies the interface between Tower Hamlets — sunk in poverty in the 19th century and with a strong tradition of socialist and revolutionary agitation — and Hackney, more genteel, but heir to a centuries-old legacy of religious dissent and non-conformism that led to its own fierce brand of reformism.

David Hoffmann occupies a very interesting position in the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement of the 19th century, as shown by, and is in some ways the prototype of the contemporary Orthodox Jewish scholar, facing the ubiquitous tension between faithfulness to tradition and the demands of critical inquiry.

This legal tradition holds that whoever occupies property and uses it for its social function has the right to possess it.

It occupies a palatial country house designed and built in 1889-1894 by Richard Norman Shaw, the champion of a renewed academic tradition, for Viscount Portman, the owner of large tracts in the West End of London, in the early version of neo-Georgian style that Sir Edwin Lutyens called " Wrenaissance ", to replace an earlier house, and is set in.

The 19th-century German Sanskritist Theodore Goldstücker was one of the early figures to notice the similarities between Spinoza's religious conceptions and the Vedanta tradition of India, writing that Spinoza's thought was "... a western system of philosophy which occupies a foremost rank amongst the philosophies of all nations and ages, and which is so exact a representation of the ideas of the Vedanta, that we might have suspected its founder to have borrowed the fundamental principles of his system from the Hindus, did his biography not satisfy us that he was wholly unacquainted with their doctrines ... We mean the philosophy of Spinoza, a man whose very life is a picture of that moral purity and intellectual indifference to the transitory charms of this world, which is the constant longing of the true Vedanta philosopher ... comparing the fundamental ideas of both we should have no difficulty in proving that, had Spinoza been a Hindu, his system would in all probability mark a last phase of the Vedanta philosophy.

* Hariclea Darclée sang 58 roles on 56 operas ( 32 operas of tradition, 12 in absolute première and 16 operas in important premières ) by 31 composers ( 12 composers of the tradition and 19 young composers with new operas interpreted in absolute première ); this artist occupies a singular position in the universal history of the opera: