They also worshipped gods such as Indra, Varuna and Mitra, which again were to become part of the Hindu religion in India.

Funan and its succeeding societies which occupied this section of Southeast Asia would remain mainly Hindu in religion for about 900 years.

Fire is represented in the Aztec religion by a flint ; to the Native Americans, a mouse ; to the Hindu and Islamic faiths, a lightning bolt ; to the Scythians, an axe, to the Greeks, an apple-bough ; and in Christian iconography, a lion.

Daena has been used to mean religion, faith, law, even worship as a translation for the Hindu and Buddhist term Dharma, often interpreted as " duty " or social order, right conduct, or virtue.

The term ‘ Hindu ’ came to include persons professing any Indian religion ( i. e. Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism or Sikhism ) after India became an independent country

This period has been called the Golden Age of India and was marked by extensive achievements in science, technology, engineering, art, dialectic, literature, logic, mathematics, astronomy, religion, and philosophy that crystallized the elements of what is generally known as Hindu culture.

Although Nehru was disdainful of religion, his theosophical interests had induced him to the study of the Buddhist and Hindu scriptures.

The original Hindu concept of karma was later enhanced by several other movements within the religion, most notably Vedanta, and Tantra.

In the Hindu religion, Brahman ( Devanāgarī: ब ् रह ् मन ् bráhman ) is the eternal, unchanging, infinite, immanent, and transcendent reality which is the Divine Ground of all matter, energy, time, space, being, and everything beyond in this Universe.

Other faiths exist in Panama by the country's tolerance and freedom of religion, there are large Protestant, Jewish, Baha, Muslim and Hindu religious groups in Panama.

No president thus far has been an atheist, a Jew, a Buddhist, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Sikh or an adherent of any specifically non-Christian religion.

The Hindu religion is naturally pluralistic.

The Hindu religion has no theological difficulties in accepting degrees of truth in other religions.

Aluk or Aluk To Dolo a sect of Agama Hindu Dharma as a part of religion in Indonesia, within the Toraja society and the people of Tana Toraja, embrace religious rituals such as the funeral ceremony where a sacred cockfight is an integral part of the religious ceremony and considered sacred within that spiritual realm.

Hindu Hill rajahs fought frequent battles against Guru Gobind Singh because they were largely opposed to Guru Gobind Singh's casteless principles of religion.

The religion of Dvaravati is thought to be Theravada through contacts with Sri Lanka, with the ruling class also participating in Hindu rites.

The first ruler of the Kingdom of Ayutthaya, King Ramathibodi I ( ruled 1351 to 1369 ), made two important contributions to Thai history: the establishment and promotion of Theravada Buddhism as the official religion – to differentiate his kingdom from the neighbouring Hindu kingdom of Angkor – and the compilation of the Dharmashastra, a legal code based on Hindu sources and traditional Thai custom.

The historical significance of the Tantric method lies in the fact that it impacted every major Indian religion extant in the early medieval period ( c. 500-1200 CE ): thus the Hindu sects of Shaivism, Shaktism and Vaishnavism, as well as Buddhism and Jainism all developed a well-documented body of Tantric practices and related doctrines.

* The Mogul Emperor Aurangzeb destroys several Hindu temples and bans the whole religion, so Hindus rebel.

In Hindu religion, is a lesser Hindu divinity, usually the mount ( vahana ) of the God Vishnu.

His stature in Hindu religion can be gauged by the fact that an independent Upanishad, the, and a Purana, the Garuda Purana, is devoted to him.

The Hindu religion talks about ayurvede, the wisdom of traditional Hindu medicine.

At the beginning of October each year, the Dussehra Hindu Festival is also held on Calton Hill.

The assassin, Nathuram Godse, was a Hindu nationalist with links to the extremist Hindu Mahasabha, who held Gandhi responsible for weakening India by insisting upon a payment to Pakistan.

The assassin, Nathuram Godse, was a Hindu nationalist with links to the extremist Hindu Mahasabha, who held Gandhi responsible for weakening India by insisting upon a payment to Pakistan.

Many Indian restaurants of the sizeable Thai-Indian community will also have vegetarian dishes on offer, due to the fact that vegetarianism is held as an ideal by many followers of the Hindu faith.

In a public meeting held at the Ram Lila grounds in Delhi, a few days after the ceasefire, he complained against a BBC report which claimed that Shastri's identity as a Hindu meant that he was ready for a war with Pakistan.

Pakistan's acceptance of the Instrument of Accession was seen as a strategy to get a plebiscite held in Kashmir which had a Muslim majority and a Hindu ruler.

Remnants of demolished Hindu temples were used to build the Babri Masjid, Justice Dharam Veer Sharma of the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has held and cited evidence provided by the Archeological Survey of India.

' Open houses ' are held where Hindu Malaysians ( Of all ethnic races like Tamils, Telugus and Malayalees ) welcome fellow Malaysians of different races and religions to their house for a scrumptious meal.

The sociologist Lewis F. Carter saw his ideas as rooted in Hindu advaita, in which the human experiences of separateness, duality and temporality are held to be a kind of dance or play of cosmic consciousness in which everything is sacred, has absolute worth and is an end in itself.

While Nehru perceived the Hindu Mahasabha to be the greatest threat to the nascent republic, Rajaji held the opinion that the Communists posed the greatest danger.

Until the 19th century, Saint Thomas Christians had the right of access to Hindu temples and some leading Saint Thomas Christians held the status of sponsors at Hindu shrines and temple festivals.

In 2000, Guinness World Records presented two certificates to recognise the world record of offering 1, 247 vegetarian dishes during the Annakut Festival held at the Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, London on 27 October 2000, and secondly to recognise the largest traditionally built Hindu temple outside India.

A new Yajñopavītam is worn and the old Yajñopavītam discarded every year ; the change-over ceremony is held on a specific date calculated as per the Hindu lunar calendar.

The first Sangam ( mutaṟcaṅkam ) mudharchangam is described as having been held at " the Madurai which was submerged by the sea ", lasted a total of 4400 years, and had 549 members, which supposedly included some gods of the Hindu pantheon such as Siva, Kubera and Murugan.

Other Dark Kingdoms include ; the Dark Kingdom of Flint, the Native American underworld destroyed by the Stygian Empire ; the Dark Kingdom of Obsidian ( called by its inhabitants the Smoking Mirror ), the underworld of Central and South America largely destroyed by the Stygian Empire ; Khem or Duat, also referred to as the Dark Kingdom of Sand, the underworld of Egypt ; The Sunless Sea, the loose conglomeration of underworlds of Polynesia ; the Australian Dark Kingdom of Clay ; the seemingly paradisical city of Swar which houses the Hindu dead ; and the Enclaves of Wire, a loose conglomeration of protectorates held by the Dybuks, wraiths of victims of the Holocaust.

Little local trade was carried on, but the great Hindu fair of Ram Navami held every year was attended by about 500, 000 people.

The main annual event for Hindus is the Shivaratri fair held every year on 11th day of Hindu calendar month of Kartik.

The man held responsible for its removal was a French deserter, a grenadier from the Carnatic wars who apparently converted to the Hindu faith and worshipped at the temple for many years.

In North India, Diwali marks the beginning of the traditional New Year, and is held on the night of the new moon in the Hindu month of Kartik ( usually October or November ).

Pillai was one of the most common titles of dignity held by the Hindu caste of the Nairs and Pattaryas of North Travancore.

The Hindu mythology category contains articles concerning the body of stories that explains or symbolizes Hindu beliefs and are held dear to the tradition.