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.

The Hindu religion held cows sacred, and for Muslims pork was considered Haraam.

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 Bhagavat Gita, an important Hindu script, talks extensively about the afterlife.

After demanding the expulsion of Muslims from Calicut to the Hindu Zamorin, the latter sent the high priest Talappana Namboothiri ( the very same person who conducted da Gama to the Zamorin's chamber during his much celebrated first visit to Calicut in May 1498 ) for talks.

The numeral system came to be known to both the Persian mathematician Al-Khwarizmi, whose book On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals written about 825 in Arabic, and the Arab mathematician Al-Kindi, who wrote four volumes, " On the Use of the Indian Numerals " ( Ketab fi Isti ' mal al -' Adad al-Hindi ) about 830.

Western astrology places the equinox at the beginning of Aries, about 23 degrees after the equinox in the Hindu system.

In about 1150, the Hindu mathematician Bhaskaracharya gave a very clear exposition of binomial coefficients in his book Lilavati.

Certain Vedic Hindu holy books contain beautiful narrations about various Jain Tirthankaras ( e. g. Lord Rushabdev ).

The two biggest and most important Hindu festivals — Dashain and Tihar ( Dipawali )— arrive during this period, about one month apart.

The word satyagraha itself was coined through a public contest that Gandhi sponsored through the newspaper he published in South Africa, ' Indian Opinion ', when he realized that neither the common, contemporary Hindu language nor the English language contained a word which fully expressed his own meanings and intentions when he talked about his nonviolent approaches to conflict.

The mostly Hindu and Muslim labourers were compelled to work 7 and a half hours a day, six days a week for 3 years, receiving about 13 cents a day for their work.

Some Kurdish tribes were deported even farther east, into Gharjistan in the Hindu Kush mountains of present day Afghanistan, about 1500 miles away from their homes in western Kurdistan ( see Displacement of the Kurds ).

Approximately 76 % of the population were returned as Christian, with about 1 % each being Hindu or Muslim, and 20 % having no religion or no stated religion.

Hindu mythology is not only about Gods and men, but classifies a host of different kinds of spiritual, celestial, ethereal and earthly beings.

# Buddha is Buddha from the Hindu perspective who put forward his knowledge born of sorrowful feelings about the world.

The quote: " Hindu theology is consistent with monotheism, though it contains seeds of polytheism and idolatry " ~ H. T. Coolebrooke, sums up the general Hindu beliefs about polytheism.

A great Hindu sage wrote about the spiritual accomplishment of Gnosis using the metaphor of the philosopher's stone.

It rises in the Hindu Kush mountains, about west of Kabul (), passing north of the Unai Pass, in the eastern proximities of Hazarajat, in Behsud, flows west to Daykundi and Uruzgan.

Sita ( 1893 ), a Symbolism ( arts ) | Symbolist drawing by Odilon Redon inspired by poetry about a Hindu goddess, typical of the Aestheticism | Aesthetic Movement popular in fin de siècle arts and literature

In Hindu culture, newborns are traditionally named based on their jyotish charts, and astrological concepts are pervasive in the organization of the calendar and holidays as well as in many areas of life, such as in making decisions made about marriage, opening a new business, and moving into a new home.

She spent the war years in the South of India, learning from different teachers about Advaita Vedanta, one of the schools of Hindu philosophy.

Aesop's fables and the Indian tradition as represented by the Buddhist Jataka Tales and the Hindu Panchatantra share about a dozen tales in common although often widely differing in detail.

The Muslim merchants believed that they were about to lose both their trading opportunities and livelihoods, and attempted to sway the Hindu ruler against the Portuguese.