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Hindu and scholar
* Panda or pandit, a Hindu scholar
He also met Babu Pramadadas Mitra, the noted Sanskrit scholar, with whom he corresponded on the interpretation of the Hindu scriptures.
According to Angkor scholar Georges Coedès, " Angkor Wat is, if you like, a vaishnavite sanctuary, but the Vishnu venerated there was not the ancient Hindu deity nor even one of the deity's traditional incarnations, but the king Suryavarman II posthumously identified with Vishnu, consubstantial with him, residing in a mausoleum decorated with the graceful figures of apsaras just like Vishnu in his celestial palace.
Sanskrit scholar Maurice Bloomfield referred to Ṛta as " one of the most important religious conceptions of the Rig Veda ", going on to note that, " from the point of view of the history of religious ideas we may, in fact we must, begin the history of Hindu religion at least with the history of this conception ".
In 1931, a Dutch artist and scholar of Hindu and Buddhist architecture, W. O. J.
The scholar B. Bhattacharya studied various texts such as the Buddhist Sadhanamala ( 1156 CE ), Hindu Chhinnamastakalpa and Tantrasara ( 17th century ); he found that the Hindu Chhinnamasta and Buddhist Chinnamunda are the same, though the former wears a serpent as a sacred thread and has an added Rati-Kamadeva couple in the icon.
The caliph invited a scholar of Ujjain by the name of Kankah in 770 A. D. Kankah used the Brahmasphutasiddhanta to explain the Hindu system of arithmetic astronomy.
The Hindu scholar Lokmanya Tilak credited Jainism with influencing Hinduism in the area of the cessation of animal sacrifice in Vedic rituals.
Similarly, Melkote Ramaswamy, an Hindu American scholar, writes that the presence of the phrase “ In God we trust ” on American currency is a reminder that “ there is God everywhere, whether we are conscious or not .”
* Dharmakirti famed logician, author of the Seven Treatises ; student of Dignana's student Ishvarasena ; said to have debated famed Hindu scholar Shankara
They were presented by a Hindu scholar and mathematician, Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja, during the early part of the 20th century.
Accordingly, Fatehullah Shirazi, a renowned scholar and astronomer, formulated the Bengali year on the basis of the Hijri lunar and Hindu solar calendars.
The first quantitative estimate of the speed of light is seen in Indian vedic scholar Sayana's commentary on the Rigveda, one of the main Hindu scriptures.
Recently, in July 2008, Puja Morari Bapu, a renowned Hindu scholar, performed a 9 day lecture known as a katha to several Hindus who gathered in Cincinnati Gardens Arena from all around the world.
Her books both in Hinduism and other fields have been positively reviewed by Indian scholar Vijaya Nagarajan and American Hindu scholar Lindsey B. Harlan, who noted as part of a positive review that " Doniger's agenda is her desire to rescue the comparative project from the jaws of certain proponents of postmodernism ".
A pandit ( Sanskrit: पण ् ड ि त ; paṇḍita or paṇḍit ) is a scholar and a teacher, particularly one skilled in the Sanskrit language, who has mastered the four Vedic scriptures, Hindu rituals, Hindu law, religion, music, and / or philosophy under a Guru in a Gurukul or has been tutored under the ancient vedic Guru Shishya academic tradition.
Jerusalem based scholar Seth J. Frantzman writes that opposition to Hindu Nationalism and its denunciation by leftists as " fascist " or " racist " are related to their own antisemitism and opposition to Zionism, and that both Zionism and Hindu Nationalism are " united in the aspirations of unique peoples and states ", and " both grew out of a long suppressed and colonized peoples ' dreams for their own country free from foreign rule ".
Writing during the second century BC, the Hindu scholar Patañjali discussed the soul being burdened with an accumulation of impressions that were part of the karma from previous lives.
Although a foreigner, Gerald Shashtri is a scholar of Sanskrit and an expert in Astrology and Hindu Philosophy.
According to historian and scholar Walter Spink, Jogeshvari is the earliest major Hindu cave temple in India and ( in terms of total length ) ' the largest '.

Hindu and Tilak
Tilak took up the people's cause by publishing inflammatory articles in his paper Kesari ( Kesari was written in Marathi, and Maratha was written in English ), quoting the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, to say that no blame could be attached to anyone who killed an oppressor without any thought of reward.
Though the Bill was not extreme, only raising the age of consent from ten to twelve, Tilak took issue with it ; he did not object per se to the idea of moving towards the elimination of child marriage, but rather to the idea of British interference with Hindu tradition.
In Nagpur, Hedgewar became involved with social work and also with the Tilak faction of the Congress Party, through which he developed a close association with Dr. Moonje who later became his Mentor of Hindu Nationalism.
Mahmud shed no blood " except in the exigencies of war ", and was tolerant in dealings with his own Hindu subjects, some of whom rose to high posts in his administration, such as his Hindu General Tilak

Hindu and credited
Maharishi Bhrigu is credited as the father of Hindu astrology and the first astrological treatise Bhrigu Samhita is attributed to his authorship.
The school for some time in the Early Middle Ages exerted near-dominant influence on learned Hindu thought, and is credited as a major force contributing to the decline of Buddhism in India, but it has fallen into decline in the High Middle Ages and today is all but eclipsed by Vedanta.
The Marathas are credited for the re-establishment of Hindu rule in India.
Pandava, the hero of the Hindu epic Mahabharata, and Banasura, the demon devotee of Shiva, are both credited with building temples or cut caves to live.
* Adi Sankara, Hindu philosopher of roughly 800 CE credited with reviving Hinduism
Thomas Dealty, rector of St. Mary's Church, Swillington 1872-1878, is credited with having introduced the habit of throwing confetti at weddings, from his observation of rice thrown at Hindu weddings in his previous position as Archdeacon of Madras.
The text and Hindu tradition ascribe its authorship to Veda Vyasa, who is also credited as the scribe for the Vedas.
Anant Pai, affectionately known as " Uncle Pai ," is credited with helping to launch India's comic book industry in the 1960s with his " Amar Chitra Katha " series chronicling the ancient Hindu epics Mahabarata and Ramayana.
Within India, Pramukh Swami Maharaj is credited as the inspirer of the Swaminarayan Akshardham complexes in Gandhinagar and New Delhi, itself the world ’ s largest comprehensive Hindu temple ..

Hindu and Jainism
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.
Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism are called Hindu Dharma, Buddha-Dharma, Jain-Dharma and Sikh dharma, respectively.
The term ‘ Hindu ’ came to include persons professing any Indian religion ( i. e. Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism or Sikhism ) after India became an independent country
Certain scholarship holds that the practices, emblems and architecture now commonly associated with the Hindu pantheon and Jainism may go back as far as Late Harappan times to the period 2000 – 1500 BCE.
Karma in Jainism conveys a totally different meaning than commonly understood in the Hindu philosophy and western civilization.
In Jainism, " karma " conveys a totally different meaning from that commonly understood in Hindu philosophy and western civilization.
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.
Cārvāka emerged as an alternative to the orthodox Hindu pro-Vedic Āstika schools, as well as a philosophical predecessor to subsequent or contemporaneous nāstika philosophies such as Ājīvika, Jainism and Buddhism ( the latter two later spinning off into what may be described today as separate religions ) in the classical period of Indian philosophy.
In Buddhism, he is known as Vaisravana, the patronymic used of the Hindu Kubera and is also equated with Pañcika, while in Jainism, he is known as Sarvanubhuti.
Mantras ( Devanāgarī मन ् त ् र ) originated in the Vedic tradition of India, becoming an essential part of the Hindu tradition and a customary practice within Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism.
Om or ( written universally as ; in Devanagari as oṃ, auṃ, or om ) is a mystical Sanskrit sound of Hindu origin, sacred and important in various Dharmic religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.
The Kalachakra refers to many different traditions, for example the Hindu ; Saivite, Samkya, Vaishnava, the Vedas, Upanisads and Puranas traditions, but also Jainism.
Many religious orders adhere to a mendicant way of life, including the Catholic mendicant orders, Hindu ascetics, some dervishes of Sufi Islam, and the monastic orders of Jainism and Buddhism.
Unlike his father Chandragupta ( who was a Hindu in major part of his life and followed Jainism in older days ), Bindusara believed in the Ajivika sect.
The orthodox Hindu philosophies of Samkhya, Yoga, Vedanta, as well as the non-orthodox Nastika systems of Jainism and Buddhism can all be seen as representing one stream of spiritual activity in Ancient India, in contrast to the Bhakti traditions and Vedic ritualism which were also prevalent at the same time.
Jainism began to decline around the 8th century CE, with many Tamil kings embracing Hindu religions, especially Shaivism.
See also Hindu philosophy, Buddhist philosophy and Jainism
Indeed, the title character of the sixth century Tamil Buddhist epic Manimekalai is advised at one point to study the various Hindu schools of philosophy, such as Sankhya and Vaisheshika as well as Buddhism, Ajivika, Cārvāka, and Jainism.
Ājīvika is thought to be contemporaneous to other early Hindu nāstika philosophical schools of thought, such as Cārvāka, Jainism and Buddhism, and may have preceded the latter two systems.
Samāpatti is a common term for both Theravada Buddhism and Hindu Yoga, quodammodo also for Jainism, frequently used as a synonym for samādhi.
The syllabus of studies included Comparative Religion, the six systems of Hindu Philosophy and other schools of Buddhism, Jainism including study about other sects of Hinduism.
The corpus of Sanskrit literature encompasses a rich tradition of poetry and drama as well as technical scientific, philosophical and generally Hindu religious texts, though many central texts of Buddhism and Jainism have also been composed in Sanskrit.

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