* Isha Upanishad, a Hindu religious text

The possibility of a curse pertaining to ownership of the diamond dates back to a Hindu text relating to the first authenticated appearance of the diamond in 1306: " He who owns this diamond will own the world, but will also know all its misfortunes.

Political philosophy originates in Ancient India with the Hindu text Manusmṛti, or Laws of Manu and Chanakya's Arthashastra.

The earliest documented use of the word Tantra is in the Hindu text, the Rigveda ( X. 71. 9 ).

An ancient Hindu text may have earlier referred to mainland Southeast Asia as Suvarnabhumi which means land of gold and insular Southeast Asia as Suvarnadvipa which means island or peninsular of gold.

The Kama Sutra (, ) is an ancient Indian Hindu text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by Vātsyāyana.

While sexual practices do exist within the very wide tradition of Hindu Tantra, the Kama Sutra is not a Tantric text, and does not touch upon any of the sexual rites associated with some forms of Tantric practice.

By tradition, the text belongs to the Treta Yuga, second of the four eons ( yuga ) of Hindu chronology.

The Bhagavat Purana Hindu text devotes nine chapters to the adventures of Vamana, a dwarf avatar of Vishnu.

Hindu text Atharvaveda gives an account of nature and habitats of such spirits including how to persuade / control them.

Hindu text Garuda Purana details other kinds of punishments and judgments given out in Hell ; this also given an account of how the spirit travels to nether world.

Manusmriti, an ancient Hindu legal text, assigns cattle rearing as an occupation of Vaisya ; however there are references in available literature that Kshatriyas also owned and reared the cattle and cattle-wealth was the mainstay of their households.

The Nasadiya Sukta of the oldest Hindu text Rigveda states that no one knows when creation has arisen.

* Baudhayana Shrauta Sutra, a Hindu text

However, the ideas that were developed and assimilated into the classical Samkhya text, Samkhyakarika, are visible in earlier Hindu scriptures such as Vedas, Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita.

Earliest mention of dualism in the Rig Veda, a Hindu text that was compiled in second millennium BCE, is in the Indra – Vritra myth.

This literature differs from other sources of Hindu Law, particularly smṛti or “ remembered text ”, because of the purely divine origin of śruti.

He is most known for his composition, the epic poem Gita Govinda, which depicts the divine love of the Hindu deity Krishna and his consort, Radha, and is considered an important text in the Bhakti movement of Hinduism.

Orthodox Hindus, however, do not accept this reference, because no Hindu canonical text allows this ceremony for a girl in the present kalpa.

The Indian epic poem Ramayana, written thousands of years ago in Sanskrit and an important Hindu text, recounts how Rama, with the help of an army of vanaras, built a bridge of stones across the sea to Lanka to rescue his wife Sita from the Asura king Ravana.

* Atharvaveda, aka Atharvaveda-Shaunakiya, a sacred Hindu text

In the same text, however, it is mentioned that " Occasional desecration of Hindu fanes took place ... but such demonstrations were probably rare sops to the official conscience ..".

It has been claimed that Kashyapa, later known as Kanada ( Sanskrit: कण ा द ; also transliterated as Canada as well as other forms ) was a Hindu sage and philosopher who founded the philosophical school of Vaisheshika and authored the text Vaisheshika Sutra.

Sylhet was certainly known by the rest of India, and is even referred to in the ancient Hindu sacred Tantric text, the Shakti Sangama Tantra, as ' Silhatta '.

The Ramayana, holy revered text of Hindus, is believed by many archaeologists and historians to be a collection of stories from Hindu mythology concentrating on the work of the gods in the lives of men, and was first written down, as legend states, in the forests of India by Valmiki in the fourth century BC.

Instead, it presumably refers to the practice of setting law books and citing legal precedents in blackletter type, a tradition that survived long after the switch to roman and italic text for other printed works.

Jewish tradition regards it as a redaction by the Great Assembly of an original text written by Mordecai.

By contrast, in civil law jurisdictions ( the legal tradition that prevails in, or is combined with common law in, Europe and most non-Islamic, non-common law countries ), courts lack authority to act where there is no statute, and judicial precedent is given less interpretive weight ( which means that a judge deciding a given case has more freedom to interpret the text of a statute independently, and less predictably ), and scholarly literature is given more.

Mather's text thus is one of the more important documents in American history, because it reflects a particular tradition of seeing and understanding the significance of place.

According to tradition, it was written around the 6th century BC by the sage Laozi ( or Lao Tzu, " Old Master "), a record-keeper at the Zhou Dynasty court, by whose name the text is known in China.

In this he claimed to reveal Plato's true meaning, a doctrine he learned from Platonic tradition that did not appear outside the academy or in Plato's text.

He defines deconstruction as a way of uncovering the questions behind the answers of a text or tradition.

No Christian tradition, other than some Syriac ones, has ever adopted a harmonized Gospel text for use in its liturgy.

The older mixed Vulgate / Diatessaron text type also appears to have continued as a distinct tradition, as such texts appear to underlie surviving 13th-14th century Gospel harmonies in Middle Dutch, Middle High German, Middle French, Middle English, Tuscan and Venetian ; although no example of this hypothetical Latin sub-text has ever been identified.

The Scriptures are not, however, the source of the traditions associated with the Church but rather the opposite ; the biblical text came out of that tradition.

In consequence, no reliance can be placed on any text in the Christian tradition ( including the four canonical gospels of the Christian New Testament ) as truly representing the teachings of Jesus.

" The text does not actually name this disciple, but by the beginning of the 2nd century a tradition began to form which identified him with John the Apostle, one of the Twelve ( Jesus's innermost circle ).

Rema noted that the Shulchan Aruch was based on the Sephardic tradition, and he created a series of glosses to be appended to the text of the Shulkhan Aruch for cases where Sephardi and Ashkenazi customs differed ( based on the works of Yaakov Moelin, Israel Isserlein and Israel Bruna ).

This became the founding text of the subsequent tradition known as " hypno-analysis " or " regression hypnotherapy.

" In 1844, his The Ego and Its Own ( Der Einzige and sein Eigentum which may literally be translated as The Unique Individual and His Property ) was published, which is considered to be " a founding text in the tradition of individualist anarchism.

There have been few attempts to define the nature and character of Arthur in the pre-Galfridian tradition as a whole, rather than in a single text or text / story-type.

Lully's motets also continued the Renaissance tradition of semi-secular Latin motets in works such as Plaude Laetare Gallia, written to celebrate the baptism of King Louis XIV's son ; its text by Pierre Perrin begins:

Again and again, with the Greek text in front of me and the NIV beside it, I discovered that the translators had another principle, considerably higher than the stated one: to make sure that Paul should say what the broadly Protestant and evangelical tradition said he said .... f a church only, or mainly, relies on the NIV it will, quite simply, never understand what Paul was talking about.

The method produced so-called " critical editions ", which provided a reconstructed text accompanied by a " critical apparatus ", i. e., footnotes that listed the various manuscript variants available, enabling scholars to gain insight into the entire manuscript tradition and argue about the variants.

The confusion over the text might stem from the text being an oral tradition ( declamatio ) that was only at a later date finally put to record.

Levi Nahum: Jerusalem ( Hebrew only, Livorno text, Libyan tradition )

): Jerusalem ( Hebrew only, Livorno text, Libyan tradition )

The Yemenite Jews are the only Jewish community to continue the use of Targum as liturgical text, as well as to preserve a living tradition of pronunciation for the Aramaic of the targumim ( according to a Babylonian dialect ).