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By this elevation to a status parallel to that of the Hindu Brahma, the Buddha receded far beyond the reach of mortal man.

Hindus had long claimed that the mosque had been built over the birthplace of a Hindu god, Ram, and a Hindu temple later dedicated to him.

Hindu man watched the eclipse as he took a bath in the Ganges River in Varanasi , India.

Though known as a devout Hindu, Gandhi rarely visited temples, and was generally repelled by the rituals and customs of organized religion.

The concept of fractals has been used to examine the form of the Hindu temple, both in terms of its planning and external appearance.

Shiva, in Hindu lore, is Planet X and Kali, the Dark Twin, is his wife.

Hindu woman married to a Parsi, came to ask for my blessings for her three-year-old son who could not speak.

But it was not in trying to smooth down Hindu-Moslem rivalry that Gandhi had spent his life.

As you know, in Hinduism you can be an atheist or a theist and yet be equally well a Hindu.

Another major Hindu god, Lord Shiva, is usually depicted with a cobra wrapped like a scarf around his neck.

That rumour spread across the globe and there were reports of Hindu deities drinking milk in London, New York and Italy.

What blew their mind was the first one took place in India, it was the party of a Hindu God.

After eight years of disheartening warfare, it is tempting to see NATO's mission as a repeat of past misadventures in the Hindu Kush.

The RSS, which claims to be the world's biggest voluntary group, remains powerful, able to turn out vast numbers in Hindu-dominated states.

Just as they tried to stoke a Shiite-Sunni civil war in Iraq, and failed, they are now trying to stoke a Hindu-Muslim civil war in India.

INDIA'S prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, is something of a poet as well as a devout Hindu.

it had been a Buddhist temple and about seven centuries ago it became a Hindu temple and in place of the Buddha they had put a Hindu idol.

In 2005 a Pakistani lawyer contended in a Lahore court that Basant was not just a Hindu ritual but a lethal game.

At dawn I parted company with the young Hindu, after touching him for a few francs, enough for a room.

For years, it pottered along, weighed down by the regulations that made up the licence raj, producing only a feeble "Hindu" rate of growth.

Hindu temples vary regionally, but generally consist of a towering shrine and a columned hall surrounded by an elaborate wall.

It has always been valued for its fragrance and its resistance to insects and grew to be a vital accessory in Hindu rituals.

It has a position in India and Southeast Asia similar to that of Latin and Greek in Europe, and is a central part of Hindu tradition.

Back in 1979, it was Afghanistan - when Russian tanks rolled across the dusty Hindu Kush to prop up a struggling communist regime.

At least 147 people were killed in India in a stampede at a Hindu temple in Jodhpur in the north-western state of Rajasthan.

Some of the Indian partners, members of the Hindu religion, did not receive this expression well!

Yoga: A Hindu discipline aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquillity.

As is practically tradition in today's beautiful actresses, Uma (who was named after a Hindu god) did not fit in as a schoolgirl.

We really start to see the power of the Arabic-Hindu system coming into its own as we hit the big numbers.

This chakra is located at the back of the head, at the point where Hindu Brahmins keep a tuft hair or shikha.

Even the Hindu nationalists in the delegation seem to have gotten the message.

The word Tantra refers specifically to a series of esoteric Hindu books that describe certain sexual rituals, disciplines, and meditations.

By the time of independence, in 1947, it was clear that many Indian Muslims were determined to break off from Hindu-majority India.

In New Delhi a man dives into a polluted section of the Yamuna River to search of coins left by Hindu rituals conducted at the river's edge.

His father was a Sikh and his mother was a Hindu.

The British divided up the Indian empire into 3 parts, the central part, with a Hindu majority, became modern-day India.

The Hindu-nationalist opposition party adopted Mr Ramdev's cause and other anti-corruption campaigners joined him in fasting.

In his hands, the Hindu goddess Kali is potbellied and squat. Her arms are flailing and her mouth is a terrifyingly gorgeous gash of red.

To be born a Hindu in India is to enter the caste system, one of the world's longest surviving forms of social stratification.

This was a watershed in modern Indian history, exacerbating tensions between the Hindu majority and Muslim minority.

Indian culture in the complicated, always the dominant Hindu culture, which runs through the history of Indian civilization has always been.

Swami Vivekananda, a follower of Ramakrishna, along with many others, who brought Hindu beliefs to the West, were all Smarta in belief.

The word "juggernaut" , Mr Baldwin notes, has an Indian origin: it is a British mispronunciation of the Hindu deity, Jagannath.

The exhibition continues through the Hindu Sultanate (beginning around 1500) and into the golden age of the Mughals.

In large cities, it is possible to find churches for most of the major faiths, including Moslem mosques and Hindu or Buddhist temples.

This was a critical contribution to the reduction of the immunity gap among Muslim and Hindu children in Uttar Pradesh's western region.

Due to the immense influence of Hindu mythology, most folk songs are related to some sort of praise of the gods and their creation.

Up to 150 Hindu pilgrims attending an annual festival have been killed in a stampede in Northern India.

The stopping power of the former Royal Nepalese industry is the second largest city of Pokhara in the two Hindu temples and a cinema.

After trying vainly to turn himself into an English gentleman, he was initiated into Hindu philosophy by a Russian Theosophist.

The curious attempt made by Hindu orthodoxy to revive its prestige with the help of western science soon spread all over the country.

Juggernaut is actually Sanskrit for "lord of the universe" , and is a form of the Hindu deity Krishna.

The Hindu compass was an iron fish that floated in a vessel of oil and pointed to the North.

When she told her family of her plans to marry, The Times reported, she was accused of defiling her Hindu religion.

The ability to reinforce NATO forces in the Hindu Kush will depend on how soon American troops can be shifted out of Mesopotamia.

While Kashmir's Hindu rulers prevaricated, hoping somehow to become an independent country, Pakistan's leaders decided to force the issue.

Hindu mythology also associated their god Shiva, which is Planet X, with his dark blue wife Kali, which is the Dark Twin.

IT TOOK a while to sort out Jama Khan's estate, a small plot at the foot of the Hindu Kush.

Only the word of a local Hindu astrologer gives hope he is alive.

Their words, looks and gestures come back to him as he climbs a mountain path or talks to a Hindu pilgrim or Buddhist monk.

Yoga is the primary focus in many ways of a Hindu's religious activities, being somewhere between meditation, prayer and healthful exercise.

During the ten-day Ganesh festival in Mumbai, devotees carry a statue of the elephant-headed Hindu god into the sea.

After Gautama died, his followers were driven out of Northern India by the priests of the Hindu religion.

They honor Parvati, wife of the Hindu god Siva, who dwells among the peaks and sends the streams cascading to the plains.

It was founded on a belief that Hindu India is Pakistan's mortal enemy, and on an ambition to drive India from Kashmir.

This has led to the Gita often being described as a concise guide to Hindu theology and also as a practical, self-contained guide to life.

"I'd like to get out of here, " says the Hindu boy weakly.

The ceremony, at a Hindu temple in Orissa state's Jajpur district, was conducted with all the rituals observed at traditional weddings.

The tiny Hindu island of Bali is one of the world's few remaining societies where modernity and tradition coexist in harmony.

Garuda (Sanskrit: Garuda), the eagle, is a lesser Hindu god, the mount (vahanam) of Vishnu, one of the main forms of God in Hinduism.

She burned it secretly, at night, before her Hindu images and sent up, as she thought, prayers of double efficacy.

The ancient Hindu tradition of polyandry was once widely practised in India, but is now only observed by a minority.

In the United states, Khan cosmetics selling in the barber shop and a Hindu India divorced women know each other.

That explains now why they used to giggle so, these intelligent Hindu boys, when I suggested that they touch Nanantatee for a five spot.

In neighbouring Gujarat, torn by Hindu-Muslim strife, it has preached "soft Hindutva" , a milder version of the BJP's hate-filled creed.

While Mimamsa does not receive much scholarly attention these days, its influence can be felt in the life of the practising Hindu.

With the Hindu way of burning, immediately it becomes a realisation that the body has been left.

In making my way through the inside of the crater on amazingly terrible roads, I happened on to this Hindu festival.

On Chhath, an ancient Hindu festival, rituals are performed to thank the Sun God for sustaining life on earth.

Six years ago a German defence minister, Peter Struck, said his own country's security was being defended in Afghanistan's Hindu Kush.

Looking back down, we see one of many decorative Hindu temples in the area of the Rock Fort.

Hindu holy man in a wheelchair sits in the middle of the Gaijatra parade in Kathmandu, Nepal.

As the Hindu temple is not meant for congregational worship, the garba-griha is small in scale when compared to the whole temple complex.

Mataji claims he was blessed by the Hindu goddess Amba when he was just eight.

The classical Western world directly affected Hindu religious art, and several features of Hinduism can be traced to Zoroastrianism .

Seven Hindu pilgrims were killed Thursday in a stampede at a religious festival on the river Ganges in eastern Indian, AFP reported.

It was not infrastructure spending that moved India beyond the 'Hindu rate of growth. '

In the near future, GERES plans to expand them to other parts of the Hindu Kush , as well as to Kyrgyzstan 's central Pamir region.

He defeated the war-like Rajputs, but gave them rank and married their princesses, who were permitted to conduct Hindu rites in the harem.

Hindu married women wear Sindoor (vermilion power) on their forehead and this practice is common in many parts of India and Nepal.

Today, the Bhagavadgita is internationally esteemed as one of the most influential Hindu texts.

and respected linguistic and especially religious pluralism, in the conviction that India should not become a Hindu Pakistan.

A great Hindu temple with elephants carved in relief at the doorway stands on a hillside in the western suburbs of Nashville, Tennessee.

The one-time kingdom has become a secular republic, dumping both its authoritarian monarchy and its previous designation as a Hindu state.

Karnataka is the party's only southern stronghold, crucial to show it has appeal beyond the northern Hindu "cow belt" .

Organizing a wedding at a Hindu temple is nothing unusual in Nepal.

Presbyterianism was not the only danger the good Hindu had to face in Cunupia.

In a sacred pool on the slopes of Mount Penanggungan, men bathe beside statues of Sri and Lakshmi, the consorts of the Hindu god Vishnu.

He works as a consultant with Fujitsu Services , and is also Secretary General of the Hindu Forum of Britain .

I am not Hindu so I am certainly not going to bother arguing Hindu theology with you.

Hindu women observe a day-long fast during the festival, wishing for the betterment of their family and society.

It is said to have some 400. 000 followers, but Sikhs and members of Hindu majority, mainly among the poor, illiterate, and lower castes.

A significant form of post-Vedic but pre-Paninian Sanskrit is found in the Sanskrit of the Hindu Epics, the Ramayana and Mahabharata.

A complete inventory of the artifacts found in the 16 century Hindu temple is expected to be filed to India's Supreme Court next week.

In the eastern philosophies, like Hindu or Buddhist philosophy, there is the concept of reincarnation.

Hindu mythology holds that three generations of deceased are in a netherworld called Pitru-loka that exists between heaven and earth.

The Hindu temple is famous for the thousands of rats that live there, dining on sweets, grain, and milk called laddu.

Hundreds of thousands of people had gathered at the shrine for an annual Hindu religious festival.

Only the hardiest sadhus, or holy men come to pay their respects at the very heart of the Hindu world.

Yet Indians (Hindu Indians, at least) tend not to eat beef.

As I awoke, I remembered that Kali was a Hindu Goddess, but nothing else about her, so I did a search.

Above, a young Singaporean boy holds a milk pot on his head before taking part in a Hindu ceremony.

They had been invited to a Hindu wedding and were not sure what happened on such occasions.

in india , practising hindu women cut off their hair in temples as part of a religious tradition.

A Hindu ascetic, or sadhu, wrapped in a bright-red cloth, smokes underneath a vad (banyan) tree outside a temple in Mumbai (Bombay), India.

In early Hindu literature, Garuda appears as the mount (avatar) of Lord Vishnu, and is thus semi-divine.

In Ancient India there existed a strange belief that if any Hindu crossed the seas, he would lose his religion.

Nepalese Hindu women take a ritual bath in the Bagmati River during the Rishi Panchami festival in Kathmandu.

The Hindu prince wanted to join India, but most of his people wanted union with neighboring Pakistan.

The Hindu rate of economic growth was in large part thanks for the persistence of the Nehruian policies under Ghanian dynasty.

The Dark Twin is the god Kali in the Hindu religion.

Observant students of ideas will recognize Hindu beliefs in this movement as well.

In September, an all-party delegation of Indian politicians-including even the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party-visited Kashmir.

The general had mustered his troops north of the Hindu Kush.

It was to recreate in Hindu mythology the Pitch grating, the Hindu Heaven.

Married Hindu women observe a one-day fast during the festival and offer prayers for the well-being of their husbands.

"China-India relations are probably the best in 45 years, " said Siddharth Varadarajan, strategic affairs editor of the Hindu newspaper.

The government says the scheme seeks to help widows who face social and cultural barriers in a majority-Hindu society.

"Ritual invitation" , or abbreviated cremation of Hindu railroad workers, invited scavenging by the lions.

Also I am not a Hindu or anything else, for I don't belong to any group, religious or otherwise.

The hindu crack the coconut with bared feet and parade with pins in their human bodies to bless to the god. on this day.

Whether one is a Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian, how you live your life is proof that you are or not fully His.

In the Hindu system, this third person was the Holy Breath, by which living creatures were made.

we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers .

An artisan lights a kerosene stove beside idols of Hindu elephant god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, in a workshop in Mumbai.

In Southern India, members of a Hindu political party recently gathered to burn Valentine's Day cards.

Parts of the Veda are still quoted in essential Hindu rituals , and it is the source of many enduring patterns of Hindu thought.

vivekananda , more than any earlier hindu reformer , encouraged social service and the uplift of the downtrodden.

During execution, short term and long term interest should be balanced, principle of win - win for each party and common hindu. . .

The large festival has roots to many Hindu legends associated with the triumph of good over evil.

Many ancient Hindu philosophical schools including Vedanta are inherited directly or indirectly from Upanishads.

Her parents had decided that after the Hindu festival of Akha Teej, in April, she would return to live with her husband and his family.

Its official religion is Islam , but mosques often stand next to Christian churches, as well as Hindu and Jewish temples.

Land-locked. aside from most modern routes of communication . and broken up by the mighty Hindu Kush mountains and by vast deserts.

There were not enough Muslim, Buddhist or Hindu respondents to say how those groups ranked.

So was the rightwing Hindu nationalist BJP, which lost a large amount of territory.

Smaller Hindu, Buddhist and animist minorities make up the remainder.

The man is no saint, and his movement displays a whiff of Hindu chauvinism (see article).

A fickle monsoon sky disappoints farmers crossing the Bhima River on a Hindu pilgrimage to the city of Pandharpur.

Varanasi's estimated 300, 000 weavers, of whom 90% are Muslim and the rest Hindu dalits (formerly "untouchables" ), have always been poor.

Hardline Hindu organizations have been accused of carrying out deadly attacks on Christians.

Members of the minority Hindu community let loose in Multan. Distinctions of race, caste, gender and age are suspended during Holi.

The wedding actually took place at a Hindu temple in Tamil Nadu state, with the dog bride wearing an orange sari and flowers.

In many coastal towns stuck by the tsunami, people sought refuge in Buddhist and Hindu temples, mosques and churches.

The fear is if radical Islamic groups are blamed for the bomb blasts that Hindu activists may attack minority Muslims in retaliation.

Plus, one does not need to be a Hindu to be a Indian nationalist.

A discussion looking at Islamic, Hindu, early pagan and Christian traditions of pilgrimage.

Recently, some Hindu pilgrims on their way to Mount Kailash from the Western pass, came across strange lights in the sky.

Hordes of Hindu pilgrims trek, unmolested, to a sacred penis-shaped lump of ice at Amarnath, a cave temple.

The Hindu ceremony takes place under a canopy of brocade or some other richly decorated material, festooned with flowers.

Nonetheless, attacks by Maoist, Hindu nationalist, Muslim and regional insurgents are persistent.

One hundred and forty-five people were killed in a stampede at a Hindu temple in northern India.

Traditionally, the Hindu goddess Lakshmi, the symbol of wealth, is portrayed sitting on a lotus sprouting from water.

Most residents of Godown, a huddle of mud and brick huts, are dali, especially chambers and dhobis, of the Hindu washer caste.

Jyotisha is the Hindu system of astrology, one of the six disciplines of Vedanga.

Sanskrit is mostly used as a ceremonial language in Hindu religious rituals in the forms of hymns and mantras.

The canine bride, named Selvi, was adorned in flowers and brought to the temple by village women. A Hindu priest conducted the ceremony.

Frictions between Hindus and religious minorities have often rallied more extreme Hindu groups aligned with the BJP.

The incarnation of a Hindu deity, especially Vishnu, in human or animal form.

Buddhist temples, mosques and Hindu temples are everywhere, featuring fine and delicate workmanship.

That pogrom followed allegations that a Muslim mob had been responsible for the deaths of Hindu activists.

It is also made into a paste which has universal application in Hindu practice.

Hindu, Muslims, Buddhists use sandalwood powder as incense in their religious ceremonies and rituals.

The seven greatest capital cities of Rama were known in classical Hindu texts as "The Seven Rishi Cities. "

The Himalayas are also located near the Indus Valley, as is the Hindu Kush mountain range.

Authorities are under pressure to act against both Hindu and Muslim fundamentalist groups and stem the growing tide of violence.

Hindu woman performs rituals after bathed in the River Ganges as part of the Kumbh Mela Festival in India.

You cannot remain a New Zealander, and I a Hindu, and talk about brotherhood.

These seventh and eighth century Dravidian relics with Buddhist elements are temples to the Hindu gods Vishnu and Shiva.

Then I should be an ancient Hindu, and burn myself on your pyre.

Festival of Lights On this day, Hindu temples throughout the country is particularly exciting, a sea of people.

Sikhism is an Indian religion combining Islamic and Hindu elements, founded in the Punjab (Panjab) in the late 15th century AD by Nanak.

Patel's follow-up, The Big Poster Book of Hindu Deities, featuring 12 stunning removable prints, is also very much worth a look.

Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu extremist.

Hardline Hindu nationalist party Shiv Sena, a dominant political force in Maharashtra, is backing the protests.

The ancient Hindu term yoni has achieved some currency today, and has respectful, even worshipful connotations.

Sadhus , or Hindu holy men, watch the solar eclipse through specially-designed viewing glasses in Allahabad, India.

You cannot become a Hindu, and no amount of eating raw green chilies will change that.

Invasions by the Islamic Mughals and the Christian British clashed with but added to the Hindu culture of India.

the first quake , with a magnitude of 6 . 1 , hit wednesday night at the junction of the hindu kush and pamir mountain ranges.

Sundays were off, as were Hindu holidays, so by the month's end you had saved only forty or forty-five rupees.

These divine descents are the well-known avatar as of the Hindu tradition.

I am not a Hindu and as such, I have no personal interest in propagating anything that would place Hinduism in a positive light.

An artist works on an idol of Hindu goddess Durga for the forthcoming Durga Puja festival in Allahabad, India, Tuesday, Sept.

Many Muslims, however, see the transfer as an act of majoritarian aggression by Hindu chauvinists.

Later that day a legal ruling was expected, from the Allahabad high court to settle a longstanding and bloody Hindu-Muslim dispute.

Muslims accused him of being the harbinger of Hindu "Raj" ; Hindu nationalists accused him of being insufficiently dedicated to their cause.

Its main opposition, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, was deflated by electoral defeat.

Dark Mother, Hindu triple Goddess of creation, preservation and destruction. Birth and Death Mother.

Four hundred dancing fountain heads are incorporated into the plaza, and in the area's north-eastern corner are two Hindu shrines.

Compared with the Hindu nationalists, Congress in fact seems quite perky. The reason why is not obvious.

Out of the Hindu tradition comes Yogic meditation, which is also purely concentrative.

The Holi festival of colors draws its roots from a Hindu legend involving the courtship of Radha and the religious figure Krishna.

Not even the most pessimistic, however, foresee a return of the pre-1991 reform era "Hindu rate of growth" .

Kathmandu, Nepal: Hindu worshippers offer fire to Lord Shiva at the Pashupatinath shrine.

"Come on, let's get out, " says the Hindu boy.

The Bundeswehr's recent offensive in Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountains is too timid for Washington, yet too bold for many in Germany.

Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Community, Religion, And Cultural Nationalism.

But India's Hindu nationalist movement seeks a more doctrinal approach to the religion's foundational texts.

Hindu devotees gather under a powdery cloud near the Banke Bihari Temple in Vrindavan on March 21.

The letter was written last spring by N. Ravi, former editor of The Hindu newspaper of India, to announce his resignation.

For Hindu weddings, red and gold hues used to dominate the decor.

In Hindu mythology, Durga is a symbol for power and the triumph of good over evil.

Kathmandu's Durbar Square, a Hindu temple sits silently amongst ancient historical monuments of old.

The main opposition Hindu nationalist BJP fears that the deal could compromise India's ability to test nuclear weapons in the future.

Kashmiri Muslims struggle violently against India's rule and in the process turn Hindu Kashmiris, like anguished Sartha Devi, into refugees.

The Arya Samaj became a bulwark against the encroachments of Islam and Christianity, and its orthodox flavour appealed to many Hindu minds.

Since then, violence has engulfed both the Muslim dominated Kashmir Valley and the Hindu dominated Jammu region.

You might think that the word "Hindu" has a suspiciously similar sound, and you'd be right; it evolved in the same way.

Gujarat is ruled by chief minister Narendra Modi, a leader of India's opposition Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party.

For many years, it was held that India suffered from a "Hindu rate of growth" because of its inefficient government.

Hindu devotees have painted much of the town of Vrindavan -- and themselves -- red on March 21.

But in 2003 a coalition government led by the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party launched an impressive bid for peace.

In the Hindu religion, colors, especially red, are endowed with symbolic significance.

The textbook introduced the use of Hindu numerals and included a systematic discussion of fundamental operations on integers.

This structure is decorated with carvings of many Hindu deities.

The Muslims, or Turks, as they are known locally, in many ways mirror their Hindu neighbours.

In Sri Lanka, armed battles between Buddhist Sinhalese and Hindu Tamils have taken many lives on both sides.

A Hindu devotee wraps a piece of clothing around himself after a ritual dip in the polluted Yamuna river in New Delhi in 2010.

This is actually the three major festivals of the Hindu festival, but the followers of other religions, India has not been as mistaken.

an Asia river; rises in the Himalayas and flows east into the Bay of Bengal; a sacred river of Hindu India.

In 1992, a Hindu mob demolished a mosque, the Babri Masjid, that had stood on the site since the 16th century.

Rich people sometimes employ sandalwood for cremating their dead in Hindu cultures.

Still later the historian Kay mentions Hindu records from the 4th and 5th Centuries C. E. of a new Sun God cult coming in from the West.

The Hindu way of burning the body is very significant.

Kabul, south of the Hindu Kush, is linked by narrow passes to the northern plains.

Witness the unflinching show of faith by Hindu devotees during Thaipusam festival.

India, a majority-Hindu country, has more Muslims than any country except for Indonesia and Pakistan, and more than twice as many as Egypt.

Millions of Buddhist and Hindu manuscripts were burnt in this great fire along with the monks and artifacts.

Jessie: Deeppavali, day of lights. A Hindu festival. A very important one, just like our spring festival.

Hindu rule was already tottering before Muslim penetration .

Wood carvings often include plant forms such as the lotus flower as well as figures taken from Hindu and Buddhist religious stories.

Tagore is born to Indian receives the good education the wealthy family, his father is a Hindu religion leader.

The poor are there, the rich are there, but that is not the real problem for the Hindu.

In the recent week, more and more people are arriving at the temple with a wish to find gold. "Everything is changing now, " a Hindu said.

I feel kinship with my Hindu brothers and sisters.

As be fair to everyone, I queries Hindraf on the issue of Hindu temple being backout by Klang city council.

Hindu Mythology - the dragon circling the tortoise which supports the four elephants that carry the world.

Majority-Hindu Nepal became a secular nation in 2006 in a deal with the former Maoist rebels who ended their decade-long civil war.

Festivalgoers leave offerings for the Hindu deity Lord Shiva.