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2 days ago · Hinduism is a major world religion originating on the Indian subcontinent and comprising several and varied systems of philosophy, belief, and ritual. If the Indus valley civilization (3rd–2nd millennium BCE) was the earliest source of Hindu traditions, then Hinduism is the oldest living religion on Earth.
- Hinduism
Hinduism - Origins, Beliefs, Practices: The history of...
- Veda
Veda, a collection of poems or hymns composed in archaic...
- Indus Civilization
The Indus civilization apparently evolved from the villages...
- Pilgrimage
Hinduism - Pilgrimage, Rituals, Beliefs: Pilgrimage in...
- Vaishnavism, Shaivism
Hinduism - Vaishnavism, Shaivism: Vaishnavism is the worship...
- Philosophical Texts
Hinduism - Upanishads, Vedas, Bhagavad Gita: Although the...
- Brahmanas, Aranyakas, Vedas
Hinduism - Brahmanas, Aranyakas, Vedas: Attached to each...
- Practice
Hinduism - Rituals, Beliefs, Traditions: The second strand...
- Castes
Hinduism - Caste System, Dharma, Varna: The origin of the...
- The Arts
Hinduism - Arts, Rituals, Beliefs: Like literature and the...
- Hinduism
1 day ago · The history of Hinduism is often divided into periods of development. The first period is the pre-Vedic period, which includes the Indus Valley Civilization and local pre-historic religions, ending at about 1750 BCE.
5 days ago · Sanskrit language, (from Sanskrit saṃskṛta, “adorned, cultivated, purified”), an Old Indo-Aryan language in which the most ancient documents are the Vedas, composed in what is called Vedic Sanskrit.
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2 days ago · 'The Great God', IAST: Mahādevaḥ, [mɐɦaːd̪eːʋɐh) or Hara, is one of the principal deities of Hinduism. He is the Supreme Being in Shaivism, one of the major traditions within Hinduism. Shiva is known as The Destroyer within the Trimurti, the Hindu trinity which also includes Brahma and Vishnu.
1 day ago · The Gita is one of the key texts for Vedanta, a school of thought that provides one of the theoretical foundations for Hinduism, and one that has had an enormous influence over time, becoming the central ideology of the Hindu renaissance in the 19th century.
5 days ago · The Manu-smriti prescribes to Hindus their dharma —i.e., that set of obligations incumbent on each as a member of one of the four social classes ( varna s) and engaged in one of the four stages of life ( ashrama s). It contains 12 chapters of stanzas, which total 2,694.
21 hours ago · Updated 4:22 AM PDT, June 5, 2024. NEW DELHI (AP) — For the first time since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party swept to power in 2014, the party did not secure a majority on its own in 2024 national election. But the prime minister’s coalition is still expected to run the country for another five years.
