Hinduism

Hinduism And Hindu Theology

• What Is Maya?

• Matriarchy In India

• Reincarnation Of Humans As Animals 

• Historic Perceptions And Changing Attitude Towards Animal Sacrifice

• Adoption In Hindu Families

• Adultery In Hindu Society

• Arranged Marriages In Hindu Societies

• Debunking Aryan Migrant Myth

• What Is The History Of Indian Culture?

• Indian History Timeline

• Hindu Temple Architecture

• The Hindu Calendar

• What Is The Significance Of Begging In A Hindu Society?

• What Is A Caste In Hindu Society?

• Castration In A Hindu Society.

• What Is Causation In Indian Philosophy?

• What Are Causal Models In Indian Philosophy?
• October Is Hindu Heritage Month In The United States Of America

• The Practice Of Child Marriage In Hindu Societies.
• Who Are Child Widows?

• Remembering Gail Omvedt - American Born Indian Author, Sociologist And Human Rights Activist

• Remembering Kamla Bhasin, Indian Feminist Activist, Poet, Author, And Social Scientist.

• What Is The Kashi Vishwanath Corridor At Varanasi Or Benares In India?

• Human Well-Being From A Hindu Perspective: Care, Healing, And Wellness

• Hinduism On Service, Stewardship, And Healing

A

• What Is Abhang?

• What Is Abhava?

• What Is Hasta Abhaya?

• What Is Abhijnanashakuntala?

• What Is Abhinavagupta?

• What Is Abhinaya?

• What Is Abhisheka?

• What Is Achala Ekadashi?

• What Is Achamana?

• What Is Achamaniya?

• What Is Achara?

• Who Is An Acharya?

• What Is Achintyabheda?

• Who Is Achyuta?

• What Is A Ritual Act of Truth?

• What Is Adharma?

• What Is Adhikara?

• Who Is Adhiratha?

• What Is An Adhishthana?

• Who Is An Adhvaryum?

• What Is An Adhyasa ?

• What Is Adi?

• What Is The Adigranth?

• Who Is Adishesha?

• Who Is Aditi?

• Who Are The Adityas Or Aditya?

• Who Is An Adivasi?

• What Is Advaita Vedanta?

• Aerial Cars And Alien Flight

• What Is An Agama?

• Who Is Agastya?

• Who Are The Aghori?

• Who Is Agni?

• What Is Agni Akhara?

• What Is Agnihotra ?

• What Is Agnikula?

• What Is Agnipradakshinam?

• What Is Agnipravesha?

• What Is Agnishtoma?

• What Is An Agrahara?

• Who Is Ahalya?

• What Is Aham Brahmasmi?

• What Is Ahamkar?

• What Is Ahimsa?

• Who Are The Ahir?

• What Is Aihole?

• What Is The Aim Purpose Of Human Life According to Hinduism?

• What Is Aippasi?

• Who Is Airavata?

• What Is Aiteraya Brahmana?

• Who Is Aiyanar?

• Who Is Aiyappa?

• What Is  Ekadashi Aja?

• Who Is Ajamila?

• Who Is Ajatashatru?

• What Is Ajatashatru(2)?

• Who Is  Ajita Keshakambalin?

• Who Is Ajivika?

• What Is Ajna Chakra?

• What Is  Akasha?

• Who Is Akbar?

• What Is An Akhand?

• What Is  An Akhara?

• Who Is  Akhyati Prabhakara?

• Who Is Akkadevi?

• Who Is  Akrura?

• Who Is  Akshakumara?

• What Is Akshamala?

• What Is The Akshar Purushottam Samstha?

• What Is The Akshaya Trtiya?

• What Is Akshaya Vata?

• Who Is Alakananda?

• What Is The Alakhiya Akhara?

• Who Is Alambhusha?

• What Does Alamkara Mean?

• What Is Alandi?

• Who Was Alberuni?

• What Is Alchemy?

• What Is Alidhasana?

• Where Is Allahabad?

• Who Is Allama Prabhu?

• Who Were The Alvars?

• What Is An Amalaka?

• What Is An Amalaki Ekadashi?

• Where Is Amarkantak?

• Where Is Amarnath?

• Who Was Amaru?

• Who Was Amaruka?

• What Is Amarushatakam?

• Who Is Amba?

• Who Is Ambakeshvar?

• Who Is Ambalika?

• Who Is Ambarisha?

• Who Was  Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar?

• Who Is Ambika?

• Who Is Ambika (2)?

• What Is An Ammonite? Why Are Ammonite Crystals Revered?

• Who Is Amritanandamayi?

• What Is Amrita  Or Amrta?

• What Is Anahata Chakra?

• What Is An Analogy In Hindu Philosophy?

• What Is Ananda?

• What Is  Ananda Akhara?

• What Is  Ananda Marga Yoga Society?

• What Is Anandamath?

• Who Was  Anandamayi Ma?

• Who Was Anandapala?

• Who Are The Anandawara?

• Who Is Ananga?

• What Is Ananta?

• Who Was Anantadas?

• What Is  Anant Chaturdashi?

• Who Is Anasuya?

• What Are Ancestral Spirits According To Hinduism?

• Who Was Andal?

• Who Was Andhaka?

• Who Are The Andhra?

• About The State Of Andhra Pradesh

• What Is Anekantavada In Hindu Philosophy?

• What Is Anga?

• Who Is Angada?

• Who Is Angiras?

• Where Is Angkor?

• What Is Ani Or Anika In Sanskrit?

• What Is Ani In Tamil?

• What Is An Aniconic Image?

• What Is Anima?

• Who Is Aniruddha?

• What Is Anirvachaniyakhyati?

• What Is Anjali Hasta?

• Who Is Anjana?

• What Is Ankusha?

• What Is Annakut?

• What Is Anrta?

• What Is Anshavatar Or Ansh Avatar?

• Who Is Anshuman?

• What Is Antahpura?

• What Is Antarala?

• What Is Antariksha?

• What Is Antaryaga?

• What Is Antinomianism?

• What Is Antyeshthi?

• What Is Anulepana?

• What Is Anuloma?

• What Is Anumana?

• What Is  Anushtubh?

• What Is Anyathakhyati?

• What Is Apabhramsha?

• What Is Apaddharma?

• What Is Apana?

• Who Was Apastamba?

• Who Was Appar?

• Who Was Appaya Dikshita?

• What Is Aprashasta?

• Who Is An Apsara?

• What Is Apurva?

• Who Are The Aranya Dashanami?

• What Is Aranyaka?

• What Is Arati?

• Where Are The Aravalli Hills? 

• What Is Archana?

• What Is The Ardha Kumbha Mela?

• What Is Ardhamandapa?

• Who Is Arjuna?

• Who Is Ardhanarishvara?

• What Is Arghya?

• What Is Arsha Marriage?

• What Is Artha?

• What Is Arthapatti In Hindu Philosophy?

• What Is The Arthashastra?

• Who Is Arundhati?

• Who Is Aryabhatta?

• Who Is An Aryan In A Hindu Society?

• What Is The Arya Samaj?

• Who Was Asamanjasa?

• What Is Asana?

• What Is Asat?

• What Is Asatkaryavada?

• Who Is An Ascetic?

• What Is Asceticism?

• What Is Ashadh?

• What Is Ashaucha?

• What Is Ashirvad?

• Who Was Ashoka?

• What Is  Significance Of The Ashoka Tree?

• What Is An Ashram?

• What Is Dashanami Ashrama?

• What Is  Ashtachap Surdas?

• What Is Ashtadhyayi?

• What Is Ashtalakshmi?

• What Is Ashtanga?

• Who Is Ashtavakra?

• What Is Ashutosh?

• Who Was Ashvalayana?

• What Is Ashvamedha?

• What Is Ashvattha?

• Who Is Ashvatthama?

• What Is Ashvin?

• Who Are The Ashvins?

• Where Is Assam?

• What Is  Asthi-Sanchayana?

• What Is  Asthi-Visarjana?

• What Is Asura Marriage?

• What Is  Atala Akhara?

• What Is  The Atharva Veda?

• What Is Atikaya?

• Who Is An Atita?

• What Is Atman?

• What Is  Atranji Khera?

• Who Is Atri?

• Who Is An Aughar?

• Who Was Aurangzeb, The 'EVIL' Moghul?

• Who Was  Aurobindo Ghose?

• What Is Auspiciousness?

• What Is Avadhi?

• Who Is An Avadhuta?

• What Is Avahana?

• Who Is  Avahana Akhar?

• Who Is  Arthur Avalon?

• What Is Avani?

• What Is An Avatar?

• What Is Avidya?

• What Is Avimukta?

• Who Is Avvaiyar?

• What Is  Ayamatma  Brahman?

• What Is Ayana?

• Where Is Ayodhya?

• What Is Ayudhapurusha?

• What Is Ayurveda?

B

• Who Is A Baba?

• What Is The Babri Masjid?

• Who Is Badarayana?

• Where Is Badrinath?

• What Is Bahi?

• Who Is Bahina Bai?

• What Is Bahiryaga?

• What Is Bahudaka?

• What Is  Bahula Chauth?

• Who Is A Baiga?

• Where Is Baijnath?

• What Is Bairagi?

• What Is Baisakh?

• What Is Baisakhi?

• What Is Baithak?

• Who Are The Bajrang Dal?

• What Is Baka?

• Who Is Bakasur?

• What Is Baksheesh?

• Who Is Balarama(Avatar)?

• Who Is Balaji(Venkateshvara )?

• Who Is Balaji?

• Who Is Balakrishna?

• Who Is Balarama?

• Who Is Bali?

• Where Is Bali?

• What Is Bana?

• Who Was Bana?

• What Is A Bana Linga?

• Who Are The Bania Or Baniya?

• Who Are The Banjara?

• What Is Banking In Hindu Society And Culture?

• What Is Barahmasa?

• What Is A Barat?

• Where Is Barsana?

• What Is  Ekadashi Baruthani?

• Who Is Basavanna?

• Where Is Basohli?

• Where Is  Mohenjo-Daro, Bath?

• Who Was Baudhayana?

• Who Was Begampura?

• Where Is Begram?

• What Is Bel?

• Where Is Balligavi Or Belagave?

• Where Is Belur?

• What Is  Belur Math?

• Where Is Benares?

• What Is The Benares Hindu University?

• Who Speaks Bengali Or Bangla In India?

• What Does Betel Leaf Do?

• Who Is Bhadrakali?

• What Is Bhadrapada?

• What Is Bhadrasana?

• Who Was Bhagabhadra Of The Indian Shunga Dynasty?

• What Is  The Bhagavad Gita?

• What Is The Meaning Of Bhagavan?

• What Does Bhagavata Mean In Sanskrit?

• What Is The Bhagavata Purana?

• Who Is Bhagirath?

• Who Is Bhagirathi?

• Who Is Bhairava?

• What Is  Bhairava Akhara?

• What Is Bhairava Jayanti?

• What Is The Bhairavaprakasha?

• Who Is Bhairavi?

• What Is Bhaiya Duj?

• What Is Bhajan?

• Who Is A Bhakta?

• What Is A Bhaktamal?

• What Is Bhaktavijaya?

• What Is Bhakti?

• What Is Bhaktililamrta?

• What Is Bhaktimarga?

• What Is Bhaktirasabodhini?

• What Is  Bhamati Advaita?

• What Is Bhandara?

• Who Was   R. G. Bhandarkar?

• What Is The Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institution?

• What Is Bhang?

• What Is Bhanita?

• Who Is Bharadvaja(Sage)?

• Who Was  Bharadvaja (2)?

• What Is Bharata?

• Who Was  Bharata(Mythology)?

• What Is Bharatanatyam?

• What Is Bharati Dashanami?

• What Is The Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)?

• Who Is Bharat Mata?

• What Is Bharatmilap?

• WhoIs Bharavi?

• Who Is Bhartrhari?

• Who Is Bhartrprapancha?

• What Is Bharud?

• What Is Bhashya?

• Who Is Bhaskara?

• Who Is Bhasmasur?

• What Is Bhava? Who Is Bhavabhuti?

• Who Is  Vinobha Bhave?

• What Is Bhedabhada?

• Who Are The Bhil?

• Who Is Bhima?

• Where Is The  Bhima River?

• Who Is Bhimashankar?

• Who Is Bhishma?

• What Is  Bhishma Ashtami?

• What Is A Bhogamandapa?

• Who Are The Bhogawar?

• Who Was Bhoja?

• What Does Bholanath Mean?

• What Is Bhramargit?

• Who Is Bhramari?

• Who Is Bhrgu?

• Where Is Bhubaneshvar?

• What Is Bhujangavalaya?

• What Is Bhuriwara?

• Who Is Bhushundi?

• What Is A Bhut? Who Is Bhuta?

• What Are Bhutalingas?

• Who Is Bhutam?

• What Is Bhutayajna?

• What Is Bidhai Samaroh?

• Where Is Bihar?

• What Is Bijak?

• What Is A Bijakshara?

• What Is The Significance Of The Bilva Tree?

• Who Is Bimbisara?

• What Is The Meaning Of Bindu?

• Who Was Bindusara?

• Who Was Ghanshyamdas Birla?

• What Are The Rituals Associated With Childbirth In Hinduism?

• What Is The Black Yajur Veda?

• What Is The Ritual Significance Of Blood In Hinduism?

• What Is Varaha, The Boar Avatar Of Vishnu?

• Who Was  Subhash Chandra Bose?

• Who Is Lord Brahma?

• Who Is A Brahmacharin?

• What Is Brahmacharya?

• What Is Brahmahatya?

• Who Are The Brahma Kumaris?

• What Is A Brahma Marriage?

• Who Is A Brahmana?

• What Is A Brahmarandhra?

• What Is The Brahma Sampraday?

• What Is  Bhashya Of The Brahmasutra?

• What Are The Brahma Sutras?

• What Is A Brahmayajna?

• What Is The Brahmi Scripture?

• Who Is A Brahmin?

• What Is The Brahmo Samaj?

• What Is The Braj Region In India?

• What Is The Braj Bhasha?

• What Is The Brhadaranyaka Upanishad?

• Where Is The Brhadeshvar Temple?

• Who Is Brhannala?

• Who Is Brhaspati?

• What Is A Bride Price?

• Where Is Brindavan?

• What Are Bronzes?

• What Is The Buddha Avatar?

• What Is The Buddha Purnima?

• What Is Buddhi?

• Why Is The Bull Sacred In Hinduism?

• Where Is Bundi?

• Is There Burial Of The Dead In Hinduism?

• What Is A Busti In India?

C

• Where Is The Cauvery River In India?

• What Is The Artificial Caves Architectural Style In India?

• Who Was Cekkilar, The Nayanar?

• The Practice Of Celibacy In Hinduism.

• Where Is The Champaran Region In India?

• Who Is Goddess Chamunda?

• Who Was Chanakya?

• What Are The Chandas? 

• Who Is Chandi?

• Who Was Chandidas?

• Who Is Chandika?

• What Is Chandiprakasha?

• What Is The Chandogya Upanishad?

• Who Was Chandra Gupta I?

• Who Was  Chandra Gupta II?

• Who Was Chandragupta Maurya?

• Who Was Chandramati?

• What Is The Chandrayana?

• Who Was Charaka?

• What Is Charaka Samhita?

• Who Was Charanadas, And The Charanadasis ?

• What Is Charanamrta?

• What Is Charas?

• What Is Charvaka?

• What Is Chataka?

• What Is A Chatti?

• What Is  Chaturmas Vrat?

• What Is  A Chau?

• What Is Chaupai?

• What Is Chaurasi Vaishnavan Ki Varta?

• Who Was Chaturbhujdas?

• Who Were The Cheras, Or The Chera Rulers Of Kerala?

• Where Is The Chidambaram Temple?

• Who Was Chidvilasananda?

• What Are Hindu Rituals of Childhood?

• What Is A Chauri?

• Who Is Chayagrahi?

• What Is A Chillum?

• Who Was Swami Chinmayanand?

• Who Is Shri Chinmoy?

• What Is Chin Mudra (Consciousness Mudra)?

• Who Is Goddess Chinnamasta?

• Who Is Goddess Chintapurni?

• Where Is Chir Ghat?

• Who Are The Chitpavan(Or Konkanastha Brahmins)?

• Where Is Chitrakut?

• Who Was Chitswami?

• What Is Chittirai? 

• What Is The Festival Of Chittirai?

• Who Was Chokamela?

• Who Were The Cholas?

• What Is Chudakarana?

• Where Is Chunar In India?

• What Is A Churail?

• What Is The Significance Of Cinnabar In Indian Alchemy?