• The Agamas (Devanagari: आगम, IAST: āgama) (Tamil: ஆகமம், romanized: ākamam) (Bengali: আগম, ISO15919: āgama) are a collection of several Tantric literature...
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    Balinese Hinduism (Indonesian: Agama Hindu Dharma; Agama Tirtha; Agama Air Suci; Agama Hindu Bali) is the form of Hinduism practised by the majority of...
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  • Look up agama or आगम in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Āgama (Buddhism), a collection of Early Buddhist texts Āgama (Hinduism), scriptures of several...
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  • Hinduism (/ˈhɪnduˌɪzəm/) is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order or way of life by which followers abide. The word Hindu is an...
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  • of Devi or Shakti) āgamas; all āgamas are elaborate systems of Vedic knowledge. According to Vedanta Desika, the Pāñcarātra āgama teaches the five-fold...
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    of measurement Panchanga Shaka era Vikram Samvat Roshen Dalal (2010). Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide. Penguin Books. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-14-341421-6....
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    ISBN 978-81-261-1400-9. Lochtefeld, James G. (2002). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism: A-M. Rosen Publishing Group. p. 122. ISBN 0-8239-3179-X. Pattanaik, Devdutt...
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  • traditions, movements, and sects are traditions and sub-traditions within Hinduism centered on one or more gods or goddesses, such as Vishnu, Shiva, Shakti...
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    Tantra (redirect from Esoteric Hinduism)
    subcontinent from the middle of the 1st millennium CE onwards in both Hinduism and Buddhism. The term tantra, in the Indian traditions, also means any...
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  • Hinduism and Sikhism are Indian religions. Hinduism has pre-historic origins, while Sikhism was founded in the 15th century by Guru Nanak. Both religions...
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    www.intelugu.net. Retrieved 13 April 2021. Jeaneane D. Fowler (1997). Hinduism: Beliefs and Practices. Sussex Academic Press. pp. 72–73. ISBN 978-1-898723-60-8...
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    The history of Hinduism covers a wide variety of related religious traditions native to the Indian subcontinent. It overlaps or coincides with the development...
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    Principal Upanishads Minor Upanishads Other scriptures Bhagavat Gita Agama (Hinduism) Vachanamrut Shastras and Sutras Brahma Sutras Samkhya Sutras Mimamsa...
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    as opposed to the Hindu deities. However, historically, their role in Hinduism is varied and at times, the distinction between the danavas and Hindu deities...
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    all gathered. Both Nigama and Agama puja are practised in Hinduism in India. In the Hinduism of Bali, Indonesia, Agama puja is most prevalent inside homes...
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    recent times mostly associated with Shaktism, and in currents of folk Hinduism strongly rooted in local popular or tribal traditions. Animal sacrifices...
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    Cheti Chand (category Hinduism in Sindh)
    BRILL. pp. 58–60. ISBN 90-04-14008-5. P. Pratap Kumar (2014). Contemporary Hinduism. Routledge. pp. 120–124. ISBN 978-1-317-54636-8. Mark-Anthony Falzon (2004)...
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    ISBN 9781405144445. John Stratton Hawley; Vasudha Narayanan (2006). The Life of Hinduism. University of California Press. p. 233. ISBN 9780520940079. Nanditha Krishna...
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  • Principal Upanishads Minor Upanishads Other scriptures Bhagavat Gita Agama (Hinduism) Vachanamrut Shastras and Sutras Brahma Sutras Samkhya Sutras Mimamsa...
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    Hindu deities are the gods and goddesses in Hinduism. Deities in Hinduism are as diverse as its traditions, and a Hindu can choose to be polytheistic...
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  • Varṇa (Sanskrit: वर्ण), in the context of Hinduism, refers to a social class within a hierarchical traditional Hindu society. The ideology is epitomized...
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    Dharma (redirect from Dharma (Hinduism))
    [dʱɐrmɐ] ) is a key concept with multiple meanings in the Indian religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism), among others. Although no single-word...
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    an āgama (आगम Sanskrit and Pāli, Tibetan ལུང་ (Wylie: lung) for "sacred work" or "scripture") is a collection of early Buddhist texts. The five āgama together...
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    ISBN 978-81-208-1450-9. Lochtefeld, James G. (2002), The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism: A-M, Rosen Publishing Group, p. 122, ISBN 0-8239-3179-X R., Venugopalam...
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    "godhead, divinity, tutelary deity" or deva, "deity"), is a term used in Hinduism denoting a worshipper's favourite deity. It is especially significant to...
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    Shaivism (redirect from Shaivite Hinduism)
    theologians. The Vedas and Upanishads are shared scriptures of Hinduism, while the Agamas are sacred texts of specific sub-traditions. The surviving Vedic...
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  • However, the Indian religions disagree on the details, for example with Hinduism considering a denial and misconceptions of Atman (soul, self) as a form...
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    Chandas Vyakarana Nirukta Kalpa Jyotisha Other scriptures Bhagavad Gita Agamas (Hinduism) Other texts Puranas Vishnu Purana Bhagavata Purana Devi Bhagavata...
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    History of Sukhodaya Art, Bangkok 1967, pages 12–32 Roshen Dalal (2010). Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide. Penguin Books. p. 406. ISBN 978-0-14-341421-6....
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  • Tantras in Hinduism are esoteric scriptures. The word tantra is made up by the joining (sandhi in Sanskrit) of two Sanskrit words: tanoti (expansion) and...
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