• Gavin Dennis Flood FBA (born 1954) is a British scholar of comparative religion specialising in Shaivism and phenomenology, but with research interests...
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    horns. Scholars such as Gavin Flood, John Keay and Doris Meth Srinivasan have expressed doubts about this suggestion. Gavin Flood states that it is not...
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    seal has been interpreted by these scholars as a prototype of Shiva. Gavin Flood characterizes these views as "speculative", saying that it is not clear...
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    1987, pp. 56–57. Jessica Frazier & Gavin Flood 2011, p. 18. John Bowker 2014, pp. 84–85. Jessica Frazier & Gavin Flood 2011, pp. 18–19, 24–25. Harold Coward...
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  • of what is already acquired, and the increase of what is protected. Gavin Flood explains artha as "worldly success" without violating dharma (moral responsibility)...
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  • term nāstika to describe Buddhism and Jainism in India is explained by Gavin Flood as follows: At an early period, during the formation of the Upaniṣads...
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  • merchant and politician Gavin Fletcher (born 1941), Scottish footballer Gavin Flood (born 1954), British Hindu studies scholar Gavin Floyd (born 1983), American...
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    enjoyment of life, affection, or love, with or without sexual connotations. Gavin Flood explains kāma as "love" without violating dharma (moral responsibility)...
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    (2008). Gavin Flood (ed.). The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism. John Wiley & Sons. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-470-99868-7. Michael Witzel (2008). Gavin Flood (ed.)...
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    Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Summer, 1975), pp. 490–512. Gavin Flood (1994), Hinduism, in Jean Holm, John Bowker (Editors) – Rites of Passages...
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    conceptualize Brahman as the Cosmic Principles underlying all that exists. Gavin Flood states that the Vedic era witnessed a process of abstraction, where the...
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    ISBN 978-1-59030-893-6. Flood, Gavin D. (1996). An Introduction to Hinduism. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-43878-0. Flood, Gavin (2006). The Tantric...
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  • enjoyment of life, affection, or love, with or without lustful connotations. Gavin Flood explains kāma as "love" without violating dharma (moral responsibility)...
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  • "Vedas and Upaniṣads", in The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism (Editor: Gavin Flood), Blackwell, ISBN 0-631215352, page 68 Michael Witzel. "Early Sanskritization...
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    (life energy) along with nadi (energy carrying arteries). According to Gavin Flood, the ancient texts do not present chakra and kundalini-style yoga theories...
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    English Dictionary with Etymology, Oxford University Press, page 1201 Flood, Gavin. An introduction to Hinduism. (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge...
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  • Gavin R. Ortlund (born 1983) is a writer, theologian, and Christian apologist. Ortlund is the author of eight books and multiple academic articles. He...
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    descriptions of kama, for example in the law codes of smriti by Manu. Gavin Flood describes kama as experiencing the positive emotional state of love whilst...
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    ideology of the Hindu renaissance in the 19th century, according to Gavin Flood – a scholar of Hinduism. Some Hindus give it the status of an Upanishad...
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    ISBN 978-1-4020-2320-0 Flood, Gavin (1996), An Introduction to Hinduism, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-43878-0 Flood, Gavin, ed. (2003), The Blackwell...
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    State University of New York Press. p. 148. ISBN 978-1-4384-0513-1. Flood, Gavin D. (1996), An Introduction to Hinduism, Cambridge University Press Gananath...
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     28–45. ISBN 978-81-7041-859-7. Pechilis Prentiss (2014), pp. 17–18. Flood, Gavin (1996). An Introduction to Hinduism. Cambridge University Press. p. 131...
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    religion and rooted itself in devotion as the only path for salvation. Gavin Flood mentions five most important contemporary Vaishnava orders. Nimbarka...
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    Francis Clooney (2005), in The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism (Ed: Gavin Flood), Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN 0631215352, pages 454-455; John Bowker (1975)...
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    (2003), The Dharmaśāstas, in The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism (Editor: Gavin Flood), Blackwell Publishing Oxford, ISBN 0-631-21535-2, page 102-104 Stella...
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    pre-Vedic period and was refined during the Vedic period. According to Gavin D. Flood, the Upanishads differ fundamentally from the Vedic ritual tradition...
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  • (1989), ISBN 0-8245-0755-X, Crossroads Publishing New York, pp. 64–85 Gavin Flood, Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Editor: Knut Jacobsen (2010), Volume...
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    Volume 1. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 349. ISBN 978-0-8239-3179-8. Gavin Flood (2008). The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 212–213...
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    pp. 59–65 Cybelle T. Shattuck 1999, pp. 51, 124. Jessica Frazier & Gavin Flood 2011, p. 255. Monier Monier Williams (2008 updated, Harvard University)...
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    "Vedas and Upaniṣads", in The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism (Editor: Gavin Flood), Blackwell, ISBN 0-631215352, pages 68-70 Bruno Nettl, Ruth M. Stone...
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