When Hindus go on their yatras like the Kumbh Mela, the entire arrangement is done at government cost. |
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This tradition of Sanskrit theatre, now performed only in Kerala, is usually performed by a section of upper class Hindus, known as the Chakyars. |
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The first initiative for relief came from local communities, mostly Hindus and from Gurudwaras who brought the first meal and organised langars. |
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Because the language of study and communication was English, the Hindus forgot about Sanskrit. |
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However, since he couldn't get any Hindus to pose for him, he dressed up his own son as a Hindu, shaved head, saffron robes and all. |
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It may like to be hailed as the saviour of Hindus but not as the sworn enemy of minorities. |
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Small children were reciting the Gayatri Mantra and other Sanskrit verses sacred to Hindus. |
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Sections of the Indian military, frustrated by the past year's border deployment without action, could revolt and refuse to attack Hindus. |
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Although a devout Sikh, he took part in religious acts with Muslims and Hindus as well. |
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I do, however, remember that there was often tension between the Shias and the Sunnis, but, never between the Hindus and the Muslims. |
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It is enough that millions of Hindus actually believe it had occupied the site of a mandir. |
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Thirty-seven years later, in 1986, Hindus were permitted to worship there once again, sparking off nation-wide communal clashes. |
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They took steps to divide Hindus and Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs, upper castes and lower castes, Aryan North and Dravidian South. |
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During indentureship, there were tremendous efforts by the Hindus to assert themselves as Hindus. |
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The Solapur riots had started when fanatic Hindus resisted Muslims protesting against the outpourings of the American evangelist Falwell. |
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Indologists like to extrapolate the peaceableness of the Hindus from a reading of philosophical texts. |
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Gurmukhi is not only used by Sikhs but by Hindus as well as Muslims living in Punjab to represent their common spoken language, Punjabi. |
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Contrary to prevailing misconceptions, Hindus all worship a one Supreme Being, though by different names. |
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Friday, the holiest day for Muslims, is as well the holy day for Hindus to worship of the Mother Divine. |
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Bengali Hindus observe Holi, Divali, and other important religious festivals. |
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The other goal of Arya Sena is to strengthen the belief of Hindutva amongst Hindus. |
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The most obvious example of change, is the change of dress of Hindus from dhoti to trousers. |
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Therefore those sounds of words of Vedas and Upanishads are very important to Hindus. |
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This trend has sparked debate among Hindus about the nature of Hinduism and its boundaries. |
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Veda, Ramayan and Gita are the three and the only three supreme scriptures of Hindus. |
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Every 12 years Hindus gather for the Kumbh Mela festival and a temporary city is born. |
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The Hindus were the first to make systematic use of the letters of the alphabet to denote unknowns. |
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The development by Hindus of the system of base ten and the concept of zero is well known. |
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What, then, was the provocation by the Hindus in the case of the Sabarmati Express? |
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Whenever a Hindu inquires about other Hindus, what he actually wants to know is their caste. |
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For no other country in the world from east to west, faces the agony that the Hindus in India have to face. |
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She urged Muslims to be the best Muslims they could be and Hindus to be the best Hindus. |
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Whether Adivasis are Hindus or not has always been a question of great controversy. |
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So the Hindus say that this Atman is absolute and all pervading, therefore infinite. |
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A guy named Philip asked me on this forum to explain why it is that Hindus worship the Shiv Ling. |
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Yes, the Hindus are boiling mad at the Congress which has had its heydey in Nehruvian days. |
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Later, the concept of Dharma was also used by Hindus in very much the same way. |
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For the devout Hindus who pray at tiny ponds and puddles, the Saraswati is both a real river and a deity. |
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The reconversion work is going on in Hndusthan to get Hindus back where they truly belong. |
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Indian soldiers were only too happy to go to war on behalf of the Empire, even though, for Hindus, crossing the dark ocean meant losing caste. |
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While Bhutan has no caste system, a pattern of discrimination against the minority Hindus of Nepalese origin exists. |
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Hindus of many castes and sects and from many parts of India have migrated, taking with them traditions that were familiar to them back home. |
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Thirdly, we should do what will go a long way to heal the agony of the Hindus. |
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They are also attracted by the religious offerings of the Hindus in temples and try to emulate them. |
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Hindus are truly monotheist but worship many gods and goddesses and see the same God in them. |
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A comparison of nuptiality patterns for Hindus and Muslims shows great similarity. |
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Kashmiri Hindus need to create their own political clout by creating their own vote bank. |
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I am sure none of the Hindus think that such non-issues are more important than what really matters. |
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At first they used their political power to drive Hindus and Sikhs out of the bureaucratic, economic and educational spheres. |
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Since the days of President Zia these are full of venomous references to Hindus and Indians. |
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Hinduism asserts that all ways of belief are equally valid, and Hindus readily venerate the saints, and the sacred objects, of other faiths. |
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Expressions of this technique are found among the ancient Egyptians, Hindus, Greeks and Chinese. |
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The Arabs did not know about the advances of the Hindus so they had neither negative quantities nor abbreviations for their unknowns. |
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The food of the Brahmins is very light and vegetarian, and then there are the Hindus who are not Brahmins, who will eat non-veg. |
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It is the religious duty of Indian Muslims to forge the bond of love in all sincerity with Hindus of India and become one nation along with them. |
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Muslims in India headed en masse for Pakistan, while Hindus and Sikhs made their way in the opposite direction. |
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We presented the monistic theology, held by many Hindus and supported by the Vedas and Agamas, that God is the creator of souls. |
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Since Hindus believe that death cannot harm the immortal soul, a dying person is administered a tulsi leaf and water. |
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The shrine of a Mohammedan saint which is at the present day neglected and forgotten by Mohammedans, is worshipped by Hindus! |
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Hindus from both India and Mauritius visit the river, which they believe has miraculous powers. |
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Buddhists and Shintoists are Pagans, as are Hindus, Sikhs, and the animists who are found in all parts of the world. |
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So true Hindus should not mind if some such local rituals are not observed everywhere else. |
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Hindus readily accept as reality transcendental realms of Gods and devas and higher modes of consciousness than that in which we commonly live. |
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But today Hindus have all the resources they need to support our fellow brothers and sisters. |
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Very novel for Hindus, they are beginning to assert themselves at the polls in hitherto unexpressed sense of oneness. |
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Both Hindus and Buddhists cremate their dead, except for important lamas, who are buried. |
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Although the entire river is held to be sacred, Hindus believe that its source is of an extra special sanctity. |
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Buddhiist, Hindus, Jains, Sihks all have differing views of Karma, and there are differences within schools among the large traditions. |
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Bahrain Hindus celebrate a grand Divali in Sitra with the Indian ambassador as guest of honor. |
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Learn the right terms and the subtle differences in them, and you can explain the profound ways Hindus look at Divinity. |
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Hindus seek to find God on the inside while also worshiping God in the temples. |
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Only spiritually enlightened Hindus can stand between this faith and its degradation. |
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The Hindus believe that the footmark is that of Lord Shiva, the third godhead of the Hindu Holy Triad. |
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Both characters possess qualities considered essential to the Hindu lifestyle, and have become role models for Hindus of both sexes. |
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This is why many of us when we come to India, have difficulty with the way Hindus adore Gods in the forms of statues. |
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However for much of their empire they allowed Hindus to reach senior government or military positions. |
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On this day, Hindus fast and stay awake all night taking part in prayers, meditation and poojas. |
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Like traditional Hindus, Manipuris celebrate New Year's Day in the second week of April. |
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Hindus in Jammu rose up in protest in a movement known as the Praja Parishad agitation. |
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My wife Sushila and I conduct a youth program for teenage Hindus at our local mandir in Berlin, New Jersey. |
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Cecil Adams points out that some Hindus, including women, argue that suttee should be allowed because it's an integral part of their tradition. |
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It is naive to think that non-Hindus will worry about issues which concern Hindus. |
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For millions of Hindus in India, religion interweaves private worship, public ritual, and ephemeral art. |
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Along the coast of south India, Hindus tend to worship local deities, most of them female and far down the Hindu hierarchy of divinities. |
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But typically they live as solitary itinerants wandering across the land, relying on daily charity from pious Hindus. |
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There are small numbers of animists, Confucianists, Taoists, Mahayana Buddhists, and Hindus. |
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When Hindus speak out against such a situation, we are labeled communalists. |
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Some Hindus in Nepal even worship him as a reincarnation of the deity Vishnu. |
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In many provinces and localities Hindus too are in a minority. |
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The Hindus there kept strictly vegetarian, but there was never any tension with the carnivores next door. |
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For the Hindus the fasting is abstinence from meat during their holy time. |
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Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, is the most popular of all the festivals from South Asia, and is also the occasion for celebrations by Jains and Sikhs as well as Hindus. |
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Hindus take on a caste identity at birth, being born into a family within a particular jati, as the argument goes, because of actions in a previous life. |
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There was a smattering of clean-cut sensation seekers and a few actual Hindus as well. |
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Hindus who have a guru strive to receive spiritual initiation from him. |
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Most Hindus revere and adore the many manifestations of the Divine as Siva, Vishnu, Rama, Krishna or Durga even as they focus on an ishta devata, a favorite Deity. |
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The locally-managed Urban Co-operative Bank advances loans in millions to the needy sections which predominantly include non-Navayaths and the Hindus. |
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Most Malaysian Indians are Hindus, and they worship a pantheon of gods. |
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Judaism also believes, as Hindus do, that an old soul can choose to reincarnate in a body well after birth, in someone who is say 15 or 22 years old, this is known as ibbur. |
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In common with Hindus, Buddhists believe in reincarnation and that the soul of the human being may have inhabited, or may inhabit in the future, an animal. |
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Most Hindus consider bovicide to be equivalent to matricide. |
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For Hindus, it is important that a child be born at an auspicious time. |
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The Sinhalese are mainly Buddhists while the Tamils are mostly Hindus. |
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Most Hindus in Malaysia speak Tamil, even if they are Gujarati or Telegu. |
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I was sent on assignment to Thailand by Hinduism Today to meet the Indian Hindus of Thailand and to explore the ways in which Thais worship the Hindu Gods and Goddesses. |
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A million Hindus a year, from all over India, pilgrimage to this, the most sacred spot on India's most sacred river, to bathe in and to drink the water. |
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In extreme circumstances of unbearable agony where others turn to euthanasia or mercy killing, Hindus know the sufferer may refuse food and water. |
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He said Hindus had been looking for a temple site for more than 20 years and a spot on the town's main business and administrative artery road fitted the bill perfectly. |
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As long back as the 13th century she preached non-violence, simple living and high thinking and became thus Lalla Arifa for Muhammadans and Lalleshwari for Hindus. |
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Conversely, Shah's proposals that we should all resign to being Hindus is not only based on mysticism and some New-Age notion of limited Hinduism, it is also impracticable. |
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Elsewhere, where Hindus did convert, it was not the hoped-for Brahmins, but the powerless and disenfranchized lower castes and untouchables who made the change. |
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All three villages have a mixed population of Hindus of different castes. |
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Hindus do not bury their dead, except infant children and godly saints. |
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This was not always the popular stance, but with scripture and the majority of swamis backing him up, one heard fewer and fewer Hindus advocating violent solutions. |
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Whether in the tenements of Mumbai or in the villages around Ayodhya, I found Hindus and Muslims who lived and ate together and swore by each other even in times of crisis. |
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One day we may even have Hindus from India pilgrimaging to the West! |
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This invocation, replete with rich mythological allusions, has been an important item in the devotional repertoire of all Kashmir Hindus for the last several decades. |
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In the Indian epics such as Ramayana, Mahabharata and Puranas there are many references to interactions and wars between the forest or hill tribes and the Hindus. |
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Hinduism has no central doctrinal authority and many practising Hindus do not claim to belong to any particular denomination or tradition. |
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Millan had already been repeating his loud opinion of all Hindus, before the tailor he had so efficiently jewed down was half out of the room. |
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The Mersey is considered sacred by British Hindus, and worshipped in a similar way to the River Ganges. |
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The Punjab's population distribution was such that there was no line that could neatly divide Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs. |
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According to Pew Research Center there are 390,000 Hindus in Saudi Arabia, almost all foreign workers. |
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Most Scottish Hindus are of Indian origin, or at least from neighbouring countries such as Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh. |
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The bulk of Scottish Hindus settled there in the second half of the 20th century. |
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As independence approached, the violence between Hindus and Muslims in the provinces of Punjab and Bengal continued unabated. |
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Govinda's temple and restaurant, run by the Hare Krishnas in Swansea, is a focal point for many Welsh Hindus. |
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Today, there are over 2000 Hindus in Cardiff, worshiping at three temples across the city. |
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According to a study by Pew Research Centre, Hindus are among the religious groups having least years of formal education. |
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In contrast, the Vaishnava Hindus abhor and vigorously oppose animal sacrifice. |
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Some Hindus such as those belonging to the Shaktism tradition, and Hindus in regions such as Bali and Nepal practise animal sacrifice. |
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Hindus take darshan of a holy person, object, or place, believing that its mere presence, particularly the sight of it, conveys blessings. |
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The Hindus believe that this deepens the understanding of the eternal truths and further develops the tradition. |
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Did this term refer only to the divine statues venerated by the Babylonian pagans, Buddhists, Hindus, Manichaeans, and Sogdians? |
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Hindus offered religious services, sang Bhajan and prayed for the development and prosperity of the homeland in the ceremonies. |
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The majority of Hindus reside in India, Nepal, Mauritius, the Caribbean, and Bali in Indonesia. |
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Hindus worship goddess of good fortune and beauty Lakshmi, god of wisdom and auspiciousness Ganesh, and mountain Goverdhan on this day. |
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In response, mobs of Hindus enacted widespread revenge throughout Delhi. |
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They have this misimpression that Muslims produce more children and he wants to do a split voting between Hindus and Muslims. |
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At some places people say that they do not want low caste Hindus and Muslims to sing Kirtans. |
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He advocated dismantling the system of caste in Hindu culture, and reconversion of the converted Hindus back to Hindu religion. |
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In particular, the Vedic Hindus shared several beliefs and practices with their Iranian Zoroastrian neighbours just across the mountain ranges. |
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Tipu Sultan Jayanti has raised widespread opposition not only from Hindus but also from many other communities in Karnataka. |
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I wore these spots of shine and silver like tilaks, the marks of colour that we Hindus wear on our foreheads as symbols of the divine. |
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The act is condemnable and he said that such acts should not create circumstance which can lead the Hindus to migrate from the area. |
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According to the 2001 census, the country has around 5,000 Muslims, mainly from South Asia, 3,000 Hindus and 700 Baha'is. |
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Sikhs and Buddhists objected to the wording of Article 25 which terms them as Hindus with personal laws being applied to them. |
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Since the Act applied only to Hindus, women from the other communities remained subordinated. |
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It had a limited application because it required those involved to renounce their religion and was applicable only to Hindus. |
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Internet Hindus and fans of Narendra Modi would bury you six feet under and do a gravedance on your grave with surreal pleasure! |
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However, Hindus in Sharjah often face problems when the designated cremator is unavailable or on vacations. |
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Hindus are found in all provinces of Pakistan but are mostly concentrated in Sindh. |
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Bauls are a very heterogeneous group, with many sects, but their membership mainly consists of Vaishnava Hindus and Sufi Muslims. |
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Although most of the mutinous sepoys in Delhi were Hindus, a significant proportion of the insurgents were Muslims. |
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Along with the desire for independence, tensions between Hindus and Muslims had also been developing over the years. |
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The language controversy further escalated the tensions between Hindus and Muslims. |
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The famous emperor Akbar the Great, who was the grandson of Babar, tried to establish a good relationship with the Hindus. |
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There was a wave of slackness, and young men preferred to remain lob-lolly lesser Hindus than to follow their fathers' stern creed. |
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Before his struggle began Jaipal had raised a large army of Punjabi Hindus. |
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The Vedic culture is described in the texts of Vedas, still sacred to Hindus, which were orally composed in Vedic Sanskrit. |
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Hindu temples were turned into tourist sites against the wishes of the Cham Hindus. |
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Due to recent migrations populations of Hindus, Moros and Chinese have also been present in urban areas. |
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The Buddhist majority observe Poya Days each month according to the Lunar calendar, and Hindus and Muslims also observe their own holidays. |
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Nepalis are Hindus and they have resisted the proselytisation in their areas. |
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Many other Hindus, however, view polytheism as far preferable to monotheism. |
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Some sects of Hindus, particularly of the Bhakti schools began seeking or accepting converts in early to mid 20th century. |
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There are also places of worship for Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, the Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Sikhs and The Salvation Army, amongst others. |
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The recent waves of immigration have also led to an increasing number of Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and Muslims. |
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Most of Kerala's Hindus, except its Brahmin community, eat fish, chicken, beef, pork, eggs, and mutton. |
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Its first major influence was the food of the Kashmiri Hindus and Buddhists. |
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Beef is generally not eaten by Hindus in India except for Kerala and the north east. |
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Since 1984, relations between Sikhs and Hindus have moved toward a rapprochement aided by economic prosperity. |
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Most Scottish Hindus are of Indian origin, or at least from neighbouring countries, such as Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh. |
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In the 2011 UK Census, the number of Hindus in Scotland almost tripled to over 16,000 adherents. |
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In fact, minimizing the numbers of Hindus and Muslims on the wrong side of the line was not the only concern to balance. |
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Bangladeshi Hindus are the country's second biggest religious group and the third largest Hindu community in the world after those of India and Nepal. |
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The division of the district was followed by a population transfer between the two nations, with Muslims leaving for Pakistan and Hindus and Sikhs leaving for India. |
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The inscription praises Buddha and describes the fleet's donations to the famous Tenavarai Nayanar temple of Tondeswaram frequented by both Hindus and Buddhists. |
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A few centuries later Dubois observes that Hindus look upon Europeans as barbarians totally ignorant of all principles of honour and good breeding. |
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In many respects, the act was almost identical to the Hindu Marriage Act of 1955, which gives some idea as to how secularised the law regarding Hindus had become. |
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Indonesia's early people were animists, Hindus, and Buddhists. |
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The group had hired the motorboat to immerse the ashes of an acquaintance in Sangam river, the Ganga and Yamuna rivers' confluence, considered holy by Hindus, Yadav said. |
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Since Hindus seemed more concerned about the rest of India than Punjab, Master Tara Singh refused to ally with them and preferred to approach the British directly. |
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He states that the shared theology, common ritual grammar and way of life of those who identify themselves as Hindus is traceable to ancient times. |
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Observant Hindus who do eat meat almost always abstain from beef. |
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As far as Hindus are concerned Hindu Law is a specific branch of law. |
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Ethnic Indian Hindus form another significant portion of the population. |
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The food habits vary with region, with Bengali Hindus and Hindus living in Himalayan regions, or river delta regions, regularly eating meat and fish. |
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The grease used on these cartridges was rumoured to include tallow derived from beef, which would be offensive to Hindus, and pork, which would be offensive to Muslims. |
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Nearly 100,000 Hindus had assembled for the annual festival of the Moonless Night, along the banks of the Narmada River in India's central Madhya Pradesh state. |
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It was only towards the end of the 18th century that European merchants and colonists began to refer to the followers of Indian religions collectively as Hindus. |
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Millions of Muslims subsequently crossed from India to Pakistan and Hindus vice versa, and violence between the two communities cost hundreds of thousands of lives. |
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There have been three waves of migration of Hindus in the United Kingdom. |
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This later created a rift between Hindus and Sikhs of Punjab. |
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This caused the religious migration of Punjabi Sikhs and Hindus from West Punjab, mirroring a similar religious migration of Punjabi Muslims from East Punjab. |
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Hindu personal law applies to Bangladeshi Hindus in family law. |
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The only difference is that in India only Hindus and in Bangladesh only anti-religious and so-called liberalists are attracted towards this allegation. |
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Hindus have adorned their bodies with bindis for thousands of years. |
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The Portuguese eventually based their center of operations along the Hugli River, where they encountered Muslims, Hindus, and Portuguese deserters known as Chatins. |
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