Who was the Mahaprabhu Vallabhcharyaji and what sampraday (religion) he established ?
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Vallabhacharyaji established pushtimarg.
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Devanagari: मोहनदास करमचन्द गांधी; Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી; October 2, 1869 – January 30, 1948) was a major political and spiritual leader of India, and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer and perfector of Satyagraha - the resistance of tyranny through mass Civil Disobedience strongly founded upon ahimsa (total non-violence) — which led India to independence, and has inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known and addressed in India and across the world as Mahatma Gandhi (from Sanskrit, Mahatma: Great Soul) and as Bapu (in many Indian languages, Father).
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RABINDRANATH TAGORE (1913) \nNobel Prize for Literature \n\nPopularly known as Gurudev, India's most famous writer and poet was awarded the Nobel Prize in recognition of his work Geetanjali, a collection of poems, in 1913. Tagore was also involved in teaching. In 1901 he founded the famous Santiniketan which later came to be known as Vishwabharati University. \n\nDID YOU KNOW? \nRabindranath Tagore is also the author of India's National Anthem.
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ALLAH\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaha
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Parushuram was even before Ramayaana. The real Parshurama was the one who killed his mother to obey his father...and later took a boon from his father(sage Jamadagani) to give life to his mother.\n\nParshurama was the incarnation of God, to teach those kings a lesson, who were not following their Dharma\n\nLater, he created an Ashram, and the Head of that Ashram was called Parshuram\n\nIt is like there was one Shankracharya...and the heads of his Ashramas are called Sankracharyas even now
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Paramahansa Yogananda परमहंस योगानन्‍द (January 5, 1893 – March 7, 1952), was an Indian yogi and guru. He was instrumental in bringing Kriya Yoga to the West.\n\n\nLife\nYogananda was born Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India into a devout Bengali family. His autobiography claims that from his earliest years, his awareness and experience of the spiritual was far beyond the ordinary. In his youth he sought out many of India's Hindu sages and saints, hoping to find an illumined teacher to guide him in his spiritual quest.\n\nYogananda met his guru, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, in 1910, at the age of 17. After passing his Intermediate Examination in Arts from the Scottish Church College, Calcutta, he did his graduation in religious studies from the Serampore College, a constituent college of the University of Calcutta .
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You forgot about Amrapali- the prostitute who became a nun , a follower of Buddha. Sounds familiar?\n\nBuddhas mother had dreams about an extraordinary son. Christians took the tale one step ahead.\n\nThere are more similarities if you really start comparing.\n\nADDED:\n\nJesus did not predated Buddh. Buddha predates .Jesus by 500 years and was already a well established religion.\n\n"..... Buddhist monks lived in Central Asia, the conduit through which Buddhism traveled from India to the East. \n\nThe giant Buddha statues at Bamian in Afghanistan lay on the same road. \n\nThey have been destroyed, but a wonderful sleeping Buddha, 16m long, still lies peacefully in Tajikistan. \n\nAnd near Kampyr-Tepe, we were invited to the site of a Buddhist lamasery, where the mendicant monks lived underground in a labyrinth, to protect them from the terrible heat and cold of the plain. "\n\n(source: Uzbekistan's best kept secret - BBC news.com).
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the man named Bhagwan Swaminarayan was an important person in the development of a branch of Hinduism.  You can find out more about him and his followers at:\n\nhttp://www.swaminarayan.info/
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Sushrutha , a surgeon who developed the operative techniques of rhinoplasty (plastic surgery), wrote the Sushrutha Samhita which describes a highly developed surgery.it was written 500 Years Before Common Era .\n\n it contains information about ancient medicene system ayurveda. some other medical books are:\n\nCharaka Samhita         Maharishi Charaka \nSushrutha Samhita       Maharishi Sushrutha \nAsthanga Samgraha       Maharishi Vagbhata \nAshtanga Hrudaya        Maharishi Vagbhata \nMadhavanidana           Maharishi madhava \nSarngadhara Samhitha    Maharishi Sarngadhara \nKasyapa Samhitha        Maharishi Kasyapa
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with Mughals if you meant Shake..\nIt was in 16th cebtury
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The origin of Aurveda is in India And the foundation was laid by a Number of rishis such as Charaka and Susruta and Chavyanya thousands of years ago.
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http://www.nwahindutemple.org/bhajans/navarathri.doc
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Mahāsammata\nA king who lived in the beginning of this present age. \n\nThe Pāli Chronicles (Mhv.ii.1ff.; Dpv.iii.1ff.; MT. 122ff.; also J.ii.311; iii.454, etc.) mention him as the original ancestor of the Sākiyan family, to which the Buddha belonged, and gives a list of the dynasties from his day to the time of the Buddha, to prove that the line was "unbroken." \n\nMahāsammata belonged to the Solar Race and is identified with the Bodhisatta, who was born among men after sojourn in the Brahma worlds (MT. 121 f). He was called Mahāsammata, because, on the arising of wickedness in the world, he was chosen by the people (sannipatitvā samaggajātehi mahājanchi sammannitvā kato Mahāsammato; MT.122; cp. D.iii.92f.; Mtu.i.248; DhSA. 390, 392) to show indignation against and disapproval of those worthy of blame. In return for his services, he was given a portion of their harvest. \n\nIt is said (J.iv.192) that in the dynasty of Mahāsammata the idea of meting out punishments, such as torture, fining, expulsion, was unknown. These were invented later with the advance of civilisation! \n\nThe Vimānavatthu Commentary (p.15) explains that Mahāsammata is the name given in the sacred books (sāsane) for Manu. \n\nSome, at least, of the Ceylon kings traced their descent from Mahāsammata. See, e.g., Cv.xlvii.2.
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krishna devaraya\n\nvenkatachalapathi\n\n\nramudu\n\nbeemudu
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Buddhism stated with Buddha, he was disappointed with life in the sense world....so he wanted higher answers and he got them....the story is long, basically he grew up in luxury and did not know anything about disease or old age ...one day he went out of his palace and has seen a old person, a dead person, a disease stricken person..and a crippled person...he was disgusted with the world, left his palace, became a monk and sought after enlightenment which he got after rigorous practice.\n\nand with caste of Hindus, Hindus divided people on the nature of their work ...for example, Brahmin's were scholars they worked on metaphysics and religion, the Kshatriyas were the kings, and they were responsible for the protection of the country...\nthe vaisyas were business  men, merchants...people who made money...and the sudras were people like barbers, cleaners..who used to get paid for a certain work like the above..\n\nHindus believe that after death, they will be reborn, and this cycle of births and deaths will continue until one attains enlightenment..\n\nand,  a person who seeks spiritual knowledge and strives for it in the present life will be born in better circumstances in his next life which will make it easier for him to concentrate on spiritual pursuits..\n\n\n\nI just read some of the answers, and what you have to know is caste system was not introduced by ashoka, but by the ancient aryans..who wrote the vedas and was called varnasrama, and yes buddhism is an offshoot of hinduism, and no people can change their caste, ie. if you are a brahmin, but like to be a king you can be..and will be called  a kshyatriya, the system was very flexible...
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kalupur, ahmedabad. sumtime in the 1700s. it was built by swaminarayan as his first temple under the narnarayan dev gadi
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One of the oldest religious traditions of India, Jainism has existed side by side with Hinduism throughout its long history. With fewer than 5 million adherents and comprising less than 1% the Indian population, Jainism has demonstrated a remarkable tenacity and endurance and continues to exert an influence far beyond its small numbers. \n\nFounder: Jainism (the name derives from a Sanskrit word meaning "follower of the Jina, or conqueror") was established in our era by Mahavira ("the Great Hero") in the sixth century B.C.E. In fact, Mahavira is considered only the most recent in a list of 24 such teachers who brought Jainism into the world during previous great cosmic eras of time. These teachers, or "Tirthankaras," taught a path to religious awakening based on renouncing the world by practice of strict religious austerity. Mahavira established a monastic community of both nuns and monks. This community is the oldest continually surviving monastic community in the world. \n\n     Mahavira followed an ascetic group called Nirgranthas which had been founded some 200 years ago by a certain Parshva. The term "Nirgrantha" was latter used for the members of the order Mahavira started.Parshva is remebered as 23 rd of 24 great teachers or  Tirthankaras of the jain faith. after 12 years of meditation and travells Mahavira found full enlightment nirvana; he becane worty (Arhant), a conqueror ( Jina), a "ford maker".