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Interestingly, the term Ravalnath for the sun comes from Ravi for the sun in Sanskrit and in the Konkan area there is a temple for the feminine form of the sun or Ravalai. \n\ncc
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this wat i think is best .....\nMain article: Hindu temple architecture\nUnder the influence of the Vedas in India, Hindu art and architecture rose in South Asia. The ruins of Aihole and Pattadakal are the earliest known traces of Hindu temples, also known as mandirs in today's Hindi. The reference to Hindu temples in literature goes back to 5th century B.C. when Hindu scholars Panini (520 BC - 460 BC) and Patanjali described the elaborate architectural designs of the Vedic/Hindu temples. Later, with increasing architectural differentiation, the southern Dravida and the northern Nagara styles emerged as dominant modes of temple architecture, differing mainly in the shape of the roofing structure, the former being a stepped pyramid while the latter has a curved profile, epitomised in productions such as the magnificent Brihadeeswara Temple, Thanjavur, and the Sun Temple, Konark. Buddhist elements and motifs continue to influence Hindu temple architecture to a considerable extent to this day. Along with the dominant Dravida and Nagara, there arose a number of regional styles of temples in places like Bengal, Kashmir and Kerala.\n\nMany of the Hindu temples during the early medieval era were rock-cut. The Kailasanatha temple at Ellora was excavated from top to bottom out of a massive rock face.\n\nThe structural system of temples was essentially trabeated and with massive blocks of stone being the basic raw material for the Indian craftsman, construction could be carried out with minimal or no mortar. Decoration was fundamental to Indian architecture and is seen in the often intricate detail of figured sculpture as well as in the architectural elements. The concept of fractals has been used to examine the form of the Hindu temple, both in terms of its planning and external appearance.\n\n \nIcons and sculptures of Hindu deities are an essential design feature of most of the temples in southern India. Shown here is the famous Meenakshi temple in Tamil Nadu.The garba-griha or the womb chamber forms the central focus housing the deity of the temple and is provided with a circumambulation passage around. There are also, however, many subsidiary shrines within temple complexes, particularly in the South Indian (Dravidian) style temples. As the Hindu temple is not intended for congregational worship, the garba-griha is small in scale when compared to the whole temple complex. It is articulated externally, however, by the vimana (or sikhara), the towering roof-structure. Mandapas (multiple pillared halls) are found preceding the garba-griha.\n\nThe spatial experience of a South Indian temple complex is considered particularly enriching and meaningful. In many, such as the Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple at Srirangam, prakaras (concentric enclosures) along with the series of entrance gateways (gopurams), reduce in scale moving towards the garbha-griha, setting up a rhythm of solids and voids as well as providing a ritual and visual axis.\n\nThe principles of temple architecture were codified in treatises and canons such as Manasara, Mayamatam, and Vaastu Shastra. These offered an ordering framework yet allowed some latitude for contextual articulation.\n\nList of notable Hindu temples outside India:\n\nAngkor Wat in Cambodia \nHindu temples in Java and Bali, including Prambanan \nNeasden Temple in United Kingdom \nSwaminarayan temple, Chicago, USA \n\n[edit] Buddhist and Jain architecture\nBuddhism gained prominence as mentioned above especially during the reign of the Emperor Ashoka. It is primarily represented by three important building types- the Chaitya Hall (meditation hall), the Vihara (dormitory) and the Stupa. The latter was a hemispherical mound modelled on ancient funerary mounds, surrounded by a stone fence known as the vedika, and topped by a smaller enclosure, the harmika, containing the casket for the relics of the Buddha; it was intended to be a meditational focus. Numerous fine examples of stupas can be found at Sanchi an
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Orange derives from Sanskrit nāraṅgaḥ "orange tree", but another explanation tries to establish a link to a Dravidian root “fragrant”. Compare Tamil narandam [நரந்தம்] “bitter orange”, nagarukam [நாகருகம்] “sweet orange” and nari [நாரி] “fragrance. The Sanskrit/dravidian word was borrowed into European languages through Persian nārang, Arabic nāranj, Spanish naranja, Late Latin arangia, Italian arancia or arancio, and Old French orenge, in chronological order. The first appearance in English dates from the 14th century. The forms starting with n- are older; this initial n- may have been mistaken as part of the indefinite article, in languages with articles ending with an -n sound (eg. in French une norenge may have been taken as une orenge). The name of the colour is derived from the fruit, first appearing in this sense in 1542.\n\nSome languages, such as Modern Greek, have different words for the bitter (nerantzi) and the sweet (portokali, ie. "Portuguese") orange.
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My friend, the speed and positions of planets were first discovered by "ARYA BHATT", a great indian mathematician and astrologer. \n\nAstrology is a part of indian mythology. It's described in hindu Vedas. one famous astrology book is written by Maharshi Bhrugu thousands of years ago. there are many GRANTHS on astrology.\n\nFor example, when gods and devils were doing SAMUDRA MANTHAN, AMRUT came out of the sea.  RAHU was in god's part but knowing that amrut has come out of sea, he parted ways and joined Devils to drink AMRUT that will make him immortal. Moon and Sun saw this and informed lord Vishnu, he immediately went after RAHU and cut his head off, but as RAHU has had AMRUT, he did not die, the head fell off in the opposite direction thus making the head KETU.  therefore you can always see RAHU and KETU in the opposite houses in horoscopes.\n\nThis is just a piece of details about ancient mythological story of Astrology.  \n\nIf you like the details provided by me please inform me back. Thanks.
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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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Well, I have studied mythology from a lot of various religions and the story of a great flood seems to be the one mythological story that is universal (the characters are always different and sometimes they don't build a boat, they climb a certain mountain or hill as instructed by the divine with all the creatures, but it is always basically the same story).\n\nScholars say that the oldest version of the story, atleast that is recorded, would be the one told in Hinduism about a man named Manu who finds a fish in a stream while bathing there. It is little and the fish asks Manu to take it home for safety to help it. So Manu does and the fish continues to outgrow its home and is transfered from one container to the next before finally being so large that Manu finally takes the fish to the ocean to set it free (not sure why the fish went from being a fresh water fish to a salt water fish, but it's a mythological story so let's just accept the story for what it is). Anyways, the fish thanks Manu and then tells Manu that there is going to be a great flood because waters from the North are coming and the ocean is going to rise because the waters of the North along with the rains will cause there levels to rise higher than normal. He advises Manu to gather up two of each animal and two of every seed (plants are included in the Hindu version) and to put them on a boat. Manu builds the boat and does as he is asked and just as the fish predicted, the waters start to rise. Well after a month of the ocean rising, the waters start to recede. The fish returns, but this time with a horn on its head. He calls out to Manu to tie a rope to the horn on the fish and so Manu does. The fish then toes the boat to the top of a nearby mountain and tells Manu to let everything go (the mountain in the story is not specified). Manu, having realized that the fish is God (the aspect of Vishnu) offers praise to God and is grateful for the help. (It is important to remember that in this story God is not punishing mankind or nature, but instead that the flooding is caused by natural things. the waters of the north are thought to refer to the ice melting and this along with the rains, implying that it is the normal cycle of rains, is what made the waters rise. Thus in this story God is preserving all life not punishing it. It's important to remember that Hindus believe that life reincarnates so more than two of the animals and seeds; male and female; would have been sufficient just to repopulate that type of creature and the others that may have perished would have been reincarnated. A bit different than the later versions, the Biblical version, where the flood is a punishment from God and only two of every animal are also spared; apparently even the animals were being bad??). This story is in one of the oldest Puranas of Hinduism (the only books older are the Vedas and the Upanishads). \n\nNow, many scholars believe there may be older versions of the story. However, being a practicing Hindu there is one aspect I can't help but overlook and that is that when Hinduism tells a mythological story then it isn't to be believed that the things actually happened just as the story is telling you. In fact, most Hindu mythological stories have a deeper meaning to them. The symbolism of the story represents aspects of our inner self and all the various symbolism is describing things about ourself and the processes we go through on our spiritual journey. That said, the flood may have in fact never happened and that the flood may be a symbolic tool used in the story (along with Manu, the fish and all the containers...because the story makes a point to describe all the containers which seems excedingly boring to read actually and sort of over makes the case that the fish is getting bigger). \n\nFrom Hindu India, the story then changed when it entered Zoroastrian Persia (Zoroaster is actually mentioned in the Hindu Vedas as a teacher that later it say
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The land of Varanasi (Kashi) has been an ultimate pilgrimage spot for Hindus for ages. Often referred to as Benares, Varanasi is the oldest living city in the world and as Mark Twain said, "Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend and looks twice as old as all of them put together"\n\nNo-one knows
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ok i'm going to take a wild guess that this refers to the words of the Buddha one time when he was staying in the Jeta Grove in the town of Sravasti.\n\nto take another leap i'd say his brother anada would be the actual author.\n\ni'll keep a watch on this page to see what develoes.  the problem is your translation does not fit normal sanskrit rules.  residing in the wisdom of ekottara?\n\ni believe the buddha spoke of ekottara at sravasti, shouldn't that mean it is in dharmmapada?\n\n>>Edit>> on the other hand after a day to think about it,  maybe it was Patanjali, the Yoga Sutras, which almost makes more sense.
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He was a poet famous for his poems!\n\nThirukural written by Thiruvalluvar consists of three books, the first book on aram (the way or dharma), the second on porul (material or artha) and the third on inbam (joy or kama). \n\nThere are 37 chapters in the first book, the first four called payiram or prefactory matter, the next twenty about ill-aram (the householder’s dharma) and the next thirteen about turavaram (the path of renunciation) \n\nThe second book on porul contains seventy chapters, the first twenty dealing with kings and their duties, the succeeding thirty two chapters with the other matters concerning the state, and next thirteen, with sundry concerns. \n\nThe third book on inbam contains twenty five chapters, the first seven being on pre marital love (kalavu) and the next eighteen on marital love. \n\nThere are 133 chapters in all, each chapter contains ten distichs in the metre known as Kural and the work itself is now called by that name
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An Arya is one who hails from a noble family, of gentle behavior and demeanor, good-natured and of righteous conduct. And the great epic Ramayana has a singularly eloquent expression describing Rama as:         \n\narya sarva samascaiva sadaiva priyadarsanah  - Arya, who worked for the equality of all and was dear to everyone . The Rig Veda also uses the word Arya something like thirty six times, but never to mean a race. The nearest to a definition that one can find in the Rigveda is probably:    \n\npraja arya jyotiragrah ... \n\nChildren of Arya are led by light    - Rig Veda, VII. 33.17.\n\nThus, the modern notion of an Aryan-Dravidian racial divide is contradicted by ancient records. We have it on the authority of Manu that the Dravidians were also part of the Aryan fold. Interestingly, so were the Chinese. Race never had anything to do with it until the Europeans adopted the ancient word to give expression to their nationalistic and other aspirations. \n\nThe term 'aryan' has never been used in a racial sense anywhere in the vast compendium of Hindu literature. In the whole of the Rig Veda the word arya occurs no more than four times. It stands for whatever is regarded as eminent and ennobling. The term was used in a racial sense for the first time by Western historians who cooked up the theory of an Aryan invasion of India around 1500 B.C. They also popularized in a racial sense, the term Dravidian which had earlier had only a linguistic connotation.\n\nIn the year 1784, Sir William Jones wrote to Sir Warren Hastings how to spread "our pure faith" as "no mission from the Church of Rome will ever be able to convert the Hindus." He wrote about translating into Sanskrit and "then quietly to disperse the work among the well-educated natives." He goes on to state that "all the 14 Menus (Manus) are reducible to one," and that "a connection subsisted between the old idolatrous nations." \n\nThe Ayran Invasion Theory - AIT specifically justified the presence of the British among their “Aryan cousins” in India, being merely the second wave of Aryan settlement there.  It supported the British view of India as merely a geographical region without historical unity, a legitimate prey for any invader capable of imposing himself.  It provided the master illustration to the rising racialist worldview: \n\n(1) the dynamic whites entered the land of the indolent dark natives; \n(2) being superior, the whites established their dominance and imparted their language to the natives; \n(3) being race-conscious, they established the caste system to preserve their racial separateness; \n(4) but being insufficiently fanatical about their race purity, some miscegenation with the natives took place anyway, making the Indian Aryans darker than their European cousins and correspondingly less intelligent and less dynamic; \n(5) hence, for their own benefit they were susceptible to an uplifting intervention by a new wave of purer Aryan colonizers.\n\n\nThe Fiction of Aryan Invasion Theory  \n\nThe preplanned scheme of Jones to introduce the idea that Sanskrit was an outside language gave birth to the speculation of the imagined existence of some Central Asian (Aryan) race who spoke Sanskrit and who brought Sanskrit language to India when they forcefully entered the country. In this way, the fiction of the Aryan Invasion was created much later, sometime in the 1800’s by the same group of people and was extensively promoted by Max Muller.     \n\nIt is a well known fact that India is called Aryavart. Manu Smriti (2/21,22) describes the exact location of Aryavart which lies from the south of the Himalayas and all the way up to the Indian Ocean. Its inhabitants are called the Arya. But it is not a locally spoken name. But it is not a locally spoken name. Commonly, we write Bharatvarsh for India in general and scriptural writings. The territory of India (or Bharatvarsh for Aryavart) during the
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Hinduism\n\nAccording to historians, the origin of Hinduism dates back to 5000 or more years. The word "Hindu" is derived from the name of River Indus, which flows through northern India. In ancient times the river was called the 'Sindhu', but the Persians who migrated to India called the river 'Hindu', the land 'Hindustan' and its inhabitants 'Hindus'. Thus the religion followed by the Hindus came to be known as 'Hinduism'.
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Srinath .. guess mean TUKKA !
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Somnath is about 5km from Veraval and had a checkered history. It is believed that the Somnath temple here was originally built by Somraj, the Moon God himself, out of gold, and then rebuilt by Ravana in silver and then by Krishna in Wood, then by Bhimdev in stone. Somnath is also known by several other names -- Deo pattan, Prabhas Pattan or Pattan Somnath, which it acquired during its long and eventful history. Somnath was once the most revered shrine in the country, for it had one of the twelve pre-eminent Jyotirlingas (the glowing Lingas), which held a special significance for the Hindus. Somnath's glory and fame are legendary. It is said that people from the remotest parts of the country came to worship at the shrine; revenues collected from ten thousand villages was spent on the maintenance of the temple. Two thousand Brahmins (priests) served the idol and a golden chain attached to a huge bell plate announced the commencement of prayers.\n\nSomnath rose and fell many a time and the amazing drama of the iconoclast's zeal for its desecration and the devout Hindu's passionate desire for its restoration continued till the 15th century, when the Hindus finally gave up in sheer despair and built a new temple nearby.\n\nNorthern India had ceased to attract Mahmud, for the spoils of its most wealthy temples were already in his treasury. But the rich and prosperous province of Gujarat was still untouched, and on October 18, 1025, he started from Ghazni with his regular troops and thirty thousand volunteer-horsemen for the temple of Somnath, situated at the distance of a bow-shot from the mouth of the Saraswati, by the side of which the earthly body of Lord Krishna had breathed its last.\n\nGhazni Mohammed descended on Somnath in 1024 when the temple was so prosperous that it has 300 musicians, 500 dancing girls and 300 barbers to shave the heads of visiting pilgrims. There is a description to this effect by Al Biruni, an Arab traveller. After a two-day battle, Ghazni Mohammed carted off its fabulous wealth and also destroyed the temple, thus setting a precedent of Muslims destroying the temple and Hindus rebuilding it, for it was razed again in 1297, 1394 and finally in 1706 by Aurangzeb, the Mughal emperor who was notorious for such acts.\n\nMahmud entered the temple and possessed himself of its fabulous wealth. `Not a hundredth part of the gold and precious stones he obtained from Somnath were to be found in the treasury of any king of Hindustan.' Later historians have related how Mahmud refused the enormous ransom offered by the Brahmans, and preferred the title of `Idol-breaker’ (But-shikan) to that of `Idol-seller' (But-farosh). He struck the idol with his mace and his piety was instantly rewarded by the precious stones that came out of its belly. This is an impossible story. Apart from the fact that it lacks all contemporary confirmation, the Somnath idol was a solid unsculptured linga, not a statue, and stones could not have come out of its belly. That the idol was broken is unfortunately true enough, but the offer of the Brahmans, and Mahmud's rejection of the offer, is a fable of later days. The temple, which stands today, was built in the traditional pattern on the original site by the sea, thanks to the efforts of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
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They are mentioned as Historical figure and accepted as our ancestors in India.\n\nThe fact is that history of India has been written by christian s in last 200 years and then by communists. They really challenged everything about ancient India be it Rama and Krishna or other achievements of India.\n\nDo you really think people who made up myth of Aryan race and its invasion in an attempt to propagate that even Hindus are aliens in India would ever accept Rama or Krishna as historical figures?\n\nBy the way Dwarika , ruins of the city of Krishna has been found again under the city.\n\nThe first clear historical record is dated 574 A.D. and occurs in the Palitana Plates of Samanta Simhaditya. This inscription refers to Dwaraka as the capital of the western coast of Saurashtra and still more important, states that Sri Krishna lived here. The establishment of one of the four of his pithas at Dwaraka by Sankaracharya attests to the great religious sanctity the place must have attained by the eighth century A.D. \n\nAnd now the scientists at NIOT (National Institute of Ocean Technology, of the Department of Ocean Development) have established this. While working for British gas in the Gulf of Cambay region, a few years ago, the scientists of the NIOT, were stunned to see images of objects and things, completely alien to the marine domain. Immediately a team swung into action and samples were collected and sent for analysis and dating (it is usually done to scientifically establish the antiquity of the excavated objects).\n\nSamples collected include artefacts, wood pieces, pottery materials, hearth pieces, animal bones. They ere sent to Manipur University, Oxford University, London, Institute of Earth Sciences, Hanover, Germany for analysis and dating. The results were astonishing. It was found beyond doubt that the samples belonged to a period varying from 7800 to 3000 years (BP) Before Present !\nhttp://www.atributetohinduism.com/Dwaraka.htm\n\nThe recently discovered bridge currently named as Adam's Bridge made of chain of shoals, c.18 mi (30 km) long, in the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka, reveals a mystery behind it. The bridge's unique curvature and composition by age reveals that it is man made. The legends as well as Archeological studies reveal that the first signs of human inhabitants in Sri Lanka date back to the a primitive age, about 17,50,000 years ago and the bridge's age is also almost equivalent. This information is a crucial aspect for an insight into the mysterious legend called Ramayana, which was supposed to have taken place in tredha yuga (more than 17,00,000 years ago). In this epic, there is a mentioning about a bridge, which was built between Rameshwaram (India) and Sri lankan coast under the supervision of a dynamic and invincible figure called Rama who is supposed to be the incarnation of the supreme. This information may not be of much importance to the archeologist s who are interested in exploring the origins of man, but it is sure to open the spiritual gates of the people of the world to have come to know an ancient history linked to the Indian mythology.
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If you mean Head of Humans according to Hindu mythology, then the answer is God. But if you mean what are the humans that originated from head of Brahma is called, then they are known as Brahmins. But you need to know what it really means. According to the legend, Brahmins originated from Head of Brahma, Kshatriyas from his chest, Vaishya from his belly and Shudra from the part lower than his waist. They were not physical manifestations but just illustrates four type of human personalities. Everybody is born a Shudra as they originate from below the waist region. If they work as a helping hand or maid or a labourer, then they are Shudras. If they are basically concerned about worldly pleasures such as food, they find themselves stemming from belly and are known as Baniya. If they are courageous, brave and kind-hearted, ruled by their hearts and impulsive, they originate from chest of Brahma and are known as Kshatriyas but if they indulge in faculties of mind such as reading and writing, scientific experiments or do things that need mental powers, they stem from head or mind of Brahma and are known as Brahmins.\n\nCorrected- Man vs Woman can never be decided. If both the sexes do not cooperate, the world or the family will run heywire. It is the mutual friendly co-existense of both the genders that makes a happy world. One person cannot keep all the power, of course. Other gender will naturally find ways to revolt or make the 'almighty' uncomfortable. If they discuss and take mutual decisions and learn to do anything like a team, they will be able to run life better.
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My dear get your Mytho right.\nLord Purushottama Rama has no proven historical existence. He lives i our hearts. He was created by various folklores and original allegory is credited to Hrishi Valmiqui.\nAny ways His story has endured millenia and will endure few more of them as it embibes ideal characters of Son, Man, Husband, King, Father, Friend, Guru and God.\nRama's story or Rama-yana strives to instill the same value among its readers that He Possessed.\nSome of the behaviour may be outdated in the line of borrowed wisdom from Muslim-Anglo-Sino bastardification or transmogification (tech term) of indo-Aryan school of thought.\nRamayana has endured these slights through the ages by modifying itself through the times and evolving the tale with the teller/reteller/listener. On can see marked variations in versions rendered by Valmiqui, Tulsidas, Haridas, Kadamb, Kruttiwas, Indonesian, Malay, Java and ceylonese.\nRama was a Purushottama and that is not subject to vetting from every Tom, Dick and Harry. His actions were considered according to "Dharma" or the way of life at the time the original story was firmed up (which obviously was pre-medeival). Today's morals and rules do not apply to it. As we write these lines new Ramayanas are being written. (Have u seen Japanese animated version) which apply to modern times but may be rejected in future. That is how beliefs and religion progress\nComing back to your question:\n1. Rama did not go for vanavasa of 12 years and Adnyatavas of one year there after to fulfill the promise given by his father to his step mother, that was in Mahabharata. \nRather he went for 14 years of Vanvasa to prove that His fathers wrong words are also as valueable to Him as right words.\n\n2.This is wrong that "After returning from the ordeal a garment washer murmurs about the purity of Sita and Ram discards her and she takes penance by jumping in fire and comes out of it as she is pure"\nAfter defeating Ravana-the evil Rama was expected to hug sita nd accept her, but he did'nt do so. This was written to give message to society that a woman if she spents time in other man's house should not be accepted back unconditionally (wait do not shout retrograde lemme finish)\nAt the time of writing of Ramayan Woman's dignity was big deal, then ladies did'nt stay out in Karol baugh, peddar road night clubs binging on booze or coke and came back to breakfast while their Husbands/Parents/In-laws accepting it meekly or joining her in the same sleaze-fest. \nThis message for society was to say that womenfolk once strayed must not be accepted without sound explanation or proof. that may be backward in post-feminism era but thats the way it was.\n3. That point about "Rama's rajya was ancestral property and not self earned by his father so Rama's father has no right to give it to anyone he likes" is totally way off mark. There was no questions of right or claim. If you have not noticed Ramayana is guided by duty not right. Dad's word was order from heaven. This phenomena is still there in rural india.I myself have seen it in my childhood when elders(MY DAD) obeyed their elders like God. We being "Modern" judge audaciously everything. maybe we are right may be they were right but that the way it was then\n\n\nIt is getting late I'll put in rest of the answer later
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Hinduism is. It started in the Indis Valley long ago.