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Deities, sants, gurus, and entities

List of Hindu deities Hinduism is the largest religion in the Indian subcontinent, and the third largest religion in the world. Hinduism has been called the "oldest religion" in the world, and many practitioners refer to Hinduism as "the eternal law" ('). Within this ...

List of titles and names of Krishna Krishna (; Sanskrit: , ' in IAST, pronounced (Classical Sanskrit) and in ''Vedic Sanskrit'' is a Hindu deity worshipped across many traditions of Hinduism in a variety of different perspectives. In Hinduism, Krishna is recognized as the comple ...

** List of Tridevis **

List of names of Vishnu The following is the list of names of Vedic Lord Vishnu from Vishnu Sahasranama of Mahabharata. Names as per the Vishnu Sahasranama #Anish #Lakshmikanth #Tharun #Vishant #Vishvam #Vishnuh #Vashatkaarah #Narayan #Narada #Bhoota-Bhavya-Bhava ...

List of avatar claimants This is a list of notable people who have explicitly claimed and are considered by others to be the Avatars of the Supreme Being or of a more limited expansion of Ishvara or other expression of divinity. This list does not include the traditional ...

List of mythological objects (Hindu mythology) The following is a list of various mythological objects described in Hindu literature. Armour * Karna Kavacha - The armour of Karna that was granted to him by his father Surya at birth, offering him virtual invulnerability. * Shiva Kavacha - ...

** List of Gandharvas ** List of Nāgas **

List of Rakshasas Below is a non-exhaustive list of Rakshasa, Rakshasas, a race of anthropomorphic spirits in Indian mythology. While many are malevolent, some are benevolent protectors of Dharma. Rakshasas are male while Rakshasis are female. Religious traditions ...

List of Asuras Asuras ( sa, असुर) are a class of beings or power-seeking clans, related to the more benevolent devas (also known as ''suras'') in Hinduism. Clans The two major clans of the asuras are the daityas and the danavas. * Daitya - a clan of as ...

List of Hindu gurus and sants This is a list of religious people in Hinduism, including gurus, sant, monks, yogis and spiritual masters. A guru is defined as a "teacher, spiritual guide, rgodman," by author David Smith. To obtain the title of guru, one must go through a s ...

List of teachers of Vedanta This is a list of teachers of Vedanta, a Hindu philosophical system. Pre-19th century * Vasishta Maharishi * Shakti Maharishi * Parashara Maharishi *Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa * Sri Shuka Acharya * Badarayana *Gaudapada *Govinda Bhagavatpada * ...

Empires and kingdoms

List of Hindu empires and dynasties Indian empires rose to power following the birth of Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism in the Indian subcontinent. The period of the Gupta Empire under Samudragupta is sometimes attributed to as the Golden Age of India. List The following list enumera ...

* List of Ikshvaku dynasty kings in Hinduism

Scholars and teachers

List of teachers of Advaita Vedanta A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...

* List of Hindu comparative religionists *

List of writers on Hinduism This is a list of writers on Hinduism. The list should include writers who have Wikipedia articles who have written books about Hinduism. Each entry should indicate the writers most well-known work. Multiple works should be listed only if each wor ...

Practitioners of Hinduism

Hindus by nationality, regions or sect

* List of Bangladeshi Hindus * List of Kashmiri Hindus * List of International Society for Krishna Consciousness members and patrons

Converts to and from Hinduism

List of converts to Hinduism The following is a list of converts to Hinduism from other religions or a non-religious background. From Abrahamic religions Christianity * Nayanthara * Julia Roberts * Sati Kazanova *Russell Brand Islam * Anirudh Gyan Shikha (1 June ...

List of converts to Hinduism from Christianity This is a list of converts to Hinduism from Christianity Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It is the world's largest and most widespread religion with roughly 2.3 ...

List of converts to Hinduism from Islam This is a list of converts to Hinduism from Islam. List See also * Indian religions, Indian-origin religions *List of converts to Hinduism * List of Hindus * List of converts to Islam from Hinduism References

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List of converts to Hinduism from Buddhism The following is a list of former Buddhists who no longer identify as such, organized by their current religious affiliation or ideology. Christianity Hinduism * Mihirakula – Huna ruler * Rajasinghe I – Sri Lankan king who conquered Ka ...

List of former Hindus The following are ''lists of former Hindus'' who no longer identify as such, organized by their current religious affiliation or ideology. *Buddhism *Christianity *Islam *Sikhism Sikhism (), also known as Sikhi ( pa, ਸਿੱਖੀ ', , ...

List of converts to Buddhism from Hinduism This is a list of notable converts to Buddhism from Hinduism. Organized mass conversions Since Ambedkar's conversion, several thousand people from different castes have converted to Buddhism in ceremonies including the twenty-two vows. * 6 ...

List of converts to Christianity from Hinduism This is a list of notable converts to Christianity from Hinduism. List See also * List of converts to Hinduism from Christianity This is a list of converts to Hinduism from Christianity Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic ...

List of converts to Islam from Hinduism This is a list of some converts to Islam from Hinduism. References {{Lists of converts Islam from Hinduism * Hinduism-related lists Islam-related lists ...

List of converts to Sikhism from Hinduism This is a list of converts to Sikhism from Hinduism. * Banda Bahadur (formerly Madho Das) - affectionately known within the Sikh tradition as 'the first monarch of the Sikh Kingdom'; is said to have received Sikh baptism by the hand of the ten ...

Scriptures and texts

List of Hindu scriptures Hinduism is an ancient religionShaivism, Vaishnavism, Shaktism and others. Each tradition has a long list of Hindu texts, with subgenre based on syncretization of ideas from Samkhya, Nyaya, Yoga, Vedanta and other schools of Hindu philosophy. O ...

List of sutras ''Sutra'' ( sa, सूत्र, translit=sūtra, translit-std=IAST, translation=string, thread)Monier Williams, ''Sanskrit English Dictionary'', Oxford University Press, Entry fo''sutra'' page 1241 in Indian literary traditions refers to an aph ...

List of suktas and stutis This article contains a list of Hindu hymns, known as suktas, stotras or stutis. Sūktas Main Sūktas * Agni Sūktam * Ā no Bhadrāh Sūktam * Oshadhi Sūktam * Kumāra Sūktam * Ganapati Sūktam / Ganesha Sūktam * Gostha Sūktam * Gos ...

Timeline of Hindu texts Hindu scriptures are traditionally classified into two parts: ''śruti'', meaning "what has been heard" (originally transmitted orally) and ''Smriti'', meaning "what has been retained or remembered" (originally written, and attributed to individ ...

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List of historic Indian texts This article attempts to capture in one place the names of books and other works written in ancient India. For the purpose of this list, we consider all books written in India up to and including the Mughal era as being 'ancient books'. Collect ...

Sanskrit literature Sanskrit literature broadly comprises all literature in the Sanskrit language. This includes texts composed in the earliest attested descendant of the Proto-Indo-Aryan language known as Vedic Sanskrit, texts in Classical Sanskrit as well as s ...

Temples, holy sites and worship

Hindu pilgrimage sites In religion and spirituality, a pilgrimage is a very long journey or search of great moral significance. Sometimes, it is a journey to a sacred area or shrine of importance to innate faith. Members of every major religion participate in pilgrima ...

Hindu pilgrimage sites in India In Hinduism, the yatra (pilgrimage) to the tirthas (sacred places) has special significance for earning the punya (spiritual merit) needed to attain the moksha (salvation) by performing the darśana (viewing of deity), the parikrama (circumam ...

* Lists of Hindu temples by country **

List of Hindu temples outside India Apart from India, where the vast majority (1.12 billion) of the world's 1.3 billion Hindu population lives, Hindu Temples are found across the world, on every continent. In the Indian Subcontinent, thousands of modern and historic temples are sp ...

List of largest Hindu temples This is a list of the largest Hindu temples in terms of area. Current largest temples Under construction See also * List of tallest Gopurams * List of large temple tanks * List of human stampedes in Hindu temples * Lists of Hindu templ ...

List of large Hindu temples This is a list of the largest Hindu temples in terms of area. Current largest temples Under construction See also * List of tallest Gopurams * List of large temple tanks * List of human stampedes in Hindu temples * Lists of Hindu temple ...

List of large temple tanks This is a list of Temple tanks in terms of area. List of large Temple tanks }) is a locality situated almost at the centre of the Indian city of Tiruchirappalli. The historic Rockfort is situated nearby. The Rock Fort temple stands 83m tall per ...

List of tallest Gopurams A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...

** List of human stampedes in Hindu temples **

List of tallest Hindu statues This list of tallest Hindu statues includes completed statues that are at least tall. The height values in this list are measured to the highest part of the murti, but exclude the height of any pedestal (plinth), or other base platform as well ...

Ghats in Varanasi Ghats in Varanasi are riverfront steps leading to the banks of the Ganges river. The city has 88 ghats. Most of the ghats are bathing and puja ceremonial ghats, while two ghats, Manikarnika and Harishchandra, are used exclusively as crema ...

Tirthas of Rameswaram There are sixty-four Tīrthas (holy water bodies) in and around the island of Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, India.Murali (2000), p. 574 According to Skanda Purana, Skānda Purāṇa, twenty-four of them are important.Setu Māhātmyam, Adhyāya 2, verse ...

Organisations

List of Hindu organisations Hinduism is practiced and preached by many Hindu organisations, each of which follows the variants and perspectives of all or particular Hindu philosophy, philosophy propagated and transferred through generations by Hindu saints, saints. It is a ...

List of Hindu nationalist political parties This is a list of political parties professing to follow Hindu nationalism or stating that they represent the interests of Hinduism. Within India National Active *Bharatiya Janata Party * Hindu Mahasabha *Hindu Sena *Hindu Samaj Party Former * ...

Festivals

List of Hindu festivals Across the globe, Hindus celebrate a diverse number of festivals and celebrations, typically marking events from ancient India and often coinciding with seasonal changes. These celebrations take place either on a fixed annual date on the solar ...

List of Hindu festivals in Punjab This list of Punjabi Hindu festivals summarizes festivals observed in Punjab. These are based on the Bikrami calendar. The festivals of Maghi and Vaisakhi are determined by the solar aspect and others on its lunar months. Observance and overview ...

Sanskrit and education

List of Sanskrit universities in India The following is a list of at least 18 Sanskrit universities in India (3 central, 1 deemed and 14 state universities) which are only focused on Sanskrit revival and Sanskrit studies along with related disciplines like Ayurveda Ayurveda () ...

* List of Sanskrit academic institutes outside India *

List of yoga schools Yoga schools are as diverse as the meanings of the bracket term yoga. Within the major branches of yoga such as haṭha, lāya, rāja, jñāna, and bhakti there are many different schools and lineages, both extant and defunct. Since the late 19th ...

Other uses

List of materials used in Hinduism This is a list of materials with religious significance in Hinduism. For more information, see the linked articles. List of materials *Agarwood or oud, resinous heartwood of certain trees, is mentioned in the Vedas. It is valued in many cultures ...