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According to the 2018 civil registration, there were a total of 4,646,357 Hindus in Indonesia, compared to the 4,012,116 Hindus in 2010 census. [ 116] The percentages of Hinduism in Indonesia increased from 1.69% in 2010 to 1.74% in 2018 in 8 years respectively. Province (2018 Cen.)
Vedic Sanskrit, also simply referred as the Vedic language, is an ancient language of the Indo-Aryan subgroup of the Indo-European language family. It is attested in the Vedas and related literature [1] compiled over the period of the mid-2nd to mid-1st millennium BCE. [2] It is orally preserved, predating the advent of writing by several ...
The Bhagavad Gita ( IPA: [ˌbʱɐɡɐʋɐd ˈɡiːtɑː], Sanskrit: भगवद्गीता, romanized : bhagavad-gītā, lit. 'God's Song'), [ a] often referred to as the Gita ( IAST: gītā ), is a 700-verse Hindu scripture, which is part of the epic Mahabharata. The Bhagavad Gita is dated to the second half of the first millennium BCE.
At a family planning clinic in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, that largely helps low-income women, executive director Robin Marty has to make sure the clinic, WAWC Healthcare, has a variety of ...
A BBC commentator corrected her co-host after he accidentally misgendered an athlete live on air. Team GB long jumper Jazmin Sawyers, who is commentating for the BBC this Olympics after an injury ...
The Trimurti are the most prominent deities of contemporary Hinduism. This consists of Brahma - the Creator, Vishnu - the Preserver, and Shiva - the Destroyer. Their feminine counterparts are Saraswati - the wife of Brahma, Lakshmi - the wife of Vishnu, and Parvati (or Durga) - the wife of Shiva. Statue of Brahma.
Ganesha ( Sanskrit: गणेश, IAST: Gaṇeśa ), also spelled Ganesh, and also known as Ganapati, Vinayaka, Lambodara, Ekdantay and Pillaiyar, is one of the best-known and most worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon [ 4] and is the Supreme God in the Ganapatya sect. His depictions are found throughout India. [ 5]
The Vedic period, or the Vedic age (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE), is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic literature, including the Vedas (c. 1500 –900 BCE), was composed in the northern Indian subcontinent, between the end of the urban Indus Valley Civilisation and a second urbanisation, which began in the central Indo-Gangetic Plain c. 600 BCE.