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Hinduism
Hindus History
Origins History Indus Valley Civilisation Historical Vedic religion Śramaṇa Tribal religions in India
Main traditions Vaishnavism Shaivism Shaktism Smartism
Deities Trimurti Brahma Vishnu Shiva Other major Devas / Devis Vedic Indra Agni Prajapati Rudra Devi Saraswati Ushas Varuna Vayu Post-Vedic Durga Ganesha Hanuman Kali Kartikeya Krishna Lakshmi Parvati Radha Rama Shakti Sita
Concepts Worldview Hindu cosmology Puranic chronology Hindu mythology Supreme Reality Brahman Om God Ishvara God in Hinduism God and gender Life Varna Brahmana Kshatriya Vaishya Shudra Ashrama (stage) Brahmacharya Grihastha Vanaprastha Sannyasa Purusharthas Dharma Artha Kama Moksha Mind Antahkarana Pramanas Guna Ahamkara (Attachment) Uparati (Self-settledness) Titiksha (Forbearance) Ānanda (Happiness) Kshama (Forgiveness) Shama (Equanimity) Dama (Temperance) Dhyana (Serenity) Moksha (Release) Viveka (Discrimination) Vairagya (Dispassion) Samadhana (Complete Concentration) Shraddha (Faith) Shadripu (Six Enemies) Liberation Atman Maya Karma Saṃsāra Ethics Niti shastra Yamas Niyama Ahimsa Asteya Aparigraha Brahmacharya Satya Damah Dayā Akrodha Ārjava Santosha Tapas Svādhyāya Shaucha Mitahara Dāna Sources of dharma Liberation Bhakti yoga Jnana yoga Karma yoga
Practices Worship Puja Śrauta Temple Murti Bhakti Japa Bhajana Yajna Homa Vrata Prāyaścitta Tirtha Tirthadana Matha Nritta-Nritya Meditation and Charity Tapa Dhyana Dāna Yoga Sadhu Yogi Asana Hatha yoga Jnana yoga Bhakti yoga Karma yoga Raja yoga Kundalini Yoga Arts Bharatanatyam Kathak Kathakali Kuchipudi Manipuri Mohiniyattam Odissi Sattriya Bhagavata Mela Yakshagana Dandiya Raas Carnatic music Rites of passage Garbhadhana Pumsavana Simantonayana Jatakarma Namakarana Nishkramana Annaprashana Chudakarana Karnavedha Vidyarambha Upanayana Keshanta Ritushuddhi Samavartana Vivaha Antyeshti Ashrama Dharma Ashrama: Brahmacharya Grihastha Vanaprastha Sannyasa Festivals Diwali Holi Shivaratri Navaratri  Durga Puja Ramlila Vijayadashami-Dussehra Raksha Bandhan Ganesh Chaturthi Vasant Panchami Rama Navami Janmashtami Onam Makar Sankranti Kumbha Mela Pongal Ugadi Vaisakhi  Bihu Puthandu Vishu Ratha Yatra
Philosophical schools Six Astika schools Samkhya Yoga Nyaya Vaisheshika Mimamsa Vedanta Advaita Dvaita Vishishtadvaita Other schools Pasupata Saiva Pratyabhijña Charvaka
Gurus, saints, philosophers Ancient Agastya Angiras Aruni Ashtavakra Atri Bharadwaja Gotama Jamadagni Jaimini Kanada Kapila Kashyapa Pāṇini Patanjali Raikva Satyakama Jabala Valmiki Vashistha Vishvamitra Vyasa Yajnavalkya Medieval Nayanars Alvars Adi Shankara Basava Akka Mahadevi Allama Prabhu Siddheshwar Jñāneśvar Chaitanya Gangesha Upadhyaya Gaudapada Gorakshanath Jayanta Bhatta Kabir Kumarila Bhatta Matsyendranath Mahavatar Babaji Madhusudana Madhva Haridasa Thakur Namdeva Nimbarka Prabhakara Raghunatha Siromani Ramanuja Sankardev Purandara Dasa Kanaka Dasa Ramprasad Sen Jagannatha Dasa Vyasaraya Sripadaraya Raghavendra Swami Gopala Dasa Śyāma Śastri Vedanta Desika Tyagaraja Tukaram Tulsidas Vachaspati Mishra Vallabha Vidyaranya Modern Aurobindo Bhaktivinoda Thakur Chinmayananda Dayananda Saraswati Mahesh Yogi Jaggi Vasudev Krishnananda Saraswati Narayana Guru Prabhupada Ramakrishna Ramana Maharshi Radhakrishnan Sarasvati Sivananda U. G. Krishnamurti Sai Baba Vivekananda Nigamananda Yogananda Ramachandra Dattatrya Ranade Tibbetibaba Trailanga
Texts Scriptures Vedas Rigveda Yajurveda Samaveda Atharvaveda Divisions Samhita Brahmana Aranyaka Upanishad Upanishads Rigveda: Aitareya Kaushitaki Yajurveda: Brihadaranyaka Isha Taittiriya Katha Shvetashvatara Maitri Samaveda: Chandogya Kena Atharvaveda: Mundaka Mandukya Prashna Other scriptures Bhagavad Gita Agama (Hinduism) Other texts Vedangas Shiksha Chandas Vyakarana Nirukta Kalpa Jyotisha Puranas Vishnu Purana Bhagavata Purana Nāradeya Purana Vāmana Purana Matsya Purana Garuda Purana Brahma Purana Brahmānda Purana Brahma Vaivarta Purana Bhavishya Purana Padma Purana Agni Purana Shiva Purana Linga Purana Kūrma Purana Skanda Purana Varaha Purana Mārkandeya Purana Itihasas Ramayana Mahabharata Upavedas Ayurveda Dhanurveda Gandharvaveda Sthapatyaveda Shastras and Sutras Dharma Shastra Artha Śastra Shilpa Shastra Kamasutra Brahma Sutras Samkhya Sutras Mimamsa Sutras Nyāya Sūtras Vaiśeṣika Sūtra Yoga Sutras Pramana Sutras Charaka Samhita Sushruta Samhita Natya Shastra Panchatantra Divya Prabandha Tirumurai Ramcharitmanas Yoga Vasistha Swara yoga Panchadasi Stotra Samhita Sutras Text classification Śruti Smriti Timeline of Hindu texts
Society Varna Brahmin Kshatriya Vaishya Shudra Dalit Jati Persecution Nationalism Hindutva
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Books

• Aspects of Hindu Morality
• Hindu and Muslim Mysticism
• Mandalas and Yantras in the Hindu Traditions
• The Last Hindu Emperor
• Saundarya Lahari Bhashya
• The Concept of Universal Religion in Modern Hindu Thought
• Temples of the Indus
• The mythology of the Hindus
• Jimutavahana's Dayabhaga: The Hindu Law of Inheritance in Bengal
• A Hindu Perspective on the Philosophy of Religion
• 7 Secrets from Hindu Calender Art
• The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition
• Introduction to Indian Architecture
• Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels
• Hindu mythology: Vedic and Puranic
• Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition
• Sanatana dharma, an advanced text book of Hindu religion and ethics
• Hindu God, Christian God: How Reason Helps Break Down the Boundaries between Religions
• Trisastisalakapurusacaritra: Vol- IV
• Olympus: An Indian Retelling of the Greek Myths
• Sannyasa Upanishads
• Higher Psychical Development (Yoga Philosophy)
• A Study of Indian Spring Festivals: From Ancient and Medieval Sanskrit Texts
• A View of the History, Literature, and Religion of the Hindoos
• Indian Wisdom
• Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India
• Indian Mythology
• Espiritualidad Hindu
• Lustful Maidens and Ascetic Kings
• A Dictionary of Asian Mythology
• Chinnamasta: The Aweful Buddhist and Hindu Tantric Goddess
• Lectures on Hindu Law
• Ways to Shiva
• Hindu Philosophy
• The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism
• The Guru Chronicles: The Making of the First American Satguru
• Void and Fullness in the Buddhist, Hindu and Christian Traditions: Sunya Purna Pleroma
• The Hindus: An Alternative History
• Jesus as Guru: The Image of Christ among Hindus and Christians in India
• Is India Civilized?: Essays on Indian Culture
• Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramayana
• Lives and Teaching of the Yogis of India
• Praana Praanee Pranayam: Exploring the Breath Technology of Kundalini Yoga as Taught by Yogi Bhajan
• Hindu Pluralism
• Complete Indian History For IAS Exam
• Indiafacts Hindu Human Rights Report 2017
• A History of Indian literature, Volume 2, Part 2: Hindu Tantric and Sakta Literature
• Vac: The Concept of the Word in Selected Hindu Tantras
• My Hanuman Chalisa
• The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment
• The Goddess as Role Model
• Narmadaparikrama – Circumambulation of the Narmada River
• Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics
• The Myths and Gods of India: The Classic Work on Hindu Polytheism
• New Homelands: Hindu Communities in Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad, South Africa, Fiji, and East Africa
• Crossing the Lines of Caste: Visvamitra and the Construction of Brahmin Power in Hindu Mythology
• Hindu Christian Faqir: Modern Monks, Global Christianity, and Indian Sainthood
• Animals in Indian Civilization and Mythology
• Demoting Vishnu: Ritual, Politics, and the Unraveling of Nepal's Hindu Monarchy
• The Lord Who Is Half Woman: Ardhanarisvara in Indian and Feminist Perspective
• Hindus in South Asia and the Diaspora: A Survey of Human Rights 2005
• Bengal divided: Hindu communalism and partition, 1932-1947
• Handbook of Hindu Mythology
• The Dhaarmic Traditions Of Hinduism
• Homo Ritualis: Hindu Ritual and Its Significance for Ritual Theory
• Numerology: With Tantra, Ayurveda, and Astrology
• Ganapati: Song of the Self
• Cow: A Bovine Biography
• Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu: American Representations of India, 1721-1893
• Wandering with Sadhus
• Tantric texts
• Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities
• A Short History of Bali: Indonesia's Hindu Realm
• Swami Vivekananda and Non-Hindu Traditions
• The Modern Ayurvedic Cookbook
• Religion–State Encounters in Hindu Domains
• The Monkey Grammarian
• Decolonizing the Hindu Mind: Ideological Development of Hindu Revivalism
• Classical Samkhya and Yoga: An Indian Metaphysics of Experience
• Hindu Dharma: The Universal Way of Life
• The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual: Temples and the Establishment of the Gods
• Studies in Hindu Law and Dharmasastra
• The Wisdom of the Hindus
• Krishna: A Sourcebook
• Essential Hinduism
• A Dialogue between a Christian and a Hindu about Religion
• Hinduism – An Introduction
• Adhyatma Upanishad
• Brahma Sutras
• The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
• Autobiography of a YOGI
• The Hindu World
• The Rigveda
• Handbook of Hindu Economics and Business
• Hindus: Their religious beliefs and practices
• A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion
• Divine Mother, Blessed Mother: Hindu Goddesses and the Virgin Mary
• The Man Who Was a Woman and Other Queer Tales
• The Tantric Body: The Secret Tradition of Hindu Religion
• The Leadership Sutra: An Indian Approach to Power
• Sri Devi Bhagavatam
• Bala-Gokulam
• Gender and Narrative in the Mahabharata
• Transcendent in America
• On Hinduism
• Mohini Vidya Sadhana and Siddhi: Hindu way to Hidden Powers
• A Restatement of Religion: Swami Vivekananda and the Making of Hindu Nationalism
• The Garland of Letters (Varnamala)
• The Goddess in Hindu-Tantric Traditions
• The Astrology of the Seers
• The Spirit of Hindu Law
• The Rejuvenating Power of Masturbation
• The Strides of Vishnu
• The Chaitanya Vaishnava Vedanta of Jiva Gosvami: When Knowledge Meets Devotion
• Being Hindu
• Inner Tantric Yoga
• Hindu Mysticism
• Predictive Nirayana Sidereal Astrology Part II
• God's Gateway: Identity and Meaning in a Hindu Pilgrimage Place
• The Indra Cult as Ideology: A Clue to Power Struggle in an Ancient Society
• 27 TANTRAS
• Self-Surrender (prapatti) to God in Shrivaishnavism
• Hindu Worldviews
• Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation
• A Commentary on the Upanishads
• Explaining Mantras: Ritual, Rhetoric, and the Dream of a Natural Language in Hindu Tantra
• A Hindu Critique of Buddhist Epistemology
• Desire and Motivation in Indian Philosophy
• Seeking Mahadevi: Constructing the Identities of the Hindu Great Goddess
• Why I Killed the Mahatma: Understanding Godse's Defence
• Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and the Partition of India
• Longing and Letting Go
• Consciousness in Indian Philosophy
• Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition
• Beyond Hindu and Muslim: Multiple Identity in Narratives from Village India
• WHY I AM A HINDU
• Shiva: Stories and Teachings from the Shiva Mahapurana
• Hindu Gods and Goddesses
• The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India
• How I Became a Hindu: My Discovery of Vedic Dharma
• Poems on Life and Love in Ancient India: Hala's Sattasai
• Sleep, Dreams and Spiritual Reflections
• The God Market: How Globalization is Making India More Hindu
• Ramana's Arunachala: Ocean of the Grace Divine
• Mahanirvana Tantra: Tantra of the Great Liberation
• Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism
• The Garuda Purana
• Planetary Influences on Human Affairs
• Hindu Rashtra Darshan
• Vedic Mathematics
• RAMAYANA retold
• Introduction to Tantra Sastra
• DEVLOK with Devdutt Pattanaik
• Hindu Nationalism
• The Demon's Daughter: A Love Story from South India
• The Science of the Rishis: The Spiritual and Material Discoveries of the Ancient Sages of India
• Memoirs of a Global Hindu
• Advaita Bodha Deepika, Lamp of Non-Dual Knowledge
• The Silent Power: Selections from The Mountain Path and The Call Divine
• Teachings of the Hindu Mystics
• The Art of Questioning: Interrogations of Exceptionalist History and Cultural Mythology in the Novels of Salman Rushdie and William Faulkner
• Hindu and Hindutva: Name and Nationalism
• JAIMINI SUTRAS
• Devi Mahatmyam
• The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath