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practiced in South India.

is a central concept within Indian religions and is often r

temple or prayer hall in Indian religions.

architecture of South India and Sri Lanka.

architecture of North India, and also often used in

for public rituals in Indian architecture and Nepales

pragaram or pragaaram) in Indian architecture is an outer

are a class of beings in Indian religions.

The Hevajra Tantra is one of the principal Yogini class tantras of Vajrayana Buddhist literature, compiled in India and generally dated by scholars to around the eighth or ninth century CE.

or 'limitless' or 'innocence') is an important Vedic goddess in Hinduism.

is one of the central characters of the ancient Hindu epic Mahabharata.

Prajna (IAST: Pūrṇa-Prajña) and Ānanda Tīrtha, was an Indian philosopher, theologian and the chief proponent of the

hero and one of the most prominent characters in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.

Gangāputra, and Devavrata, is a central figure in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.

central characters of the ancient Sanskrit epic, the Mahabharata (c. 400 BCE, 400 CE).

known as Suyodhana, is the primary antagonist of the Hindu epic Mahabharata.

and Radheya, is one of the major characters in the Hindu epic Mahābhārata.

youngest of the five Pandava brothers in the ancient Indian epic, the Mahabharata.

IAST: Viśvāmitra) is a legendary figure in Hindu mythology, and one of the most venerated rishis or

is also one of the central characters of the ancient Hindu epic Mahabharata.

Atri or Attri is a Vedic sage, who is credited with composing

Kalki (Sanskrit: कल्कि), also called Kalkin, is the prophesied tenth and final incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu.

Narasimha (Sanskrit: नरसिंह, lit. 'man-lion', IAST: Narasiṃha, or Sanskrit: नृसिंह, IAST: Nṛsiṃha), is a deity in Hinduism, revered as the fourth of the ten principal avatars (Dashavatara) of the god Vishnu.

Kali (; Sanskrit: काली, IAST: Kālī), also called Kalika, is a major goddess in Hinduism, primarily associated with time, death, and destruction.

Lakshmi (; Sanskrit: लक्ष्मी, IAST: Lakṣmī, sometimes spelled Laxmi), also known as Shri (Sanskrit: श्री, IAST: Śrī), is one of the principal goddesses in Hinduism, revered as the goddess of fortune, wealth, prosperity, beauty, fertility, sovereignty, and abundance.

Jaimini was an ancient Indian scholar who founded the Mīmāṃsā school of Hindu philosophy.

Vasubandhu (traditional Chinese: 世親; ; pinyin: Shìqīn; Tibetan: དབྱིག་གཉེན་ Wylie: dbyig gnyen; fl. 4th to 5th century CE) was an influential Indian Buddhist monk and scholar.

Rama (; Sanskrit: राम, IAST: Rāma, Sanskrit: [ˈraːmɐ] ), also known as Ram, is a major deity in Hinduism, who is worshipped as one of the prominent avatars of Vishnu.

Krishna (; Sanskrit: कृष्ण, IAST: Kṛṣṇa Sanskrit: [ˈkr̩ʂɳɐ] ) also known as Govinda, Madhava, Gopala, and other names and titles is a major deity in Hinduism.

Vyasa (; Sanskrit: व्यास, lit. 'compiler, arranger', IAST: Vyāsa) is a rishi (sage) with a prominent role in most Hindu traditions.

Sita (Sanskrit: सीता; IAST: Sītā), also known as Siya, Jānaki and Maithili, is a Hindu goddess and the female protagonist of the Hindu epic Ramayana.

Ravana (Sanskrit: रावण, romanized: Rāvaṇa, lit. 'roaring') is the principal antagonist of the ancient Hindu epic Ramayana and its several other versions.

Buddhaghosa was a 5th-century Indian Theravādin Buddhist commentator, translator, and philosopher.

According to traditional accounts, many millions of years ago he was born to king Nabhi and queen Marudevi in the north Indian city of Ayodhya, also called Vinita.

Nāropā (c. 1016 - 1100 CE) (Prakrit; Sanskrit: Nāropāda, Naḍapāda or Abhayakirti) was an Indian Buddhist Mahasiddha.

Swami Vivekananda () (12 January 1863-4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna.

Kabir (fl. 15th century) was a famous Indian devotional mystic poet and saint.

Holika (Sanskrit: होलिका, IAST: Holikā) is an asuri in Hinduism.

Surapadma (Sanskrit: शूरपद्मा), Surapadman (Tamil: சூரபத்மன்) is an asura featured in Hindu literature.

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (13 February 1835-26 May 1908) was an Indian religious leader and the founder of the Ahmadiyya movement in Islam.

Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1 September 1896-14 November 1977) was an Indian spiritual, philosophical, and religious teacher who spread the Hare Krishna mantra and the teachings of "Krishna consciousness" to the world.

Dasharatha (Sanskrit: दशरथ, IAST: Daśaratha; born Nemi) was the king of Kosala, with its capital at Ayodhya, in the Hindu epic Ramayana.

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is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India

school of Indian philosophy

a South Indian frame drum

located in Shirdi, Ahilyanagar district, Maharashtra, India

female coming-of-age ritual in South Indian Hindu traditions

was an Indian Hindu philosopher, guru and so

was an Indian Hindu sage

is a major character in the ancient Indian epic, the Mahabharata

The Vedas ( or ; Sanskrit: वेदः, romanised: Vēdaḥ, lit. 'knowledge'), sometimes collectively called the Veda, are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India.

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"Northern India, Pahari Region, Himachal Pradesh, Rajput Kingdom of Kangra, Court of Aniruddh Chand (reigned 1823-1833)"

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Natha, also called Nath (Sanskrit: नाथसम्प्रदाय, romanized: Nāthasaṃpradāya), are a Shaiva sub-tradition within Hinduism in India and Nepal which emerged in the 12th and 13th centuries.

Madhyamaka (Sanskrit: माध्यमक, romanized: Mādhyamaka, lit. 'middle way; centrism'; Chinese: 中觀見; pinyin: Zhōngguān jiàn; Vietnamese: Trung quán tông, chữ Nôm: 中觀宗; Tibetan: དབུ་མ་པ་, Wylie: dbu ma pa) also known as Madhyamika (Sanskrit: माध्यमिक, romanized: Mādhyamika) refers to a tradition of Buddhist philosophy and practice founded by the Indian Buddhist monk and philosopher Nāgārjuna (c. 150, c. 250 CE).

Nag champa is a commercial fragrance of Indian origin.

The species is native to western India, from where it was introduced westward to southern Pakistan and the middle-east.

Dammar gum, also called damar gum, dammar resin, or just dammar, is a resin obtained from the tree family Dipterocarpaceae in India and Southeast Asia, principally those of the genera Shorea or Hopea (synonym Balanocarpus).

The Yoga Sutras were compiled in India in the early centuries CE by the sage Patanjali, who collected and organized knowledge about yoga from Samkhya, Buddhism, and older Yoga traditions, and possibly another compiler who may have added the fourth chapter.

It is likely a late 17th-century text, probably from northeast India, structured as a teaching manual based on a dialogue between Gheranda and Chanda.

Vedanga Jyotisha (IAST: Vedāṅga Jyotiṣa), or Jyotishavedanga (Jyotiṣavedāṅga), is one of earliest known Indian texts on astrology (Jyotisha).

He was born in Amritsar, Punjab, India in 1621 and was the youngest son of Guru Hargobind, the sixth Sikh guru.

Bhil or Bheel are various indigenous groups inhabiting western India, including parts of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh and in Sindh, Pakistan.

Religions.text: Hindu 79.8%, Muslim 14.2%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.7%, other and unspecified 2% (2011 est.)

Khema was born into the royal family of the ancient Kingdom of Madra, and was the wife of King Bimbisara of the ancient Indian kingdom of Magadha.

Kaṇāda (Sanskrit: कणाद, IAST: Kaṇāda), also known as Kaṇabhaksha, Kaṇabhuj was an ancient Indian natural scientist and philosopher who founded the Vaisheshika school of Indian philosophy that also represents the earliest Indian physics.

Traditionally, he and his half-brother Vasubandhu are regarded as the major classical Indian Sanskrit exponents of Mahayana Abhidharma, Vijñanavada (awareness only; also called Vijñaptivāda, the doctrine of ideas or percepts, and Vijñaptimātratā-vāda, the doctrine of 'mere representation) thought and Mahayana teachings on the bodhisattva path.

Mahishasura (Sanskrit: महिषासुर, IAST: Mahiṣāsura), (Kannada: ಮಹಿಷಾಸುರ) is a bovine asura in Hinduism.

Patanjali (Sanskrit: पतञ्जलि, IAST: Patañjali, Sanskrit pronunciation: [pɐtɐɲdʑɐli]; also called Gonardiya or Gonikaputra) was the name of one or more author(s), mystic(s) and philosopher(s) in ancient India.

Ramakrishna (18 February 1836-16 August 1886), also called Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (pronounced [ramɔkriʂno pɔromoɦɔŋʃo] ; IAST: Rāmakṛṣṇa Paramahaṃsa), born Ramakrishna Chattopadhyay (his childhood nickname was Gadadhar), was an Indian Hindu mystic.

Meera, better known as Mirabai, and venerated as Sant Meerabai, was a 16th-century Hindu mystic poet and devotee of Krishna.

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (Bengali: মহাপ্রভু শ্রীচৈতন্য দেব; Sanskrit: चैतन्य महाप्रभु, romanized: Caitanya Mahāprabhu), born Vishvambhara Mishra (IAST: Viśvambhara Miśra) (18 February 1486-14 June 1534), was an Indian Hindu saint from Bengal and the founder of Gaudiya Vaishnavism.

Akka Mahadevi was a 12th century philosopher, poet (Kannada literature), mystic (c. 1130-1160) and a prominent member of the Lingayatism denomination of Hinduism founded in the 12th century.

Lakshmana (Sanskrit: लक्ष्मण, lit. 'the one endowed with auspicious signs', IAST: Lakṣmaṇa), also known as Laxmana, Lakhan, Saumitra, and Ramanuja, is the younger half-brother of Rama in the Hindu epic Ramayana.

Mahabali (IAST: Mahābalī), also known as Bali, Indrasenan, or Māveli, is a daitya king featured in Hinduism.

Savitri and Satyavan, also called Sāvitrī-Upākhyāna, is an episode from the Indian epic Mahabharata, appearing in the Vana Parva (The Book of the Forest).

Valmiki (; Sanskrit: वाल्मीकि, romanized: Vālmīki, lit. 'from an anthill', [ʋɑːlmiːki]) was a legendary poet and Hindu maharishi (sage) who is celebrated as the traditional author of the smriti epic Ramayana, one of Hinduism's two Itihasas, based on the attribution in the text itself.

Vamadeva (Sanskrit: वामदेव, romanized: Vāmadeva) is a rishi (sage) in Hindu literature.

Bharadvaja (Sanskrit: भरद्वाज, IAST: Bharadvāja; also spelled Bharadwaja) was an ancient rishi associated with a pastoralist group of the same name among the early Vedic people.

Vasishtha (Sanskrit: वसिष्ठ, lit. 'most excellent', IAST: Vasiṣṭha) is one of the oldest and revered Vedic rishis or sages, and one of the Saptarishis (seven great Rishis).

Vedic Sanskrit, also simply referred as the Vedic language, is the earliest attested form of the Sanskrit and Prakrit languages: members of the Indo-Aryan subgroup of the Indo-European language family.

Pali was designated a classical language of India by the Government of India on 3 October 2024.

Shauraseni was the vernacular of the Surasena region and the chief language used in drama in medieval northern India such as those written in Jain Shauraseni.

Sant Bhasha (Gurmukhi: ਸੰਤ-ਭਾਸ਼ਾ; Devanagari: संत-भाषा; romanized: Sant Bhāṣā; lit. 'language of saints') is a liturgical and scriptural language composed of vocabulary common to northern Indian languages, which was extensively used by saints and poets to compose religious verses.

Phaladeepika is a treatise on Hindu astrology written by Mantreswara.

The Vivekachudamani (Sanskrit: विवेकचूडामणि, romanized: vivekacūḍāmaṇi, lit. 'Crest-jewel of discernment') is a philosophical treatise within the Advaita Vedanta tradition of Hinduism, traditionally attributed to Adi Shankara, though this attribution has been questioned and mostly rejected by modern scholarship.

The Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (Sanskrit: बृहत् पराशर होरा शास्त्र; IAST: bṛhat parāśara horā śāstra; abbreviated to BPHS) is the most comprehensive extant Śāstra on Vedic natal astrology, in particular the Horā branch (predictive astrology, e.g. horoscopes).

The Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā (Sanskrit: haṭhayogapradīpikā, हठयोगप्रदीपिका or Light on Hatha Yoga) is a classic fifteenth-century Sanskrit manual on haṭha yoga, written by Svātmārāma.

The Yavanajātaka (Sanskrit: yavana 'Greek' + jātaka 'nativity' = 'nativity according to the Greeks'), written by Sphujidhvaja, is an ancient text in Indian astrology.

The Guhyasamāja Tantra (Sanskrit: गुह्यसमाजतंत्र, romanized: Guhyasamājatantra, lit. 'Tantra of the Secret Society/Community'; Tibetan: གསང་འདུས་རྩ་རྒྱུད, Wylie: gsang 'dus rtsa rgyud), Tōhoku Catalogue No. (Toh) 442, also known as the Tathāgataguhyaka (Secrets of the Tathagata) , is one of the most important scriptures of Tantric Buddhism, written in Sanskrit.

Tibetan is Tibetic language spoken mainly in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, and also in parts of India and Nepal.