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India is the birthplace of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism, and it holds pilgrimage sites, monastic lineages and philosophical schools for all four alongside a large, long established Muslim population and smaller Christian, Parsi and Jewish communities. The Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas and the great epics were composed and transmitted here, mostly in Sanskrit, and temple architecture, yoga and tantric traditions, and astrological systems remain living practice rather than historical artifact. Religious identity is also a source of active political tension, including recurring communal violence and disputes over holy sites, which the atlas notes as contested rather than settled. Regional diversity is extreme: Kashmir's Sufi and Hindu heritage, Kerala's ancient Christian and Jewish communities, and Punjab's Sikh homeland each give India internal religious variety that a single national description cannot flatten.

Facts
Law and State
Establishment Status
Secular State Declared 3
The constitution declares India a secular state under the 42nd Amendment of 1976, guaranteeing freedom of religion under Articles 25 to 28; marriage, divorce and inheritance are still governed by separate religious personal laws rather than a uniform civil code.
State Funding Mechanism
India ran a direct Hajj subsidy from 1954, paid as concessionary airline fares and worth about 100 million dollars in 2013 and 75 million dollars by 2016, until Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi ended it on 16 January 2018, four years ahead of a 2012 Supreme Court order that had directed its gradual phase out by 2022, redirecting the freed funds toward education for minority girls and women. State religious funding continues today through a different channel: statutory endowment boards such as Tamil Nadu's Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department, overseeing more than 36,000 temples, and the state Wakf Boards administer religious trust income under government supervision rather than through direct budget subsidy. 4
Apostasy or Blasphemy Law
India criminalized religious-feelings insult, not named blasphemy, under Section 295A of the Indian Penal Code, added in 1927 after a prosecution over an anti-Muhammad tract failed to fit the narrower Section 295: it punished deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage the religious feelings of any class of citizens, by words spoken or written, signs, visible representations or otherwise, with imprisonment up to three years, a fine, or both, rising to five years if committed in a place of worship. Effective 1 July 2024 the provision was replaced by Section 299 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, which carries forward the same conduct and the same maximum penalty under India's recodified criminal law. India has no apostasy statute; conversion between religions is lawful, though several states restrict conversion procedurally under anti-conversion laws aimed at alleged inducement rather than apostasy itself. Section 295A is cognizable and non-bailable and has been invoked across the political and religious spectrum, against critics of Hinduism, Islam and Christianity alike, and courts have repeatedly narrowed its use to acts carrying genuine malicious intent rather than mere offense. 5
Registration or Recognition Regime
No national law requires a religious group to register, but a group that receives funding from outside the country must register under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, whose licenses the central government has suspended from numerous religious and charitable organizations, Christian and Muslim among them, citing violations of the act's terms. Separately, twelve of India's states have enacted their own anti-conversion laws as of 2023, generally requiring a district official's prior approval of a conversion and providing fines or imprisonment for anyone found to have induced one by force, fraud or inducement; the laws apply chiefly to conversion out of Hinduism and are administered state by state rather than nationally. 6
Ban or Official Watchlist
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has repeatedly recommended in its annual reports that the State Department designate India a Country of Particular Concern. On 4 January 2024 the Secretary of State announced the department's Countries of Particular Concern list, renewing twelve other designations, and India was not among them; the commission called the omission unjustified and asked Congress to hold a hearing on the decision. India carries no Countries of Particular Concern or Special Watch List designation from the State Department itself. 7
Concordat BasisSourced to the subject's own account
India holds no concordat with the Holy See. An Apostolic Delegation to the East Indies existed from 1881, and Pope Pius XII raised it to a full internunciature covering all of India on 12 June 1948, shortly after independence. That upgrade formalized diplomatic representation but did not take the form of a bilateral treaty, consistent with India's own constitutional secularism, which recognizes no established religion. 8
Classification
State Funding of Religion
State Neutrality Among Religions 9
Disputed
Legal Status
The constitution declares India a secular state (the word "secular" added by the 42nd Amendment in 1976), guaranteeing freedom of religion under Articles 25-28; marriage, divorce and inheritance are still governed by separate religious personal laws rather than a Uniform Civil Code. 3
India's constitution declares the country a secular state, the word secular itself only added to the preamble by the 42nd constitutional amendment in 1976 rather than present in the original 1950 text, and guarantees freedom of religion to all citizens under Articles 25 to 28. Separately, marriage, divorce, inheritance and related family matters continue to be governed by distinct personal laws specific to each major religious community rather than by one uniform civil code applying equally to all citizens. Whether India should adopt a single Uniform Civil Code replacing these separate religious personal laws, a possibility named in the constitution's non-binding Directive Principles since 1950 but never legislated nationally, is a long-running political and legal debate: proponents argue it would deliver legal equality regardless of religion, while opponents, concentrated among religious minority communities, argue it would override minority religious practice. The debate remains unresolved because no national government has to date enacted the uniform code the constitution's own directive principles contemplate.
Demographics
Religious Composition
About 79-80% Hindu, 14-15% Muslim (one of the largest Muslim populations in the world by absolute number), with Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and Jain minorities (India Census 2011; Pew Research Center, Religious Composition of the World, 2010-2020). 1
Government
Capital
New Delhi 2
Government Type
federal parliamentary republic 2
Sovereignty Status
Sovereign UN member state 2
Established Year
1947 2
15 August 1947 (from the UK)
Geography
Latitude
20.6 degrees north 2
Approximate reference point, rounded to one decimal place; a country's extent has no single center, so this coordinate is conventional, not a survey measurement.
Longitude
79 degrees east 2
Approximate reference point, rounded to one decimal place; a country's extent has no single center, so this coordinate is conventional, not a survey measurement.
Government type (class)
Parliamentary republic 2
Government type (class)
Federal republic 2
Location
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The Textual Corpus of Classical India

India's classical religious literature spans an unusually long and layered textual tradition, beginning with the Rigveda and the other three Vedas, composed in Vedic Sanskrit and transmitted for centuries through exact oral memorization before being fixed in writing, a preservation method so rigorous that reciters could reconstruct a text precisely even where transmission drifted elsewhere in a lineage.

The Upanishads, composed later and appended to the Vedic corpus, shifted the tradition's center of gravity toward philosophical inquiry into the nature of self and reality, supplying much of the vocabulary later Hindu philosophical schools would debate for two thousand years. The two great epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, developed over centuries through oral and later written transmission and carry embedded religious teaching within their narrative frame, most famously the Bhagavad Gita, a philosophical dialogue set within the Mahabharata that has become one of Hinduism's most widely read texts in its own right.

The Puranas, composed later still, organized much Hindu mythology, cosmology, and sectarian devotional material, including the narratives feeding Vaishnava and Shaiva traditions, into the forms in which they are known today. Buddhism and Jainism, both native to India, produced parallel textual traditions of comparable depth, the former largely in Pali and Sanskrit and the latter chiefly in Ardhamagadhi Prakrit, meaning India's classical output spans several distinct religious systems rather than one continuous line. Sikhism's Guru Granth Sahib, compiled far later in Punjabi and other regional languages, extended this textual tradition into the early modern period.

Contested Sacred Sites in Modern India

Several sites central to Indian religious life sit at the center of ongoing legal and political dispute rather than settled devotional consensus, and this record treats these disputes as attributed and contested rather than resolved. The most prominent is the site at Ayodhya, where a mosque, the Babri Masjid, stood until its demolition by a Hindu nationalist crowd in 1992, an event following decades of dispute over whether the site marked the birthplace of the deity Rama and had previously held a Hindu temple; India's Supreme Court ruled in 2019 to award the site for construction of a Hindu temple while directing that alternate land be provided for a new mosque, a decision that resolved the legal question without resolving the underlying historical and communal disagreement, which independent observers describe as still unsettled.

Kashmir carries a related but distinct layer of contested religious and political history, holding significant Sufi shrines, Hindu temple sites, and a Buddhist heritage in Ladakh, all set within a decades long territorial dispute between India and Pakistan that has shaped religious demography and access to sites on both sides of the line of control. Communal violence linked to religious identity recurs periodically in various Indian states, documented by domestic and international human rights reporting, and the country's constitutional commitment to secularism sits in active tension with religious nationalist movements that some observers describe as reshaping that commitment in practice, a characterization noted here as contested rather than adopted as settled fact. These disputes are a documented feature of religious life in contemporary India rather than a marginal footnote to it.

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Ancient and Historical Regions

Assam, Regions
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Bihar, Regions
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Deccan, Regions
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Gujarat, Regions
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Himalayas, Regions
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India, Regions
Source India (Wikipedia)
Karnataka, Regions
Source GeoNames: GeoNames search for Karnataka
Kerala, Regions
Source GeoNames: GeoNames search for Kerala
Maharashtra, Regions
Source GeoNames: GeoNames search for Maharashtra
Manipur, Regions
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Meghalaya, Regions
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Punjab, Regions
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Rajasthan, Regions
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Tamil Nadu, Regions
Source GeoNames: GeoNames search for Tamil Nadu
Uttar Pradesh, Regions
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Uttarakhand, Regions
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This source names India directly: "around the first century CE, adopting Indian religious and legal custom over the following centuries; by the fifth century, the ruler Kaundinya II is recorded as having changed all the kingdom's..."

Source Funan (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

This source names India directly: "Akal Takht Sahib, Amritsar, Punjab, India, the highest seat of Sikh temporal-religious (miri-piri) authority for interpreting Sikh teachings, issued an edict denouncing same-sex marriages, and..."

Source Homosexuality and Sikhism (Wikipedia)

This source names India directly: "departed Calcutta in 1834 carrying 36 Indian labourers under a trial indenture scheme bound for Mauritius, the first of what became a system that carried more than 1.6 million Indian workers, most..."

Source Indian Indenture System (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

This source names India directly: "On 8 and 9 November 2019, India and Pakistan opened the Kartarpur Corridor, a roughly four kilometer visa-free passage linking the Dera Baba Nanak shrine in India's Punjab state to Gurdwara Darbar..."

Source First Anniversary of the Opening of the Kartarpur Corridor (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan)

This source names India directly: "India wants Buddha begging bowl from Kabul; ASI experts to check authenticity, an India TV news report from 2016, covers Indian interest in a bowl held in Kabul and the Archaeological Survey of..."

Source India wants Buddha begging bowl from Kabul; ASI experts to check authenticity (India TV)India TV
Indica, Sources

This source names India directly: "literature, describing a wild ass of India with a single horn."

Source IndicaCtesias of Cnidus

This source names India directly: "a leading specialist in Tibetan and Indian Buddhist studies, and this is his major scholarly survey tracing how Buddhism actually transmitted from India into Tibet, working directly from the Indian..."

Source Indo-Tibetan Buddhism: Indian Buddhists and Their Tibetan SuccessorsDavid L. Snellgrove

This source names India directly: "schools in the United States and India from 1972, when the first US gurukula opened in Dallas, to around 1990."

Source ISKCON Abuse Cases Settled for USD 9.5 MillionThe Pluralism Project

This source names India directly: "or gurukulas, in the United States and India, alleged to have occurred between 1972, when the first US gurukula opened in Dallas, and around 1990."

Source ISKCON Abuse Cases Settled for USD 9.5 MillionThe Pluralism Project
Islam, Religions

About 14 to 15% Muslim, one of the largest Muslim populations in the world by absolute number.

Source Religious Composition of the World, 2010-2020Pew Research Center

This source names India directly: "Wikipedia's article on Islam in India, community-edited."

Source Islam in India (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

This source names India directly: "founded in 1991 in Mumbai, India by Zakir Naik, devoted to comparative religious outreach and best known as the parent organization of the Peace TV satellite network."

Source Centre Extends UAPA Ban on Zakir Naik's Islamic Research Foundation for 5 Years (India TV News)

This source names India directly: "of a larger multi volume history of India that situates Sikh history within its wider regional context rather than treating it in isolation."

Source J.S. Grewal, The Sikhs of the Punjab (New Cambridge History of India II.3)J. S. Grewal
Jainism, Religions

Jainism originated in and remains centered in India.

Source The JainsPaul Dundas

This source names India directly: "Reliable for the standard account that Jains first emigrated from India to Kenya in the late nineteenth century and then to Uganda, Sudan and Tanzania, and for the 1972 exodus of Asians from Uganda..."

Source Jainism In Africa (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

This source names India directly: "a longstanding gateway between India and East Africa, built the Shri Zanzibar Katcchi Jain Temple in 1905 and consecrated murtis of Parsvanath, Shantinath and Mahaveerswami there, the first Jain..."

Source Zanzibar Derasar (Jain Treasures)Jain Treasures

This source names India directly: "fieldwork among Jain communities in India, documenting lived religious practice at sites such as Palitana and Shatrunjaya and the roles Jain religious specialists actually occupy, rather than..."

Source Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in IndiaJohn E. Cort

This source names India directly: "Hope in 1652, the year the Dutch East India Company founded its refreshment station there."

Source Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) (South African History Online)South African History Online

This source names India directly: "Jinvani Channel is an Indian television channel launched on December 9, 2011 by Jain Telemedia Services Ltd, a subsidiary of the commercial broadcaster Sea TV Network Ltd, based in Agra, India."

Source Jinvani Channel (Wikipedia)

This source names India directly: "of the monk Xuanzang's pilgrimage to India accompanied by the trickster figure Sun Wukong, drawing on and elaborating Buddhist, Daoist and popular religious material."

Source Journey to the WestWu Cheng'en (attributed)
Khasi, Pantheons

This source names India directly: "the Khasi of Meghalaya in northeastern India."

Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)

This source names India directly: "1950s, and his flight into exile in India in 1959 at age twenty-three."

Source Kundun (1997 film) (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

This source names India directly: "article on Jainism's legal status in India, community edited, giving the exact legal basis for the January 2014 minority notification, Section 2(c) of the National Commission for Minorities Act..."

Source Legal Status of Jainism as a Distinct Religion in India (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

This source names India directly: "30 June 2026, on the Supreme Court of India issuing notice to the State of Rajasthan on Asaram's petition challenging the Rajasthan High Court's May 2026 judgment, while refusing for now to suspend..."

Source LiveLaw: Supreme Court Issues Notice on Asaram Bapu's Plea Against Rape ConvictionDebby Jain

This source names India directly: "suit decided by the Supreme Court of India in 2019, is a primary legal source of the first order, the Court's own unanimous judgment resolving decades of litigation over the disputed site claimed by..."

Source M Siddiq v Mahant Suresh Das (Ayodhya title suit)Supreme Court of India

This source names India directly: "to half a million, the largest outside India itself."

Source British Sikhs (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

This source names India directly: "after a journey that included India."

Source Manichaeism (New Catholic Encyclopedia, via Encyclopedia.com)J. Ries

This source names India directly: "community of Manipur, in northeastern India, performed to mark religious occasions and the major stages of an individual life."

Source Sankirtana, Ritual Singing, Drumming and Dancing of Manipur, UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of HumanityUNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage

This source names India directly: "most concentrated in Iran, Pakistan, India and Iraq)."

Source Mapping the Global Muslim Population

This source names India directly: "and iconographic treatise from South Indian temple-building tradition, one of the vastu-shastra texts prescribing proportion, orientation and iconographic detail for temple and house construction."

Source Mayamata: An Indian Treatise on Housing, Architecture and IconographyTranslated by Bruno Dagens
Meitei, Pantheons

This source names India directly: "people of Manipur in northeastern India."

Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)

This source names India directly: "of the Archaeological Survey of India who led the original dig."

Source Mohenjo-Daro and the Indus CivilizationJohn Marshall

This source names India directly: "session, held in New Delhi, India, from 21 to 31 July 2024, as a transnational serial property spanning Bethlehem in the United States, Herrnhut in Germany and Gracehill in the United Kingdom..."

Source Moravian Church Settlements (UNESCO World Heritage Centre)

This source names India directly: "ascetic Nilkanth made across India between June 1792 and July 1799, before he became known to followers as Swaminarayan."

Source Mystic India (Wikipedia)

This source names India directly: "film database entry for Mystic India, listing its large-format theatrical distribution and confirming Giant Screen Films as distributor, corroborating the film's commercial theatrical release..."

Source Mystic India (Giant Screen Cinema Association)

This source names India directly: "Wikipedia's Mystic India article, confirming director Keith Melton, that the film was "financed and produced by BAPS Charities," the plot (Nilkanth's 12,000 km, seven year barefoot journey across..."

Source Mystic India (Wikipedia)

This source names India directly: "news release announcing that Mystic India won the Audience's Choice Prize at the 10th International Large Format Film Festival in Paris, France, direct institutional confirmation that BAPS itself..."

Source Mystic India Wins the Audience's Choice Prize (BAPS News, 2005)

This source names India directly: "Buddhist monastic university in Bihar, India, maintained through Wikipedia's ordinary community editing process rather than a fixed editorial board."

Source Nalanda Mahavihara (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

This source names India directly: "in August 2026 the Supreme Court of India declined to suspend his sentence and directed the High Court to decide the appeal within three months."

Source Business Standard (PTI): Gujarat Court Convicts Asaram's Son Narayan Sai in Rape CasePress Trust of India (PTI)

This source names India directly: "Union of India, the Supreme Court of India's own 2014 judgment, recognized a third gender legal category and affirmed the constitutional rights of transgender persons in India."

Source National Legal Services Authority v. Union of IndiaSupreme Court of India

This source names India directly: "ethnographic study of the hijras of India, based on Nanda's own fieldwork and interviews documenting their social organization, religious roles and place within Indian society."

Source Neither Man nor Woman: The Hijras of IndiaSerena Nanda

This source names India directly: "hill town of Panchgani, Maharashtra, India, founded on 1 August 1945 as a Baha'i children's hostel by the decision of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of India, Burma and Ceylon..."

Source The Baha'i World, Volume XVI (1973-1976): The History of New Era High SchoolThe Baha'i World Centre, under the supervision of the Universal House of Justice

This source names India directly: "The Indian Army assaulted the Golden Temple complex at Amritsar, Sikhism's holiest site, between 1 and 10 June 1984, aiming to remove an armed militant group that had fortified itself inside."

Source Operation Blue Star (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

This source names India directly: "Maneck's 1702 appointment as the East India Company's first broker there and the 1728 founding of the Bombay Parsi Panchayet; explicit that the earlier migration from Persia to Gujarat itself has no..."

Source Parsis (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

This source names India directly: "India's 1947 partition split the Punjab along religious lines, and the western half became part of the new state of Pakistan."

Source Sikhs In Pakistan (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Partition of India, Wars & Conflicts

India was created as the partition's Hindu-majority-successor, religiously plural successor state to British India.

Source Ian Talbot and Gurharpal Singh, The Partition of India (2009)Ian Talbot and Gurharpal Singh

This source names India directly: "Press's Murty Classical Library of India, 2015, is a scholarly translation."

Source Poems of the First Buddhist WomenTranslated by Charles Hallisey

This source names India directly: "to the Princes, Chiefs, and People of India is the British Crown's own instrument transferring rule of India from the East India Company to the Crown and stating its policy toward Indian religions."

Source Proclamation by the Queen in Council to the Princes, Chiefs, and People of IndiaQueen Victoria in Council

This source names India directly: "his outlook after traveling to India with the campaign of Alexander the Great and encountering practitioners who lived without fixed dogmatic belief."

Source Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyEdward N. Zalta and Uri Nodelman (eds.)

This source names India directly: "at institutions in Jammu and Kashmir, India."

Source Qadri and Mufti, "Films and Religion: An Analysis of Aamir Khan's PK," Journal of Religion & Film, 2016Monisa Qadri and Sabeha Mufti

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Ajmer, Cities
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Amritsar, Cities

Amritsar is in the state of Punjab in north west India.

Source J.S. Grewal, The Sikhs of the Punjab (New Cambridge History of India II.3)J. S. Grewal
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Ayodhya, Sacred Sites
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Delhi, Cities
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Dwarka, Cities
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Fatehpur Sikri, Cities

Fatehpur Sikri is in Agra district in Uttar Pradesh.

Source Religious and Intellectual History of the Muslims in Akbar's Reign, with Special Reference to Abu'l Fazl (1556-1605)S. A. A. Rizvi
Gangotri, Sacred Sites
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Girnar, Sacred Sites
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Its own text: "in Madhya Pradesh, India."

Source The Symbolism of the StupaAdrian Snodgrass
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Kamakhya, Sacred Sites
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Kolkata, Cities

Stands on the Bay of Bengal coast in the state of Odisha, India.

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Its own text: "standing in New Delhi as one of the continental Mother Temples," serving the Indian subcontinent.

Source A Concise Encyclopedia of the Baha'i FaithPeter Smith
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)Encyclopaedia Britannica editors
Mathura, Cities

Mathura is on the Yamuna in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

Source India: A Sacred GeographyDiana L. Eck
Mathura, Sacred Sites
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Source The Bon Religion of Tibet: The Iconography of a Living TraditionPer Kvaerne
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Patna, Cities

Patna stands on the site of ancient Pataliputra.

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Rajgir, Cities

Rajgir is a town in Nalanda district in Bihar.

Source India: A Sacred GeographyDiana L. Eck
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Ranakpur, Sacred Sites
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Originated Here

Source The JainsPaul Dundas
Source Akshaya Tritiya (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Ambubachi Mela (Wikipedia)
Source Uttar Pradesh State Tourism Development Corporation: Akharas of the Kumbh (Uttar Pradesh State Tourism Development Corporation)
Source Bhai Dooj (Wikipedia)
Source Bharat Sevashram Sangha (Wikipedia)
Source Brahmo Samaj (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Buddhism, Religions
Source New World Encyclopedia: Buddhism
Source Chaturmasya (Wikipedia)
Source Chhath Puja (Wikipedia)
Source Sufi Martyrs of Love: The Chishti Order in South Asia and BeyondCarl W. Ernst and Bruce B. Lawrence
Source Sufism: A Global HistoryNile Green

The Digambara Jain observance of the ten virtues.

Source The Oxford Dictionary of World ReligionsJohn Bowker (ed.)
Source Dhanteras (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Diwali (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Durga Puja (Wikipedia)
Source Vijayadashami (Wikipedia)
Source Ganesh Chaturthi (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Govardhan Puja (Wikipedia)
Source Gudi Padwa (Wikipedia)
Source Gurdwara Reform Movement (Wikipedia)
Source Guru Purnima (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Hanuman Jayanti (Wikipedia)
Source Holi (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Jainism, Religions
Source New Advent, Catholic Encyclopedia: Jainism
Source Karva Chauth (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

The robe-offering month, prescribed in the Indian monastic code.

Source The Princeton Dictionary of BuddhismRobert E. Buswell Jr. and Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Source Krishna Janmashtami (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Kumbh Mela (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Madariyya (Wikipedia)
Source Maha Shivaratri (Wikipedia)
Source Makar Sankranti (Wikipedia)
Source Naga Panchami (Wikipedia)
Source The Oxford Handbook of Sikh StudiesPashaura Singh and Louis E. Fenech (eds.)
Source Navaratri (Wikipedia)
Source Uttar Pradesh State Tourism Development Corporation: Akharas of the Kumbh (Uttar Pradesh State Tourism Development Corporation)
Source Onam (Wikipedia)
Source Paryushana (Wikipedia)
Source Pitru Paksha (Wikipedia)

The Tamil harvest festival of the first days of Thai.

Source The Hindu Religious YearMuriel Marion Underhill
Punjabis, Cultures
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)Encyclopaedia Britannica editors
Source Wikipedia: Radha Soami
Source Radha Soami Satsang Beas (Wikipedia)
Source Zorba the Buddha: Sex, Spirituality, and Capitalism in the Global Osho MovementHugh B. Urban
Source Raksha Bandhan (Wikipedia)
Source Encyclopedia of HinduismDenise Cush, Catherine Robinson and Michael York (eds.)
Source The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (Encyclopedia.com): Ramayana
Source Ratha Yatra (Wikipedia)
Source Al Jazeera: High-Profile Guru Asaram Bapu Sentenced to Life for Rape
Source Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (Wikipedia)

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Bengali, Languages

West Bengal is a state of modern India.

Spread Events Here

Source The JainsPaul Dundas
Source The Ibadat Khana (World History Encyclopedia)
Source Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji (DSGMC)

The Ganges plain, in the modern Indian states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

Source History of Indian Buddhism: From the Origins to the Saka EraEtienne Lamotte, translated by Sara Webb-Boin

Deekshabhoomi, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.

Source Dhammachakra Pravartan Din (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

Nalanda, Vikramashila and Odantapuri, in what is now Bihar, India.

Source Nalanda Mahavihara (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Devarddhi-gani: Canon Redaction at Valabhi (Jainpedia)
Source Jains in India Get Minority Status (Al Jazeera)
Source Jiyo Parsi Scheme (Drishti IAS)
Source Sammed Shikharji Eco Sensitive Zone Tourism Stay (Press Information Bureau, Government of India)

Ajmer and Delhi, in India.

Source Sufi Martyrs of Love: The Chishti Order in South Asia and BeyondCarl W. Ernst and Bruce B. Lawrence
Source Vincent A. Smith, The Jain Stupa and Other Antiquities of Mathura (Archaeological Survey of India, 1901)Vincent A. Smith
Source Modi Inaugurates the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya (CBS News)Arshad R. Zargar

Bombay (now Mumbai); no separate city entity exists in the graph, so this anchors to India.

Source Parsis (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
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Across the Indian subcontinent; the Vallabhi council itself sat in Gujarat.

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India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia.
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The most important Sufi order of the Indian subcontinent, named after the town of Chisht near Herat and established in India by Muin al-Din Chishti (1141-1236), whose shrine (dargah) at Ajmer is the most visited Muslim pilgrimage site in the subcontinent.
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The Portuguese crown established an Inquisition tribunal at Goa, its principal colony on the west coast of India, in 1560, and the tribunal opened its work in 1561 under King John III of Portugal and Cardinal Henrique, who sent Aleixo Dias Falcao as its first inquisitor.
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master Shiv Dayal Singh Ji Maharaj in January 1861 on Basant Panchami Day in Agra, India.
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Bharat Sevashram Sangha (Wikipedia)
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The headquarter of the Sangha is situated in Kolkata, West Bengal
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Wikipedia, "Sri Sarada Math"
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Headquartered at Dakshineshwar, Kolkata, the organisation has 35 branch centres in other parts of India
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Ambubachi Mela (Wikipedia)
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held at Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati, Assam
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Brahmo Samaj (Wikipedia)
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began as a monotheistic reformist movement during the Bengal Renaissance ... one of the most influential religious movements in India
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Gurdwara Reform Movement (Wikipedia)
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to bring reform in the gurdwaras (the Sikh places of worship) in India
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Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (Wikipedia)
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is an organization in India responsible for the management of gurdwaras
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Radha Soami Satsang Beas (Wikipedia)
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founded in Punjab, India, in 1891
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The Akshaya Patra Foundation (Wikipedia)
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Headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka
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    Shri Panchayati Akhara Bada Udasin, established in 1825 in Haridwar, is a key institution within the Udaasin sect, dedicated to the propagation of Sanatan Dharma and extensive social welfare.
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    The Nirmal Panchaati Akhara was established in 1862 in Patiala, Punjab, by Maharaja Narinder Singh of Patiala, Raja Bharpur Singh of Nabha, and Raja Sarup Singh of Jind.
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WorldAtlas: Where Are the Himalayas
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The Himalayas are the greatest mountain system in Asia and one of the planet’s youngest mountain ranges, that extends for more than 2,400km across the nations of Bhutan , China , India , Nepal , and Pakistan .
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Onam (Wikipedia)
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Onam (IPA: [oːɳɐm]), the national festival of Keralam, is an annual harvest and Hindu cultural festival celebrated mostly by the people of Keralam and is traditionally associated with the legend of the benevolent Asura King Mahabali, who once ruled Keralam, returning each year to visit his people.
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Vaisakhi (Wikipedia)
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It is seen as a spring harvest celebration primarily in Punjab and Northern India.
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Gudi Padwa (Wikipedia)
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It is celebrated in and around Maharashtra, Goa, and Daman at the start of Chaitra, the first month of the lunisolar Hindu calendar.
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Holi (Wikipedia)
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Holi originated in ancient Indian subcontinent and is predominantly celebrated in the Indian subcontinent, but has also spread to other regions of Asia and parts of the Western world.
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Chhath Puja (Wikipedia)
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Chhath, also called Chhath Puja, is an ancient Hindu festival native to East India and southern Nepal.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (Encyclopedia.com): Ramayana
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (Encyclopedia.com)Originated Here: Ramayana, Entry
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Along with the Mah ā bh ā rata , the R ā m ā ya ṇ a is the most influential epic of India.
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Diwali (Wikipedia)
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Dipavali (IAST: Dīpāvalī), commonly known as Diwali (), is the Hindu festival of lights, with variations celebrated in other Indian religions such as Jainism and Sikhism.
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Navaratri (Wikipedia)
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Navaratri (Sanskrit: नवरात्रि, romanized: Navarātri) is an annual Hindu festival observed in honor of the goddess Durga, an aspect of Adi Parashakti, the supreme goddess.
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Maha Shivaratri (Wikipedia)
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Maha Shivaratri is a Hindu festival celebrated annually to worship the deity Shiva, between February and March.
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Krishna Janmashtami (Wikipedia)
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Krishna Janmashtami (Sanskrit: कृष्णजन्माष्टमी, romanized: Kṛṣṇajanmāṣṭamī), also known simply as Krishnashtami, Janmashtami, or Gokulashtami, is an annual Hindu festival that celebrates the birth of Krishna, the eighth avatar of Vishnu.
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Vijayadashami (Wikipedia)
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Vijayadashami (Sanskrit: विजयदशमी, romanized: Vijayadaśamī), more commonly known as Dasara, or Dassahra, or Dussehra, and also known as Dashāhra or Dashain in Nepali, is a major Hindu festival celebrated every year at the end of Durga Puja and Navaratri.
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Makar Sankranti (Wikipedia)
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Makar(a) Sankrānti (Sanskrit: मकरसङ्क्रान्ति, romanized: Makarasaṅkrānti; transl.
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Akshaya Tritiya (Wikipedia)
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Akśaya Tṛtīyā, also known as Ākhā Tīja, is an annual Jaina and Hindu spring festival.
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Bhai Dooj (Wikipedia)
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Bhai Dooj, Bhai Tika, Bhaubeej, Bhai Beej, Bhai Phonta or Bhratri Dwitiya is a festival celebrated by Hindus on the second lunar day of the Shukla Paksha (bright fortnight) of Kartika, the eighth month of the Vikram Samvat Hindu calendar or the Shalivahana Shaka calendar.
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Dhanteras (Wikipedia)
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Dhanteras (Hindi: धनतेरस), also known as Dhanatrayodashi (Sanskrit: धनत्रयोदशी), is the first day that marks the festival of Diwali or Tihar in most of India and Nepal.
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Govardhan Puja (Wikipedia)
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Govardhan Puja (IAST: Govardhana-pūjā) or Annakut (meaning a “mountain of food”), is a Hindu festival celebrated on the first lunar day of the bright fortnight of the month of Kartika, on the fourth day of Diwali.
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Hanuman Jayanti (Wikipedia)
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Hanuman Jayanti (Sanskrit: हनुमानजयंती, romanized: Hanumānajayantī), also called Hanuman Janmotsava, is a Hindu festival celebrating the birth of the Hindu deity Hanuman, one of the protagonists of the Ramayana and its many versions.
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Karva Chauth (Wikipedia)
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Karva Chauth or Karwa Chauth or Karaka Chaturthi (Sanskrit: करकचतुर्थी, romanized: Karakachaturthī) is a Hindu festival celebrated by Hindu women of Northern India, Western India and Nepal in October or November on the Vikram Samvat month of Kartika.
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Naga Panchami (Wikipedia)
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Naga Panchami (Sanskrit: नागपञ्चमी, IAST: Nāgapañcamī; lit. 'Fifth Day of the Serpents') is a day of traditional worship of nagas (or najas or nags) or snakes (which are associated with the mythical Nāga beings) observed by Hindus, Jains, and Buddhists throughout Nepal and some parts of India, and other countries where Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist adherents live.
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Pitru Paksha (Wikipedia)
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Pitri Paksha (Sanskrit: पितृ पक्ष, lit. '"fortnight of the paternal ancestors"', IAST: Pitṛ pakṣa) is a 16-lunar day period in the Hindu calendar when Hindus pay homage to their ancestors (Pitri), especially through food offerings.
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Ratha Yatra (Wikipedia)
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They are held annually during festivals in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.
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Thaipusam (Wikipedia)
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Thaipusam or Thaipoosam (Tamil: Taippūcam, IPA: [t̪əjppuːsəm]) is a Tamil Hindu festival celebrated on the first full moon day of the Tamil month of Thai coinciding with Pusam star.
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Ugadi (Wikipedia)
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Ugādi (Telugu: ఉగాది, romanized: Ugādi), Yugādi (Sanskrit: युगादि, romanized: Yugādi, lit. 'beginning of the era.
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Vaikuntha Ekadashi (Wikipedia)
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Vaikuntha Ekadashi (Sanskrit: वैकुण्ठ एकादशी, lit. 'Eleventh day of Vaikuntha') is a Hindu occasion and festival.
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Vasant Panchami (Wikipedia)
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Vasant Panchami, also rendered Basant Panchami and Saraswati Puja in honour of the Hindu goddess Saraswati, is a Hindu festival that marks the preparation for the arrival of spring.
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Vata Purnima (Wikipedia)
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Vat Purnima (Vaṭapūrṇimā, also called Vat Savitri) is a Hindu celebration observed by married women in North India and in the Western Indian states of Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat.
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Durga Puja (Wikipedia)
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Durga Puja (ISO: Durgā Pūjā, Bengali pronunciation: [d̪uɾɡapud͡ʒa] ), also known as Durgotsava or Sharadotsava, is a major Hindu festival honouring the goddess Durga and commemorating her victory over Mahishasura.
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Ganesh Chaturthi (Wikipedia)
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Ganesh Festival or the Festival of Ganesha on the Fourth Day), also known as Vinayaka Chaturthi (Vināyaka Caturthī), Vinayaka Chavithi (Vināyaka Cavithī), or Vinayagar Chaturthi (Vināyagar Caturthī), is a Hindu festival celebrating the arrival of the Hindu deity Ganesha to the south of India to meet his brother Karthikeya.
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Raksha Bandhan (Wikipedia)
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Raksha Bandhan is a popular and traditionally Hindu annual rite or ceremony that is central to a festival of the same name celebrated in South Asia, and among people around the world influenced by Hindu culture.
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Guru Purnima (Wikipedia)
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It is celebrated as a festival in India, Nepal and Bhutan by Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists.
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Kumbh Mela (Wikipedia)
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Kumbh Mela (Sanskrit: Kumbha Mēlā, pronounced [kʊˈmbʱᵊ melaː]; lit. 'festival of the Sacred Pitcher') is a Hindu pilgrimage, celebrated every four or twelve years, correlated with the partial or full revolution of Jupiter.
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Paryushana (Wikipedia)
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Paryushana is an annual holy event in Jainism and is usually celebrated in August, September, or October in the Hindu calendar month of Bhadrapad's Shukla Paksha.
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Chaturmasya (Wikipedia)
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Chaturmasya (Sanskrit: चातुर्मास्य, lit. 'Cāturmāsya'; Pali: Catumāsa), also rendered Chāturmāsa, is a holy period of four months, observed across major Indian religions during the annual monsoon season.
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New World Encyclopedia: Buddhism
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Buddhism originated in ancient India as a Sramana tradition sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E. , spreading through much of Asia, and at times reaching as far west as (modern day) Afghanistan .
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New Advent, Catholic Encyclopedia: Jainism
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A form of religion intermediate between Brahminism and Buddhism , originated in India in pre-Christian times, and has maintained its heretical attitude towards Brahminism down to the present day.
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