Hindu Devotional Practices

Devotional practices belonging to Hinduism, including daily worship such as Puja and the ritual viewing of a deity's image known as Darshan, devotional song and repetition such as Bhajan and Japa, the bhakti path of loving devotion, the worship of the lingam within Shaivism, embodied observances such as Sandhyavandanam and Vrata, temple traditions such as Bharatanatyam dance, the marking of Tilaka, the dedication of temple elephants, and Hindu temple sculpture built to the shilpa shastra canon. A practice such as Pradakshina circumambulation that the atlas's own live text shares openly with Buddhism and Jainism rather than naming Hinduism as a single tradition stays under Hinduism only where Hinduism is named first and centrally, and otherwise stays ungrouped.