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Principles of Hindu Reckoning. Principles of Hindu Reckoning (Kitab fi usul hisab al-hind) is a mathematics book written by the 10th- and 11th-century Persian mathematician Kushyar ibn Labban. It is the second-oldest book extant in Arabic about Hindu arithmetic using Hindu-Arabic numerals ( ० ۱ ۲ ۳ ۴ ۵ ۶ ۷ ۸ ۹), preceded by Kitab al ...
Hiranyagarbha (Sanskrit: हिरण्यगर्भ, lit. 'golden womb', IAST: Hiraṇyagarbha, poetically translated as 'universal womb') [1] is the source of the creation of the universe or the manifested cosmos in Vedic philosophy. It finds mention in one hymn of the Rigveda (RV 10.121), known as the Hiraṇyagarbha Sūkta, suggesting a ...
Encyclopedia of Hinduism, 1st ed., 2012, is a comprehensive, multi-volume, English language encyclopedia of Hinduism, comprising Sanātana Dharma, a Sanskrit phrase, meaning "the eternal law ", or the "eternal way", that is used to refer to Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. [1] It is a 7,184 page, 11-volume publication with full-color ...
0-87481-035-3. The Spiritual Heritage of India is a book written by Swami Prabhavananda (1893–1976), founder and head of the Vedanta Society of Southern California from 1930 until his death. Originally published in 1962 by Doubleday, the book has been republished with the same title in several later editions, including hardcover, paperback ...
Prana pratishtha (IAST: prāṇa pratiṣṭhā) is the rite or ceremony by which a murti (devotional image of a deity) is consecrated in a Hindu temple, wherein hymns and mantra are recited to invite the deity to be resident guest, and the murti 's eye is opened for the first time. [1] Practised in the temples of Hinduism and Jainism, the ...
Guṇa (Sanskrit: गुण) is a concept in Hinduism, which can be translated as "quality, peculiarity, attribute, property". [1][2] The concept is originally notable as a feature of Samkhya philosophy. [3] The guṇas are now a key concept in nearly all schools of Hindu philosophy. [4] There are three guṇas (triguṇa), according to this ...
v. t. e. Hindu law, as a historical term, refers to the code of laws applied to Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs in British India. [1][2][3] Hindu law, in modern scholarship, also refers to the legal theory, jurisprudence and philosophical reflections on the nature of law discovered in ancient and medieval era Indian texts. [4]
The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is the administrative arm of the All India Services of Government of India. [3] The IAS is one of the three All India Services along with the Indian Police Service and Indian Forest Service. Members of these three services serve the Government of India as well as the individual states.