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  2. Surya - Wikipedia

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    Surya is also regarded as the father of Sugriva and Karna, who play important roles in the two Hindu epics—the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, respectively. Surya was a primary deity in veneration by the characters of the Mahabharata and Ramayana. [17] [18] Surya is depicted with a Chakra, also interpreted as Dharmachakra.

  3. Adityas - Wikipedia

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    The ritual of Surya Namaskaram, performed by Hindus, is an elaborate set of hand gestures and body movements, designed to greet and revere the Sun. The sun god in Hinduism is an ancient and revered deity. In later Hindu usage, all the Vedic Ādityas lost identity and metamorphosed into one composite deity, Surya, the Sun.

  4. Sun Salutation - Wikipedia

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    The yoga scholar-practitioner Norman Sjoman suggested that Krishnamacharya, "the father of modern yoga", [22] [23] used the traditional and "very old" [24] Indian wrestlers' exercises called dandas (Sanskrit: दण्ड daṇḍa, a staff), described in the 1896 Vyayama Dipika, [25] as the basis for the sequence and for his transitioning ...

  5. Glossary of Hinduism terms - Wikipedia

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    In the West, yoga has become associated with the asanas (postures) of Hatha Yoga, popular as fitness exercises. Yogamaya A goddess, regarded to be the embodiment of the divine energy of Vishnu. Yoga Sutra One of the six darshanas of Hindu or Vedic schools and, alongside the Bhagavad Gita and Hatha Yoga Pradipika, are a milestone in the history ...

  6. Solar dynasty - Wikipedia

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    Later, Vivasvan, son of Kashyapa and Aditi, famously known as the Hindu god Surya married Saranyu who was the daughter of Vishvakarman, the architect of devas. He had many children but Manu was given the responsibility of building the civilization and as a result it formed a dynasty that was named 'Suryavamsha' or the solar dynasty.

  7. Svarbhānu - Wikipedia

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    Rahu. Svarbhānu is described as an asura twice in the Family Books of the Rigveda. [2] Svarbhānu is described to strike Surya, overshadowing the sun with darkness. [3] Stella Kramrisch considers this act as portraying Svarbhānu as a deity greater than the Sun. [1] The Rigveda further narrates after this, the king of heaven - Indra struck down Svarbhānu and sage Atri found the hidden Sun ...

  8. Bhajan - Wikipedia

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    This involves a tradition that has been followed for the last several centuries and includes Songs/Krithis/Lyrics from great composers all over India encompassing many Indian languages. [ 20 ] A Bhajan may be sung individually, but more commonly together as a choral event wherein the lyrics include religious or spiritual themes in the local ...

  9. Saura (Hinduism) - Wikipedia

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    Saura or Saurya (Sanskrit: सौर्य, romanized: Saurya) [1] is a denomination of Hinduism [2] whose adherents worship the Sun god Surya as the Saguna Brahman. In the contemporary period, the Sauras are a very small movement, much smaller than other larger denominations such as Vaishnavism or Shaivism .