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  2. Glossary of Hinduism terms - Wikipedia

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    Separating concepts in Hinduism from concepts specific to Indian culture, or from the language itself, can be difficult. Many Sanskrit concepts have an Indian secular meaning as well as a Hindu dharmic meaning. One example is the concept of Dharma. [4] Sanskrit, like all languages, contains words whose meanings differ across various contexts.

  3. Pulled rickshaw - Wikipedia

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    Tourists dressed as maiko on a rickshaw in Kyoto, Japan. A pulled rickshaw (from Japanese jinrikisha (人力車) 'person/human-powered vehicle') is a mode of human-powered transport by which a runner draws a two-wheeled cart which seats one or two people.

  4. Nirukta - Wikipedia

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    A sentence is a collection of words, a word is a collection of phonemes, according to Nirukta scholars of Hindu traditions. [16] The meaning of Vedic passages has to be understood through context, purpose stated, subject matter being discussed, what is stated, how, where and when. [16]

  5. Portal:Hinduism - Wikipedia

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    Hinduism (/ ˈ h ɪ n d u ˌ ɪ z əm /) is an umbrella term for a range of Indian religious and spiritual traditions (sampradayas) [1] that are unified by adherence to the concept of dharma, a cosmic order maintained by its followers through rituals and righteous living, as first expounded in the Vedas.

  6. Hinduism and Jainism - Wikipedia

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    In Hinduism, moksha means merging of soul with universal soul or eternal being and escaping the cycle of births and deaths; in Jainism, it is blissful existence with infinite knowledge. In Vedic philosophy, salvation is giving up the sense of being a doer and realizing Self to be the same as Universe and God. [ 9 ]

  7. Nididhyāsana - Wikipedia

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    According to Suresvara, Nididhyasana is the culmination of the practice of sravana and manana, which is an indirect intuition of Brahman and does not mean meditation but knowledge i.e. understanding the meaning of the Sruti on the basis of vacya-vacaka relation underlying the mahavakya. Suresvara states:-

  8. Nirvana Upanishad - Wikipedia

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    A Sutra means "string, thread", [19] and in Indian literary traditions, it also refers to an aphorism or a collection of aphorisms in the form of a condensed manual or text. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Each sutra is like a theorem distilled into few words or syllables, around which "teachings of ritual, philosophy, grammar or any field of knowledge" can be ...

  9. PDF - Wikipedia

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    The PDF 1.4 specification allowed form submissions in XML format, but this was replaced by submissions in XFDF format in the PDF 1.5 specification. XFDF conforms to the XML standard. XFDF can be used in the same way as FDF; e.g., form data is submitted to a server, modifications are made, then sent back and the new form data is imported in an ...