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African Hindu Monastery in Ghana is the first Hindu Monastery in Africa. Mauritius is the only African Union country where Hinduism is the dominant religion, with about 50% of the population as followers in 2011. [1] Hinduism is the second largest religion in Réunion (6.7%) [2] and Seychelles (5.4%). [3] [4]
The Ramayana (/ r ɑː ˈ m ɑː j ə n ə /; [1] [2] Sanskrit: रामायणम्, romanized: Rāmāyaṇam [3]), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other ...
The first Hindu temples were in operation in the 1870s. Some South African local governments banned temple building and property ownership by Hindus in 1910s. [8] Modern South Africa has many Hindu temples, and its Hindu community observes major festivals of Hinduism such as Deepavali. [9]
Adhyatma Ramayana is a late medieval Sanskrit text extolling the spiritualism in the story of Ramayana. It is embedded in the latter portion of Brahmānda Purana, and constitutes about a third of it. [113] The text philosophically attempts to reconcile Bhakti in god Rama and Shaktism with Advaita Vedanta, over 65 chapters and 4,500 verses. [114 ...
Kingdoms in the Ramayana (2 C, 12 P) M. Mathura (5 C, 19 P) Pages in category "Places in the Ramayana" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total.
Panchāpsaras (Sanskrit: पञ्चाप्सर, romanized: Pañcāpsara) is a lake mentioned in Book III of the ancient Sanskrit epic Ramayana. Its name means (the lake of) the five apsaras, the celestial nymphs of Hindu mythology. This lake is visited by Rama, the seventh avatar of Vishnu in Hinduism, during his journey through the ...
Gujarat - The Tulsi-Krta Ramayana is a Gujarati adaptation of Tulsidas' Ramcharitamanas in the 17th century, by the poet Premanand Swami. The Giradhara Ramayana is also a prominent retelling of Ramayana in Gujarati by the 18th-century poet Giradhara Gosvami. Jammu and Kashmir – The Kashmiri Ramavatara Charita was written in the 19th century.
Hinduism in South Africa; T. Hinduism in Togo; Z. Hinduism in Zimbabwe This page was last edited on 4 April 2016, at 12:57 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...