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Hindu persons prefer arranged marriage as it allows them to find a bride or groom with a matching horoscope. [citation needed] A person born under the influence of Mars is said to have Mangala Dosha ("mars defect"); such a person is called a manglik. According to the superstition, the marriage between a Manglik and a non-Manglik is disastrous.
In Hinduism, Kurma is the second Avatar of Vishnu, in the form of a turtle. [4] [5] The World Turtle in Hindu belief is known as Akupāra, or sometimes Chukwa, a chiranjeevi. [6] Bedawang or Bedawang Nala is a giant turtle in Balinese mythology who brought the whole world on his back.
Hindu mythology is the body of myths [a] attributed to, and espoused by, the adherents of the Hindu religion, found in Hindu texts such as the Vedas, [1] the itihasa (the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana, [2]) the Puranas, [3] and mythological stories specific to a particular ethnolinguistic group like the Tamil Periya Puranam and Divya ...
Bhūta is a Sanskrit term that carries the connotations of "past" and "being" [2] and, because it has connection with "one of the most wide-spread roots in Indo-European — namely, *bheu/*bhu-", has similar-sounding cognates in virtually every branch of that language family, e.g., Irish (bha), English (be), Latvian (but) and Persian (budan).
The folklore of India encompasses the folklore of the Republic of India and the Indian subcontinent.India is an ethnically and religiously diverse country. Given this diversity, it is difficult to generalize the vast folklore of India as a unit.
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The practice of Hindu animal sacrifice is in recent times mostly associated with Shaktism, [1] and in currents of folk Hinduism strongly rooted in local popular or tribal traditions. Animal sacrifices were part of the ancient Vedic Era in India, and are mentioned in scriptures such as the Puranas .
In Hinduism's sacred literature, the "great" elements (mahābhūta) are fivefold: aether, air, fire, water and earth. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] See also the Samkhya Karika of Ishvara Krishna, verse 22. For instance, the Taittirīya Upaniṣad describes the five "sheaths" of a person (Sanskrit: puruṣa ), starting with the grossest level of the five evolving ...