sacrifice
bhakti and
in Brahmanas
Brahmins and
of buffalo
of cows
Devi movement and
of dogs
of horses, see horse sacrifice
human
humans-gods alliances and
Indra and
kingship and
in Mahabharata
Manu and
nonviolence and
recurrent death and
reincarnation and
in Rig Veda
in Shaiva Siddhanta
of snakes
soma and
Tantrism and
Upanishads and
vegetarianism and
sadharana dharma
Sadhus (ascetics)
Saffronization
Sagara (king, ocean)
Sahadeva
see also Pandavas
Sahajiyas (sect)
Said, Edward
Saint Joan (Shaw)
Salhesh, Raja
Sama Veda
Samnyasa Upanishads (Renunciation Upanishads)
Samudra Gupta, Gupta emperor
sanatana dharma
Sandburg, Carl
Sangama dynasty
Sankhya (Numbers), philosophy of
Sanskrit
animals and
in Brahmanas
as cosmopolitan language
court poetry and
European translations of
in Gupta Empire
Kabir on
as model language
number in
oral traditions of
Puranas and
in shastras
texts on
of Upanishads
Vedic
vernacular languages and
women and
Sanskritization
Santayana, George
Santoshi Mata (goddess)
Sants
Sapkale, Tryambak
Sarama (dog)
Saranyu (wife of the sun)
Sarasvati (goddess, river)
Sarasvati, Dayanand
Sarasvati Valley culture
Sarkar, Sumit
Sasanka, King
Sati (wife of Shiva)
dismemberment of
Satnamis (sect)
Satnampanth (Path of the True Name)
Satsangis (sect)
Satyabhama, Queen
Satyakama Jabala (Upanishadic sage)
Satya Narayana (god)
Satya Pir (holy man)
Satyavati, Princess
Satya Yuga (Age of Truth)
Savarkar. D.
Savitri (god)
Sayyid, Alam
Scheduled Castes, see Dalits
Schelling, Friedrich
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Second Temple
Secret Doctrine, The (Blavatsky)
sectarianism
in Gupta Empire
Sen, Keshab Chunder
Sen, Mala
Sena (Sant)
Sepoy Rebellion, see Rebellion of 1857-1858
Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Beatles)
Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project
Shabari (holy woman)
Shachi (wife of Indra)
Shahis, Imam
Shah Nama
Shahriyar, Buzurg ibn
Shahu, Maharashtrian minister
Shaivas (worshippers of Shiva)
Buddhists and
Jainas and
Kashmir
Madhva and
Shiva’s conversion to
Shaiva Shore Temple
Shaiva Tantras
Shaka (Scythian) dynasty
Shakespear, Henry
Shakespeare, William
Shaktas (worshipers of the Goddess)
Shakta Tantras
shakti (creative power)
Shakuntala (Kalidasa)
Shakyas (clan)
Shakymuni, Gautama, see Buddha
Shalimar Gardens
Shambhaji, Maharashtrian ruler
Shambuka (mythical figure)
Shame (Rushdie)
Shankara (philosopher)
Madhva vs.
Shantanu, King
Sharqi kingdom
shastras
addiction control in
animals in
Brahmins threatened by
caste and class in
central issues of
escape clauses of
homosexuality in
marriage in
on medicine
range of subjects of
rape in
structure of
as term
vegetarianism in
women in
Shatapatha Brahmana
Shatavahana dynasty
Shatrughna, Queen
Shattaris (Sufi sect)
Shaw, George Bernard
Shaytanpura (City of Satan)
sheep see also goats
Sheffield, Reginald
Shibi, King
Shikhidhvaja, King
Shikoh, Dara
Shiva (god)
bhakti of
Brahma beheaded by
Daksha’s sacrifice and
Draupadi and
earliest depiction of
in films
as half of Hari-Hara
Kama and
Khandoba as avatar of
linga worship and
in Mahabharata
Nandi as vehicle for
Parvati and
in Puranas
as savior
Shaivas’ conversion of
shakti of
as Skull Bearer
temper of
temples of
as woman
worship of
Shivaji, Maharashtrian ruler
Shiva Purana
Shore, John
Shramanas (renunciants)
Shrauta Sutras
Shri (goddess of prosperity)
Shri Vaishnavism
shruti (body of literature)
Shuddhodana (father of Buddha)
Shudras (Other Backward Castes)
Shulman, David
Shumbha (antigod)
Shunah shepha, human sacrifice of
Shunga dynasty
Shurpanakha (ogress)
Shushtari, Qadi Nurullah
Shva-Pakas (dog cookers caste)
Shvetaketu (sage)
Shvetashvatara Upanishad
Siculus, Diodorus
Siddhanta (school of philosophy)
Siddha Yoga Dharma Associates (SYDA) Foundation
Sikhs, Sikhism
Sind, British annexation of
Sindhu, river
Siraj-ud-daula, nawab of Bengal
Sisunaga, king
Sita (wife of Rama)
banishment of
Dalit depictions of
disappearance of
enters the earth
fire ordeal of
horse sacrifice and
Lakshmana’s relationship with
Rama’s loss of
in revised Ramayana
sexuality and
twin sons of
women’s rights and
as women’s role model
Sita Devi
Sitala (goddess of smallpox)
Sitayana (film)
Sivan, Santosh
Skanda (son of Shiva)
Skanda Purana
Skull Bearers sect (Kapalikas)
“Slaying of Meghanada, The” (Datta)
Sleeman, William Henry “Thuggee,”
Smith, Will
smriti (body of literature)
snakes:
rope illusion and
sacrifice of
Society of God (Brahmo Samaj)
“Sojourn of the Beloved” (Hariaudh)
Solomon, King
so
ma (plant)
Agni and
in Rig Veda
sacrifice and
in Vedic rites
Soma (god)
Somanatha, Palkuriki
Somanatha, Temple of
“Song of the Cowherd, The” (Gita Govinda) (Jayadeva)
Sophocles
soul
South Africa
Southey, Robert
Spivak, Gayatri
Sri Lanka see also Lanka
Srinivas, M. N.
Star Trek (television show)
Stavorinus, J. S.
Stoppard, Tom
stupas
subaltern studies movement
Such a Long Journey (Mistry)
Sufism
Syncretism and
Sugriva (king of the monkeys)
Sukeshin (ogre)
Sumatra
Sumer
Sumitra, Queen
Sunda (antigod)
Supreme Court, Indian
Surya (sun god)
Sushruta (medical author)
Sutas (Charioteers caste)
suttee, practice of
Brahmins and
British and
coercion and choice and
in Harsha era
human rights and
Indian liberation movements and
moral control of women and
in Mughal Empire
opposition to
romanticization of
Sati and
women and
Sutton, Willie
sva-dharma
Swaminarayan
Swaminarayan Mandir temple
“Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” (O’Brien)
syncretism
Syria
Tagore, Debendranath
Tagore, Rabindranath
Taittiriya Upanishads
Taj Mahal
Talikota, battle of (1565)
Tamil language
Tamils
early literature of
Tantras, Tantrism
accidental grace and
American misappropriation of
animals in
bhakti and
Tantras, Tantrism (cont.):
caste inversion in
Chandrika-Mahisha myth in
Chandrika-Shumbha myth in
defining
elements of
Five Ms schema of
heresies and
Kundalini ritual and
origins of
Pashupata sect and
Puranas and
sacrifice and
as salvation
sanitization of
temple complexes of
vegetarianism
women and
tapas (inner heat)
Tara, Queen
Tarabai, Queen
Taranath (historian)
Tarikh-i-Farishta
Tataka (ogress)
Tecinku (hero)
Tej (folk figure)
Tejan (mare)
Tej Singh
Telugu (language)
temples
of Chola kingdom
darshan
in Delhi Sultanate
desecration of
diversity of
of Elephanta
of Ellora
eroticism and
of Gupta Empire
inverted carvings of
mosques and
negative carvings of
present day configuration of
of Shiva
Tantras and
in U.S.
of Vijayanagar Empire
violence and
see also specific temples
Ten Avatars (Dashavatara), temple of
Tertullian
Tevaram (poetry collection)
Thanjavur, Brihadishvara temple
Thapar, Romila
Tharoor, Shashi
Theosophical Society
Theroux, Paul
“Thesis of Demonic Imitation, The”
Things They Carried, The (O’Brien)
Third Buddhist Council
Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall
Thomas, Saint Judas
Thomas, Wendell
Thoreau, Henry David
Those Barren Leaves (Huxley)
Thousand Names of Shiva, Hymn of
“Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation” (Ramanujan)
Three Princes of Serendip, The (Walpole)
Thugs
Thyestes
Tibet
Tilak, Bal Gangadhar
Tilottama (Asparas)
Time
Ages of
three aspects of
Times (London)
Timur the Lame, Mongol emperor
Tirumal (Vishnu)
Tirumankai (poet)
Tirumular (mystic)
Tirumurai (poetry collection)
Tiruvacacam
Tiruvatavurar Purana
Tiruvilaiyatal Purana
Todar-ananda (“Todar’s Bliss”)
toddy
Tolstoy, Leo
tooth goddesses
tortoise (avatar of Vishnu)
Total Recall (film)
“Tour of the Sacred Tirthas“
transmigration
Transposed Heads, The (Glanville-Hicks)
Transposed Heads, The (Mann)
Treta Yuga (Age of the Trey)
Treveleyan, George
Trimurti (trinity)
Trishanku, King
Triyaruna, King
True Name (god of the Satnampanthis)
Truman, Harry S.
Tughluq, Feroz Shah
Tughluq, Muhammad bin
Tukaram (saint)
Tulsi, Tulsidas (poet)
Tulsibai (woman warrior)
Tulsidas (poet)
Turks (Turuskas)
Turner, Tina
Tvashtri (artisan)
ulama
Ulupi, serpent princess
Uma (goddess)
Underground (film)
unicorn
Unitarianism
United States
Hinduism misappropriated in
Hindu population of
Hindu reverse colonization of
identity politics in
Indian languages’ influence on
interreligious interaction in
temples in
Vedanta in
United Way
Untouchables
Upanishads
addiction in
animals in
ascetic tradition of
caste in
composition of
continuation of the Vedas and
death and
dogs in
eroticism of
horses in
human sacrifice in
karma in
language of
moksha in
monism in
non-Brahmin doctrines of
nonviolence in
paths of smoke and flame in
Persian translation of
progeneration in
Raikva story in
Rebirth and Release in
reincarnation in
renunciation in
sacrifice in
shakti and
social and political world of
stages of consciousness in
textual world of
transmigration in
vegetarianism in
women in
Upasunda (antigod)
Urdu language
Urvashi (heavenly nymph)
Utilitarians
Vach (personification of Speech)
Vaikai (goddess)
Vaisheshika (Particularism)
Vaishnava Puranas
Vaishnavas (worshippers of Vishnu)
in Mughal Empire
Vaishnava Tantras
Vaishyas (merchants)<
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Vakataka dynasty
Valin (monkey king)
Valmiki (poet)
Varahamihira (astronomer)
Varman I, Narasimha king
Varuna (god of waters and morals)
in Rig Veda
Vasishtha (sage)
Vasu, King
Vasudeva (name of Krishna, or father of Krishna)
Vasudevaka (worshipper of Krishna)
Vatican II
Vatsyayana (author of Kama-sutra)
Vayu (god of wind)
Vayu Purana
Vedanta
dualist (Dvaita) school of
in U.S.
Vedanta-Sutras (of Badarayana)
Vedas (sacred texts)
Vedavati (incarnation of Sita)
Vedic peoples
brickmaking of
caste system of
Caucasian migration hypothesis and
indigenous origin hypothesis and
IVC hypothesis and
languages of
vegetarianism
in Brahmanas
of Gandhi
Manu and
renunciation and
sacrifice and
in shastras
Tantras and
in Upanishads
violence and
Velar (caste)
Vena, King
Vessantara Jataka
Vibhishana (ogre)
Victoria, queen of England
Vidura (son of Vyasa)
Vidyapati (poet)
Vijayanagar Empire
temples of
worship of Rama in
Vikramaditya II, Chalukya king
Vindhya-vasini (name of the goddess Kali)
Vipashchit, King
Virabhadra (form of Shiva)
Viradha (ogre)
Viraka (son of Shiva)
see also Parvati
Virashaivas (worshippers of Shiva)
Virata Parvan
Virgin Mary
Virochana (antigod)
Vishnu (god)
avatars of
Bali and
birth of Krishna and
Buddha as avatar of
Gupta Empire and
as Hari-Hara
as Kalki
mutual creation myth and
in Puranas
Rama as avatar of
Release and
in Rig Veda
Vishnu Purana
Vishvamitra, King
Vishvanatha (Shiva as Lord of the Universe)
Vishvanatha Temple
Vishwa Hindu Parishad
Vithabai (goddess)
Vithoba (god)
Vitthal (god)
Vivekananda, Swami
Voltaire
Vratyas (ascetics)
Vrisha (priest)
Vritra (antigod)
Vyasa (sage)
birth of
children of
Wagner, Cosima
Wagner, Richard
Wales, Prince of
Walpole, Horace
Walton, Bishop
Warlis (tribal group)
Wegener, Alfred
Weinberger-Thomas, Catherine
Weinrich, Max
“Wendy’s Children” (Malhotra)
West, Martin
Wheeler, Hugh
White Mughals
Wilberforce, William
Wilkie, John Elbert
Wilkins, Charles
Wilson, Horace Hayman
Winckelmann, Johann
Winning Age, see Krita Yuga
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Wodehouse, P. G.
Wolfe, Tom
womb house ( garbha griha)
women
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