acintya-bhedābheda
Overview page. Subjects: Hinduism.
In Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism the characterization of the relationship between the devotee and the Lord (Kṛṣṇa), reflecting that between Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa, a stance associated with the 18th century...
Hinduism
February 2000; published online September 2013.
Book. Subjects: Hinduism. 160 pages.
Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction combines an overview of a major religion with analysis of the challenges facing it in the twentieth century. Key preoccupations of Hinduism today include...
adharma
Overview page. Subjects: Hinduism.
(Skt.).
In Hinduism, the opposite of dharma, synonym of pāpa: evil, sin, what is not right or natural, or according to śāstras.
Adharma is personified in Hindu mythology...
adhikāra
Overview page. Subjects: Hinduism.
The entitlement to perform a particular ritual, and, by extension, the necessary qualifications for undertaking a specific type of study, or for obtaining membership of a particular group.
null...adhvaryu
Overview page. Subjects: Hinduism.
Any officiating or overseeing priest, but more specifically a class of Vedic priests responsible for the construction of the altars (vedis), the collection and preparation of sacrificial...
adhyāsa
Overview page. Subjects: Hinduism.
(Skt.).
In philosophical Hinduism, superimposing reality on what is not real. It is false attribution, as when a rope is mistaken for a snake.
