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1. Uttarakhand Innoformation Centre / 108 on 01-Sep-09 at 7:51 pm

   [...] within Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and connected yoga and dharma based [...]

2. Uttarakhand Innoformation Centre / Hinduism on 06-Sep-09 at 11:05 am

   [...] Hindū is the Persian name for the Indus River, first encountered in the Old Persian word Hindu (həndu), corresponding to Vedic Sanskrit Sindhu, the Indus River.The Rig Veda mentions the land of the Indo-Aryans as Sapta Sindhu (the land of the seven rivers in northwestern South Asia, one of them being the Indus). This corresponds to Hapta Həndu in the Avesta (Vendidad or Videvdad 1.18)—the sacred scripture of Zoroastrianism. The term was used for those who lived in the Indian subcontinent on or beyond the “Sindhu”. In Arabic, the term al-Hind (the Hind) also refers to ‘the land of the people of modern day India’. The Persian term (Middle Persian Hindūk, New Persian Hindū) entered India with the Delhi Sultanate and appears in South Indian and Kashmiri texts from at least 1323 CE, and increasingly so during British rule. Since the end of the 18th century the word has been used as an umbrella term for most of the religious, spiritual, and philosophical traditions of the sub-continent, excluding the distinct religions of Sikhism, Buddhism, and Jainism. [...]

3. Uttarakhand Innoformation Centre / Yoga on 19-Sep-09 at 7:12 pm

   [...] Jainism [...]

4. Uttarakhand Innoformation Centre / India on 25-Sep-09 at 2:16 pm

   [...] and cultural wealth for much of its long history. Four major world religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism originated there, while Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam arrived in the [...]

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