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Holi is perhaps the most colorful day of the year.
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Learn about the meaning of the name Diwali and the significance of the festival in...
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Tour of Hindu temples in Bali, Indonesia.
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Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma (left to right) pay homage to Mahadevi (the great goddess,...
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Ravana, the 10-headed demon king, detail from a Guler painting of the Ramayana,...
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Vishnu with his consort Lakshmi, from the temple dedicated to Parsvanatha in the...
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The Chariot Festival of the Jagannatha temple, Puri, Orissa, India.
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Aspects of a soma sacrifice in Pune (Poona), India, on behalf of a Brahman, following...
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Vedic fire deity Agni with a ram, wood carving; in the Guimet Museum, Paris.
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Folio from a manuscript of the Ramayana, drawing from Chamba, Himachal Pradesh,...
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The five brothers (Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, and Sahadeva) in the court...
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Krishna Lifting Mount Govardhan, late 18th century.
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The Ten Incarnations of Vishnu, gouache on wood, cover of a Vishnu-purana...
Photograph by Valerie McGlinchey. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, IS 101-1955
Vishnu with his 10 avatars (incarnations): Fish, Tortoise, Boar, Man-Lion, Dwarf,...
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Shiva and his family at the burning ground. Parvati, Shiva's wife, holds Skanda while...
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Ritual bathing in the Ganges River at Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Ramanuja, bronze sculpture, 12th century; from a Vishnu temple in Thanjavur (Tanjore)...
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Radha and Krishna, a Kishangarh painting, mid-18th century; in the Philadelphia Museum...
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Durga, Rajasthani miniature of the Mewar school, mid-17th century, in a private collection.
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The Meenakshi Temple in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, is known for its several colorful...
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The thousand-pillar hall inside the Meenakshi Temple, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Murtis of Hindu deities (from left) Krishna, Radha, and Shri-Nathaji (a...
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Flowers adorning a Shiva lingam placed in a yoni; at the Patan Museum, Kathmandu,...
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Detail of a wall of the Lakshmana temple at Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh, India, c....
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A collection of ornamental figures of various Hindu deities decorating a temple wall.
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Hindu pilgrims bathing in the Ganges River at Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh state, India.
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Geographical distribution of the religions of the world in the early 1980s.
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A collection of Encyclopædia Britannica's content about Hindu holidays.
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