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Shiva
In Hinduism, the third chief god (with Brahma and Vishnu) making up the Trimurti. As Mahadeva...
Ganesh
Hindu god of prophecy, son of Shiva and Parvati; he is represented as elephant-headed and is worshipped as a remover...
Krishna
Eighth avatar (incarnation) of the Hindu god Vishnu. The devotion of the bhakti movement is usually directed towards Krishna...
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Bhagavad Gita
[Skt.,=song of the Lord], Sanskrit poem incorporated into the Mahabharata, one of the greatest religious classics of Hinduism. The Gita (as it...
Mahabharata
Classical Sanskrit epic of India, probably composed between 200 B.C. and A.D. 200. The Mahabharata, comprising more than 90,000 couplets...
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