REL 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Super Bowl Xxxii, Khyber Pass, Super Bowl Xxxvi
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C. mostly confined to india some presence in sri lanka other countries approximately 800 million hundus, probably more. Iii. one must be born as hindu into a caste implications: in wider sense a culture and way of life as. There is no such word as hindu in the sacred of. Derived from word sindhu" meaning indus valley: when iranians( persians) came to india, they called the native peoples hindu. Greeks, upon learning of them from the iranians, called them indos rather than hindus from which we have the word indian". This, hinduism is the way of life, thinking, customs, rites, rituals, etc. of the people of india. Fertility cults/ phallus of shiva in later times. People of india today are product of dravidians and. God of rain, parallel to greek god zeus. Kepps natural & physical order (rita) intact, parallel to the. Rudra & marut: winds and storms, respectively. Drink, by which one can gain immortality(amarat) a)
