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Jahangir, Mughal emperor
Jaimini (philosopher)
Jaiminiya Brahmana
Jainas, Jainism
ahimsa
and
bhakti and
concept of Universal History and
development of karma and
Hinduism and
reclassification of
Shaivas and
Tantras and
temples of
Jai Santoshi Ma
(film)
Jai Singh, Maharajah
Jaivali Pravahana, king of Panchala
Jakobson, Roman
Jamadagni (sage)
Jambavati, Queen
Jami Masjid (Friday Mosque)
Jamison, Stephanie
Janabai (saint)
Janaka, king of Videha
Janamejaya, King
Janashruti, King
Jatayus (vulture)
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Jayadeva (poet)
Jeanne-Claude (artist)
Jesuits
Jesus of Nazareth
Jha. N.
Jha, Roma
Jhansi massacre
Jinnah, Mohammad Ali
jizya
(tax on non-Muslims)
jnana
(path of knowledge)
Job, Prophet
Johnson, Samuel
Johnston, Alexander
Jones, William
Joshi, Sharad
Joyce, James
Judaism, Jews
bhakti movement and
Julaha (caste)
Jungle Book, The
(Kipling)
justice
Just So Stories
(Kipling)
Jwalamukhi Temple
Ka, “Who,” a name of the creator
see also
Kim
Kabir (poet)
caste and
on Sanskrit
women and
Kafur (redeemed slave)
Kaikeyi, Queen
Kailasanatha (temple of Shiva)
Kakar, Sudhir
Kalakaua, king of Hawaii
Kal Bhairava (form of Shiva)
Kali (goddess)
American misappropriation of
birth of Krishna and
Kali Age
Kali Connection, The
(McKay)
Kalidasa (poet)
“Kali Décapitée” (Yourcenar)
Kalingas (Orissa)
Kali Yuga
Kalki (avatar of Vishnu)
Buddhism of
horse of
horse sacrifice of
in Puranas
Vishnu as
Kalkin (avatar of Vishnu)
Kalki Purana
kama
(erotic heat)
Kama (god) Shiva and
Kama-sutra
Aims of Life and
caste in
composition of
first English translation of
homosexuality in
marriage in
meat eating in
Persian translation of
popular culture and marketing of
women in
Kama Sutra: The Musical
Kamal (son of Kabir)
Kampan (poet)
Kamsa, King
Kanada (philosopher)
Kanishka, King
Kannappar, saint
Kanpur massacre
Kanwar, Rup
Kapalikas (Skull Bearers sect)
Kapoor, Kareena
karma
American misuse of
basic meanings of
circularity of
death and
development of
of dharma
free will and
good and bad
Manu’s theory of
renunciation and
in
Rig Veda
transfer of
in Upanishads
Karna (warrior)
Kashmir
Shaivism of
kathenotheism
Kathiawar (horse)
Katyayani, story of
Kaulas (sect)
Kaunteyas (children of Kunti)
Kauravas (descendants of Kuru)
Kausalya, Queen
Kaushika, King
Kaushitaki Upanishad
Kautalya, Mauryan king
Kautilya (also Kautakya, minister of Mauryan king)
Kavasha (son of Ilusha)
Kaye, John William
Kazantzakis, Nikos
Keay, John
Keillor, Garrison
Kelly, Walt
Kerouac, Jack
Kesar Kalimi (mare)
Keshava Deo Temple
Keshin (antigod)
Khafi Khan
Khajali, Ala-ud-din
Khajuraho, temple complex of
Khan, Amir
Khan, Salman
Khan, Shahrukh
Khandariya Mahadeva temple
Khandoba (god)
Khara (ogre)
Kharavela, King
Khusra, Amir
Khusrau (son of Jahangir)
Kim
(film)
Kim
(Kipling)
horses in
opium tax in
Kipling, Rudyard
assessment of
Kirata (hunter)
Kliba,
dysfunctional male
Kim, “What?”
see also
Ka
Koka, Mirza Aziz
kolams
(rice powder designs)
Konarak, temple complex of
Koontz, Dean
Kosambi. D.
Kothari, Kamal
Krishna (avatar of Vishnu)
in
Bhagavad Gita
birth of
death of
in
Mahabharata
Mirabai poem and
in Puranas
Radha and
women and worship of
Krishnaraja I
Krita Yuga (Winning Age)
Krittibas (poet)
Kshatriyas (warriors/rulers)
Brahmins’ conflict with
British and
classes of
in exile
in Manu’s taxonomy
Parashurama and
Kshemendra (poet)
Kshetrayya (poet)
Kubera (god of wealth)
Kubrick, Stanley
Kuhn, Thomas
Kulkarni, Baskar
Kulottunka II, Chola king
Kumara Gupta, Gupta emperor
Kumbhakarna (ogre)
Kumbha Mela (festival)
Kunala (son of Ashoka)
Kundalini (Coiled One), ritual of
Kunti, Queen
Kunzru, Hari
Kurma Purana
Kurnis (caste)
Kurubas (caste)
Kuru kings
Kusha (poet)
Kushanas
Kutsa Aurava (Thigh-born)
Lacan, Jacques
Lakshmana (brother of Rama)
death of
Sita’s relationship with
Lakshmi (goddess)
Lakshmi Bai, Queen
Laksmanasena, Bengali king
Lakulisha (sage)
Lal, Vinay
Lal Beg (Pariah saint)
Lal Ded (poet)
Lanka
see also
Sri Lanka
Last Whole Earth Catalog
Latin language
Lava (poet)
Lavana, King
Laws of Manu
(Jones)
Legend of Bagger Vance, The
(film)
Lemuria
Lennon, John
“Lesson, The” (Bhagat)
Life
Life of Alexander
(Plutarch)
Lights of Canopus, The (Anvari Suhaili)
Lila Gori (Magic Mare)
Linga Purana
lingas
Shiva and origins of
Lingayats (People of the Linga)
Little Mothers (Matrikas) (goddesses)
Little Princess, A
(film)
Little Shop of Horrors, The
(film)
Lokayatas (Materialists)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Long-Tongue (Dirgha-jihva) (ogress)
Lord of Light
(Zelazny)
Lotus Sutra
Lucas, Paul
Luther, Martin
Ma, Amritanandamayi
Ma, Shri
Ma, Shri Karunamayi
Macaulay, David
Macaulay, Thomas Babington
McKay, Claudia
MacLaine, Shirley
McLuhan, Marshall
Madagascar
Madanika, (form of Chudala)
Madhavi, Queen
Madhubani paintings
Madhva (philosopher)
Shaivas and
Shankara vs.
Madri, Queen
madya
(fermented grapes, wine)
Magadhi (dialect)
Magic Mare (Lila Gori)
Mahabat Khan
Mahabharata
addiction in
animal sexuality in
Ashoka’s reign in
Balarama story in
castes in
central plot in
composition of
Daksha’s sacrifice in
dharma in,
see
dharma
Ekalavya myth in
exile theme of
final form of
geographic setting of
great flood in
horse sacrifice in
human sacrifice in
integrity of
Kalki in
karma and
king-Pariah theme in
Krishna in
length of
modern versions of
Nishadas in
nonviolence in
oral preservation of
oral traditions and
pilgrimage in
political world of
polyandry in
preservation of
Puranas and
Ramayana
contrasted with
sacrifice in
sectarianism and
Shakuntala story in
Shiva myth in
snake sacrifice in
Tantras and
television version of
transmission
treatment of animals in
versions of
violence in
women in
Yudhishthira’s dilemma in
Mahabodhi temple
Mahadeva (Shiva)
Mahadevyyakka (Mahadevi, saint)
Mahal, Mumtaz
Mahamalla, King
Mahamaya (Goddess of Great Illusion)
Mahanirvana Tantra
grades of humans in
Maharashtrians
Mahasaya, Sri Lahiri
Mahavira, Vardhamana (the Jina)
Mahendra Varman I, Pallava king
Mahisha (demon)
Chandika’s seduction and slaying of
Mahmud of Ghazni
maithuna
(fornication)
Maitreyi, future Buddha
Maitreyi, story of
Malaysia
Malhotra, Rajiv
Malis (caste)
Mall, Todar
Mallah (caste)
Mallanaga, Vatsyayana
Mallanna (god)
Mamallapuram
frieze at
temple at
mamsa
(flesh, meat)
“Mandalay” (Kipling)
Mandal Commission
Mandanamishra (philosopher)
Mandavya (sage)
Mandhata (avatar of Vishnu)
Mangal Pandey
(film)
Mani (demon)
Mani, Lata
manifest destiny
Manikkavacakar (poet)
Manimat (ogre)
Mankanaka, story of
Man-Lion (avatar of Vishnu)
Prahlada and
Manmati, Princess
Mann, Thomas
Manrique, Sebastião
Man Singh
Manu (lawmaker)
Dharma-shastra
text of
addiction and
animals and
class and caste taxonomy of
contradictions of
escape clauses of
Manu (lawmaker) (
cont.
):
fish myth and
horse sacrifice and
karma theory of
marriage hierarchy of
meat-eating and
nonviolence and
sacrifice and
vegetarianism and
women and
Manu
“Man Who Would Be King, The” (Kipling)
Mapillai (Arab group)
Maravars (caste)
Mariamma (goddess)
Maricha (ogre)
Markandeya (sage)
Markandeya Purana
marriage
in
Artha-shastras
in
Kama-sutra
Manu’s hierarchy of
rape and
in
shastras
of Shiva and Parvati
Marshall, John Hubert
Martel, Charles
Maruts (wind gods)
Marwar Horse Society
Marwari (desert horse)
Marx, Karl
Masters and Johnson
Mata (goddess)
Matarishvan (god)
Mathura temple
Matrix, The
(film)
matsya
,
see
fish
Matsya Purana
Maturin, Charles Robert
Maudave, Chevalier de
Maukhari kingdom
Mauryan Empire
dogs in
Shunga dynasty of
Maya (goddess of Illusion)
Mayili-Ravana
Mayura (poet)
“Mean to Me” (song)
Medhatithi (commentator)
meditation
Meenas (caste)
Meera, Mother
Meghanada (ogre)
Megasthenes
Mehta, Ketan
Menaka (nymph)
Merchant, Ismail
Mesopotamia
Meykandadevar (philosopher)
Michael Clayton
(film)
Michelangelo
Midnight’s Children
(Rushdie)
Mihirakula, King
Mill, James
Mimamsa (Critical Inquiry)
Minakshi (goddess)
Miner, Horace
Mirabai (poet)
“Miracle of Puran Bhagat, The” (Kipling)

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