Categories: Articles with sections needing expansion | Hinduism stubs Hinduism {Sanskrit - HindÅ« Dharma, also known as Sanātana (eternal) Dharma and Vaidika (of the Vedas) Dharma} is the religion based on the Vedas as well as other traditional scriptures and beliefs. ... Hindu mythology is a term used by modern scholarship for a large body of Indian literature that details the lives and times of legendary personalities, deities and divine incarnations on earth interspersed with often large sections of philosophical and ethical discourse. ... Itihasa (Sanskrit: इतिहास - itihāsa in IAST notation, literally meaning that which happened) is the word for History. ... Image File history File links Hindu_swastika. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Shiva (Sanskrit: शिव; Hindi: शिव (when used to distinguish lordly status), and written Åšiva in the official IAST transliteration, pronounced as is a form of Ishvara or God in the later Vedic scriptures of Hinduism. ... This article concerns the Hindu creator god, Brahma. ... For other uses of the name Vishnu, see Vishnu (disambiguation). ... Lord Rama (center) with wife Sita, brother Lakshmana and devotee Hanuman. ... Krishna (कृष्ण in Devanagari, IAST ) is according to various Hindu traditions the eighth or the ninth avatar of Vishnu. ... In Hinduism, Ganesha (Sanskrit: गणेश or श्रीगणेश ( ) (when used to distinguish lordly status) (or lord of the hosts, also spelled as Ganesa and Ganesh, often also referred to as Ganapati) is one of the most well-known and venerated representations of God (Brahman). ... In Hinduism, Kārttikeya (also Skanda, Subrahmanya, Kumara, Arumugan, Shanmugan, Murugan, Guha, Saravana, Swaminatha, Velan,Velavan, Senthil) is a god born out of a magical spark created by Shiva. ... This article is about a Divine Entity in Hinduism. ... Lakshaman(far left) with Rama(center) and Sita (far right) and Hanuman(kneeling)-Bhaktivedanta Manor, Watford, England Lakshmana was the son of Dasaratha, King of Ayodhya and Sumitra. ... Indra is also the name of a song by the Thievery Corporation. ... This article is in need of attention. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Gayatri (Sanskrit: , IAST: ) is the feminine form of gāyatra, a Sanskrit word for a song or a hymn. ... Saraswati, goddess of knowledge Saraswati (Sanskrit: सरस्वती) is the first of the three great goddesses of Hinduism, the other two being Lakshmi and Durga. ... Image of Goddess Lakshmi Sculpture of Lakshmi In Hinduism, Lakshmi or Laxmi (Sanskrit: लक्ष्मी ) is the goddess of wealth, light, wisdom and fortune, as well as (secondarily) luck, beauty and fertility. ... Parvati (Sanskrit: पार्वती PārvatÄ«), sometimes spelled Parvathi or Parvathy, is a Hindu goddess. ... In Hinduism, Durga (Sanskrit: , Bengali: ) is a form of Devi, the supreme goddess, also identified with Parvati. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... This article is about the Hindu goddess Kali. ... This article is about Sita Devi, the wife of Rama. ... Image of the holy pindis Vaishno Devi, a sacred shrine revered by Hindus, is dedicated to the goddess Devi. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Vedas (Sanskrit वेद) are an extremaly large series of writings originating in Ancient India. ... The Upanishads (उपनिषद्, Upanişad) are part of the Hindu Shruti scriptures which primarily discuss meditation and philosophy and are seen as religious instructions by most schools of Hinduism. ... The Puranas (Sanskrit पुराण, purāṇá ancient, since they focus on ancient history of the universe) are part of Hindu Smriti; these religious scriptures discuss varied topics like devotion to God in his various aspects, traditional sciences like Ayurveda, Jyotish, cosmology, concepts like dharma, karma, reincarnation and many others. ... The Rāmāyaņa (Sanskrit: रामायण (a sandhi form of rāma-ayana = march or journey (Ä€yana) of Rāma) is part of the Hindu smriti, written by Valmiki. ... The Mahabharata (Devanagari: महाभारत, phonetically Mahābhārata - see note), is one of the three major ancient Sanskrit epics of India, the others being the Ramayana and the Bhagavatam. ...