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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Asia
		Asia is bounded by the Arctic Ocean; on the east, by the Pacific Ocean; on the south by the Indian Ocean, and on the West by Europe, the Black Sea, the Greek Archipelago, the Mediterranean, and the Red Sea.
		Asia, embracing the Hindus, the Iranians, the Medo-Persians, the Armenians, the Caucasians, and the inhabitants of Asia Minor.
		Asia is the cradle and the primitive home of Christianity; for it was in its extreme south-western borders, i.e., in Palestine, the home of the Chosen People, that the Founder of Christianity chose to appear, to live, and to preach the New Dispensation.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01777b.htm (4892 words)

	Hindu kingdoms in West Asia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Further information might be found in a section of the talk page or at Requests for expansion.
		Hindu kingdoms in West Asia in the second millennium BC included the Mitanni of Syria, the Kassites of Mesopotamia.
		Some scholars try to equate the deities venerated by the Mitanni with Vedic deities, and trace the names used by the aristocracy to Indo-Aryan roots.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hindu_kingdoms_in_West_Asia (214 words)

	The Lonely Canadian: Hinduism and Other Religions (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Thus, while Hinduism and Islam, on the face, have irreconcilable differences in ideology, the common ground was extensive enough to result in a large-scale blending in India.
		Indeed, such unity is underplayed and is often obscured by the current unrest and communal tension between the Hindu and muslim populations in the Indian subcontinent.
		The Hindu kingdoms of West Asia of the second millennium BC precede the rise of Judaism, and the commonality between Hinduism and Judaism has been traced as a remembrance of the Hindu past.
	www.lonelycanuck.com /2005/12/hinduism-and-other-religions.html (1238 words)

	Hindu-Americans (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hindu parents want their children to be successful like Americans and strongly encourage and emphasize scholastic achievement in fields that promise good employment and a high social status (Fenton, 1988).
		Although many Hindu parents expect and accept the westernization of their children, the question of marriage is still a concern for Hindu parents who have opinions about how their children should be married, whether "arranged" or partly arranged.
		Hindus believe that food was created by the Supreme Being for the benefit of man, thus growing, harvesting, preparing, and consuming food are steeped in rituals (Kilara and Iya, 1992).
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~efhayes/hindu.htm (11536 words)

	India, Indian States, India States, Indian hotels, Indian News and Indian Tourism, India Travel
		West Bengal is on the eastern bottleneck of India, stretching from the Himalayas in the north to the Bay of Bengal in the south.
		West Bengal\'s climate varies from tropical savannah in the southern portions to humid subtropical in the north.
		Hinduism is the principal religion - 72.5% of the population are Hindus.
	www.westbengalin.com /wiki-West_Bengal (4935 words)

	The world's top hinduism websites
		To the Hindu, this idea has been an active force in defining the 'Eternal Dharma.' It has been for Hinduism what the infinite Divine Self of Advaita is to existence, remaining forever unchanged and self-luminous, central and pervasive, in spite of all the chaos and flux around it.
		Hinduism rests on the spiritual bedrock of the Vedas, hence Veda Dharma, and their mystic issue, the Upanishads, as well as the teachings of many great Hindu gurus through the ages.
		Thus, Hindu image worship is a form of iconolatry, in which the symbols are venerated as putative sigils of divinity, as opposed to idolatry, a charge often levied (erroneously) at Hindus.
	www.websbiggest.com /wiki-article-tab.cfm/hinduism (4687 words)

	Kingdoms of South East Asia
		In the 10th century the Vietnamese kingdom of Dai Viet, based in Hanoi, began to exert pressure on Champa, forcing it to relinquish Amaravati in 1000 and Vijaya in 1069.
		Their early kingdoms, Dvaravati and Haripunjaya, had ties with the ancient Cambodian kingdom of Funan and with China and were also strongly influenced by Khmer civilization.
		It was later known as the smaller Dali kingdom (still under Bai control), until it was defeated by the Mongols under the leadership of Kublai Khan in 1253.
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	Asia
		Asia Asia is the largest of all the continents and includes within its limits an area of 17,159,995 sq mi, or about 33% of the world's total land surface and the greater part of the Eurasian land mass.
		Asia is by far the most populous of all the continents, with an estimated population in 1992 of 3,275,200,000, or more than 60% of the world's total population.
		Dry Asia Parts of Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and Mongolia have a wide range of dry climates that range latitudinally from the tropical deserts of the Arabian Peninsula in the west to the subtropical steppe climate present in Iran and Afghanistan and the mid latitude steppe and deserts of Mongolia and northern China.
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	SEA (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The so called Kingdoms were actually the result of the prowess of an individual leader which would dissolve quickly when the charismatic leader died or lost the confidence of his allies.
		Thus, such kingdoms were in fact a patchwork of intersecting mandalas(circle of kings), each claiming lordship over its territory and hegemony over the other rulers who in fact his allies and vassals.
		Although early Southeast Asia rulers had laws familiar with Great Tradition Indian laws like the various Dharmasastras and the Arthasastra, recent research has established that early Southeast Asia had local indigenous laws that were more influential than the Dharmasastras and the Arthasastra, which came into use far later than had previously been assumed.
	members.tripod.com /~leavis/SEA.htm (3147 words)

	The Ultimate Hinduism - American History Information Guide and Reference
		Hinduism rests on the spiritual bedrock of the Vedas, hence Veda Dharma, and their mystic issue, the Upanishads, as well as the teachings of many great Hindu gurus through the ages.
		Hinduism is definitely a monotheistic religion and is represented in the concrete symbols of the Hindu Trinity.
		Thus, Hindu image worship is a form of iconolatry, in which the symbols are venerated as putative sigils of divinity, as opposed to idolatry, a charge often levied (erroneously) at Hindus.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Hindu (6231 words)

	Hinduism - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
		To the Hindu, this idea has been an active force in defining the 'Eternal Dharma.' It has been for Hinduism what the infinite Divine Self of Advaita is to existence, remaining forever unchanged and self-luminous, central and pervasive, in spite of all the chaos and flux around it.
		In general, Hindu views are broad and range from monism, dualism, pantheism, panentheism, alternatively called monistic theism by some scholars, and strict monotheism, but are not polytheistic as outsiders perceive the religion to be.
		Hinduism has often been confused to be polytheistic as many of Hinduism's adherents are monists, and view multiple manifestations of the one God or source of being.
	www.egnu.org /thelema/Hindu (5511 words)

	Hindu
		There used to be about 40% Hindus in Bangladesh but after the heinous division of India, the percentage has steadily fallen due to persecution in a land that is gradually becoming a radical Islamic nation.
		Hindus always spared the cow because of being sacred but in the early part of the first millennium, the Hindus recognized its vital role in their agricultural economy.
		For example, Hindu yogis (those who do yoga, in search of Brahma) may not have sex, but sex is not viewed as a bad thing but one of the wonderful things in life.
	www.geocities.com /shivsantan (7191 words)

	Central Asia: West (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The highlands of southern Central Asia, east of Uzbekistan, and astride the Xinjiang frontier.
		An ancient region of Central Asia lying east of the Amu Darya (Oxus) River, the Kyzyl Kum Desert, and the western Pamir Mountains beyond Tashkent and Dushanbe, as far as the Afghan frontier.
		In the Hindu, Parsi and Arab traditions, Margiana is identified with the ancient Paradise.
	www.hostkingdom.net /centasia.html (2219 words)

	Hindu Kush means Hindu Slaughter
		The heroic efforts of the Hindu Shahiya Kings to defend the northwestern gates of India against the invaders are described by even al-Biruni, the court historian of Mahmud of Ghazni (12).
		Thus it is evident that the mountain range was named as Hindu Kush as a reminder to the future Hindu generations of the slaughter and slavery of Hindus during the Moslem conquests.
		It is evident that Hindus from ancient India's (Hindustan's) border states such as Gandhaar and Vaahic Pradesh were massacred or taken as slaves by the Moslem invaders who named the region as Hindu Kush (or Hindu Slaughter,or Hindu Killer) to teach a lesson to the future Hindu generations of India.
	www.hindunet.org /hindu_history/modern/hindu_kush.html (2566 words)

	Wikipedia:WikiProject Hinduism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		WikiProject Hindu Mythology - focuses on the dieties and for the texts, it mostly focuses on the epics and the puranas
		If you follow the Hindu religion, you can put this {{user hindu}} to show that you are a Hindu.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Hinduism (977 words)

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		The Hindu kingdom does not officially recognise the religious holidays of the minority Muslims and Christians, nor the many festivals that are important to individual hill tribes.
		If 'Hindu' as an added attribute of the state may have been functional for legitimising the hold of its rulers at some earlier period in history, that very prefix is proving to be dysfunctional today.
		Those who argue for retaining Hindu as the defining character of the Nepali state mention that the terms "Hindu" and "kingdom" are complementary—that neither Hindu republics nor secular kingdoms are conceivable.
	www.south-asia.com /himal/May/howhindu.htm (1977 words)

	History Maurya Empire - History Of Ancient, Medieval And Modern India.
		Originating from the kingdom of Magadha in the Indo-Gangetic plains of modern Bihar and its capital city of Pataliputra (near modern Patna), the Empire was founded in 321 BCE by Chandragupta Maurya, who had overthrown the Nanda Dynasty and began expanding his power across central and western India.
		Chanakya traveled to Magadha, a kingdom that was large and militarily powerful and feared by its neighbors, but was again dismissed by its king Dhana, of the Nanda Dynasty.
		The assassination of Brhadrata and the rise of the Sunga empire led to a wave of persecution for Buddhists, and a resurgence of Hinduism.
	www.bharatadesam.com /history/maurya_empire.php (2768 words)

	HINDU TIMELINE
		-3200: Hindu astronomers called nakshatra darshas record in Vedic texts their observations of full moon and new moon at the winter and summer solstices and spring and fall equinoxes with reference to 27 fixed stars (nakshatras) spaced nearly equally on the moon's ecliptic or apparent path across the sky.
		His discriminatory policies toward Hindus, Marathas and the Deccan kingdoms contribute to the dissolution of the Mughal Empire by 1750.
		The monument was a central icon of Hindu resentment toward Muslim destruction of 60,000 temples.
	www.angelfire.com /hi/HSCatYORK/a3.html (12107 words)

	Asia @ Travel Notes - Online Travel Guides - Asian Countries
		Asia Accommodation, Asian Culture, Asia Maps, Asia Travel Guides, Asia Travel Tips, Map of Asia, Message Boards, Travel in Asia, Weather in Asia.
		A culinary journey through Southeast Asia, a photo essay, a journey down the Mekong river and an introduction to one of the world's great culinary regions.
		And if you're travelling in Asia, you'll be eating plenty of it.
	www.travelnotes.org /Asia (564 words)

	Indian, Chinese, & Japanese Emperors
		India and China are the sources of the greatest civilizations in Eastern and Southern Asia.
		Later, when the West, India, and China all had contact with each other, it was at first India that had the most influence on China, through the introduction of Buddhism.
		Since Hyderabad was overwhelmingly Hindu, the new Dominion of India, ironically with King George VI of England still as official Head of State, already fighting with Pakistan over Kashmir, soon invaded and attached Hyderabad to India by force.
	www.friesian.com /sangoku.htm (12001 words)

	Hindu Creator God - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Hindu Creator God (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Trimurti or Hindu triad of gods: Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.
		Hindu Community & Cultural Center (Livermore, CA, USA)
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Hindu+Creator+God (249 words)

	Hindu Unity - Links
		The boundaries of the kingdom shrunk towards east and eventually the royal family fled to the adjoining island of Bali, where Hinduism is still the religion of masses.
		Hindus are also found in large numbers in the adjacent island of Lombok and also in the eastern shores of Java and I have personally witnessed their festivities and customs during my visit to Indonesia in March-April 1996.
		Thus, Hindu marraige and cremation customs were not recognized and upon the death of a Hindu man, the state treated his widow as concubines and his children as bastards, especially in Jamaica and Grenanda.
	www.hinduunity.org /articles/bharathistory/hinduismdowntheages.html (5312 words)

	Khukuri House - Official Khukuri/Kukri supplier to Gurkhas
		Geographically located in the south-east Asia between India and China, Nepal, a Hindu country with a population of more than 28 billions is actually believed to have existed for over 1500 years but the universal recognition as a country came only after the unification in the mid 17th Century.
		About 120km west of Kathmandu, Gorkha is a small mid western district in Nepal in today’s context but with immense historic significance with a population of more than 3 million...
		About 120km west of Kathmandu, Gorkha is a small mid western district in Nepal in today’s context but with immense historic significance with a population of more than 3 million were majority of people belonging to Thapa, Magar, Gurung, Rai tribes reside.
	www.thekhukurihouse.com (944 words)

	Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
		His contribution includes some of the museum’s most celebrated objects—including a gilt bronze Buddha dated 338—the oldest known dated Chinese Buddha in the world and often cited as a textbook example of Chinese Buddhist art.
		The collection galleries are divided into seven geographic regions: South Asia; the Persian World and West Asia; Southeast Asia; the Himalayas and the Tibetan Buddhist World; China; Korea; and Japan.
		Goryeo dynasty celadons and rare unglazed stonewares from the Three Kingdoms period (57 BCE to 668 CE) and Unified Silla period (668 to 935 CE).
	www.asianart.org /collection.htm (962 words)

	Central and North Asia, 500-1000 A.D. \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The rich arts of Central Asia, including wall paintings, stucco work, carved wood, metalwork, and textiles, reflect the many traditions that are combined and often syncretized here.
		The age of the Samanids marks a renaissance of Iranian culture in which their courts are associated with the rise of Persian literature.
		This cultural blend continues for several centuries until the social, ethnic, and political structure of the region is modified by the input of Turkic populations.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/ht/06/nc/ht06nc.htm (1015 words)

	west asia - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: )
		We found one dictionary with English definitions that includes the word west asia:
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		Phrases that include west asia: hindu kingdoms in west asia, south west asia
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	The Hindu Business Line : India and the West Asian dilemma
		THERE WERE some interesting nuances in the approach of major political parties to the situation in West Asia during the recent general elections.
		It is evident that on national security issues such as our nuclear deterrent, nuclear disarmament and our relations with China and the US, the two Communist parties adopt postures that portray a total lack of realism and understanding of the contemporary world.
		Further to the west, we should seek wider economic and investment ties with countries such as Jordan, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia especially as India remains a growing market for their exports of phosphatic fertilisers.
	www.thehindubusinessline.com /2004/06/02/stories/2004060201831000.htm (1374 words)

	Creation Myths (Morgana's Observatory)
		There is even an idiom relating to it: "Since Pan Gu created earth and the heavens," meaning "for a very long time." Nevertheless, it is rather a latecomer to the catalog of Chinese legends.
		First mention of it is in a book on Chinese myths written by Xu Zheng in the Three Kingdoms period (CE 220-265).
		Then they did it both together, "We-hicht, we-hicht, we-hicht," and both took tobacco, rubbed it, and puffed hard upon it, sending the sky so high it formed a concave arch.
	www.dreamscape.com /morgana/ariel.htm (2379 words)

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