The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual: Temples and the Establishment of the Gods is an archaeological study focusing on the early development of Hinduism within...

Puja (Sanskrit: पूजा, romanized: pūjā) is a worship ritual performed by Hindus to offer devotional homage and prayer to one or more deities, to host and...

September 2015 at the Wayback Machine Willis, Michael D. (2009). The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual | Temples and the Establishment of the Gods. Cambridge...

ed., Studies in Shell Script (Delhi, 1990) Michael Willis, The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009): 16, 23, 116...

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Encyclopedia of Religion. Vol. 11. Thomson Gale. pp. 7493–7495. ISBN 0-02-865980-5. Willis, Michael D. (2009). "2: 6". The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual. Cambridge...

Medicine in the Buddhist Monastery. Motilal Banarsidass. pp. 45–46. ISBN 978-81-208-1528-5. Michael Willis (2014). The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual: Temples...

specifically list the four varṇa-s. The implications of this are explored by Michael Willis in his book The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual. The metrics are not...

Analysis of the Myths’, East and West 29 (1979): 139-51. Meera Dass 2001, pp. 86–88. Meera Dass 2001, pp. 84–85. Willis, The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual, p...

history of religious association with Hindu scriptures, rituals and worship. The Hindu calendar, Panchanga (Sanskrit: पञ्चाङ्ग) or Panjika is one of various...

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pp. 67–68, ISBN 978-0-691-12048-5 Michael Willis (2009), The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-51874-1, pages...

(1994), The Presence of Siva, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-01930-7, pages 179–187 Michael Willis (2009), The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual, Cambridge...

(2004). The Fundamental Unity of India. Orient Blackswan. pp. 124–125. ISBN 978-81-8028-005-4. Michael Willis (2014). The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual: Temples...

to the Gupta dynasty, publishing a monograph on Hindu ritual and the development of temples as land-holding institutions, The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual...

related to Parikrama. The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual Culture of India Hindu pilgrimage sites in India Kumbh Mela List of Hindu festivals Religious tourism...

Dehejia 1986, p. 62. Willis, Michael (2009). The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual: temples and the establishment of the gods. Cambridge University Press. p. 94...

Inscriptions of the Early Gupta Kings, Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, vol. 3 (Calcutta, 1888): 269. Michael Willis, The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual (Cambridge...

fire. The Vivaha samskara is essentially a Vedic yajna ritual, with recitation of Vedic hymns. The primary witness of a Hindu marriage is the Vedic fire-deity...

A ritual is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, actions, or revered objects. Rituals may be prescribed by the traditions of a community...

and the neck of vessels during a Hindu puja ceremony. The ritual thread is traditionally worn on the right wrist or arm by the males and on the left...

According to Krishnaite and Hindu scriptures such as the Mahabharata, Harivamsa, and the Krishna Charitas, the birth of Krishna took place in Mathura...

Kingdom, A High Court of Justice ordered analysis of the demand for a right to traditional Hindu and Sikh cremation ritual in the United Kingdom (2006)...

Mammaṭabhaṭṭa, Kāvyaprakāśā, ullāsa 2. See Michael Willis, The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual (Cambridge, 2009), chapter 3, note 170. Corpus Inscriptionum...

anniversary once every 210 days (the calendar is known as Pawukon calendar). Unique rituals and festivals of Balinese Hindus, that are not found in India...

(1961-62), section C, no. 1625. The eponymous naming of temple deities is explained in M. Willis, The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual (Cambridge: University Press...

Hindu temple architecture as the main form of Hindu architecture has many varieties of style, though the basic nature of the Hindu temple remains the...

Willis, The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual (Cambridge, 2009), chapter 3, note 61. André Padoux, ‘What do we mean by Tantrism?’, in Roots of Tantra, edited...

relevant passage of the inscription, in Michael Willis, The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual (Cambridge, 2009): pages 203–205 Inscriptions of the Early Kadambas...

and practices are found in the Vedic texts, and some Vedic rituals are still practiced today. The Vedic religion is one of the major traditions which shaped...