This is an alphabetical list of the student projects that appear in HTML format under various categories within the Mahavidya website. Click on a title to view a PDF file of the article.

Anandamayi Ma (Female Mystic)

Angkor Wat

Arthasastra (Sixfold Policy)

Asceticism

Asuras (Demons)

Aurobindo (Sri Aurobindo Ghose)

Ayurveda (Hindu Science of Life)

• Ayurveda (General)
• Ayurveda (On Health and Illness)

Ayyappan

Banaras (Culture)

Bhagavad Gita

Bharat Natyam (Indian Classical Dance)

Cakras

Carvaka (Materialist Philosophy)

Caste (Changing Attitudes)

Cosmogonies (Vedic)

Death

• Death and Cremation
• Death Hospices (In Kasi/Banaras)

Demons (In Vedic Literature)

Devadasi (Female Temple Dancers)

• Devadasi (1)
• Devadasis (2)

Dharma Sutras

Diaspora (Hindu)

• Hindu Diaspora (General)
• Hindu Diaspora in Canada

Divali/Dipavali (Festival of Lights)

Dowry (in Hinduism)

Draupadi (Hindu Goddess)

• Draupadi (1)
• Draupadi (2)

Durga (Great Goddess)

Elephanta (Cave Temples)

Environmental Ethics (Hindu)

Fire (Importance of in Hinduism)

Food (in Hinduism)

Gandhi (Mahatma)

Ganesa (Myths about His Head)

Ganga (Ganges River and Goddess)

• Ganga River
• Ganga (River and Goddess)

Gupta Dynasty

Hanuman (Monkey God)

• Hanuman (1)
• Hanuman (Iconography)

Hare Krsna Movement (Controversies)

Hijras

Hindu Temple

• Hindu Temple (Architecture and Construction)
• Hindu Temple (Site Preparations)
• Nagara and Dravida Styles

Hindutva

Holi (Festival of Color)

Indra (Vedic God)

Indus Valley Civilization

Jainism

Jivitputrika Vrata (see under Vratas)

Kali (Goddess)

• Kali (1)
• Kali (2)
• Kali (Origins)
• Kali (and Feminism in the West)

Kamadeva (God of Love)

Kama Sutra

Karma and Reincarnation

Karma Yoga (see under Yoga)

Khajuraho (Hindu Temple Site)

Krishnamurti (Jiddu)

Krsna (God)

• Krsna (General)
• Krsna (Birth and Childhood)

Kumbha Mela (Pilgrimage Festival of the Pitcher)

Kundalini (Yoga)

Laksmi (Goddess)

• Laksmi (Sri, Goddess of Good Fortune)
• Laksmi (Iconography)

Laws of Manu (Dharma Sastra Text)

Mahabharata (Hindu Epic)

Mahasivaratri (Great Night of Siva Festival)

Manasa (Snake Goddess)

Marriage

• Marriage (Arranged)
• Vivaha (Marriage Rite)

Minaksi Temple (Sri Minaksi Sundaresvara, Hindu Temple)

Mohenjodaro

Moksa (Spiritual Liberation)

Music (and Hindu Spirituality)

Pongal (Attukal Pongala, South Indian Festival)

Prana (Vital Energy)

Pranayama (Yogic Control of Vital Energy)

Ramlila (Ramayana Festival Plays)

Ram Mohun Roy

Ramana Maharsi

Ramakrishna (Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa)

Reincarnation and Karma

Rsis (Ancient, semi-divine, seers)

Sakti (Goddess and Power)

Samnyasa (Renunciation)

Samskaras (Life Cycle Rites of Passage)

• Birth Rituals in Hinduism
• Birth Samskaras
• Pregnancy and Samskara

Sankara and Radical Non-dualism

Sanskrit

• Sanskrit Grammar
• Sanskrit Grammarians and the Theology of Sound

Sarasvati

Sati (Widow Immolation)

• Sati (1)
• Sati (2)
• Sati (Social Implications)

Skanda (War God)

Siva (God)

• Siva (Erotic Nature)

Soma (The Mystery of)

Sphota

Surya (Sun God)

Tantra

Tapas (Ascetic Heat)

Temple (See Hindu Temple, above)

Trika Saivism

Upanisads

Varna (Hindu Class System)

Varuna (Vedic God)

Vedic Rituals

Visnu (God)

Vratas (Vowed Ascetic Observances)

• Jivitputrika Vrata
• Vratas (General)

Women in Hinduism

• Women and Fertility
• Women’s Roles
• Women and Marriage

Yama and Niyama (Yogic Restraints and Observances)

Yoga

• Karma Yoga
• Yogas (Of the Bhagavad Gita)
• Yoga and Shamanism

Yugas