Liber XIV · Hinduism
Introduction
The Vedas, the epics, the great gods and goddesses, and the paths to liberation.
Hinduism is a family of traditions that grew in the Indian subcontinent over more than three thousand years, from the hymns of the Vedas to the devotional movements and global Hinduism of today. This section covers its scriptures — the Vedas, Upanishads, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Bhagavad Gita and Puranas — its great deities and their traditions of Vaishnavism, Shaivism and Shaktism, the ideas of dharma, karma, samsara and moksha, temple worship and festivals, the schools of philosophy, Tantra, and the paths of knowledge, devotion and action.