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Dedan has several different meanings in the Hebrew Bible. Dedan (now part of Al-'Ula, Saudi Arabia) was an oasis and city-state of north-western Arabia. The people of Dedan are called Dedanim or Dedanites. Dedan is also the name of the son of Raamah and the son of Jokshan.
Lihyan (Arabic: لحيان, Liḥyān; Greek: Lechienoi), [1] also called Dadān or Dedan, was a powerful and highly organized ancient Arab kingdom that played a vital cultural and economic role in the north-western region of the Arabian Peninsula and used Dadanitic language. [2]
Both Vedism and Brahmanism regard the Veda as sacred, but Brahmanism is more inclusive, incorporating doctrines and themes beyond the Vedas with practices like temple worship, puja, meditation, renunciation, vegetarianism, the role of the guru, and other non-Vedic elements important to Hindu religious life.
Dedan, an ancient Arabian city-state located in the oasis of al-ʿUla; for the kingdom in its later phase, see Lihyan; for the city in the Bible, see Dedan (Bible) Dedan State, a former princely state in Gujarat, western India; Dedan Kimathi, a leader of the Kenyan Mau Mau revolt; Dedan, a major antagonist of the independent video game Off
Until that time, such texts consistently use the Persian-origin terms Zartoshti "Zoroastrian" or Vehdin "[of] the good religion". The 12th-century Sixteen Shlokas, a Sanskrit text in praise of the Parsis, [19] is the earliest attested use of the term as an identifier for Indian Zoroastrians. Parsis from India, c. 1870
[91] [92] [93] The people of India were referred to as Hinduvān and hindavī was used as the adjective for Indian language in the 8th century text Chachnama. [93] According to D. N. Jha , the term 'Hindu' in these ancient records is an ethno-geographical term and did not refer to a religion.
Rama and Sita appears as the central character in Valmiki Samhita, which is attributed to their worship and describes them to be the ultimate reality. [ 159 ] [ 160 ] Apart from other versions of Ramayana , many 14th-century Vaishnava saints such as Nabha Dass , Tulsidas and Ramananda have their works written about Rama's life. [ 161 ]
The importance of the tree spirits called yakkha s and yakkhī s in Pali (yakṣa s and yakṣī s in Sanskrit) in early Buddhist texts is an attestation of the worship of these beings done at yakkha cetiya s. The worship of yakkha s and yakkhī s, which was of pre-Indo-Aryan autochthonous origin, was prevalent in the Greater Magadha region. [1]