by Owen Cole
Valmikis, 118, 185–7
vanaprastha, 54, 245
varnas, 32, 33, 115, 116, 117, 119, 196, 203, 245
varni-jati system, 116
vars, 138, 245
Varuna, 201
Vasant Panchami, 175
Vedas, 26, 28, 117, 139, 149, 156, 177, 196, 201, 220, 245
vegetarianism, 175, 197, 215
Virjananda Saraswati, 177
Vishnu, 98
Vishnu Hindu Parishad, 189
Vishvakarman, 109, 111, 245
visiting gurdwaras, 14–15, 17–18, 21
war rules, 123–4
We Are Not Hindus (Hum Hindu Nabin), 178, 207
weddings see marriage
Western name taking, 65
women
equality issues, 2, 14, 17, 50, 118–22, 129, 139–40, 180
as impure, 28, 32–3
preachers, 91–2
seated separately from men, 3, 55
worldly attachment, 163
worship, 1–21
wrath, 163
Yajur Veda, 201
Yama, 201
Yogi Bhajan, 215
Zafarnama, 122
zats, 39, 73, 115, 116–117, 118, 220, 245, see also caste