The socio-political and religio-cultural life was apparently Yajña-centric and grew and flourished around it. Nigama denotes that religio-cultural stream, which is rooted in ‘Yajña-saṁsthā ‘or sacrificial Institution Nigama-dharma or Vedic stream is deemed to be An-ādi or beginning-less and ‘A-pauruśeya’ or without human authorship. Its jurisprudence is called Mimāṁsā and its technology, based on applied geometry is termed as Śulba-sūtra. Vedic hymns and chants are the scriptural source for sacrificial technology named ‘Śrauta’. It denotes that stream, which is rooted in ‘Mandirāntargata Mūrti-pūjā’ or enshrined Image-worship. comprising twin currents: Nigama and gama. In our tradition, the religious-cultural heritage is known to be Nigama- gamatmaka I. The word Hindu is to be taken in federal connotation, encompassing entire Humanity. Consequently, for citizens of manyīuddhist countries, Bhārata is holy land but not paternal land. Thus a Hindu is tested on two categories: paternal heritage and sentimental sanctity. In last century, Svātantryavīr Savarkar gave precise definition of the term Hindu as | | ( Sindhu sindhu-paryanta yasya Bhārata bhūmikā| pitrubhūḥ punyabhūścaiva sa vai Hinduriti smṛtaḥ) meaning ‘that person is deemed to be Hindu, to whom this land of Bhārata is both paternal land as well as holy land’. Hindu numerals borrowed by Arabs in 1st millennium A.D. Apparently, the people beyond Indus valley named its residences as Hindus by corrupt pronunciation using Hindu for Sindhu. Guru Govind Singh proclaimed his motto as ‘Dharma Hindu Gāje. Chatrapatī Śivājī called his kingdom as ‘Hindu Patapātaśāhi’. However, in historical records the word ‘Hindusthan’ is common in medieval times. In Sanskrit literature, the word Hindu is conspicuous by absence. Earliest reference to it is found in 10 books on Architecture by Vitruvius (circa 1st C. The land of Hindus was recognized by westerners as India. Hinduism is an English word denoting the state of being a Hindu.
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