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Indian religions
- SikhismIn the village of Rāi Bhōi dī Talwandī, now called Nankana Sahib in present-day Pakistan, a boy named Nanak was born in 1469 to Punjabi Khatri Hindu parents.
- BuddhismIn the 5th century BCE, a man named Siddhartha Gautama walked the eastern Gangetic plain of India. He was born in Lumbini, now part of modern Nepal, and grew…
- HinduismThe word Hindu derives from the Sanskrit term Sindhu, which named the Indus River and the lower basin region. Proto-Iranian sound changes transformed the…
- JainismIn the sixth century BCE, a man named Mahavira walked through the region of Greater Magadha in ancient India. He was born into a royal family but chose to…