{"id":699,"date":"2017-06-20T10:27:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T14:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/?page_id=699"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:42:21","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/the-life-of-hinduism\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Introduction<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Fig. 1 &#8211; J.S. Hawley &amp; Vasudha Narayana, &#8220;Introduction&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/fig-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/fig-1.jpg 375w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/fig-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/fig-1-200x267.jpg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/fig-1-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hanuman receiving New Year&#8217;s garlands, Mahalakshipuram, Bangalore, January 1, 2004.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fig. A &#8211; Mahalakshmipuram Hanuman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/fig-A.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/fig-A.jpg 375w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/fig-A-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/fig-A-200x267.jpg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/fig-A-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mahalakshmipuram Hanuman on a more ordinary day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fig. B &#8211; &#8220;Hare Krishna Hill&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/fig-B.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/fig-B.jpg 500w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/fig-B-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/files\/fig-B-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Motorcycles and mopeds parked outside the ISKCON temple on &#8220;Hare Krishna Hill&#8221; in Bangalore.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":884,"featured_media":0,"parent":695,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-699","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/884"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":839,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/699\/revisions\/839"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/vasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}