hindu gods

[Johnny Pneumatic]

How many gods does Hinduism have?

[arcticpenguin]

How many can you afford?

[wayrad]

Having foolishly taken on the job of proofreading part of a translated Hindu text over at Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders a few months back, I can state with authority that there is no end to them. ;)

[UnrepentantSinner]

Apparently 330 million (http://www.lib.unc.edu/house/mrc/films/full.php?film_id=9130).

[LawnOven]

accourding to this site there are 330 million (that's the number that seems to be popping up the most when I search google).
link (http://food.indiainfo.com/ayurveda/ayur2.html)

Jeebus, and I thought that the number of shinto kami was insane (8 million).

[UnrepentantSinner]

I think you and I posting the same information simultaneously was karma man...

[LawnOven]

haha :)

[Johnny Pneumatic]

D*mn! thats a lot!!!! Now I want to know all their names and what they do;every single one.

[Kumar]

'GOD IS IN EVERYONE'( OMNI-PRESENT), SO COUNT THE NUMBERS.

[UnrepentantSinner]

Originally posted by Kumar
'GOD IS IN EVERYONE'( OMNI-PRESENT), SO COUNT THE NUMBERS.

{calculations}

...carry the 3...

{/calculations}

I've got 298 million gods. Where did they come up with the other 32 million?

[Yahweh]

330 Million!?

When 270 million gods just isnt enough, here's 50 million more...

[geni]

Some of the high level hindus belive that there is only one god and all 330 million are aspects of that on self. A bit like the holy trinity but I'm not sure what the equivlent word would be.

[Kumar]

What is omni-present?

[Aoidoi]

Originally posted by UnrepentantSinner
I think you and I posting the same information simultaneously was karma man... I bet they've got a god of simul-posting in there somewhere. Maybe 2. :D

[triadboy]

Originally posted by Kumar
What is omni-present?

OmniPresent means everywhere at once. Not everyTHING. If god were everything - then what's the use of worshipping it....Him....them.....us.

[Kumar]

I give below the dictonary meaning of 'Omni Present';

: present in all places at all times.

[LawnOven]

Well regardless, the fact remains that I am indeed a robot.

But not an omnipresent one.

[LawnOven]

Robot means "forced labor" in Czech

I am robota, the hindu god

[T'ai Chi]

1 maybe, but with a lot of manifestations?

[Kumar]

T'ai Chi, 1 maybe, but with a lot of manifestations?

Some truth in these words. What do you mean by that? Please expand the meaning.

[UnrepentantSinner]

So is it a Trinity or a 330millionity?

I won't have anything to do with any religion that prevents me from eating steak (or ham or lobster for that matter).

[Kumar]

Whatever is taught in any religion is for our benefits not in God's benefits, who is 'Omni Potent'. Complex molecules in any food may be acidic & take more time to digest than foods with simpler molecules. It depend upon the availability & necessity(not luxuary). It is not related to killing, as both botanical & zoological material have life. But it is taught like that so we first ingest simplest molecules which will be digested easily without any manifestations(sins). It is also seen that where these simple foods are not available then complex molecules are taken, but some time gap is kept to digest fully or detoxify the manifestations(sins) by fasting effects.

God bless!

[LFTKBS]

1) Kumar, just stop posting, please.
2) I thought "robot" was from the Russian "robotat," "to work."

[Kumar]

LFTKBS, OK! as you like.

[Yahweh]

Originally posted by UnrepentantSinner
(or ham or lobster for that matter)
Ham + Lobster = Hamster?

(I'm in a goofy mood today... can you tell?)

[jan]

I'm a bit surprised there are only 3.3 x 10^8 different hindu gods. I always supposed they have infinite many gods.

[LawnOven]

Originally posted by LFTKBS

2) I thought "robot" was from the Russian "robotat," "to work."


Well I suppose dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=robot) is as good a place as any for etymologies.

From that site:

Word History: Robot is a word that is both a coinage by an individual person and a borrowing. It has been in English since 1923 when the Czech writer Karel apek's play R.U.R. was translated into English and presented in London and New York. R.U.R., published in 1921, is an abbreviation of Rossum's Universal Robots; robot itself comes from Czech robota, “servitude, forced labor,” from rab, “slave.” The Slavic root behind robota is orb-, from the Indo-European root *orbh-, referring to separation from one's group or passing out of one sphere of ownership into another. This seems to be the sense that binds together its somewhat diverse group of derivatives, which includes Greek orphanos, “orphan,” Latin orbus, “orphaned,” and German Erbe, “inheritance,” in addition to the Slavic word for slave mentioned above. Czech robota is also similar to another German derivative of this root, namely Arbeit, “work” (its Middle High German form arabeit is even more like the Czech word). Arbeit may be descended from a word that meant “slave labor,” and later generalized to just “labor.”