Sikhism- An Introduction

  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