Gavin Dennis Flood FBA (born 1954) is a British scholar of comparative religion specialising in Shaivism and phenomenology, but with research interests...

seal has been interpreted by these scholars as a prototype of Shiva. Gavin Flood characterizes these views as "speculative", saying that it is not clear...

of what is already acquired, and the increase of what is protected. Gavin Flood explains artha as "worldly success" without violating dharma (moral responsibility)...

1987, pp. 56–57. Jessica Frazier & Gavin Flood 2011, p. 18. John Bowker 2014, pp. 84–85. Jessica Frazier & Gavin Flood 2011, pp. 18–19, 24–25. Harold Coward...

ISBN 978-1-59030-893-6. Flood, Gavin D. (1996). An Introduction to Hinduism. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-43878-0. Flood, Gavin (2006). The Tantric...

conceptualize Brahman as the Cosmic Principles underlying all that exists. Gavin Flood states that the Vedic era witnessed a process of abstraction, where the...

horns. Scholars such as Gavin Flood, John Keay and Doris Meth Srinivasan have expressed doubts about this suggestion. Gavin Flood states that it is not...

merchant and politician Gavin Fletcher (born 1941), Scottish footballer Gavin Flood (born 1954), British Hindu studies scholar Gavin Floyd (born 1983), American...

term nāstika to describe Buddhism and Jainism in India is explained by Gavin Flood as follows: At an early period, during the formation of the Upaniṣads...

enjoyment of life, affection, or love, with or without sexual connotations. Gavin Flood explains kāma as "love" without violating dharma (moral responsibility)...