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Major Hindu sacred texts include the ''[[Mahabharata]]'', ''[[Bhagavad Gita]]'', ''[[Ramayana]]'', and Upanishads. The above are [[Older Than Feudalism]], but the four Vedas<ref>The ''Rig Veda'', ''Yajur Veda'', ''Sama Veda'', and ''Atharva Veda''</ref> are [[Older Than Dirt]], and the Puranas are only [[Older Than Print]].
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== A-E ==
* [[Achilles' Heel]]: Duryodhana had his thighs, and Ravana had his heart. Every demon will have a weak spot. Every single one.
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* [[Time Abyss]]: Reality is said to last for as long as Brahma's lifetime. Brahma will live to be a hundred years old, except one ''day'' in the life of Brahma is four billion, three hundred and twenty million human years. The true end of reality will come about when Brahma dies at the end of ''311 trillion'' human years. We've got a while to go, then.
* [[Trick Arrows]]: Astras, usually in the form of [[Elemental Powers]] taken [[Up to Eleven]]. Some of the milder effects include [[Making a Splash|flash floods,]] [[Shock and Awe|thunderstorms]] and ''[[Dishing Out Dirt|falling mountains.]]''
== U-Z ==
* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: Dattreya and Silavati. Ahalya and Gautama Maharishi.
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Shiva.
** Vishnu as Narsimha
* [[The Villain Must Be Punished]]: Asuras and rakshasas have a habit of asking for boons from the gods that would allow them to conquer the humans. Sometimes they then go for the devas in an attempt to conquer heaven and rule all three realms. They forgot one thing: the same gods that granted them the boons ''always'' put in a loophole. They then either reincarnate as the avatar that can defeat them, or create a warrior to do the job for them. While the usurper may be given a fair chance to back down, they're too prideful or arrogant to consider that surrendering may save their lives.
** Prahlad's father Hiranyakashipu made this mistake by saying he wanted to be slain by "Neither man nor beast, with or without a weapon, indoors or outdoors, at neither day nor night, and not on the Earth or the sky" as told to Brahma. Then he proceeded to conquer the heavens. The devas went to Vishnu, asking him to stop the king. Vishnu said he was on it. When Hiyanyakashipu threatened his son for being a Vishnu devotee, complete with a few murder attempts, Vishnu reincarnated as Narasimha, a man with a lion's head. Narasimha beat Hiranyakashipu with his clawed fists, dragged him to the palace threshold at twilight, placed him on his lap, and tore him apart.
** Another Vishnu incarnation was made for vengeance. Parashurama was a Brahman "blessed" with a warrior's temperament, and he received an axe that would help him do the job. He killed a king named Arjuna for stealing sacred cows from the ashram, which Arjuna did to bait Parashurama into a fight. The problem is the princes sought vengeance by killing Parashurama's father, who was not nice but also not part of this. After Parashurama found his mother wailing and cremated the body, he swore to wipe out kshatriya royalty to avenge his father. The gods had to step in after he wiped out the bad kshatriyas and started going after the good ones.
* [[War in Heaven]]: The war between Devas and Asuras is a perennial, ongoing conflict which seems to effectively be at a stalemate, although one side or the other may gain a temporary upper hand.
* [[The Worf Effect]]: Indra suffers from it badly.
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