Orang Hindu Punjabi adalah para penganut Hindu yang teridentifikasi secara etnis, linguistik, budaya, dan silsilah sebagai orang Punjabi dan berasal dari wilayah Punjab di anak benua India. Hindu Punjabi adalah kelompok agama terbesar ketiga dari komunitas Punjabi, setelah orang Islam Punjabi dan orang Sikh Punjabi. Meskipun orang Hindu Punjabi kebanyakan mendiami negara bagian Punjab, serta Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, dan Chandigarh saat ini, kebanyakan leluhurnya menyebar di wilayah Punjab yang lebih luas, yang dipisahkan antara India dan Pakistan pada 1947.
Regwedaadalah teks Hindu SanskertaWeda tertua yang bermula di wilayah Punjab barat laut.
Hindu adalah agama tercatat tertua yang dipraktekkan oleh orang Punjabi.[15]Agama Weda dari zaman Weda (1500–500 SM) meliputi gagasan agama dan praktek di Puonjab, utamanya terpusat dalam pemujaan Indra, dewa surga dan petir Hindu.[16] Suku-suku Weba bergerak ke timur di Lembah Indus utara dan menuju pinggiran Gangga-Yamuna pada zaman Weda akhir, dan Brhaminisme mengembangkan cikal bakal Weda di wilayah Kurukshetra. Agama Zaman Weda adalah salah satu pendahulu Hindu, dan zaman Weda berakhir kala sintesis Hindu mengembangkan interaksi antara Brahminisme, Sramanisme, dan agama-agama lokal.[17][18][e]
Sebagian besar Regweda dikomposisikan di wilaayh Punjab antara sekitar tahun 1500 dan 1200 SM,[19] meskipun naskah Weda berikutnya dikompsisikan lebih ke timur, antara sungai Yamuna dan sungai Gangga. Sebuah kitab hukum India kuno bernama Manusmriti, yang dikembangkan oleh para pendeta HinduBrahmin, membentuk kehidupan keagamaan Punjabi sejak tahun 200 SM.[20]
↑name="Vedic religion">"Vedic religion". Encyclopedia Britannica. 10 November 2023. It Vedic religion takes its name from the collections of sacred texts known as the Vedas. Vedism is the oldest stratum of religious activity in India for which there exist written materials. It was one of the major traditions that shaped Hinduism.
↑Virdee, Pippa (February 2018). From the Ashes of 1947 (dalam bahasa Inggris). Cambridge University Press. hlm.24. ISBN978-1-108-42811-8. The Rig Veda and the Upanishads, which belonged to the Vedic religion, were a precursor of Hinduism, both of which were composed in Punjab.
↑Punjabi Hindus represent between 24 and 35 per cent of Delhi's population, determined from 1991 and 2015 estimates.[5][6] Based on the 2011 official census counts out of a total population of 16,787,941, this amounts to between 4,029,106 and 5,875,779 persons.[4]
↑(Michaels 2004, hlm.38): "The legacy of the Vedic religion in Hinduism is generally overestimated. The influence of the mythology is indeed great, but the religious terminology changed considerably: all the key terms of Hinduism either do not exist in Vedic or have a completely different meaning. The religion of the Veda does not know the ethicised migration of the soul with retribution for acts (karma), the cyclical destruction of the world, or the idea of salvation during one's lifetime (jivanmukti; moksa; nirvana); the idea of the world as illusion (maya) must have gone against the grain of ancient India, and an omnipotent creator god emerges only in the late hymns of the rgveda. Nor did the Vedic religion know a caste system, the burning of widows, the ban on remarriage, images of gods and temples, Puja worship, Yoga, pilgrimages, vegetarianism, the holiness of cows, the doctrine of stages of life (asrama), or knew them only at their inception. Thus, it is justified to see a turning point between the Vedic religion and Hindu religions." Jamison, Stephanie; Witzel, Michael (1992). "Vedic Hinduism"(PDF). Harvard University. hlm.3.: "... to call this period Vedic Hinduism is a contradictio in terminis since Vedic religion is very different from what we generally call Hindu religion – at least as much as Old Hebrew religion is from medieval and modern Christian religion. However, Vedic religion is treatable as a predecessor of Hinduism." See also Halbfass 1991, hlm.1–2
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