Spiked padukas sandals are worn by Indian Hindu Sadhus, or Holy Men, for this very purpose.

印度教苦行僧或者圣人穿着这种钉履鞋，就是为了这一目的。

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Pic.36 An Indian Hindu devotee offers prayers while bathing during the annular solar eclipse in the Banganga Lake in Mumbai, India, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

图36 2010年1月15日星期五，印度孟买的Banganga湖上，一名印度教徒在日食时分沐浴并进行祷告。

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Vaults containing vast quantities of gold and jewellery from the 18th-century kingdom of Travancore were found under a Hindu temple in the capital of the Indian state of Kerala.

印度喀拉拉州首府的一印度教寺庙中发现了地窖，地窖中藏有大量18世纪特拉凡科王朝时期的黄金和珠宝。

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The Indian Hindu Welfare Organisation (IHWO) in Northampton is set for a new base in the town.

BBC: Weston Favell Parish Hall

Neelam Aggarwal-Singh, 53, is a founder member of the Indian Hindu Welfare Organisation (IHWO), set up in 1996.

BBC: Northampton Hindu welfare worker receives MBE

But the government maintains a delicate balance between the mainly Buddhist Chinese majority and the Muslim Malay and Hindu Indian minorities, and officials are ultra-conscious of Muslim sensitivities.

CNN: Silenced Cries