The Romani Hindu Faith/Dharma, Culture & History

Sara la Kali = Sharika Devi = incarnation of goddess Durga in Kashmir In France there is Sara la Kali (probably Christianised Kashmiri version of goddess Sharika Devi = Durga), Catholic Church made her a saint. The believers go into the sea and immerse there every year to get rid of their sins and bad deeds in the sea, which becomes holy because they bring there the statue of Sara la Kali. Note: It´s possible that Sara Kali = goddess Kali _ Old Prayer ways of the Roma & Sinti (Based on historical accounts from whole Europe, especially northern) Prayer to Devla (Hindu Param Brahman = Absolute Reality) was taken as private conversation between the believer with Devla and it still somewhat exists till nowadays. Prayer to the Sun (Kham or Khamoro) was very common among the Roma in Russia, Ukraine and Moldova and consisted of calls to the Sun, asking something from the Sun and bowing to the Sun. Prayer to the Tree (very similar to India's Dharkar tribe's way), the person which i...

The word Bohemian used as an exonym for the Roma in France and other French-speaking countries, same as in some cases in Spain is because the Roma came there in 15th Century from Bohemia which is a part of the nowadays Czech Republic. It was because those Roma said that they are Bohèmiens = Czechs .

The origin of the Servika Roma and Ungrika Roma --- or how the Vlax Roma use to call us all "Romungre". Who are the "Romungre" in general? Also known as Hungarian Roma are the ethnic group living in the Hungarian language area and Slovakia. Their original language are various dialects of the Carpathian Romani. Their traditional occupations: musicians, nailers, horseshoes, adobe throwers... Ungrika Roma or Magyarcigányok = Hungarian Roma/"Gypsies" Servika Roma = Serbian Roma, nowadays mostly known as Slovačika Roma = Slovakian Roma Both used to name themselves as Kherutne Roma = Roma with the houses in contrast with the nomadic Vlaxs who came to Hungary later. Even all Romungre used to be nomadic before forceful settlement of the Roma directed by the Austria-Hungary. Now we will go back to the history. Originally the ancestors of the Ungrika Roma and Servika Roma were called the Pajibano which meant "those who wander" or "wanderers" or ...

Is there only one God or more gods in the Romani Faith? And who is the God of the Romani People?   In Romani language we have various dialects and sub-dialects. We call God Devla Del Devel Debel Devl Dol Dél Dejl Džejl Devloro Mostly we have Devla or Del In some dialects also exist a word for Goddess Devľi Devleisa Develkija In other Indic (Indo-Aryan) languages God is Dev or Deva and Goddes is Devi or Debi. In Dravidian language Malayalam is God Daivam (m with bindu over is almost not heard), Goddess is Devataviya. If we call on God in the Romani language "Oh God!" we say "Devlale!" in many dialects, this seems to be plural and in fact it should be "oh Gods!", same as we use in "Romale" (Oh Roma people) or in "Čhavale" (oh boys). In Indic (Indo-Aryan) language Bengali is plural - "Debata" (gods). In Dravidian Malayalam language it´s "Daivannale", -le is used for plural in this language. Why does Romani uses plural i...