印度宗教

印度宗教, 又称为 达摩宗教, 是 东方宗教的一个分支。

随着道教在2.8版本的引入，这些宗教在保留原有联系的情况下增加了与道教的互动,构成了东方宗教的一部分。

达摩宗教都起源于印度，有许多共同的特点。他们分别拥有不同风格的特色，这取决于你选择的宗教。印度教侧重于军事，佛教侧重于科技，耆那教侧重于稳定。

Non-nomadic rulers following Dharmic religions require the Rajas of India DLC to be playable.

Common features

Although historically conflicts did occur (especially resulting in Jainism being routed by Hinduism), in-game, all three religions are relatively tolerant of each other, getting no increased revolt risk in provinces of the other religions and only a minor (-10) relations penalty with rulers of the other religions. Similarly, none of the religions have heresies; instead, different sects of each religion coexist peacefully, with followers of different sects having a small -5 relations penalty. None have formal religious heads, though all have five holy sites. There is no great holy war mechanic. Followers of Indian religions have no modifier for following a female ruler.

Followers of one of the religions may, once in their lifetime, convert by decision to another Indian religion, at the cost of some prestige. This allows the members of a dynasty to switch to the religion whose features are best for their current needs. For example, the founder of a dynasty might practice Hinduism for its military benefits, while successors might adopt Jainism to peacefully govern their realm. You must control a province of the religion in question in order to convert. Characters with the trait cannot convert.

The Indian religions have a Subjugation casus belli, usable on de jure kingdoms held by other Indians. The target must be in the same cultural group to use the CB, which also costs 500 piety (karma or purity) to use. It can only be used once per lifetime, so make certain that you will win before using it.

With Monks and Mystics, each Dharmic religion has its own monastic society, and can also access demonic cults (in the form of a malevolent cult of Kali).

Holy orders can be created by rulers who control all five of their religion's holy sites, or more easily after the year 1100. Holy orders for all three dharmic religions are created automatically if five major cities in India fall.

All Eastern religions can intermarry Zunist and Bön pagans.

All Indian religions allow a feudal ruler to declare themselves the Samrat Chakravartin if they control the entire region of India.

Succession

Jains and Buddhists (but not Hindus) can designate one of their children as heir, regardless of the child's age relative to their siblings. However, the choice cannot override gender law: a ruler with agnatic-cognatic succession and an eligible son cannot designate a daughter.

Feudal rulers are generally restricted to elective gavelkind, gavelkind, primogeniture, and ultimogeniture succession laws. In particular, they can never use seniority succession, and they can only switch to feudal elective with Conclave and full council authority.

These restrictions force most low-tech realms to use gavelkind. However, players have some options that AI rulers don't consider:

• Players with Conclave can voluntarily enact full council authority in order to implement feudal elective succession.
• Players without Conclave can enact ultimogeniture before primogeniture becomes available. If the religion supports heir designation, ultimogeniture is equivalent to primogeniture as long as the ruler has children.
• An education in the Irish Band allows tanistry succession, at the cost of giving up war elephants and use of the subjugation CB.

Like most Christians, Indians can disqualify characters from succession by ordering them to take the vows or by granting them a temple.

种姓系统

印度人物被分为三个种姓，在游戏中以以下特性为标志：

• 婆罗门,神职人员. +0.5善业/月。
• 刹帝利,贵族与士兵. +0.5威望/月.
• 吠舍,工匠与商人. +0.03金钱/月.

（第四种种姓首陀罗（奴隶/仆人）在游戏中不显示）种姓分别对应于宗教（寺庙）、封建（城堡）和城市地产。印度教徒应授予适当种姓的人其种姓所对应的地产。角色只能在其所属种姓内结婚。子女将与父母同属一个种姓，而当父母来自不同种姓时，其子女的种姓将跟随父母所持有的种姓中较低下的一方。

Hindus get a -30 opinion modifier toward characters with a holding that does not match their caste, as well as -30 towards characters married to someone of a different caste. Non-Indians who convert to Hinduism are considered to be casteless untouchables, which gets them a -15 opinion from other Hindus. Hindu characters must be of the Kshatriya caste in order to qualify as commanders.

A decision allows tribal/feudal Hindus to become Kshatriya, at the cost of considerable gold (cut in half if Learning at least 15) and prestige (if a Vaishya or casteless) or 200 karma (if a Brahmin). Hindu patricians have a similar decision to become Vaishya. It is also possible to change a line's caste by seducing a woman of the desired caste and legitimizing the child.

Buddhists and Jains in the Indian subcontinent have castes, but are not bound by the restrictions that Hindus are, nor do they care about characters with the wrong caste. They do receive the minor bonuses granted by the caste traits themselves, however. A character who converts to a non-Indian religion loses their caste trait.

Specific features

印度教

Hindu holy sites.

Hinduism, which emerged from the Vedic religion of the early Indo-Aryans, is today the majority religion of India.

Unlike the other two religions, there is no unified definition of the religious beliefs of Hinduism, no single agreed-upon philosophy, pantheon of gods to be worshiped, or even who a Hindu is or is not. The most consistent and relevant difference is its strict adherence to a caste system that places the Hindu priests (Brahmins) at the top, followed by secular rulers, merchants, commoners, and finally the outcast (literally, "without caste") untouchables.

Historically, the placing of Brahmins at the top of the social order (as opposed to the soldier/military ruler castes) had a calming effect upon what had been in more ancient times a far more violent Indian subcontinent that practiced ceaseless war for empire and slaves. The Brahmins, by fragmenting the power of secular rulers and outlawing slavery, made the Middle Ages relatively more peaceful (although still quite bloody) in India compared to previous centuries.

In-game, the ruling caste for all practical intents is actually the higher class, and it is the most warlike of the three Indian religions, still. It has unrestricted access to the Holy War casus belli, usable on all followers of non-Indian religions. Hindu troops have 30% more morale, making them more durable than troops of other faiths, and Hindus may also raid, similar to pagans. However, Hindus cannot designate a primary heir like the other Indian religions can and, like Buddhists and Jains, they are restricted to gavelkind, ultimogeniture, and primogeniture succession laws.

Overall, the Hindus offer a very warlike playstyle just like pagans. Convert if you plan on going to war outside of India.

Features:

• The most warlike of the dharmic religions
  • Full access to Holy War CB.
  • Units get +0.3 morale.
  • Can raid; sacking non-Hindu temples will increase moral authority.
• Can choose a patron deity
  • Each deity gives +1 to one stat, -1 to another
  • Choosing Kali lets you hold a Kali Puja feast. (Alternatively, holding land in de jure Bengal Empire also allows this feast.)
• Opinion penalty towards characters with the wrong caste for their title or who married the wrong caste.
• Four sects:
  • Smartism gives +0.5 karma (piety) per month.
  • Shaktism gives +20% fertility.
  • Shavism gives +0.5 prestige per month.
  • Vashnavism gives +5 vassal opinion.
• Caste system restricts job opportunities.
  • Hindu rulers may have to rely on inviting characters of the right caste in order to have enough commanders, if they do not have enough holders of castles as vassals (or such holders are female). Similarly, they must match the type of holding being granted with the recipient's caste. This makes landing sons more problematic.
  • Hindu rulers cannot grant sons temples to disqualify them from succession unless said sons are of the caste.
  • Hindu court physicians must be Brahmin.
  • Foreigners who convert are considered casteless, making them ineligible to receive landed titles or marry other Hindus born with a caste.
  • Hindu patricians are also affected by opinion penalties with the wrong caste for their title.
• Holy sites:
  • Varanasi: According to Hindu mythology, Varanasi was founded by Shiva himself. It is also the place where Brahma's decapitated head dissapeared in the ground. Varanasi is therefore considered an extremely holy site.
  • Purang: Location of Lake Manasarovar. Created in the mind of the Lord Brahma, Lake Manasarovar is the personification of purity. One who drinks water from the lake will go to the abode of Shiva after death, cleansed of all his sins committed over even a hundred lifetimes.
  • Mathura: Mathura is believed to be the birthplace of Krishna.
  • Ujjayini: Location of the Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga Temple, one of the holiest shrines dedicated to Shiva.
  • Dvaraka: Dvaraka was the sacred city where Krishna lived in 16,108 palaces for his 16,108 queens. The opulent city disappeared into the sea at the time of Krishna's departure from the world. A second city also named Dvaraka (Dwarka) replaced it on the shore as an important site of pilgrimage.
    • Varanasi, Purang, Mathura, Ujjayini are important Silk Road counties.

佛教

Buddhist holy sites.

Buddhism developed from the teachings of Siddartha Gautama, the Buddha, who lived in the 6th century BCE.

Karma is a central concept to Buddhism. It is the "debt" that people incur between themselves and the rest of creation (one way or the other), which guides their reincarnation and passage through the Wheel of Life. After death, souls are reincarnated somewhere else in the Wheel of Life as either a human or animal on Earth, or in one of many heavens or hells, according to what karma they carry. Even being born, one has a karmic debt relation to one's parents, to be paid off by paying for funeral rights for one's parents, and bearing children to bear your own.

Buddhism's central doctrines are the Four Noble Truths, and the Noble Eightfold Path. The Four Noble Truths tell one that all things mortal and physical are transient and ultimately unfulfilling, leading to only suffering. The Noble Eightfold Path (which is the fourth of the Four Noble Truths) teaches the way to spiritual enlightenment, and release from worldly desires (which generate karma which bind people to the Wheel of Life). Buddhism teaches these offer an escape from suffering by acknowledging all these karma debts to become completely detached from worldly bindings, and therefore, detached from the Wheel of Life.

Strictly speaking, the in-game actions of conquest for physical territory, conflict, and status measured in gold and territory are all anathema to Buddhist teachings, although obviously not without historical precedent for actual rulers who at least nominally followed the religion.

Buddhists may be considered a hybrid of Hindus and Jainists. Like Jains, Buddhist rulers can designate any of their legitimate children as the primary heir and have no short reign penalty. They lack the Jain bonus to vassal opinion and demesne limit, but do not have as severe restrictions on violent behavior (Buddhists can duel rivals without penalty, go on tiger hunts, etc.) Their troops do not have the Hindu morale bonus, but Buddhist rulers have an easier time navigating succession crises than their Hindu counterparts.

Overall, Buddhism is the best religion in terms of controlling the player's inheritance.

Features:

• +4 learning.
• If paired with a Tibetan culture, allows Monastic Feudal government, allowing the holding of temples without penalty and the construction of Gompa Monasteries in castles.
• Limited religious wars:
  • Can wage county conquests against infidels. Since Buddhist county conquests vassalize rather than usurp, they can be used to capture infidel claimants or heirs, making them surprisingly useful.
  • Can also wage duchy-level holy wars against infidels, but must spend 250 Karma to do so.
• Moderate stability boosts:
  • No short reign penalty (only if vassal is also Buddhist)
  • No penalty for female rulers.
  • Ability to designate primary heir from among one's children.
• Special ambitions to remove negative traits.
• Three sects: Mahayana, Theravada, and Vajrayana
  • Mahayana gives +5 vassal opinion.
  • Theravada gives +1 learning (in addition to the +4 all Buddhists get)
  • Vajrayana gives +1 health.
• Holy sites:
  • Varanasi: Buddha is believed to have founded Buddhism here around 528 BCE.
  • Lumbini: Lumbini is the place where, according to Buddhist tradition, Queen Mayadevi gave birth to Buddha in 563 BCE.
  • Gaya: This is where the Buddha is said to have reached enlightenment and the most important holy site in Buddhism.
  • Devagiri: Location of the Ajanta Caves, approximately 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments and masterpieces of Buddhist religious art.
  • Bamian: Location of monumental statues of Buddha carved into the side of a cliff. They were dynamited and destroyed in March 2001 by the Taliban.
• Intermarry Mazdans, Taoist, Nestorian, Tengri (in addition to Bön and Zunist)

耆那教

Jain holy sites.

Jainism is an ancient pacifistic religion. Jains believe their religion to be ever-existing, having no origin and end. It is occasionally forgotten by humans and revived by a succession of tirthankara (literally "ford-maker", one who builds a ford across the ocean of rebirth and transmigration). Parshvanatha (c. 877 – c. 777 BCE), the twenty-third tirthankara, is the earliest Jain leader now accepted as a historical figure.

It is from Jainism that the concept of "karma" originates, which they see as pollutants in the soul. The objective of Jainist practice is to further refine and purify one's soul and work against the desires and worldly attachments of karma. A core principle of Jainism is Anēkāntavāda, a belief in the multiplicity of viewpoints, and that conflict is, at its core, a result of misunderstanding and miscommunication, rather than inherent human evil. Jainists are taught to see the truth or falseness of any statement as a complicated multi-faceted probability, based upon one's own point of view compared to others. They are taught to avoid absolutes, as leading down a path of dogmatism and intolerance. (An odd stand-out in a game named after religious dogmatic warfare, and why Jainists lack a Holy War CB of any kind.)

Proper practitioners of Jainism practice Ahimsa, a code of pacifism that protects even animals, and are forbidden from violence for any reason but the least violence necessary for self-defense or defense of another. This extends to diet; Jains are expected to be vegan, and in some cases cannot even eat root vegetables (such as potatoes or onions) due to the uprooting of such vegetables harming soil life.

The game gives Jain rulers serious flexibility compared to these standards. (And historical rulers and militaries were at least nominal practitioners of Jainism in spite of not particularly adhering to non-violence.) +15 vassal opinion gives Jainists long, stable realms no matter how large the empire is. Convert if you have a large, unstable empire.

Features:

• Increased stability:
  • +3 Demesne limit
  • +15 vassal opinion
  • Ability to designate primary heir from among one's children
  • No short reign penalty (only if vassal is also Jain)
• Expectation of non-violence:
  • Strong limitations on Casus Belli! No Holy Wars and no Border Dispute wars; Claim wars (including claims fabricated by the Chancellor), Indian Subjugation wars and Great Conquests are available, as are wars to establish tributaries.
  • No tiger hunts
  • No hunting focus
  • Purity (piety) lost when taking certain event choices
  • +1 purity per month while at peace
• Two sects:
  • Digambara gives +1 Health.
  • Svetambara gives a further +5 vassal opinion.
• Holy sites:
  • Godwad: Location of the Kesariyaji Tirth (the "Main Temple") dedicated to the first Jain Tirthankara, Rishabhadeva.
  • Purang: Mount Ashtapada is the site where the first Jain Tirthankara, Rishabhadeva, attained Moksha (liberation).
  • Rajrappa: Location of Shikharji, the "Venerable Peak of Concentration", where twenty of the twenty-four Jain tirthankaras along with many other monks attained Moksha.
  • Srirangapatna: Location of the White Pond of Shravanabelegola. The Gommateshwara Bahubali statue at Shravanabelagola is one of the most important pilgrimage destinations in Jainism. Chandragupta Maurya is said to have died here in 298 BCE after he became a Jain monk and assumed an ascetic life style.
  • Bhumilka: Location of Mount Girnar. Neminath, the 22nd Tirthankara, became an ascetic after he saw the slaughter of animals for food on his wedding. He renounced all worldly pleasures and came to Mount Girnar where he attained Moksha.

Overview

Unless your realm is located at the western regions of India (where you'll fight Muslims), the main way of waging war in India is through claims. Due to the relative lack of religious conflicts, the eastern region of India is an ideal place to start in 769, as even Ireland and many parts of Europe are seeing conflict between pagans and Catholics, and among warring tribes. The kingdom of Kamarupa controls a number of provinces on the Silk Road, making it an interesting start. See Kamarupa walkthrough for more details.

India itself is a relatively poor subcontinent; temples and castles are more likely to be found than cities. However, given that clergy here act like any other vassal (unlike Catholic clergy), a relatively small realm can still punch pretty hard, compared to a Catholic realm of the same size. Hindu raiders can weaken their neighbours, and enrich themselves at the same time.

Should a feudal ruler following an Indian religion control the entire region of India, they can declare themselves the Samrat Chakravartin, an emperor (Samrat) who is deemed an ideal universal ruler who rules ethically and benevolently over the entire world (Chakravartin). By becoming the Samrat Chakravartin, all Indian kingdoms will de jure belong to one empire, allowing the emperor to increase his levies via the increased de jure modifier.

With patch 2.8, the introduction of the Tibetan Plateau offers new opportunities and challenges, with new raiding cultures (any Tibetan, Nepali) and religions (Bön) to interact with. The Jade Dragon DLC also introduces China and its agent realm, the Western Protectorate, which can affect many factors, including profitability of the Silk Road and the possibility of attacks. In addition, the Mongols may now attack India more easily.

宗教