Yeah, I think this is the gist of it in traditional* practice. * for what it's worth, Hinduism has a lot of heterodox interpretations, and at least historicall

Yeah, I think this is the gist of it in traditional* practice. * for what it's worth, Hinduism has a lot of heterodox interpretations, and at least historically there is large number of variations of it. Modernity (incl' British administration) helped homogenize it partially. I think very loosely, it can be categorized as putting a label on the various collections of folk belief structures popular with the people of south asia formed from the admixture of vedic and pre-vedic practices syncretized together.