International Law in Ancient Hindu Indiadoi:10.1163/9789047413400_008Nanda, Ved P
Considering the enormous geographical distance between India and Egypt, ancient Egyptian religion and modern Hinduism have a surprising number of similarities in concepts and practices. This is not to say that other polytheistic religions do not have similarities with each other or with ancient Egypt b...
A recent study of ancient and modern elephants has come up with the unexpected conclusion that the African elephant is pided into two distinct (不同的) species.The discovery was made by researchers at York and Harvard universities when they were examining the genetic relationship between the ancie...
"Do a triangle pose," a teacher says to her third-grade students during one of their bi-weekly...Whylly, Lynn Russo
Even ignoring the fact that its workmanship is typically Thracian – from the southern Balkans, modern Bulgaria – this tells of a more widespread shared belief-system. Contemporary dissatisfaction with the portable religious franchises of Judaeo-Christian-Islamic thinking, and the deeply divisive, unse...
The related wordSattva(found in the Buddhist termBhodisattva, an enlightened one) appears to come from the same root. Sattva is the harmonious, pure uniting principle expressed through the rejection of worldly things, and is one of the three ‘Guna’ or ‘threads of being’ of Hindu belief....
Founder of Mauryan Empire – Chandragupta Maurya Chandragupta’s origins are shrouded in mystery. The Greek sources (which are the oldest) mention him to be of non-warrior lineage. The Hindu sources also say he was a student of Kautilya of humble birth (probably born to a Shudra woman). ...
Living South Asians have low lean tissue mass relative to height, which contributes to their elevated type 2 diabetes susceptibility, particularly when accompanied by obesity. While ongoing lifestyle transitions account for rising obesity, the origins of
At the time of ‘roots’ and ‘sources’, the Chinese worldview reveals in signs of the divine — Shen (神) and subtle, elegant — Miao (妙) evidence of the manifestation of the previously hidden Tao and the birth of meanings and categories of Chinese aesthetics. Their interaction is ...
Even after Champollion broke things open with theLettre à M. Dacierin 1822, crackpot die-hards were still trying to derive Egyptian and its writing from Hebrew and other fantasies -- reminding me of the Hindu nationalists who see alphabet writing in theIndus Valley Script. ...