While Aryan Invasion Theory has been wrongly dismissed as resulting from Western scientific racism, Hindu scholars have also expounded theories on the origin of the invasive Aryans. Dayananda Saraswati, a 19th Century philosopher and founder of a major reform movement in Hinduism, theorised that the...
The Hindu initiation ceremony like the Zoroastrian initiation ceremony is also called a thread ceremony. Hinduism calls the initiate advijasmeaning twice born signifying that the initiate is "born again" into spiritual life. Zoroastrianism uses the termnavjotemeaning new life. The Hindu initiation is...
Indo-Aryan languages - Characteristics of Old Indo-Aryan texts: The most archaic stage of Old Indo-Aryan is represented by the Sanskrit of the Vedas. Modern philologists generally treat the term veda as a noun meaning ‘knowledge.’ According to traditio