To provide such a basis, the present paper is an investigation of the forces behind the formation of the Kuru realm at the end of the gvedic period. The emergence of the Kuru realm is of extraordinary importance as its civilization has influenced later Indian ritual, society and political ...
This therapeutic focus becomes more explicit in later premodern haṭha texts, starting with the 15th -century Haṭhapradīpikā (Birch, 2018a). The early Haṭhayoga texts and Gharote’s definition of health converge primarily on the concept of bodily impurities, referred to as malas, ...
schools were applied totechnology as we can see for a much later period in Dharampal’s book [4].This paper should be read in conjunction with the papers on historyof early Indian science and astronomy by the author [14-18, 22, 23], wherethe relevant Vedic ideas on cosmology are ...
were formulated and enacted from pre-Vedic period onwards. Historically, the origin of dance as a form of entertainment can be traced in the Indus valley period. The findings of archeological excavations from Mohenjo-Daro suggest that dance was very much popular in those days. 'Some of the ...
The Ashvamedha (Sanskrit: asvamedhá) is a horse sacrifice ritual followed by the Srauta tradition of Vedic religion. It was used by ancient Indian kings to prove their imperial sovereignty: a horse accompanied by the king's warriors would be released to
I know too many people who have been in that system and who were told they had attainments, but later realised it was nothing of the sort. If the student doubts his own attainment, what does that say about the method or the teacher? I have no idea whether we will ever see eye-to-...
and Gujarat in particular. Persian contact with India, which in fact, goes back to the Vedic period and is seen in the Achaemenian period (Kamerkar and Dhunjisha, 2002) as well as is mentioned in the Shah Name. Sanjan could well have had an outpost of Zarathushti traders from a ...
His father was a poet and a schoolteacher. Vajpayee did his schooling from the Saraswati Shishu Mandir, Gwalior. Later, he studied at Victoria College, Gwalior – now known as Laxmi Bai College – for his graduation. It was at Dayanand Anglo-Vedic College, Kanpur that Vajpayee completed ...
the laterUpanishads[=oo-PAHN-i-shadz] (composed, ca. 8th-6th centuries BC), which are commentaries on the hymns of theVedasand explanations of Vedic beliefs. In them are found fundamental speculations about right and wrong, the universal order of the universe, and human destiny. ...
the laterUpanishads[=oo-PAHN-i-shadz] (composed, ca. 8th-6th centuries BC), which are commentaries on the hymns of theVedasand explanations of Vedic beliefs. In them are found fundamental speculations about right and wrong, the universal order of the universe, and human destiny. ...