William de Montagu and the Knights of the Garter.William de Montagu helped Edward III throw off the tutelage of his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer. For this he was richly rewarded by the King, made the Earl of Salisbury and appointed Earl Marshal of England for life. Wi...
The merger of priestly and popular traditions is evident in the epics of, Mahabharta, Ramayana and the Purans. This gave rise to what has come to be called Puranic Hinduism (Modern Hinduism), which was in many ways a departure from Vedic Brahmanism. Sanskrit epics, Ramayna and Mahabharta ...