While the books written on the Mahabharata and its translations can make up a decent-sized library, it is to Damani’s credit that he has found something new to say about the epic. He started out with the aim of authenticating the events mentioned in the epic by correlating their locations...
During the Mahabharata war, Drona invoked this weapon to use it against the Pandava army but due to the request of Gods and ancestors Drona revoked this weapon because it would completely annihilate the Pandava army who were fighting on the side of righteousness. Summing up : Brahmastra was use...
When William Jones himself started the task of determining the antiquity of Indian history he published the dates of ancient Puranic kings as calculated by the learned Brahmins in his service keeping the base year as the start of the Kaliyuga or the Mahabharata war. The above page is from on...
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Vyasa, you have done great things, you have written entire Mahabharata, you havesegregatedthe Vedas, yet the higher states elude you. You have done great intellectual works, you need devotion. Write about the life of Lord Vishnu & his devotess, it will help the whole world and you as ...
In the Mahabharata (2.8.1-5), this “divine hall” “is not excessively cold, not excessively hot” – constant temperature is a feature of underground buildings. Scholar Bruce Lincoln describes the vara as an “enormous subterranean refuge”.5 ...
Back in the 5th century, Euripides knew of the god Dionysos’ visit to Bactria, where Greeks deported by the Persian king were living – and no doubt making wine – in an area long associated with festive agriculture and behaviour, remarked even by Indian writers in the Mahabhara...