The place of Kāma among other Puruṣārthas: A Sanskrit Poetics perspective
[contextly_sidebar id=”n0nsSB1FAhCbgbNefSACsyIXj1SODuV1″] A goalless life is a life gone waste. Traditional Indian knowledge systems have discussed at length about life-goals and brought them together under the over-arching term “puruṣārtha”. Before venturing to understand the meaning of “puruṣārtha”, it is useful to dwell More...
Erotic Sentiment in Indian Temple Sculptures
[contextly_sidebar id=”M2JykoyMl14g7XYo7DKAJS4GdfPnXRen”] Abstract Shringara rasa – the sentiment of erotic love, and first of the nine rasas / navarasas as they are called are the natural states More...
Kamashastram: Origin, Purpose, & Message
[contextly_sidebar id=”4NA3IxyRaC5AAWuq0hNrCUz0I6XVFMLd”] Introduction In Bharatiya Civilization, human life has been divided among four Purusharthas – Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha. Kama is the third More...
Kama and Indic Society
The Hindu view of life is ordered by varna-ashrama dharma and the purusharthas, the four goals of human life. The first gives the context of the community, the second of the stage of life and the third of what the More...
Glory of Lord Kameshwara- VII: Nāsadīya Sūkta
“Nāsadīya-sūkta” is a wonderful hymn which keeps everyone puzzled. Even the scientists of all the countries remain interested to dig deeper into its details. This is the hymn which is contemplated upon even More...
Glory of Lord Kameshwara- VI: Kama Sukta
All the various seers (r̥ṣīs) of Vedas had uniformly realized the one fact that – all the Vedic hymns are actually the hymns for Rudra alone. They realized that it is Bhagawan Rudra alone who adorns various More...
Glory of Lord Kameshwara- V: Nandikēśvara Kāsikā on Maheshvara Sutras
In order to understand Kameshwara Tatwam properly and appreciate it fully, it is mandatory to have the basic understanding of ‘akśaras’ (syllables) and also the knowledge of creation through ‘vāk’ first. More...
Book Review: The Nay Science by Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee
The Nay Science by Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee can be purchased from Amazon. In our growing years, elders waxed eloquent on the Germans enthusiastically learning Sanskrit and our scriptures while we shamelessly More...
Glory of Lord Kameshwara- IV: Creation through Maatrika-s
The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad which is a part of Satapatha Brahmana of Yajur Veda tells us how the Vedas and other scriptures manifested. It says that Vedas (and all scriptures) have sprang forth from the mouth of More...
Glory of Lord Kameshwara- III: Varnamala form of Shiva and Shakti
In entire Hinduism there are only two divine beings that have been hailed as possessing an “akśara” form meaning a form composed of alphabets of the “varṇamālā”. They are Bhagawan Shiva and mother Lalitambika More...