Book review: Blue Vanquisher by Manoshi Sinha Rawal
Blue Vanquisher by Manoshi Sinha Rawal is available for purchase from Amazon. “What is right can never be wrong.” – Krishn’s dialogue from The Blue Vanquisher Perhaps because of Krishn’s divinity, his world is the world of the triumph of good over evil, of poetic justice. Manoshi Sinha Rawal’s latest novel, Blue Vanquisher(2017), is More...
River Sarasvati as Eulogised in Rig Veda
Sarasvati is celebrated both as a river deity, as her name and as the goddess of knowledge and ‘vak’-speech personified, is so identified because of her act of “flow”. Etymologically the word sara means More...
Vedic Origins of Yoga: Shvetasvatara, the Vedic Yoga Upanishad
[contextly_sidebar id=”W0wAHjx4633E2jb5Qkc7QggM0W4oMS6L”] In order to provide a better sense of how the Vedic Yoga relates to later classical Yoga, let us look to one of the most important older Upanishads, More...
History of Asana and Exercise in India
In the following article, we will examine the origins of the asana side of Yoga in India, including relative to Vedic teachings. Asana is the aspect of Yoga least detailed in older Vedic and Yogic texts and is the More...
Vratyas in Indus Seals – II
[contextly_sidebar id=”VTTmrwWRaWePenn9p2aLXYbAF0EoGRU1″] The Geographical Migration of Vratyas: The Atharvaveda 15.2 makes a very ambiguous statement: “Of him in the eastern quarter, faith is More...
Vratyas in Indus Seals – I
Abstract Interpreting Indus Seals by deploying the literary sources, social and cultural practices that prevailed in those times, unearths information hidden in the seals. Some of the Indus seals show a peculiar More...
Concepts of Space, Time, and Consciousness in Ancient India- II
[contextly_sidebar id=”2isZ1Toi2R3QndxENDSTvCgGqP8TcKit”] Selected Passages From Yoga-Vasistha (YV) The page numbers given at the end of each passage are from the Venkatesananda (1993) translation. YV More...
Concepts of Space, Time, and Consciousness in Ancient India- I
Introduction Ancient Indian ideas of physics, available to us through a variety of sources, are generally not known in the physics world. Indian astronomer/physicists, starting with a position that sought to unify More...
Indian History in Perspective – 4: India’s Enduring Contributions to Humanity
In the previous part, we had talked about trans-oceanic international trade routes between India and eastern horn of Africa going back to almost 20,000 years, something which is at once mind-boggling, awe-inspiring More...
Maratha Refusal to Dethrone the Mughal
A question is often asked – why did the Marathas, the dominant power of India in the eighteenth century, still continued with the Mughal emperor? Why wasn’t the Mughal dynasty destroyed by the Marathas, More...