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Cosmic Consciousness And Astronomical Association Of Natarāja 01
By Rupa Bhaty On Wednesday, September 12th, 2018
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Astronomical Association Of Natarāja’s Dance With Apasmara And Agastya

This paper deals with understanding human’s first interaction with time and its relationship with Cosmic Consciousness or Awareness. Significance of stellar readings by early humans, who got connect between the More...

Vedic Vratyas in Indus Seals - 2
By Rekha Rao On Saturday, October 21st, 2017
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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...

By Rekha Rao On Thursday, October 19th, 2017
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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...

By Manasatarangini T On Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015
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Rudra: A Brief Journey through Early Śaiva Thought

[contextly_sidebar id=”bgsTWOzHyBVG1fiSJGPMk6nwzNh6gzBg”]There is a persistent motif of the deva Rudra (Śiva) being originally refused ritual offerings of the yajña to which the other deva-s were entitled. More...

Indra Sabha at Ellora Temple
By Manasatarangini T On Thursday, July 30th, 2015
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The Realm of Indra

Indra is the Indo-Aryan version of the preeminent deity of the ancestral Indo-European pantheon. In the Vedic texts, we see remnants of what might have been an ancient tripartition of this deity, as manifest on More...