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Dwadasha Aditya
By Manasatarangini T On Monday, August 10th, 2015
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The Pantheon of the Indian Saura Tradition

The Indian Saura-mata (or the Hindu sect of the Sun) is an amalgam of two distinct layers [ 1]: 1) The endogenous layer of solar deities going back to the Veda and 2) The neo-morphic layer of Iranic origin which 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...