Hi, Does Rig veda or any other Vedic scripture mentions about the rituals for the dead? Especially is the custom of keeping a gold\silver leaf or coin over...
For information. Dr S Balachandra Rao is a well-known scholar of early Indian astronomy & mathematics. I have seen most of the titles below and they are...
 Dear Hariharan Parasuramanji, Kindly specify whether you heard about this ritual before cremation or before burial, as both the methods have been given in...
I am more curious to know about this custom before burial. Regards, Hariharan ... cremation or before burial, as both the methods have been given in Veda? ... ...
... I have slightly updated with more ref.s., Durga as Buffalo Slayer has excellent color pictures from south India plus Fairservis quote (Sci. Am., March...
... Yes, it is mentioned in Vedic Sutras. Some of the latter texts prescribe that thin or minute pieces of gold -- not coins! -- should be placed on the two...
 Hi Naga,  You have a point in that the animal does look like a buffalo rather than a bull.  I see four bodies two in the air and two on the ground....
namo namaH, ... Well I can't speak in the context of R^igveda. AFAIK the rituals are followed according one'e suutra. But it is a well known fact that the...
I wonder since we award historians for inventing history? Can we tinker with history to suit out leanings? "Romila Thapar, who created a more "pluralistic...
Dear all, Dr. Vartak had chosen the wrong Parikshita as the sheet anchor for his calculations. Regards, Sunil K. Bhattacharjya ... From: Varadhan Tirumalai...
I have read her "Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas", I believe based on her PhD work, and her "Somanatha: The Many Voices of a History". I have also seen...
... away. With his death, so far as I am able to judge, the field of Apabhramsha studies itself died in India. To my eyes, the situation with Apabhramsha is ...
... wrote: Interesting forward. Despite being a well meaning suggestion, the idea of setting up an Indian Institute of Humanities would in reality be quite ...
Dear all, This email may not be directly related to the topic in hand. But I feel that proper dating of the ancient stalwarts like Shudraka will help us have...
Do you really think that she deserves the award? It does not matter whether she claims to be Marxist or not as her views have exposed her affiliation. Sunil K....
Namaste Ji I am pleased to advise that a Vedic Almanac (Calendar/Panchang) for year 2009 is now available. This calendar will be based upon siddhantic calendar...
(See also the related 2006 article from the Discovery News website on traces of horse domestication in the archaeological record of the Botai culture of...
* *** *Brahatcharanam* is a Iyer Tamil Brahmin<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin> sect <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sect>. The word *brahat* in ...
Another route by which Aryans seem to have gone to South India was by sea – from Indus to Kutch and from there, by sea coast to Saurashtra or Kathiawar. From...
The so-called "Dravidians" have "Sangam literature", just like "Aryans" who have "Sanskrit literature". Like the research conducted by the Indologists on...
... whether she claims to be Marxist or not as her views have exposed her affiliation. ... Whether she is Marxist, capitalist, Hindu, Muslim, Christian or of ...
Her way of writing is simple and good but what about her knowledge? She is very poor in Sanskrit, does not know well about Indian traditions and what is more,...
... Kosambi really did push the envelope especially when you consider that he was much earlier than Thapar. Regards, Paul Kekai Manansala Quests of the Dragon...
Dear Kishoreji, Prof. Thapar said that 'Hotar' in Sanskrit is 'Hotar' in Avestan and she also says that similarly Saraswati in Sanskrit is Harahvati in...
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