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Rudra: A Brief Journey through Early Śaiva Thought
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. ... Read More
Despoiled Gaṅgā as a Metaphor for Loss of Hindu Discernment
With the river Sarasvati going dry the plains watered by the Gaṅgā became the focus of civilization in India. This civilizational phenomenon is philologically mirrored ... Read More
Pāṇini, Xuanzang, and Tolkāppiyaṉ: Some legends and history
Pāṇini stands at the pinnacle of Hindu intellectual achievement. His sūtra-pāṭha may be considered a monument in the same league as the invention of the ... Read More
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) The endogenous layer of solar deities ... Read More
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 ... Read More