bharata
Aryas of Aryavarta
There is no doubt that in the Rig Veda, the word Arya is used for benevolent people - the noble person involved in constructive and ... Read More
Who Really got the Divine Mango: Gaṇeśa or Kārthikeya?
We have vast amounts of oral, literary, historic, artistic and cultural traditions in each region – nay each hamlet – of Bhārata. Each aspect in ... Read More
Text as the Metaphoric Body: Incorporation of Tripurā in Saundaryalaharī – IV
The text evolves on the framework of Trika, that the self or Śiva as simultaneously immanent and transcendent, the union of Śiva and Śakti in ... Read More
Text as the Metaphoric Body: Incorporation of Tripurā in Saundaryalaharī – III
The commixture of literary tropes comes to its pinnacle in verse 68. A commentator points out that this verse contains the commixture (saṅkara) of metaphor ... Read More
Text as the Metaphoric Body: Incorporation of Tripurā in Saundaryalaharī – II
The significance and centrality of the divine body in Saundaryalaharī is vivid, particularly in the second part, where the limbs and ornaments of the goddess ... Read More