Two copies of this rare work by the eminent philologist and orientalist have been gifted to the renowned research centre by anonymous donors at a time when UoP is celebrating 100 years of teaching of ...

The Rig Veda is the foremost of all Sruti literature. It consists of 1,028 hymns with a total of 10,562 lines, which are described, in 10 books. A hymn has three basic parts. The first part is an ...

The passages are flowery but fitting for an eclipse, describing the sun as being "pierced" with darkness and gloom and proposing that evil beings had caused the sun's "magic arts to vanish." When you ...

Mantra means a sound meant to connect the gods outside (deva) to the god inside (atma). Vedic people were convinced the Rishi did not craft these sounds; they ‘saw’ them in the universe and simply ...

Sushma Swaraj cited verses from Quran and Rig Veda, and quoted Guru Nanak Dev at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation meet to denounce terror and their supporters ...

Scientists in California have found one of the earliest proofs that the Vedic culture was not limited to India. The evidence lies in music, as a study has pointed out that a hymn written on the ...

For centuries, the Vedic civilization has been regarded as unique to India, based deeply in the subcontinent, which helped to give shape to its spiritual, philosophical, and cultural identity. The Rig ...