Thousand-headed is Purusha, thousand-eyed, thousand-footed. He covered the earth on all sides and stood above it the space of ...

Jacobsen notes in Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition, the Vedas are barely interested in specific sacred sites. In fact, they are overwhelmingly focused on personal names—of gods, sages and ...

This article explores how Hindu gods transformed from mythic spirits to sacred icons of devotion ... first structured religious system. The Rig Veda, the oldest known Hindu scripture, introduced ...