Thousand-headed is Purusha, thousand-eyed, thousand-footed. He covered the earth on all sides and stood above it the space of ...
India’s cultural and ecological landscape is enriched with sacred groves—patches of forests preserved for centuries by local ...
Author Manu S Pillai dives deep into primary and secondary sources to show the trajectory modern Hindu identity formation followed.
God chooses Bezalel, his assistant Oholiab, and every skilled craftsman that God has found (male or female) (Exodus 31:1-6). Skilled craftsmen, like God, are creative. They, like the Sabbath, are the ...
Warner Bros. Discovery, a category leader in the non-fiction genre, proudly presents the launch of Legends of Shiva with ...
Kerala’s spiritual traditions are deeply intertwined with ancient sciences like Jyothisha (Astrology) and Tantra, practices ...
The practice of untouchability is most visible during the cremation. Again, no pundit would perform the funeral and read Garuda Purana. Yet Dalits themselves perform the rituals and don’t allow the ...
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 ...