B L Razdan “Karma has a way of catching up with you, especially when you laughed in her face one too many times.” (Jay ...

Three days after Swami Vivekananda’s Chicago speech in 1893, the maiden Ganesh Utsav as conceptualised by Bal Gangadhar Tilak ...

Lord Parshuram, the sixth avatar of Lord Vishnu, is known for repeatedly annihilating the Kshatriya caste. He exclusively ...

Over time, prose started being written. These were known as the Brahmanas and Aranyakas, which were meant to perform large congregational ceremonial rituals related to kingship. Aryanakas (forest ...

Thus, it refers to the practice of chanting specific hymns in front of the Brahmanas (priests) who are invited to partake in a ritual meal during the Shraddha. These hymns are intended to create a ...

These yajnas may have undergone many gradual changes. The changes are evident from the differences in the rules found in the different texts of the Samhitas, Brahmanas and Srauta Sutras. A person who ...

When one reads the royal edicts of Ashoka, one realises that the land was dominated by two schools of thought: the Sramanas, or the monastic orders such as Buddhists and Jains, and the Brahmanas, who ...