According to Vedic astrology, zodiac is not just a system of signs but a cosmic wheel that is well described in Rig Veda by Dirghatmas, one of the Angirasa Rishis, the oldest of the Rishi families, ...

A new study challenges the long-held belief that Vedic culture was isolated to India. Research reveals a musical link between the Rig Veda and a 3,000-year-old hymn from the Mediterranean, ...

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Amid the Rig Veda's meticulously organised Mandalas, Anuvakas, Suktas and Riks, lies mentions of potentially the earliest occurrence of what the modern scientific world identifies as a solar eclipse.

Astronomers studying the Rig Veda, an ancient Hindu text, believe they have discovered the oldest known reference to a solar eclipse, dating back approximately 6,000 years. This finding highlights the ...

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 ...

Certified original copies of the US' Charters of Freedom, a fahua-lid jar from China and Panini's grammar treatise Ashtadhyayi from India are among the historic items displayed at the Bharat Mandapam ...

NEW DELHI: Certified original copies of the US' Charters of Freedom, a 'fahua'-lid jar from China and Panini's grammar treatise "Ashtadhyayi" from India are among the historic items displayed at the ...