Honey was similarly associated with the gods in ancient India. In the 1,028 sacred hymns of the Vedic scriptures dating from 1500 BC, many frequently mention honey (madhu in Sanskrit) and claim that ...

The Bengal Reader is an expansive anthology of Bengali writing in translation to be published in one volume. Ranging from the ...

Sanskrit means ‘perfectly made’. It is a language of extraordinary precision. Sanskrit is one of the oldest recorded languages. It developed a most comprehensive linguistic system very early in ...

The Upanishads are a genre of texts that form the final and last section of the Vedas. The Upanishads were composed orally in Sanskrit, and the earliest surviving ones dating to the 1st millennium BC.

The makers of Balakrishna’s much-awaited film Akhanda 2: Thandavam are leaving no stone unturned to craft a powerful semi-devotional entertainer. In a unique move, the team has enlisted the services ...

There is a beautiful imagery in Sanskrit poetry of a donkey carrying sandalwood on its back not knowing what it is! As far as the donkey is concerned any load is the same as it doesn’t have to do ...

The unique creation of Sanskrit was an unparalleled oral tradition far surpassing instead of creating any orthographic system. More or less the same time when the Indo-Aryan language started evolving ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Indo-Iranian Journal (IIJ), founded in 1957, is a peer-reviewed journal that focuses on the ancient and medieval languages and ...

The BJP-led Centre’s portrayal of Tamil as the oldest Indian language amid its ongoing tussle with Tamil Nadu chief minister M.K. Stalin over the alleged imposition of Hindi does not have any factual ...

Imagine a cricket match played in dhoti-kurta with Sanskrit commentary! On January 6, 2025, Vedic pandits took to the field at Ankur Ground, Bhopal, for the 5th Maharishi Cricket Tournament. 'He lives ...