Satish Verma
Committed to Engineering. Having affairs with Philosophy. Aspiring polymath. https://t.co/OTbpbznkoc
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Women ascetics in काश्यप संहिता In रेवतीकल्प chapter of काश्यप संहिता which is one of the oldest texts on Ayurveda, name of 12 types of women ascetics have been mentioned. Let's l...
Banabhatta while describing the scenes from सूतिकागृह (Maternity home) in Kadambari when the King Tarapida's son was born, also provides important details on religious beliefs asso...
The ones for whom Hinduism is simply a talking point will always have an issue when Hindus decide to act to maintain the sanctity of their sacred spaces. Hinduism plays no role in...
Alice Boner had written a very insightful paper in 1970 titled 'Economic and Organizational Aspects of the Building Operations of the Sun Temple at Konark' which provides an unders...
There is a very common theme which I've observed in Indological studies. If a particular Hindu deity has multiple names and legends associated with them, the Indologists will start...
To err is human and even best of the scholars/Acharya-s are not immune to it. For example, Mallinath who is quite renowned for his commentaries on Kalidasa's works has also erred i...
Birhor tribe is a very small tribe which primarily lives at Hazaribag, Singhbhum and Ranchi districts of Jharkhand. I came across an article in which their funeral custom was discu...
The notion of Sanskrit being a dead language is actually the pet-hypothesis of Sheldon Pollock. In his article 'Death of Sanskrit' published in 2001, he makes it clear that one of...
Thread on महामांस विक्रय (Sale of human flesh): In the हर्षचरित of बाणभट्ट, one of most surprising references which one can find is of महामांस विक्रय and its connection with Mahak...
Rajashekhara makes it clear that there are multiple divisions (देश) of India, the entire region is called 'चक्रवर्ती क्षेत्र'. He also provides the North-South length of India base...
It's not only evidentiary. Sexual relationship in marriage is a conjugal right. Classifying forced sex between a husband and wife as rape means that the conjugal right of sex is nu...
The attempt to locate each and every religious practice of Hindus in Veda-s (Samhita, Brahmana, Aaranyaka and Upanishad) is incorrect at so many levels. The assumption behind such...