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Origin and Dating of the ancient Vedas
Who wrote the Vedas? If Vyasa wrote them, then why is it said that different vedic hymns were authored by different Rishis?
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Vedic Science and Modern Science
One of the biggest assumptions of modern society is that, anything that is being discovered or invented today is being done so for the first time in Human history. In other words, in spite of having the same brain for over two million years, and known history of ancient civilizations for over past 10000 years or so, we assume that only in the last 4-5 centuries did the human beings started thinking scientifically and are doing technological inventions and scientific discoveries.
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Universe or Multiverse?
Do we live in a multiverse, a place (I am calling it place since I dont have any other word for it) where universes are continuosly being born and dying like the bubbles of water?
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The Vedic Concept of God – II
The God described in ancient Hindu texts is the attributeless, opinionless, formless, infinite and timeless supreme consciousness.
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Extraterrestrials in Rigveda
Research article on references to extra terrestrials in the ancient Sanskrit text Rigveda
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Astronomical Dating of the Vedic Age
If you want to get something that you never had before, do something that you had never done before! Let us try to do a simple and straightforward astronomical dating of the actual vedic period.In the ancient vedic culture,...
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The Eternal Cosmos
One of the things that I always love to do when I go on treks to places far away from urban life, free from light pollution, deep inside forests, on top of hills, is to look at the night...
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Vedic Mathematics Simplified-Part 1
In my previous post I had promised to start writing lessons on vedic mathematics and here is the first lesson.
Vedic mathematics contains sutras (formulas) which are simple and straightforward, even though they are based on algebra, these sutras work...
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Vedic Mathematics – Introduction
The Roots of Modern Mathematics were an invention of Ancient Indians
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Gods? Not Really!
This article is about the types of Gods in ancient Hinduism/Vedic culture.As per my understanding here are three categories in terms of what most think to be 33 crore Gods in vedic culture/hinduism.First Category is that of different forms...
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Literature
Sanskrit poem on Ramayana – read in reverse becomes Mahabharata!
A Sanskrit poem about Ramayana when read in reverse direction becomes a poem on Mahabharata!
History
The difference between Itihasa and Puranas
Documentation of ancient Indian history and the historical events of Indian civilization in the form of Itihasa and Puranas - Ramayana and Mahabharata.
Motivation
Online Education should be interactive and innovative – Fun to Learn
For online education to succeed for smaller classses - it should be as interesting as cartoons. Online education cant succeed unless it is more interesting, interactive and innovative than offline schooling.
Linguistics
The Complete List of Dhatus – Sanskrit Root Words and their English meaning
A complete list of all dhatus (root words or verb roots) in Sanskrit dictionary and their meanings with corresponding IPA transliteration.
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History
Takshashila – World’s Oldest University
More than 2700 years back a huge university existed in that ancient India where over 10,500 students from all across the world came for...
Sci-Tech
Grahas are not Planets – Nava Graha is not the same as Nine Planets
The difference between Planets and Grahas. Why are Sun and Moon included in the list of Navagrahas? Isn't it true that Rahu and Ketu do not exist? What about Earth?
Sci-Tech
Place Value, not Zero is most important invention of ancient Indian Mathematicians
The most important contribution of ancient India to mathematics was not zero but the place value system or positional notation system.
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The Sacred Secrets of Ganga
Science behind the mysterious power of Ganges river. The reason why piligrims take the holy water of Ganga to their places and add it to local ponds, wells and lakes across India.