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ज्योतिष में रत्न — तर्क क्या है, और ठगे कैसे न जाएँ
Ratna shastra has a structure most people never see — stones are matched to a graha's condition in your chart, not to your sign. Here is the reasoning, the classical basis…
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मुहूर्त — ज्योतिष की वह शाखा जो पूरी तरह चुनाव पर खड़ी है
Every other branch reads a moment you did not pick. Muhurta picks the moment. That one difference gives it a structure the rest of jyotisha does not have — and makes it the…
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अपनी कुंडली सचमुच पढ़नी कैसे है
Not what your sign means — how the chart is built. Houses, lords, aspects, and why the same chart looks like three different diagrams depending on who drew it. Enough to…
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उपाय — ग्रंथ वास्तव में क्या बताते हैं, और उसके पीछे का तर्क
The classical remedy literature has a clear internal logic and a clear order of preference — and the remedies it emphasises most are the ones that cost least. Mantra, daan…
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वास्तु के भीतर का सौर तर्क — दिशाएँ वैसी क्यों हैं जैसी हैं
Vastu's directional rules are not arbitrary. Run the sun's actual path over a house at 28° north and the classical prescriptions fall out of the geometry — north-east light…
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दो ज्योतिषी अलग-अलग राशि क्यों बताते हैं
A Western horoscope says you are a Leo and a Vedic astrologer says Cancer. Neither is lying. The gap between them is a real astronomical quantity, it is about 24 degrees…
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आधी रात के बाद जन्म? आपका वार पिछला दिन हो सकता है
In the Vedic calendar the day changes at sunrise, not at midnight. For anyone born between 12am and dawn, that single rule moves their weekday — and with it the vara, the…
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जन्म का ठीक समय पता न हो तो?
The most common question we get, answered plainly — what your birth time actually controls, how wrong you can afford to be, and what an honest chart looks like when the time…
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दान — वह उपाय जो कुछ दे देना है
The best-attested remedy in the whole literature is also the cheapest, and it runs in the opposite direction to everything sold in this market. Dāna is giving the item away.…
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शास्त्र वास्तव में क्या बताते हैं
The classical remedy literature has a handful of categories, and almost every one of them is free. Repetition, giving, fasting, service. The expensive remedies are the recent…
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भाई दूज
The last of the five days is Kārttika śukla Dvitīyā, kept in the aparāhna — the same afternoon window that fixes Dussehra. Here is the rule, the story it carries, the 2026…
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धनतेरस, और प्रदोष का वास्तविक अर्थ
Dhanteras is the thirteenth tithi of the dark half of Kārttika, taken on the day it is present in the pradoṣa — the stretch after sunset. That word does the work, and most…
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दिवाली — लक्ष्मी पूजा, प्रदोष और निशीथ
Diwāli is the new-moon evening of Kārttika, and the pūjā has two windows the texts name — pradoṣa, just after sunset, and niśītha, the middle of the night. Some years only…
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दशहरा — विजयादशमी, और अपराह्न का नियम
Vijayādaśamī is not fixed to sunrise like most tithis. It is fixed to the afternoon — the fourth fifth of the day — and in 2026 that puts it on the same civil day as…
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गणेश चतुर्थी — और वह वास्तव में किस दिन पड़ती है
In 2026 the tithi begins after sunrise on one day and ends before midday on the next, so the ordinary sunrise rule and the rule that actually governs this festival point at…
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गोवर्धन और अन्नकूट
Govardhan Pūjā and the Annakūṭa are kept on Kārttika śukla Pratipadā, the first tithi after the new moon, taken in the morning. In 2026 that tithi does not reach the morning…
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होली और होलिका दहन — प्रदोष, और भद्रा का निषेध
Holikā Dahana is lit on Phālguna pūrṇimā in the pradoṣa, after sunset — unless bhadrā covers that window, which it does whenever the pūrṇimā began that same day, because…
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कृष्ण जन्माष्टमी — और स्मार्त / वैष्णव भेद, स्पष्ट कहा हुआ
Janmāṣṭamī is Bhādrapada kṛṣṇa Aṣṭamī, and the Bhāgavata places the birth at midnight under Rohiṇī. Two traditions read that differently — the smārta rule takes the night…
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महाशिवरात्रि — निशीथ का नियम
Mahā Śivarātri is Phālguna kṛṣṇa Caturdaśī, taken on the night when that tithi covers niśītha — the muhūrta around midnight. The rule is simple and nearly always produces one…
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मकर संक्रांति — सूर्य से बँधा एकमात्र पर्व
A saṅkrānti is the instant the Sun enters a sign. Makara Saṅkrānti is the entry into Capricorn, and because it is an instant, not a tithi, the rule for observing it is about…
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नवरात्रि — नौ रातें, और नवमी किसलिए
The autumn Navrātri runs from the first tithi of Āśvina's bright half to the ninth, and every one of those days is fixed by a stated rule — which tithi has to be present at…
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वे अवसर जो पर्व नहीं हैं — गृह प्रवेश, विवाह, विद्यारंभ, मुंडन, नई दुकान, यात्रा
Housewarming, marriage, a child's first lesson, the first haircut, opening a shop, setting out on a journey — none of these has a fixed day. Each has a muhūrta: a set of…
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रक्षा बंधन — अपराह्न, और भद्रा का निषेध
Rakṣā Bandhan is Śrāvaṇa pūrṇimā in the aparāhna, and bhadrā — the first half of any pūrṇimā — is excluded. Because the two rules overlap so often, the nibandhas give a chain…
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राम नवमी
Rāma Navamī is Caitra śukla Navamī, the last day of the spring Navrātri, and it is the one festival whose rule comes straight from a birth-hour in the epic. Vālmīki puts the…
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अन्नप्राशन — पहला अन्न
Annaprāśana is the sixth-month rite of the first solid food, and it is one of the two saṁskāras — with the first haircut — that families across India still keep in something…
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अन्त्येष्टि — अंतिम संस्कार
Antyeṣṭi — the last sacrifice — is the cremation and the days that follow it. The Gṛhyasūtras and the Ṛgveda's funeral hymns describe it with a tenderness the rest of the…
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चूड़ाकरण — मुंडन, और वह किसका चिह्न था
Cūḍākaraṇa, the mundan, is the first shaving of the child's head, in the first or third year. The Gṛhyasūtras describe it in unusual detail — the direction of the cuts, the…
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गर्भाधान और पुंसवन — जन्म से पूर्व के संस्कार
The classical list of saṁskāras opens with two rites for a child not yet born: Garbhādhāna, at conception, and Puṁsavana, in the early months of pregnancy. Both are described…
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जातकर्म — पहला घंटा
Jātakarma is the fourth saṁskāra and the first performed on the child. The Gṛhyasūtras place it immediately at birth: the father breathes on the child, whispers a mantra for…
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कर्णवेध
Karṇavedha, the piercing of the ears, is done in the first year or the third, and the sūtras give it a few lines. Later writers give it a reason that is unusual for a…
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केशान्त
Keśānta, also called Godāna, is the first cutting of the beard at about sixteen. The sūtras give it a procedure borrowed from the child's tonsure, a gift of a cow, and a vow…
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नामकरण — नाम वास्तव में कैसे चुना जाता था
The naming rite has a day, a rule and a syllable, and all three are older and more specific than the family argument that usually replaces them. The syllable comes from the…
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निष्क्रमण — पहली बार बाहर
Niṣkramaṇa is the child's first outing — carried out of the house to see the Sun, and in some sūtras the Moon, with a mantra addressed to each. It is short, it is domestic…
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पुंसवन
Puṁsavana falls in the third month of pregnancy, and its name means the bringing forth of a male. The rite is a few drops of banyan-shoot juice and a verse. This page gives…
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समावर्तन — अध्ययन से वापसी
Samāvartana — the returning — closed the years of Vedic study. The student bathed, put down the staff and the girdle, put on new clothes, and came home as a snātaka, one who…
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सीमन्तोन्नयन
Sīmantonnayana, the parting of the expectant mother's hair, is performed in the later months of a first pregnancy. Of the three rites before birth it is the only one still…
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विद्यारंभ और उपनयन — अध्ययन का आरंभ
The tradition marks the beginning of learning twice. Vidyārambha, the first letters, is a household rite for a child of about five. Upanayana, the initiation with the sacred…
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वेदारम्भ
Vedārambha is the beginning of Vedic study, and it sits immediately after Upanayana — so close that most authorities perform the two on the same morning and many treat them…
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विद्यारम्भ
Vidyārambha is the beginning of letters — a child of about five, a tray of rice, a finger guided through the first characters. It is not in the old Gṛhya Sūtras at all. Where…
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विवाह — वह कर्म जो ग्रंथ बताते हैं, और वह शादी जो हम करते हैं
Vivāha is the central saṁskāra — the one on which the household, and so every other rite, depends. The Gṛhyasūtras describe it with a completeness they give nothing else: the…
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महाभारत का समीक्षित संस्करण — सैंतालीस वर्ष, और उसने वह भी छापा जो उसने छोड़ा
Between 1919 and 1966 an institute in Pune gathered manuscripts of the Mahābhārata from Kashmir to Kerala, sorted them into families, and constituted a critical text — and…
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प्रक्षेप क्या है, और कोई उसे कैसे पहचाने
Texts copied by hand for two thousand years acquire lines they did not start with. That is not an accusation, it is a property of manuscripts — and scholars have real…
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शिवलिंग का वास्तविक अर्थ
The word is the ordinary Sanskrit term for a mark or sign — the same word logicians use when they say smoke is the sign of fire. How a word meaning "indication" came to be…
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मनुस्मृति — वह वास्तव में क्या है, और उसे "हिंदू विधि" किसने बनाया
One dharma text among a dozen, of the revisable class, with a manuscript history so varied that a critical edition had to be built — and elevated to "the law of the Hindus"…
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सती प्रथा पर वेद वास्तव में क्या कहते हैं
The Rig Vedic verse most often cited to justify sati instructs the widow to rise and return to the living. How one vowel changed a verse about standing up into a verse about…
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श्रुति और स्मृति — वह भेद जो आधे विवाद सुलझा देता है
The tradition sorts its own literature into two classes and treats them differently — and almost every modern argument about "what Hinduism says" ignores that sorting. What…
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तैंतीस कोटि देवता — कोटि का असली अर्थ
The Vedic texts name a small, specific number of devas — and they enumerate them. Where the figure of thirty-three crore came from, and what कोटि actually means.
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चमकम्, अनुवाक 1 — शरीर, टुकड़ा-टुकड़ा माँगा हुआ
The Camakam is the petition that follows the Namakam's propitiation, and its first anuvāka asks for the person: food and its impulse, effort and its reach, thought and will…
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चमकम्, अनुवाक 10 — आयु से गिना हुआ गोधन, और नाम लेकर प्राण
The tenth anuvāka has two halves. The first is a cattle-census by age and sex — embryos, calves, eighteen-month-olds, two-year-olds, two-and-a-half, three, four, and the…
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चमकम्, अनुवाक 11 — संख्याएँ, और अंतिम बारह शब्द
The last anuvāka of the Camakam is arithmetic. The odd numbers from one to thirty-three, each with ca me; then the multiples of four from four to forty-eight, each with ca…
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चमकम्, अनुवाक 2 — पद, क्रोध, महिमा, सत्य, श्रद्धा, क्रीड़ा
The second anuvāka asks for a person's standing: seniority and lordship, anger and wrath, depth and water, victory and greatness, breadth and length, growth; then truth…
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चमकम्, अनुवाक 3 — कल्याण, नीरोगता, अच्छी शय्या, अच्छा दिन
The third anuvāka is the Camakam's request for wellbeing: welfare and joy, the dear and the desired, good-mindedness, the auspicious, the better, the more excellent, fame…
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चमकम्, अनुवाक 4 — अनाज, नाम लेकर
The fourth anuvāka asks for food — first the abstractions (nourishment, sweet speech, milk, sap, ghee, honey, eating together, drinking together, ploughing, rain, victory…
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चमकम्, अनुवाक 5 — पत्थर, मिट्टी, धातु, अग्नि, जल, और पहला "यह ठीक बैठे"
The fifth anuvāka asks for the stuff things are made of: stone and clay, hills and mountains, sand and trees; gold, iron, lead, tin, copper, bronze; fire and water; plants…
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चमकम्, अनुवाक 6 — हर देवता, और हर एक के साथ इंद्र
The sixth anuvāka asks for the gods — and asks for Indra with each of them: Agni and Indra, Soma and Indra, Savitṛ and Indra, Sarasvatī and Indra, Pūṣan, Bṛhaspati, Mitra…
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चमकम्, अनुवाक 7 — सोम के पात्र, नाम लेकर
The seventh anuvāka asks for the soma-rite's cups: the aṁśu and the raśmi, the adābhya and the adhipati, the upāṁśu and the antaryāma; the cup for Indra-and-Vāyu, for…
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चमकम्, अनुवाक 8 — वेदी और उसका सामान
The eighth anuvāka asks for the things a Vedic sacrifice is made of: the firewood and the strewn grass, the altar and the priests' hearths, the ladles and the cups, the…
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चमकम्, अनुवाक 9 — अग्नियाँ, अश्वमेध, और वेद के अपने रूप
The ninth anuvāka moves from things to forms. It asks for fire and the gharma pot and the sun and the breath; for the horse-sacrifice; for earth and sky and the two mothers…
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गणेश अथर्वशीर्ष — शब्द दर शब्द
The Gaṇapati Atharvaśīrṣa is the text recited at nearly every Gaṇeśa pūjā, and the one most people know by sound rather than sense. It is short, late, and unusually explicit…
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गायत्री, शब्द दर शब्द — और वह वास्तव में किससे कही गई है
Twenty-four syllables, one sentence, and one verb that most translations quietly drop. Here is the verse broken into its words, what each one does grammatically, and why the…
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हनुमान चालीसा — हर पंक्ति वास्तव में क्या कह रही है
The Hanumān Chālīsā is probably the most recited text in North India, and a sixteenth-century Awadhi poem by Tulsīdās. It is sung so fast that its content — a catalogue of…
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महामृत्युंजय — बीच का समास, खोलकर
The Mahāmṛtyuñjaya mantra is one verse of the Ṛgveda, addressed to Rudra as Tryambaka, and it is the mantra people turn to in illness. It has one image — a ripe cucumber…
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रुद्रम्, अनुवाक 1 — धनुष, बाण, और पहली प्रार्थना
The first anuvāka of the Namakam is not a litany. It is a petition to Rudra as the archer — to his anger, his arrow, his arms — asking him to unstring the bow, blunt the…
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रुद्रम्, अनुवाक 10 — हमारे बच्चों को, हमारे पशुओं को, हमारे लोगों को हानि मत पहुँचाओ
The tenth anuvāka returns to sentences. It calls Rudra by his names — the blue-red one, the lord of food, the one who is beside every beast — and asks him not to frighten…
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रुद्रम्, अनुवाक 11 — हज़ारों में रुद्र, और अंतिम पंक्ति
The eleventh anuvāka closes the Namakam by multiplying the god. The Rudras are thousands upon thousands — on the earth, in the great sea of the air, in the sky…
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रुद्रम्, अनुवाक 2 — हर स्थान का स्वामी
The second anuvāka begins the litany. Each clause names Rudra as the lord — pati — of some domain: the directions, the animals, the paths, the food, the fields, the forests…
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रुद्रम्, अनुवाक 3 — चोरों का स्वामी
The third anuvāka is the one that surprises a first reader: Rudra is bowed to as the lord of thieves, of highwaymen, of pickpockets, of those who steal by night and those who…
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रुद्रम्, अनुवाक 4 — शिल्प, वर्ग, और कुत्ते
The fourth anuvāka completes the survey of people: the armies and their leaders, the great and the small, the charioteers and the footmen, and then the trades — carpenters…
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रुद्रम्, अनुवाक 5 — आठ नाम, और युग्मों का आरंभ
The fifth anuvāka changes form. Every clause is now namo X-āya ca Y-āya ca — obeisance to X and to Y — two names of Rudra at a time, often opposites: the short and the dwarf…
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रुद्रम्, अनुवाक 6 — ज्येष्ठ और कनिष्ठ, खेत और खलिहान
The sixth anuvāka continues the paired names: Rudra as the eldest and the youngest, the earlier-born and the later, the middle and the unripe, the hindmost and the one at the…
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रुद्रम्, अनुवाक 7 — दुंदुभि, नदियाँ, वर्षा
The seventh anuvāka finishes the warrior and turns to water and weather: Rudra as the drum, the messenger, the sharp-arrowed, the well-armed; then as the one in the road and…
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रुद्रम्, अनुवाक 8 — नमः शिवाय, वह कहाँ बैठता है
The eighth anuvāka is the one the tradition calls the heart of the Rudram, because namaḥ śivāya is in it — as one half of one pair, between "the one who causes welfare" and…
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रुद्रम्, अनुवाक 9 — ऊसर, गोशाला, शय्या, और देवताओं के हृदय
The ninth anuvāka closes the paired litany with the most domestic and the most desolate places in the Rudram: the salt-flat and the long road, the rock and the dwelling, the…
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रुद्रम् — खंडों में, कई पन्नों पर
Śrī Rudram — the Namakam and Camakam — is the longest Vedic text in daily use, the centre of every Rudrābhiṣeka, and the source of the five-syllable mantra. It is two…
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श्री सूक्त — लक्ष्मी का सूक्त, और वह वास्तव में क्या माँगता है
The Śrī Sūkta is the hymn recited at Lakṣmī Pūjā and at every Dīwālī, and it is a khila — an appendix — to the Ṛgveda's fifth maṇḍala. It addresses Śrī and Lakṣmī, at first…
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अग्नि — अग्नि ही वाहक क्यों है
Agni is the first word of the Ṛgveda and the god with the second-largest share of its hymns. He is the fire in the hearth, the fire on the altar, the fire in the sun and the…
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अश्विनौ — वैद्य, और वे कथाएँ जो कोई नहीं दोहराता
The Aśvins are the twin horsemen of the Ṛgveda, the gods' physicians, who come at dawn in a three-wheeled chariot to rescue the drowning, restore the blind, give the old man…
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इंद्र — ऋग्वेद की सबसे बड़ी उपस्थिति, और फिर उनके साथ क्या हुआ
Roughly a quarter of the Ṛgveda is addressed to Indra — more than to any other deity. In later literature he is repeatedly outwitted, humbled and rescued. Both pictures are…
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रुद्र से शिव — एक नाम, बहुत लंबा मार्ग
The Śiva of the temples — the ascetic on Kailāsa, the dancer, the liṅga — is not in the Ṛgveda. What is there is Rudra: the howler, the archer, the god you ask to keep his…
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वरुण — ऋत, और बाँधने वाली व्यवस्था का प्राचीनतम विचार
Varuṇa is the Ṛgveda's moral god — the one who sees every act, binds the liar with his noose, and keeps ṛta, the cosmic and ethical order that the later idea of dharma…
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विष्णु, परतों के आर-पार — तीन पगों से आगे सब कुछ
Viṣṇu has five hymns in the Ṛgveda and one deed: he strode three times and measured out the worlds. From that act — and from an identification with the sacrifice in the…
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जिन खंडों के नाम ऊपर की पट्टी में फीके दिख रहे हैं — — उन पर काम चल रहा है। नाम वहाँ इसलिए हैं कि योजना छिपाई नहीं जा रही; जिस दिन उनमें कुछ लिखा जाएगा, वे अपने आप खुल जाएँगे।