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large body of religious texts originating in ancient India. Composed in Vedic Sanskrit, the texts constitute the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and...

The historical Vedic religion, also called Vedism or Brahmanism, and sometimes ancient Hinduism or Vedic Hinduism, constituted the religious ideas and...

Vedic period, or the Vedic age (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE), is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic...

Vedic Sanskrit, also simply referred as the Vedic language, is the earliest attested form of the Sanskrit and Prakrit languages: members of the Indo-Aryan...

Look up Vedic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vedic may refer to: The Vedas, the oldest preserved Indic texts Vedic Sanskrit, the language of these...

sacred fire (agni), often with mantras. Yajna has been a Vedic tradition, described in a layer of Vedic literature called the Brahmanas, as well as in the Yajurveda...

several Old Indo-Aryan language varieties. The most archaic of these is the Vedic Sanskrit found in the Rigveda, a collection of 1,028 hymns composed between...

the Vedic mantras. Such traditions of Vedic chant are often considered the oldest unbroken oral tradition in existence, the fixation of the Vedic texts...

later Vedic society wherein members were organised into four classes: brahmin, kshatriya, vaishya, and shudra. The administrative machinery in Vedic India...

romanized: jyotiṣa; from jyót 'light, heavenly body') and, more recently, Vedic astrology, is the traditional Hindu system of astrology. It is one of the...

The pitch accent of Vedic Sanskrit, or Vedic accent (Vedic: स्वराः svarāḥ) for brevity, is traditionally divided by Sanskrit grammarians into three qualities...

Differential interference contrast (DIC) microscopy, also called Nomarski interference contrast (NIC) or Nomarski microscopy, is an optical microscopy...

first mentioned in the Rigveda and later in Vedic and post-Vedic texts. It played an important role in the Vedic religion, appearing in all but the fourth...

Vedic religion or Vedic Hinduism may refer to: Historical Vedic religion, the religion of the Indo-Aryans of northern India during the Vedic period Hinduism...

century term Sanātana Dharma (lit. 'eternal dharma'). Vaidika Dharma (lit. 'Vedic dharma') and Arya Dharma are historical endonyms for Hinduism. Hinduism...

Sthapatya Veda (MSV) and Maharishi Vedic Astrology (MVA) services which apply Vedic science to day-to-day living. Vedic science studies the various aspects...

associated with Vedic deity Rudra, Shiva may have non-Vedic roots, evolving as an amalgamation of various older non-Vedic and Vedic deities, including...

Vedic Mathematics is a book written by Indian Shankaracharya Bharati Krishna Tirtha and first published in 1965. It contains a list of mathematical techniques...

ऋच्, "praise" and वेद, "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns (sūktas). It is one of the four sacred canonical Hindu texts...

Vedic metre refers to the poetic metre in the Vedic literature. The study of Vedic metre, along with post-Vedic metre, is part of Chandas, one of the...

Vedic science refers to a pseudoscientific system of knowledge based on the Vedas, a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India. Wikiquote...

Indra (/ˈɪndrə/; Sanskrit: इन्द्र, IPA: [in̪d̪rɐ]) is the Vedic god of weather, considered the king of the devas and the realm of Svarga in Hinduism....

period is the pre-Vedic period, which includes the Indus Valley Civilization and local pre-historic religions. Northern India had the Vedic period with the...

International University, 1993 Vedic Knowledge for Everyone: Maharishi Vedic University, an Introduction, Maharishi Vedic University Press, 1994 ISBN 90-71750-17-5...

Priests of the Vedic religion are officiants of the yajna service. Yajna is an important part of Hinduism, especially the Vedas. Persons trained for the...

sacred texts of Rigveda, the principal text of the historical Vedic religion of the Vedic period (1500–500 BCE). There are 1,028 hymns (sūkta) in the Rigveda...

Vedic University may refer to these universities in India for Vedic studies: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Vedic University in Katni, Madhya Pradesh, India Sri...

"lords" of their respective domains, knowledge and abilities. In later Vedic and post-Vedic texts, the benevolent gods are called Deva, while malevolent Asura...

Kingdom was a Vedic Indo-Aryan tribal union in northern India of the Bharata and Puru tribes. The Kuru kingdom appeared in the Middle Vedic period (c. 1200 –...

Hiranyagarbha. Brahma is frequently identified with the Vedic god Prajapati. During the post-Vedic period, Brahma was a prominent deity and his sect existed;...

Vedic Extensions is a Unicode block containing characters for representing tones and other vedic symbols in Devanagari and other Indic scripts. Related...

Vedic Heritage Portal is an Indian government project initiated at IGNCA, under the Ministry of Culture (India). It provides a portal to communicate messages...

person. They find mention in various Vedic texts. Rishis are believed to have composed hymns of the Vedas. The Post-Vedic tradition of Hinduism regards the...

and traditions, Vedic Rudra, and post-Vedic traditions, accommodating local traditions and Yoga, puja and bhakti. Worship of the Vedic deity Rudra forms...

exercise accompanied by other elements like relaxation. Yoga may have pre-Vedic origins, but it is first attested in the early first millennium BCE. It...

which predates the Vedic religion.[better source needed] The documented history of Indian religions begins with the historical Vedic religion, the religious...

Maharishi Vedic City (MVC) is a city in Jefferson County, Iowa, United States. The population was 277 at the time of the 2020 census. The city was incorporated...

Indian literature, and by the late Vedic period, benevolent supernatural beings are referred to as Deva-Asuras. In post-Vedic Hindu texts, such as the Puranas...

वेदाङ्गानि vedāṅgāni) are six auxiliary disciplines of Vedic studies that developed in Vedic and post-Vedic times. Shiksha (Sanskrit: शिक्षा śikṣā, "instruction...

two people as per Vedic traditions, i.e. what many call marriage, but based on cosmic laws and advanced ancient practices. Under Vedic Hindu traditions...

Infobox tribe is being considered for merging. › The Bharatas were an early Vedic tribe that existed in the latter half of the second millennium B.C.E. The...

A Vedic Word Concordance (Sanskrit: Vaidika-Padānukrama-Koṣa) is a multi-volume concordance of the corpus of Vedic Sanskrit texts. It has been under preparation...

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SS Vedic was an ocean liner for the White Star Line, constructed as a purpose-built immigrant transport ship in an all steerage configuration. Vedic had...

In the Vedic and Hindu religions, Brahman (Sanskrit: ब्रह्मन्; IAST: Brahman) has a "variety of meanings", but in the Upanishads and later Indian philosophies...

with anti-Westernism and the research of intellectuals into an ancient "Vedic" religion of Russia, that paved the way for the rise of Rodnovery and other...

The Temple of the Vedic Planetarium is a modern Hindu temple and planetarium complex under construction since 2009 in Mayapur, West Bengal, India. Serving...

independent of the Vedic corpus. The Vedic and non-Vedic (Tantric) paths are seen as two different approaches to ultimate reality, the Vedic approach based...

millennium BCE. The Śulba Sūtras (literally, "Aphorisms of the Chords" in Vedic Sanskrit) (c. 700–400 BCE) contain the earliest extant verbal expression...

preserved in Sanskrit texts. Vedic learning is specifically the tradition of oral transmission and learning by heart of the Vedic mantras as preserved in the...

rise of various regional non-Vedic religions which fused with one another and with worship of Vishnu. Those popular non-Vedic theistic traditions, particularly...

Vedic Parishad or Parishad ( Sanskrit: परिषद ) was a council of learned Brahmins and scholars in ancient India. It is also known as Brahmasabhā. The Vedic...

Puranic period from the 4th to the 12th century CE saw the rise of post-Vedic religion and the evolution of what R. C. Majumdar calls "synthetic Hinduism...

already a significant non-elite divine figure in early Vedic times. Vishnu rose to prominence in post-Vedic times, and was identified with various local traditions...

republics (Gaṇasaṅgha) and kingdoms (sāmarājya) of the Vedic period in the Indian subcontinent. The Vedic period reaches from the late Bronze Age into the Iron...

"seeker, or ascetic, one who performs acts of austerity". In the early Vedic texts, the term is an epithet for the great rishi sages in association with...

developed as a fusion or synthesis of practices and ideas from the ancient Vedic religion and elements and deities from other local Indian traditions, including...

not known in Indian sources. Vedic period Vedas Bharatas (Vedic tribe) Yadava Janapada Rigvedic rivers Historical Vedic religion List of ancient Indo-Aryan...

"Vedic timeline" may refer to [dubious – discuss] the Vedic period of Indian prehistory (mid-2nd to mid-1st millennium BC) the relative chronology of Vedic...

Upaniṣad, pronounced [ˈupɐniʂɐd]) are Sanskrit texts of the late Vedic and post-Vedic periods that "document the transition from the archaic ritualism...

Vedic Sanskrit is the name given by modern scholarship to the oldest attested descendant of the Proto-Indo-Aryan language. Sanskrit is the language that...

literature such as the Skanda Purana. The Vedic Samhitas never enumerate these rishis by name, although later Vedic texts such as the Brahmanas and Upanisads...

addition to the Vedic scriptures of Hinduism. The language of the Atharvaveda is different from Rigvedic Sanskrit, preserving pre-Vedic Indo-European archaisms...

Bhagavān and Bhagavati. The deities of Hinduism have evolved from the Vedic era (2nd millennium BCE) through the medieval era (first millennium CE)...

between the deities and humans in the Vedic scriptures. The relative importance of Agni declined in the post-Vedic era, as he was internalised and his identity...

Vala (valá-), meaning "enclosure" in Vedic Sanskrit, is a demon mentioned in the Vedas, including the Rigveda and the Atharvaveda. Vala is attributed...

BC, preceding both the Vedic and Iranian cultures which emerged later. The earliest recorded forms of these languages, Vedic Sanskrit and Gathic Avestan...

In the Vedic tradition, soma (Sanskrit: सोम, romanized: soma) is a ritual drink of importance among the early Vedic Indo-Aryans. The Rigveda mentions it...

Proto-Indo-Aryan was very close to Vedic Sanskrit, though some of the later Prakrits retain features that had been lost from Vedic Sanskrit, showing that they...

Dyaus (Vedic Sanskrit: द्यौस्, IAST: Dyáus) or Dyauspitr (Vedic Sanskrit: द्यौष्पितृ, IAST: Dyáuṣpitṛ́) is the Rigvedic sky deity. His consort is Prithvi...

religions, Om serves as a sonic representation of the divine, a standard of Vedic authority and a central aspect of soteriological doctrines and practices...

the Vedic tribes. In Vedic Brahmanical discourse, the term is used to refer to foreigners (anārya-s) who were considered outside the realms of Vedic dharma...

consisting of mantras, hymns, prayers, litanies and benedictions. Parts of Vedic Samhitas constitute the oldest living part of Hindu tradition. Samhita is...

Divine feminine energy. The origins of Kali can be traced to the pre-Vedic and Vedic era goddess worship traditions in the Indian subcontinent. Etymologically...

Hindu rituals after death, including Vedic rituals after death, are ceremonial rituals in Hinduism, one of the samskaras (rite of passage) based on Vedas...

In Indian mathematics, a Vedic square is a variation on a typical 9 × 9 multiplication table where the entry in each cell is the digital root of the product...

on the ideals of Dayananda Saraswati and Arya Samaj. The Dayanand Anglo-Vedic (DAV) education system also comprises colleges offering graduate and post-graduate...

communicated to Vedic sages known as Rishis. The pantheon of this religion focuses on the personification of natural forces, governed by a "Vedic Triad" of...

 'branch') is a Hindu theological school that specializes in learning certain Vedic texts, or else the traditional texts followed by such a school. An individual...

alone, e.g. as the principal guardian of ṛtá "Truth, Order". In the late Vedic texts and the Brahmanas, Mitra is increasingly associated with the light...

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भरद्वाज, IAST: Bharadvāja; also spelled Bharadwaja) was one of the revered Vedic sages (maharishi) in Ancient India. He was a renowned scholar, economist...

date than is generally accepted for the Vedic period, and argue that the Indus Valley civilisation was a Vedic civilisation. In this view, "the Indian...

Aviation Literature Military Maritime Postal Rulers Cyclones Years Ancient Vedic period Anga Vanga Pundra Suhma kingdom Magadha Pradyota Shaishunaga Nanda...

(*an-āryā). In ancient India, the term was used by the Indo-Aryan peoples of the Vedic period and the later Indo-Aryan Khas population in the Himalayas, both as...

published his first book, Human Physiology: Expression of Veda and the Vedic literature. He is president of both Maharishi University of Management (Holland)...

Vaishya (Sanskrit: वैश्य, vaiśya) is one of the four varnas of the Vedic Hindu social order in India. Vaishyas are classed third in the order of Varna...

Kashyapa (Sanskrit: कश्यप, IAST: Kaśyapa) is a revered Vedic sage of Hinduism. He is one of the Saptarishis, the seven ancient sages of the Rigveda. In...

Indian subcontinent, believed to have been practiced before significant Vedic cultural influence. These traditions likely included ancestor worship, nature...

Upanishads Rig vedic Aitareya Kaushitaki Sama vedic Chandogya Kena Yajur vedic Brihadaranyaka Isha Taittiriya Katha Shvetashvatara Maitri Atharva vedic Mundaka...

have many references to Vedic gods and culture. The Tolkaappiyam, 1st century BCE grammar book, mentions non-Vedic, early-Vedic (Indra, Varuna) and Puranic...

and thus one of the most important of all Indo-European mythologies is Vedic mythology, especially the mythology of the Rigveda, the oldest of the Vedas...

Denouncing the idolatry and ritualistic worship, he worked towards reviving Vedic religion. Subsequently, the philosopher and President of India, Sarvepalli...

role underwent a significant transformation from the Vedic to the Puranic periods. In the early Vedic era, Varuna is seen as the god-sovereign, ruling the...

Savitur or Savitar), in Vedic scriptures is an Aditya (i.e., an "offspring" of the Vedic primeval mother goddess Aditi). His name in Vedic Sanskrit connotes...

synthesis of various strands of Indian religious thought, including the Vedic concept of dharma (duty, rightful action); Sankhya-based yoga and jñana...

In Indian vedic astronomy, there are 27 nakshatras, or sectors along the ecliptic. A list of them is first found in the Vedanga Jyotisha, a text dated...

lit. 'most excellent', IAST: Vasiṣṭha) is one of the oldest and revered Vedic rishis or sages, and one of the Saptarishis (seven great Rishis). Vasishtha...

परीक्षित्, IAST: Parīkṣit) was a Kuru king who reigned during the Middle Vedic period (12th–9th centuries BCE). Along with his son and successor, Janamejaya...

Saraswati Lakshmi Parvati Others Vedic deities: Agni Chandra Indra Tridasha Adityas Ashvins Rudras Vasus Post-Vedic: Dashavatara Krishna Rama Ganesha...

day Punjab from Central Asia in several waves of migration. The Vedic Period of the Vedic people in northern India (1500–500 BCE) was marked by the composition...

chairman of the Sri Mayapur Temple of the Vedic Planetarium (TOVP), which is building the world's largest Vedic Hindu Temple in Mayapur, West Bengal, India...

ISBN 978-0-14-341421-6. Retrieved 30 May 2015. Ragozin, Zenaide A. (2005). Vedic India As Embodied Principally in the Rig-veda. Kessinger Publishing. p. 341...

Magadhas are listed along with the Angas, Gandharis and Mujavats as non-Vedic tribes located outside of the Kuru-Panchala cultural sphere. Some scholars...

of most Indian religions. The concept of saṃsāra has roots in the post-Vedic literature; the theory is not discussed in the Vedas themselves. It appears...

Pakthas or Pakhtas was an ancient Vedic Indo-Aryan tribe living in the northern borderlands of South Asia. They are sometimes identified with the Pactyans...

Vedic Sanskrit has a number of linguistic features which are alien to most other Indo-European languages. Prominent examples include: phonologically,...

and other Vedic texts are full of alternative cosmological theories and philosophical questions. To its numerous open-ended questions, the Vedic texts present...

Zoroastrianism. The religion closest to it was the historical Vedic religion that was practiced during the Vedic period. The major deities worshipped were Ahura Mazda...

religion: Zoroastrianism Others: Mesopotamian religion Second Temple Judaism Vedic Hinduism Egyptian religion Greek religion see § Religion Government Monarchy...

The history of Indian astronomy begins with the Vedic period, Lagadha and composition of Vedanga Jyotisha (1400 BCE - 1200 BCE). Astronomical knowledge...

Baghpat was a tehsil within Meerut district. Baraut is home to the Janta Vedic College, which was established as a high school in 1917, turned into a college...

by the Arya Samaj as the Dayanand Anglo Vedic school on 1 June 1886, It was later renamed Dayanand Anglo Vedic (DAV) College after the Hindu leader Dayananda...

Sanskrit and Vedic learning, also called Vedic studies, started in Mithila with the expansion of Vedic and Brahmanic culture eastwards along the Ganges...

the pre-Aryan spiritual traditions were assimilated into the developing Vedic tradition. This cultural milieu shaped the Gandhara Civilisation, which...

Mahajanapadas of ancient India. It emerged as a small state during the Late Vedic period and became (along with Magadha) one of the earliest states to transition...

lineage as the other varnas and hence were a section of society in the Vedic period. On the other hand, it could also represent an attempt to provide...

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Hindu philosophy or Vedic philosophy is the set of philosophical systems that developed in tandem with the first Hindu religious traditions during the...

developed a distinct non-Vedic culture where concepts like Karma, rebirth, and ahimsa originated. According to this view, the Vedic priesthood later adopted...

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Sri Venkateswara Vedic University is a state university located at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India. It was established in 2006 by the Government of Andhra...

worship of these deities at many times do not conform to the common tenets of Vedic traditions, especially in customs of animal sacrifice, the inclusion of...

e.g. Vedic Sanskrit, ca. 600 BCE) by a set of regular phonological transformations. This section summarizes the changes occurring between Vedic Sanskrit...

is one of the puruṣārthas. The concept of dharma appears in the earliest Vedic texts, and its meaning and conceptual scope has evolved over several millennia...

which is identified as Kanyakubja or region around Kannauj. During Late Vedic times (c. 1100–500 BCE), it was one of the most powerful states of ancient...

derived from the Vedic Sanskrit word Ṛtú, a fixed or appointed time, especially the proper time for sacrifice (yajna) or ritual in Vedic religion; this...

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reform orthodox Hinduism in India. He established Gurukula (Vedic schools) which emphasised Vedic values, culture, and Satya (Truth). The schools gave separate...

to control the population after the Vedic ritual drink Soma. The origin of Soma is traced back to the Hindu Vedic texts, where he is the personification...

The Challakere Brothers, M.S.Venugopal and M.S.Srinivasan, are a Vedic Chanting duo originally from Challakere, Karnataka, India. The brothers have been...

knowledge or a teacher of any field of knowledge in Hinduism, particularly the Vedic scriptures, dharma, or Hindu philosophy; in colonial-era literature, the...

creatures", or "lord of all born beings". In the later Vedic texts, Prajapati is a distinct Vedic deity, but whose significance diminishes. Later, the term...

Smarta tradition in the ongoing interaction between the Vedic-Brahmanic tradition and non-Vedic traditions. According to him, a period of consolidation...

Civilization of Central Asia. Bryant, Edwin F. (2001) The quest for the origins of Vedic culture: the Indo-Aryan migration debate Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-513777-4...

widely accepted custom which developed along with Hinduism itself. The Vedic people, whose religion formed the nominal and ideological backbone of the...

hymn 2.23.1 of the 2nd-millennium BCE Rigveda, it is uncertain that the Vedic term referred specifically to Ganesha. The Amarakosha, an early Sanskrit...

Gāyatrī) is the personified form of the Gayatri Mantra, a popular hymn from Vedic texts. She is also known as Savitri, and holds the title of Vedamata ('mother...

class  are a framework for grouping people into classes, first used in Vedic Indian society. It is referred to frequently in the ancient Indian texts...

is a sacred mantra from the Ṛig Veda (Mandala 3.62.10), dedicated to the Vedic deity Savitr. The mantra is attributed to the brahmarshi Vishvamitra. The...

an American author, spiritual practitioner, researcher, and lecturer on Vedic culture (Sanātana Dharma) and philosophy. He is associated with the International...

roughly corresponds with the Punjab and closer regions) (see the map of Early Vedic Period) Anu (in the southwest part of early Āryāvarta) Druhyu (in the north...

Maharishi Vedic Approach to Health (MVAH) (also known as Maharishi Ayurveda or Maharishi Vedic Medicine) is a form of alternative medicine founded in the...

वेद, "knowledge"), is the Veda of melodies and chants. It is an ancient Vedic Sanskrit text, and is one of the sacred scriptures in Hinduism. One of the...

) is a Hindu god whose role underwent a significant transformation from Vedic to Itihasa-Puranic mythology. In the Rigveda, Daksha is an aditya and is...

Brahmana and Aranyaka layers of the Vedas. Every school of Hindu philosophy, Vedic guides for rites of passage, various fields of arts, law, and social ethics...

earliest attested descendant of the Proto-Indo-Aryan language known as Vedic Sanskrit, texts in Classical Sanskrit as well as some mixed and non-standard...

consider a form of animism and ancestor worship with elements of Indo-Iranian (Vedic- or Hindu-like) religion, and as such are considered unique among the people...

other Sanskrit texts of the Vedic religion, was at the confluence of the Saraswati and Drishadvati rivers during the Vedic period. Although the Drishadvati...

Deity puja thus melds Vedic rites with devotion to deity in its ritual form. As with many others aspects of Hinduism, both Vedic puja and devotional deity...

of Odisha, from 1925 through 1960. He is particularly known for his book Vedic Mathematics, being the first Sankaracarya in history to visit the West,...

a sacred string at all times", in the Brāhmaṇya literature (Vedic and ancient post-Vedic). Yajñopavīta, textual evidence suggests, is a medieval and modern...

untenable due to the language of the text which must be later than the late Vedic texts such as the Upanishads, themselves dated a few centuries later, around...

possessors', IAST: Aśvin), also known as the Ashvini Kumaras and Asvinau, are Vedic twin gods, namely Nāsatya (Sanskrit: नासत्य, lit. 'ever true') and Dasra...

the simultaneous emergence of a Vedic and a non-Vedic asceticism. (...) [On Olivelle] Thus, the challenge for old Vedic views consisted of a new theology...

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Vedic University, also known as Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Vedic Vishwavidyalaya (MMYVV), is an accredited, statutory Private university...

(shanthi) in Kerala temples which followed Tantric rituals. So Iyers being Vedic scholars built their own temples in their Agraharams to conduct puja, since...

as the influence of the Brahmanical ideology spread eastwards in post-Vedic times. The Baudhayana Dharmasutra (BDS) 1.1.2.10 (perhaps compiled in the...

which is directly attested as Vedic and Classical Sanskrit, as well as by the Indo-Aryan superstrate in Mitanni. Indeed, Vedic Sanskrit is very close to Proto-Indo-Aryan...

teachings on spiritual progress. Viṣṇu was a minor deity in the historical Vedic religion, to which Vaiṣṇavism has only "a very indirect connection". In...

त्वष्टृ, IAST: Tvaṣṭṛ) or Tvashta (Sanskrit: त्वष्टा, IAST: Tvaṣṭā) is a Vedic Hindu artisan god or fashioner. He is mentioned as an Aditya (sons of goddess...

In the Vamsa Brahmana of Vedic literature, Aupamanyava is listed as a Vedic sage and teacher of the Sama Veda. The patronymic Aupamanyava or "Upmanya"...

śāstra; abbreviated to BPHS) is the most comprehensive extant Śāstra on Vedic natal astrology, in particular the Horā branch (predictive astrology, e...

true nature and liberation is attained. Hindu creationism, also known as Vedic creationism, is a type of religious old Earth creationism. Historian of...

culture, merging with local traditions and developing into the Historical Vedic religion. The Purus went on to survive as a marginal power in Punjab; Witzel...

in Vedic literature such as the Yajurveda as being synonymous with the Saptarishi called Kashyapa, Kurma is most commonly associated in post-Vedic literature...

to the other. The earliest foundations of the kamasutra are found in the Vedic era literature of Hinduism. Vatsyayana acknowledges this heritage in verse...

Trishtubh (Sanskrit: त्रिष्टुभ्, IPA: [tɽɪˈʂʈʊbʱ], IAST: Triṣṭubh) is a Vedic metre of 44 syllables (four padas of eleven syllables each), or any hymn...

be traced back to Vedic times. The background to the Mahābhārata suggests the origin of the epic occurs "after the very early Vedic period" and before...

regional diversity. The historical Vedic religion constituted the religious ideas and practices in the Punjab during the Vedic period (1500–500 BCE), centered...

the gods. Ovid has Orpheus sing the tale in his Metamorphoses. In Hindu (Vedic) astrology, Aquarius is known as Kumbha Rāśi (कुम्भ राशि), representing...

important way of establishing the geography and chronology of the early Vedic period. Rivers with certain identifications stretch from Hindu Kush to the...

Mother Goddess, and one of the most important goddesses in the historical Vedic religion. She is depicted as a stable, fertile, and benevolent presence...

They are the only sources of knowledge of Indian mathematics from the Vedic period. Unique Vedi (fire-altar) shapes were associated with unique gifts...

take place, it must be performed in the presence of Brahmin priests and vedic chanting. Karunanidhi rejected, citing his belief in the Self-Respect Movement...

season of Bonaalu. The temple is dedicated to Peddamma, a village form of Vedic goddess Shachi. This temple is located at Road no.55 of Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad...

tribal traditions. Animal sacrifices were an important part of the ancient Vedic Era in India, and are mentioned in the Vedas as Yajna. Over the period,...

1200 BC, while later Vedic scriptures were composed more eastwards, between the Yamuna and Ganges rivers. The historical Vedic religion constituted the...

century BCE. Initially, it offered young adults four lifelong paths post-vedic initiation: Brahmacharya (student), Gṛhastha (householder), Vanaprastha...

Ushas (Vedic Sanskrit: उषस्, IAST: Uṣás, nominative singular उषास्) is a Vedic goddess of dawn in Hinduism. She repeatedly appears in the Rigvedic hymns...

is the Veda primarily of prose mantras for worship rituals. An ancient Vedic Sanskrit text, it is a compilation of ritual-offering formulas that were...

represent the later sections of the Vedas, and are one of many layers of Vedic texts. The other parts of the Vedas are the Samhitas (benedictions, hymns)...

the vedic period. As mentioned in Sanskrit literature and Buddhist Pali literature during the 6th century BC, the costumes belonging to the Vedic and...

ISKCON New Vedic Cultural Center (NVCC), Sri Sri Radha Vrindavanchandra temple or ISKCON Pune is a Gaudiya Vaishnavism temple situated in Pune, India...

Aṣṭāvakraḥ) is a revered Vedic sage in Hinduism. His maternal grandfather was the Vedic sage Aruni, his parents were both Vedic students at Aruni's school...

Upa-Agamas. The origin and chronology of Agamas is unclear. Some are Vedic and others non-Vedic. Agama traditions include Yoga and Self Realization[clarification...

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goddesses in the Hindu pantheon. Although she does not appear in the earliest Vedic literature, the personification of the term shri—auspiciousness, glory,...

survived as a primary deity in Hinduism longer than most of the original Vedic deities, the worship of Surya declined greatly around the 13th century,...

associated with Vedic ritual practice. The major texts of Kalpa Vedanga are called Kalpa Sutras in Hinduism. The scope of these texts includes Vedic rituals,...

alignment between signs and constellations via corrective systems of Hindu (Vedic)-origin known as ayanamsas (Sanskrit: 'ayana' "movement" + 'aṃśa' "component")...

authors of hymns 1.165 to 1.191 in the Sanskrit text Rigveda and other Vedic literature. Agastya is considered to be the father of Siddha medicine. Agastya...

85 degrees or 12° 51′. But the 28 Nakshatra were chosen at a time when the Vedic month was recognised as having exactly 30 days. In India and China the original...

Junqing Zhao Tingyang Wang Hui Qin Hui Li Zehou India Āstika (orthodox) Vedic philosophy Agastya Aruni Ashtavakra Atri Vashistha Yajnavalkya Mimamsa Jaimini...

Iranian Texts". Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies. 7 (3): 1–115. the Vedic Foundation, Chronology The Vedic Foundation, Introduction Wendy Doniger...

4 Translator: Kim Plofker The Vedic culture developed a sophisticated time keeping methodology and calendars for Vedic rituals, and timekeeping as well...

of several major Janapadas, while the earliest cities date back to the Vedic period. The region was part of several ancient pan−Indian empires, including...

Shiksha is one of the six Vedangas, or limbs of Vedic studies, dealing with phonetics and phonology in Sanskrit. The Sanskrit word IAST: śikṣā (Sanskrit:...

(Sanskrit: वेदी, romanized: Vedī, lit. 'altar') is the sacrificial altar in the Vedic religion. Such altars were an elevated outdoor enclosure, generally strewed...

subcontinent was used since antiquity. Its earlier reference is found in the Vedic period. Armor has been described in religious texts; including the Itihasa...

secular rank." Venerated as the carriers of the Sanskrit language and ancient Vedic culture, the Nambudiris held more power and authority than the kings and...

word Kittung of the Sora people (Savaras). This hypothesis states that the Vedic people as they settled into tribal regions adopted the tribal words and...

nurture fertility. In later Vedic literature, particularly the Brahmanas, Saraswati is increasingly identified with the Vedic goddess of speech, Vac, and...

cognate with Latin deus ("god") and Greek Zeus. While the word for the Vedic spirits and the word for the Zoroastrian entities are etymologically related...

(Sanskrit: केतु, IAST: Ketú) () is the descending (i.e. 'south') lunar node in Vedic, or Hindu astrology. Personified as a deity, Rāhu (, the ascending (i.e...

Upanishadic layer of Vedic literature, even though the older layer of Vedic literature mention such sacrifices unlike the later layer of Vedic literature. Indian...

history of India, introduced by Johannes Bronkhorst. It refers to the non-Vedic political and cultural sphere that developed in the lower Gangetic plains...

of his German ancestors which linked ancient Teutons, Homeric Greeks and Vedic India". According to Bernard Mees, "Of all of the pre-runic symbols, the...

Sagara (Sanskrit: सगर, romanized: Sagara, lit. 'one who is born with poison') is a king of the Suryavamsha dynasty in Hinduism. The son of Bahuka, he ruled...

Thracian Polynesian Cook Islands Rapa Nui Tongan Proto-Indo-Iranian Iranian Vedic Ancestral Pueblo Pueblo II Pueblo III Pueblo IV Roman Cult of Magna Mater...

Chandas (Sanskrit: छन्दः) refers to one of the six Vedangas, or limbs of Vedic studies. It is the study of poetic metres and verse in Sanskrit. This field...

meaning and significance of kingship changed dramatically between the Vedic and Later Vedic period, and underwent further development under the times of the...

emergence of non-Vedic teachings, like Buddhism and Jainism. Buddhism was founded by Gautama Siddhartha (563–483 BCE), who challenged the Vedic idea of a permanent...

are believed to have descended from the first seven Brahmin saints of the Vedic period. A Gotra represents the lineage of an individual saint and a Brahmin’s...

by the Velir chiefs. The rulers patronised multiple religions including vedic religion, Buddhism and Jainism and sponsored some of the earliest Tamil...

 'First Shankaracharya', pronounced [aːd̪i ɕɐŋkɐraːt͡ɕaːrjɐ]), was an Indian Vedic scholar-monk, philosopher, and teacher (acharya) of Advaita Vedanta. He...

in any literature, however, classical Sanskrit texts dating back to the Vedic period mention the "Hundred Thousand Islands" (Lakshadweepa), a generic...

by superficial duality and Gnostic conflict. Lynch directly invoked the Vedic scriptures known as the Upanishads in several of his films and books; in...

Atri or Attri is a Vedic sage, who is credited with composing numerous shlokas to Agni, Indra, and other Vedic deities of Hinduism. Attri is also founded...

to the primordial start of the world through Vishnu, and to the texts of Vedic era with both Sri and Vishnu found in ancient texts of the 1st millennium...

major (āstika) schools of Vedic philosophy—Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Samkhya, Yoga, Mīmāṃsā and Vedanta—and five major non-Vedic or heterodox (nāstika or sramanic)...

chapters, each further divided into four-quarters dealing with both non-Vedic and Vedic language. The work is styled in a similar fashion as Pāṇini's Aṣṭādhyāyī...

generally traced back to the Purusha Sukta hymn of the Rigveda. In the post-Vedic period, the varna division is described in the Mahabharata, Puranas and...

Upanishads, some western scholars have proposed that Samkhya may have non-Vedic origins, developing in ascetic milieus. Proto-Samkhya ideas developed c...

Hastin (हस्तिन्) is a term for 'elephant' used in Vedic texts. Other terms for 'elephant' include Ibha (इभ) and Vārana (वारण). The Rigveda seems to refer...

ancestry and son of her Honolulu office manager, married in a traditional Vedic Hindu wedding. While on Meghan McCain's podcast in 2024, Gabbard mentioned...

[citation needed] In the Aitareya Brahmana, a Vedic text of the early 1st millennium BCE, the nature of the Vedic rituals is compared to "a snake biting its...

other contexts śālā – also spelled calai or salai in South India – means Vedic Gurukulas or a college of higher studies and supported by local population...

major sources of the processes of the Maithil Vivah are the Mantras of the Vedic scriptures. In the Mithila region, there is a separate literature text dedicated...

ancient India were communicated using memorized oral tradition since the Vedic period (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE). In Imperial China during the Tang dynasty...

Tesla's interest in Eastern Science, which led to Tesla studying Hindu and Vedic philosophy for a number of years. Tesla later wrote an article titled "Man's...

Janamejaya (Sanskrit: जनमेजय) was a Kuru king who reigned during the Middle Vedic period. Along with his father and predecessor Parikshit, he played a decisive...

recorded religion practiced by the Punjabi people. The historical Vedic religion of the Vedic period (1500–500 BCE) constituted the religious ideas and practices...

references the Kīkaṭas as a non-Vedic people, descendants of ikshuvaku, and of non-Aryan origin, living on the eastern side to Vedic India, who did not practice...

Wicca. Sidereal (Vedic) astrology shares the same system as Western astrology of linking zodiac signs to elements. In addition, in Vedic thought each of...

Saura is a term which refers to the solar days and months in Vedic era and medieval Indian calendars, to differentiate them from lunar system in the lunisolar...

the intervocalic lateral flap allophone of the voiced retroflex stop in Vedic Sanskrit, which is a phoneme in languages such as Marathi, Konkani, Garhwali...

from the mother's name: Danu. Both danavas and Danu are derived from the Vedic word Da meaning 'to give.' Ananda Coomaraswamy suggests this word connotes...

existence of various Indo-Aryan cultural complexes in the later Vedic period, namely the Vedic culture centered on the Kuru kingdom in the heartland of Aryavarta...

and whose intellect is unattached neither kills nor is bound by actions". Vedic philosophy also teaches that when one's mind is in a state of Ahaṁkāra,...

per scholars of religion, the Tamil deity of Muruga coalesced with the Vedic deity of Skanda Kartikeya over time. He is considered as the patron deity...

[citation needed] Witzel is editor-in-chief of the Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies and the Harvard Oriental Series. Witzel has been president of the...

conquest of the Vedic heartland by the Nanda and Maurya rule deprived the Brahmins of their patrons, threatening the survival of the Vedic ritual tradition...

abbreviated to 'SB') is a part of the Śukla Yajurveda. It is attributed to the Vedic sage Yajnavalkya. Described as the most complete, systematic, and important...

Ministry of Education, for the preservation, conservation and development of Vedic Studies by establishing and supporting Veda Pathshalas. It has around 450...

The Arya Vedic Academy is a private school in Ngara, a suburb of Nairobi, Kenya. It was founded by the Arya Samaj in 1980. As part of its participation...

both Hinduism and Buddhism, the wolf is ridden by gods of protection. In Vedic Hinduism, the wolf is a symbol of the night and the daytime quail must escape...

Buddhism and Jainism), which challenged the religious orthodoxy of the Vedic period. Two of the Mahājanapadas were most probably gaṇasaṅghas (aristocratic...

The university of ancient Taxila was a center of Sanskrit and Vedic learning (gurukula) in Taxila, Ancient India, Now in present-day Punjab, Pakistan...

related to Vedic & Late Vedic periods, and at least six other subsequent cultural and historical periods. Site was abandoned after the vedic period in...

IAST: Paśupati, lit. 'lord of animals') is an epithet of Rudra in the Vedic period and later, a form of the Hindu deity Shiva, in his benign aspect...

depending on the context in which the word is used. Dāsa first appears in Vedic texts from the second millennium BCE. There is no consensus on its origins...

Epic-Puranic royal genealogies Epic-Puranic chronology Śramaṇa Tribal religions Vedic religion Sampradaya (traditions) Shaktism Shaivism Kapalika Pashupata Pratyabhijña...

energy), is Saraswati, the goddess of learning. He is identified with the Vedic creator god, Prajapati. His abode is at Satyaloka. The deity is said to...

BC) Vedic Civilisation (2000–500 BC)  – Ochre Coloured Pottery culture (2000–1600 BC)  – Swat culture (1600–500 BC) Iron Age (1500–200 BC) Vedic Civilisation...

or "Five Tribes". These Vedic tribes included the Anu, Druhyu, Puru, Turvaśa, and Yadu who were prominent in the Early Vedic Era and associated with the...

Light". Before their conversion, the Nuristanis practised an Indo-Iranian (Vedic- or Hindu-like) religion. Non-Muslim religious practices endure in Nuristan...

Hindu temples dedicated to Shiva; and that the Papacy was originally a Vedic Priesthood. While all of these claims are demonstrably false and incompatible...

appearance in the Samhitas, Aranyakas, and Brahmanas, the earliest layers of Vedic literature (2nd millennium BCE), but it is rare. It is not found in ancient...

"Hindu University in US expands Vedic base". Rediff News. 20 November 2007. Retrieved 11 January 2010. "Prez of US vedic univ visits BHU". Times of India...

Punjabi people. The historical Vedic religion constituted the religious ideas and practices in the Punjab during the Vedic period (1500–500 BCE), centered...

Mahabharata. The main temple priests are, as a long-standing tradition, Vedic Dravida Brahmins from Karnataka trained at the Sringeri Sharada Peetham...

Chaturvedi (died 27 February 2020) was an Indian independence activist, Vedic scholar, Indologist, and claimed supercentenarian. At the claimed age of...

comparisons with the historical Vedic religion of Ancient India. Similarities in rituals of Zoroastrianism and the Vedic religion suggest a common origin...

The word avatar does not appear in the Vedic literature; however, it appears in developed forms in post-Vedic literature, and as a noun particularly in...

identified the seal as an early prototype of the Hindu god Shiva (or, his Vedic predecessor, Rudra), who also was known by the title Pashupati ('lord or...

Anavrtti (Sanskrit: अनावृत्ति) is a Vedic term which means – non-return to a body, final emancipation. This word refers to the Jivanmukta. Anavrtti means...

era. The inscriptions are notable for linking the Vedic and Hinduism deities, mentioning some Vedic srauta rituals and of names that provide historical...

Ganesh-Ambika-pūjan. In Vedic astrology, the basic tenet of astrology was integrated with celestial events and thus was born various branches of Vedic astrology and...

romanized: aśvamedha) was a horse sacrifice ritual followed by the Śrauta tradition of Vedic religion. It was used by ancient Indian kings to prove their imperial sovereignty:...

sacrifice. In the early Vedic literature, the concept of karma is also present beyond the realm of rituals or sacrifices. The Vedic language includes terms...

kirtan is known as a kirtankara (or kirtankar, कीर्तनकार). With roots in the Vedic anukirtana tradition, a kirtan is a call-and-response or antiphonal style...

Vac (Sanskrit: वाच्, vāc) is a Vedic goddess who is a personified form of divine speech. She enters into the inspired poets and visionaries, gives expression...

usage in Sanskrit, the term Aditya has been made singular in contrast to Vedic Adityas, and is being used synonymously with Surya, the Sun. The twelve...

contexts of the Vedic passages the dinstiction between ārya and dasyu refers to those who had adopted the Vedic religion, speaking Vedic Sanskrit, and those...

meanings of certain Vedic texts. This tradition is also known as Pūrva-Mīmāṁsā because of its focus on the earlier (pūrva) Vedic texts dealing with ritual...

important prayers Zoroastrianism is dedicated to Asha. Avestan aṣ̌a and its Vedic equivalent ṛtá both derive from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hṛtá- "truth", which...

also make brief reference to Sarama. Early Rig Vedic works do not depict Sarama as a dog, but later Vedic mythologies and interpretations usually do. She...

self-knowledge system. It combines astrology, the Chinese I Ching, Judaic Kabbalah, Vedic philosophy, and modern physics. Human Design was originated by Alan Robert...

list of legendary creatures from Indian folklore, including those from Vedic and Hindu mythology, sorted by their classification or affiliation. Bhramari...

limited by Prana, the vital breath, is called Prājña. There are a few Vedic Mantras which hint at Prājña, the wise and the learned intellectual. and...

Engineering, Applied Sciences, Vedic Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences and Management programs with a strong emphasis on Vedic and Modern Sciences and...

arrival of the Indo-Aryans is called Vedic. By 1000 BCE, the end of the early Vedic period, a large body of Vedic hymns had been consolidated into the...

पुरोहित), in the Hindu context, means chaplain or family priest within the Vedic priesthood. In Thailand and Cambodia, it refers to the royal chaplains....

Performance arts and culture Let Nāṭya (drama and dance) be the fifth vedic scripture. Combined with an epic story, tending to virtue, wealth, joy and...

The Brahmanas (/ˈbrɑːmənəz/; Sanskrit: ब्राह्मणम्, IAST: Brāhmaṇam) are Vedic śruti works attached to the Samhitas (hymns and mantras) of the Rig, Sama...

an author of numerous books and articles. He was instrumental in making Vedic Astrology (Saint Parashar System) or Hindu astrology known and respected...

Yadu, Turvasu, Druhyu, Anu, and Puru. These seem to be the names of five Vedic tribes as described in the Vedas. According to the Mahabharata, Lunar dynasty's...

the northwest, as riding in golden chariots drawn by ruddy horses. In the Vedic mythology, the Maruts act as Indra's companions as a troop of young warriors...

which makes extensive use of squares and circles, has its roots in later Vedic traditions, which also influence the temples' construction and symbolism...

and Atharva Veda) are a large body of Hindu texts originating from the Vedic period in northern India, the Rig Veda being composed c. 1200 BCE, and its...

[need quotation to verify] The Vedic hymns treat it as "limitless, indescribable, absolute principle", thus the Vedic divine is something of a panentheism...

reverence, an "offering of homage" and "adoration" in the Vedic literature and post-Vedic texts such as the Mahabharata. The phrase Namas-te appears...

mantras known from the Indian tradition. However, they are not derived from Vedic mantras, but represent an independent, parallel development. Avestan manthra...

during the second century of the Christian era. Knipe, David M. (2015). Vedic voices: Intimate narratives of a living Andhra tradition. Oxford University...

play an essential role in the Harappan civilisation, in contrast to the Vedic period (1500-500 BCE). The importance of the horse for the Indo-Aryans is...

be found among the subsequent Indo-European languages and myths of the Vedic Indo-Aryans, Latins, Greeks, Phrygians, Messapians, Thracians, Illyrians...

now generally considered to have been inserted at a later date into the Vedic text, possibly as a charter myth. Stephanie Jamison and Joel Brereton, a...

Purana. The late Vedic text Taittiriya Aranyaka (II.10) uses the term in the plural. Therefore, states Kane, that in the later Vedic period at least,...

bringer of disease and death with his arrows, similar to the function of the Vedic god of disease Rudra. He sends a plague (λοιμός) to the Achaeans. Knowing...

sections.[citation needed] The temple complex houses the Glory of India Vedic Cultural Centre, a popular destination for visitors and tourists to learn...

though association with the Vedic Aryans is problematic, since the hoards are found east of the territory of the Vedic Aryans. The Copper Hoard finds...

center of the middle Vedic Period during the reigns of Parikshit and Janamejaya, but declined in importance during the late Vedic period (c. 900 – c. 500...

the 1st millennium BCE that emerged from Kalpa (Vedanga) studies in the Vedic era. The textual corpus of Dharmaśāstra were composed in poetic verse, and...

Всеволод Борисович Иванов; born 1950) is a Russian painter, known for his "Vedic Rus" series of paintings, depicting culture of pre-Christian Russian Slavs...

opposition to the god of glorious majesty Ullr–Ullinn in a similar manner to the Vedic contrast between Varuna and Mitra. The adjective *wōðaz ultimately stems...

Mahabharata are the Vedic mythologies which it borrowed, integrated and re-adapted for its times and its audience. The Brahmana layer of the Vedic literature already...

philosophy specializing in Sanskrit and Vedic studies, the word Advaita itself is from the Vedic era, and the Vedic sage Yajnavalkya (8th or 7th-century...

the ancient Asiatic steppe Andronovo cultures (fl. 1800–1400 BCE) and the Vedic Age. She considers sati to be a largely symbolic double burial or a double...

Jains. Followers of Vedas who worship Brahman, Vishnu or Shiva and other vedic deities are called Hindus. Jainism and Hinduism have many similar characteristic...

Vritra (Sanskrit: वृत्र, lit. 'enveloper', IAST: Vṛtrá, Vedic Sanskrit pronunciation: [ʋr̩.trɐ́]) is a danava in Hinduism. He serves as the personification...

the use of mantras to have begun in India before 1000 BC. By the middle Vedic period (1000 BC to 500 BC) – claims Frits Staal – mantras in Hinduism had...

Vedic period in India. It was made of cotton, wool, and animal skin. After the ceremony, the wedding dress was given to a Brahmin. The study of vedic...

a goddess in Jainism and Buddhism, mentioned in their texts. Like many Vedic goddess-consorts whose names are derived from their husband's name by adding...

lived during the later Vedic period in ancient India. She is mentioned in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad as one of two wives of the Vedic sage Yajnavalkya. In...

attraction for Vedic scholars all over the subcontinent. It is associated with the philosophical text Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. The eminent Vedic scholar Yajnavalkya...

historical Vedic religion that also originated in that era. Some examples include cognates between the Avestan word Ahura ("Ahura Mazda") and the Vedic Sanskrit...

Taittiriya Upanishad (Sanskrit: तैत्तिरीयोपनिषद्, IAST: Taittirīyopaniṣad) is a Vedic era Sanskrit text, embedded as three chapters (adhyāya) of the Yajurveda...

balance has been compared to similar concepts in other cultures such as the Vedic Ṛta, the Avestan Asha (Arta), and the Egyptian Maat. The word Moirai, also...

which a common, unattested proto-Indo-Iranian source may be deduced. When Vedic texts were the oldest surviving evidence of early Indo-European-speaking...

complementary to an "earth mother". "Sky Father" is a direct translation of the Vedic Dyaus Pita, etymologically descended from the same Proto-Indo-European deity...

University. He has published seven books and authored a number of articles on Vedic history, yoga, and the Krishna tradition. In his research engagements, he...

needed] by assuming sunrise at 06:00 am on the vernal equinox, which is the Vedic New Year.[citation needed] Not all of the constellations cross the zenith...

Ashwamedhadatha was a King of Kuru kingdom who reigned during the Middle Vedic period. He is also grandson of King Janamejaya (through his son Shatanika)...

The Salva or Salvi tribe is mentioned in Late Vedic texts (such as the Jaiminiya Brahmana) is a tribe that invaded Kurukshetra and defeated the Kuru kingdom...

Aṅgirāḥ, Sanskrit pronunciation: ['ɐŋɡirɐ:h], rendered Angirā in Hindi) was a Vedic rishi (sage) of Hinduism. He is described in the Rigveda as a teacher of...

a named author and were transmitted through manuscripts, in contrast to Vedic or śruti literature, which is based on a fixed text with no specific author...

depicting clothing of that period, are consistent with the vedic period and the late vedic period. Mauryan period findings include an idol of Mother Goddess...

century. Lopez states that the Buddhist text likely borrowed it from Hindu vedic texts. Other scholars, such as Yijiu Jin, state that the text originated...

[citation needed] The latter possibility would allow comparison to the Vedic Sanskrit Saraṇyū, a character who is abducted in Rigveda 10.17.2. This parallel...

origin of the Aryans. Based on his analysis of Vedic hymns, Avestan passages, Vedic chronology and Vedic calendars, Tilak argued that the North Pole was...

official language. The name "Nepal" is first recorded in texts from the Vedic period of the Indian subcontinent, the era in ancient Nepal when Hinduism...

Postal Science and technology Ancient Stone Age Indus Valley Civilisation Vedic period Mahajanapadas Mauryas Indo-Greek Kingdom Achaemenid conquest of the...

mentioned as the holiest of the rivers. Her stories mainly appear in post-Vedic texts such as the Ramayana, Mahabharata, and the Puranas. The Ramayana describes...

Vedic-era Devas, as well as Mythology, astronomy, and astrology (i.e. the Nakshatras); the third book contains commentaries and instructions on Vedic...

Sanskrit root of the word is prati* whose forms appear more extensively in the Vedic literature, and it means "to go towards, go back, come back, to approach"...

29, 2020. Vallée, Guylaine (March 1, 2020). "What's Your Vedic Astrological Sign?". Birla Vedic Center. Archived from the original on August 7, 2020. Retrieved...

thunder, lightning, and storms, and was called the god of light and sky. In Vedic astrology, Hindu astrologers named the planet after Brihaspati, the religious...

Lakshmi, Radha, Murugan, Rama, Saraswati, Shiva, and Sita. These Gods of Vedic origin are worshipped alongside those of Tamil (Madras) origin. Murugan...

Veda, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 978-8120803923, pp. 23-50 AA MacDonell, Vedic mythology, p. PA19, at Google Books, Oxford University Press, pp. 19-21...

Katyayana (c. 3rd century BCE) was a Sanskrit grammarian, mathematician and Vedic priest who lived in ancient India. According to some legends[citation needed]...

the latest part of the Rigveda. Its composition likely dates to the late Vedic period (1000-500 BCE) or the Early Iron Age (around 1000 BCE). Hymn 1.1...

and rape, which is considered sinful (Paishacha). Scholars state that Vedic-era Hindu texts did not mention dowry or sati, which likely became widespread...

architecture. In the historical Vedic religion, the role of Vishvakarma as the builder of gods is attributed to Tvastar. Vedic Vishvakarman is identified with...

theology. Followers of this tradition believe that Vedic knowledge descends from Brahma. In the Vedic conception, these sampradayas began at the creation...

McCain for that year's presidential election. In 2015, upon the advice of a Vedic scholar, Stallone performed a Hindu Tithi Shradh ritual (done for those...

planet Shukra'—in reference to Shukra, a powerful saint. As appears in Vedic astrology, the Sanskrit name Shukra means 'clear, pure' or 'brightness,...

blood of thousands of animals sacrificed by the King Rantideva. During the Vedic era, the ancient name of Chambal river was Charmanvati, meaning the river...

Saraswati Lakshmi Parvati Others Vedic deities: Agni Chandra Indra Tridasha Adityas Ashvins Rudras Vasus Post-Vedic: Dashavatara Krishna Rama Ganesha...

was Farmington on January 11, 1841, while the most recent was Maharishi Vedic City on July 25, 2001. The largest city by population and by land area is...

Preṣya yoga (Sanskrit: प्रेष्य योग) is a planetary combination in Hindu astrology. A person born with preshya yoga is poor, unhappy and uneducated. He...

bodies of the bride and the groom. The ceremony, rooted in the ancient Vedic religion, is well observed among both Bengali Muslims and Hindus, and is...

oldest attested form of the Vedic Sanskrit had been consolidated into the Rigveda, which formed the canonical basis of the Vedic religion, being transmitted...

literature. He is regarded in Hindu tradition to be one of the Saptarishi (Seven Vedic sages) in the 7th, and the current age of Manvantara. He is a descendant...

ISBN 978-0-14-341421-6. "Budh Mercury". Subrata Chatterjee. "Mercury Budha in Vedic". Northern Lights Vedic. "Nakshatra ruled by Budha". Lochtefeld, James G. (2002). The...

Pushan (Sanskrit: पूषन् , IAST: Pūṣan) is a Hindu Vedic solar deity and one of the Adityas. He is the god of meeting. Pushan is responsible for marriages...

Vedic texts (the other Vedas and Brahmanas), he is described as either stealing Soma from the gods or being its original possessor. In the post-Vedic...

Vedic tradition. Their development reflects a synthesis of Vedic and classical Hindu elements. The characteristics of Yoginis can be found in Vedic and...

between 800 BCE to the start of common era, these texts are connected to the Vedic tradition. The Principal Upanishads, which were composed probably between...

mythology. Haoma has its origins in Indo-Iranian religion and is the cognate of Vedic soma. Both Avestan haoma and Sanskrit soma derived from proto-Indo-Iranian...

Choudhury, Sanghamitra (1 January 2021). Meissner, Richard (ed.). "Ancient Vedic Literature and Human Rights: Resonances and Dissonances". Cogent Social...

of its composition. He states "The Vedic Hymns had been composed before the Varna scheme was implemented. The Vedic society was not organized on the basis...

animistic and non-Vedic form of religion which may have influenced the Āgamas, Vedic and non-Vedic texts which post-date the Vedic texts. The Agamas are...

अनुष्टुभ्, IPA: [ɐnuˈʂʈubʱ]) is a metre and a metrical unit, found in both Vedic and Classical Sanskrit poetry, but with significant differences. By origin...

deity. The fish-saviour later merges with the identity of Brahma in post-Vedic era, and still later, becomes regarded with Vishnu. The legends associated...

Swami Dayanand. He founded, with Gurudatta Vidhyarthi, the Dayanand Anglo-Vedic Schools System (D.A.V.) in Lahore on 1 June 1886, where the first D.A.V...

This is a list of female mystics. Táhirih Bahíyyih Khánum Ásíyih Khánum Alexandra David-Néel author of books on Tibetan Mysticism Khema Yaśodharā Patacara...

"[we have found an] indicative sign", such as the "indicative sign is in a Vedic passage". The term linga also appears in Buddhist and Jaina literature,...

is famed[citation needed] for the Ganga arti, performed to the chants of Vedic hymns. The Gita Temple, Triveni Mata Temple, and the Lakshmi-Narayan Temple...

Buddha (1964). Political and Social Movements in Ancient Panjab (from the Vedic Age Upto [sic] the Maurya Period). M. Banarsidass. Cunningham, Alexander...

"offering flowers in the form of mantra". It comprises four hymns from Vedic sources, and is the final prayer sung at the end of āratīs. The word Mantrapushpanjali...

Brāhmaṇa) is the only Brahmana, a genre of the prose texts describing the Vedic rituals, associated with the Atharvaveda. The text is associated with both...

later age. Similarly, Manu repudiated widow remarriage as unsupported by Vedic hymeneal mantras, a view also echoed in a text attributed to Baudhayana...

for modern society. On caste, he believed that the Kural illustrates how Vedic laws of Manu were against the Sudras and other communities of the Dravidian...

samudra, the vat that holds the Soma. The precise semantic field of the Vedic word is difficult to establish, and has been much debated, in particular...

Mirolyubov, the writer or discoverer of the Book of Veles. Peterburgian Vedic theology is a pantheism in which all the gods are considered hypostases...

Kahoda (Sanskrit: कहोड़) was a Vedic sage in the Mithila Kingdom of the ancient Indian subcontinent. He was an Acharya of Vedas in the Mithila region...

Hindu god of the winds as well as the divine messenger of the gods. In the Vedic scriptures, Vayu is an important deity and is closely associated with Indra...

refers to the traditional Bengali cultural wedding, typically conducted with Vedic (Hindu) rites and rituals native to the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent...

Sanskrit and Vedic learning in Mithila. He patronized Vedic philosophy in his kingdom. The court of King Ugrasena Janaka was a major hub for Vedic scholars...

the Vedic period. The field of Jyotisha deals with ascertaining time, particularly forecasting auspicious dates and times for Vedic rituals. Vedic sacrifices...

sent a carpenter to cut off each of his heads. From the head that chanted Vedic mantras rose the Kapiñjala birds; from the head used for drinking soma rose...

transitions from the Indus Valley Civilisation and Harappan traditions to the Vedic period. During the Chalcolithic phase, the use of copper alongside stone...

regarding its nature are based on possible loanwords, the substratum in Vedic Sanskrit, and some terms recorded in Sumerian cuneiform (such as Meluhha)...

destruction at the time of great dissolution. The earliest known mentions of the Vedic deity Rudra, occur in the Rigveda, where three entire hymns are devoted...

South Asian traditions are subject to scholarly dispute. The Vedic period, named after the Vedic religion of the Indo-Aryans, lasted from c. 1900 to 500 BCE...

Sanskrit literature and pursued Advaita studies. The Pītham runs several vedic schools (pathashalas), maintains libraries and repositories of historic...

Brihaspati (Sanskrit: बृहस्पति, IAST: Bṛhaspati) is a Hindu god. In the ancient Vedic scriptures, Brihaspati is associated with fire, and the word also refers...

In the Vedic religion, Ṛta (/ɹ̩t̪ɐ/; Sanskrit ऋत ṛta "order, rhythm, rule; truth; logos") is the principle of natural order which regulates and coordinates...

language. As such, Old Avestan is quite close in both grammar and lexicon to Vedic Sanskrit, the oldest preserved Indo-Aryan language. This article contains...

money-pot and a club. Originally described as the chief of evil spirits in Vedic-era texts, Kubera acquired the status of a deva (god) only in the Puranas...

meditation". The root of the word is dhi, which, in the earliest layer of Vedic texts, refers to "imaginative vision" and is associated with goddess Saraswati...

traditionally held responsible for solar eclipses and lunar eclipses in Vedic mythology. The name is also used as an attribute of the asuras Rahu and...

The oldest references to the concept of guru are found in the earliest Vedic texts of Hinduism. The guru, and gurukula – a school run by guru, were an...

dating it to c. 3102 BCE. Although the Kurukshetra War is not mentioned in Vedic literature, its prominence in later literature led British Indologist A...

university press. p. 118. "Vajasneyi Madhyandina Samhita Adhyaya – 03". Vedic Heritage (in Sanskrit). Archived from the original on 25 July 2020. Retrieved...

but not entirely predictable from it. The accent is best preserved in Vedic Sanskrit and (in the case of nouns) Ancient Greek, and indirectly attested...

vehicles. Muneeswarar is worshipped in both the orthodox Vedic ways as well as the Non-Vedic ways. The former is based heavily on the Vedas, Agamas and...

Bhakti movement was a revival, reworking, and recontextualisation of ancient Vedic traditions. The Sanskrit word bhakti is derived from the root bhaj, which...

marrying those who belong to their own gotra, or lineage from the same Vedic sage: One should not choose (the bride) from the same gotra or born in the...

Brahmins. The term Vajasaneyi is associated with the Vedic sage Yajnavalkya. The surname of the Vedic sage was Vajasaneyi. Some times Yajnavalkya is also...

interchangeably to describe the cycle of creation and destruction. In post-Vedic texts, the words "yuga" and "age" commonly denote a catur-yuga (pronounced...

but in particular it refers to the 32-syllable verse, derived from the Vedic anuṣṭubh metre, used in the Bhagavad Gita and many other works of classical...

painting, social health, Ayurveda, Yoga, and Vedic literature. He was also the founder of the Swadhyay Mandal - A Vedic Research Institute. Shripad Damodar Satwalekar...

Avestan noun Verethragna, also has an etymological cognate in Vedic Sanskrit – Vrtra. In Vedic literature, Vrtrahan is predominantly an epithet used for Indra...

Kings", are mentioned in the seventh mandala of the Rigveda, a text of Vedic Sanskrit hymns dated between c. 1500 and 1200 BCE: Together came the Pakthas...

बौधायन, Romanised: Baudhāyana) was an ancient Indian mathematician and Vedic sage, believed to have lived around the 8th century BCE. He contributed...

Kripaluji Maharaj. Under his guidance, he practiced sadhana and studied the Vedic scriptures and the Indian and Western systems of philosophy. Since then...

khattiyas were regarded as higher in the societies of Greater Magadha. Vedic literature therefore considered the populations of Greater Magadha as existing...

writing Vedic texts in Sanskrit. Presently used in the Tulu Nadu region by Brahmin communities (Shivalli, Havyaka, & Kota) to document Vedic mantras,...

most ancient layer of Vedic text known for their mantras and benedictions. Other Upanishads are attached to a later layer of Vedic texts such as Brahmanas...

from an animist religion[pages needed] with elements from Indo-Iranian (Vedic- or Hindu-like) religion infused with local variations, to Islam in 1895...

spans from 26°40" in Sagittarius to 10°00" in Capricorn in the sidereal Vedic zodiac. It has 4 quarters (padas), the first one falls in Sagittarius and...

Yajnavalkya or Yagyavalkya (Sanskrit: याज्ञवल्क्य, IAST: Yājñavalkya) is a Hindu Vedic sage prominently mentioned in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (c. 700 BCE)...

Hon. D.Litt. at Manchester University in 1919. In addition to his work on Vedic Sanskrit, he published a number of textbooks on Classical studies, most...

the rights to study the Vedas and perform Vedic rituals along with the Brahmins. The CKP performed three Vedic karmas or duties which in Sanskrit are called:...

belittles rituals, and he banned Vedic animal sacrifices; these strongly suggest that he at least did not look to the Vedic tradition for guidance. Furthermore...

and may refer to: Taurus (astrology), the astrological sign Vṛṣabha, in vedic astrology Taurus (constellation), one of the constellations of the zodiac...

Chhaya or Chaya (Sanskrit: छाया, romanized: Chhāyā, lit. 'shadow' or 'shade'), also known as Savarna, is the Hindu personification and goddess of shadow...

of spiritual liberation, with the concept of soul and Brahman, appear in Vedic texts and Upanishads, such as in verse 4.4.6 of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad...

Nimi (Sanskrit: निमि, romanized: Nimi) is a king of the Suryavamsha (Solar dynasty) featured in Hindu mythology. He is considered to be the first king...

multiple meanings in Indian philosophies depending on the context. In later Vedic texts, māyā connotes a "magic show, an illusion where things appear to be...

further by Greek writers. The history of the Vahika region begins in the Vedic era, where the sons of Yayati established prominent kingdoms and tribes...

Pandit Ganeshwar Shastri Dravid is an Indian Vedic scholar, astrologer, and Sanskrit academic based in Kashi, Uttar Pradesh. He is widely recognised for...

after 600 BCE. The PGW Culture probably corresponds to the middle and late Vedic period, i.e., the Kuru-Panchala kingdom, the first large state in the Indian...

1920. According to Michael Witzel, Uzume is most closely related to the Vedic goddess Ushas (uṣás), a descendant of the Proto-Indo-European goddess Hausos...

Phenomenologically and linguistically, the name connects to the oldest layers of the Vedic tradition and the Indo-European sacred context, which centers around the...

son of Drona. Aruna The charioteer of Surya the Sun God. Aryan Group of Vedic people. Astika Orthodox (of Indian religions/schools of thought). Atman...

associated with the performance of Vedic rituals, which involved storytelling with embedded ethical values. The Vedic traditions integrated rituals with...

Following types of fermented alcoholic beverages are mentioned in various vedic texts including the ayurveda. Madira is the blanket term, including for...

associated with Shiva. They make up eleven of the thirty-three gods in the Vedic pantheon. They are at times identified with the storm deities referred to...

the institution of slavery existed in India during the Vedic period, the association of the Vedic 'Dasa' with 'slaves' is problematic and likely to have...

mentions in Vedic texts, e.g. in the enumeration of the rivers in Rigveda 10.75.05; the order is Ganga, Yamuna, Sarasvati, Sutudri, Parusni. Later Vedic texts...

The ancient Indian philosophy is a fusion of two ancient traditions: the Vedic tradition and the śramaṇa tradition. Indian philosophy begins with the Vedas...

Annavaram village of Andhra Pradesh. At age six, Ganesha began rigorous Vedic studies, mastering the Rigveda under Ratnakara Bhattu at Dwaraka Tirumala...

have an Indo-European connection. Greek Ōkeanós has been compared to the Vedic epithet ā-śáyāna-, predicated of the dragon Vṛtra-, who captured the cows/rivers...

Postal Science and technology Ancient Stone Age Indus Valley Civilisation Vedic period Mahajanapadas Mauryas Indo-Greek Kingdom Achaemenid conquest of the...

for Yajurveda 36.18 VE; For other occurrences of Ahimsa in Vedic literature, see A Vedic Concordance Maurice Bloomfield, Harvard University Press, page...

Brahman. Rejecting the smriti as a base of knowledge, it declares that the Vedic Upanishads are the only acceptable source of truth, infallible revelations...

various stages of evolution of Indian law is classified as that during the Vedic period, the Islamic period, the British period and post independence.[citation...

relationships that lends stability to a religious identity. Shramana is vedic term for seeker or shishya. Identification with and followership of sampradayas...

boundary of the Āryāvarta ie. The extent of Vedic culture around 1500-1200 BCE (Though This Term in later Vedic texts evolved for Whole Indian subcontinent...

oral tradition dating from c. the mid-2nd millennium BC in the form of Vedic Sanskrit. Includes a wide range of modern languages from North India, Eastern...

Thracian Polynesian Cook Islands Rapa Nui Tongan Proto-Indo-Iranian Iranian Vedic Ancestral Pueblo Pueblo II Pueblo III Pueblo IV Roman Cult of Magna Mater...

regarding its nature are based on possible loanwords, the substratum in Vedic Sanskrit, and some terms recorded in Sumerian cuneiform (such as Meluhha)...

and 8th centuries. "Indra's net" is an infinitely-large net owned by the Vedic deva Indra, which hangs over his palace on Mount Meru, the axis mundi of...

some Indologists connect him to the sage Ghora Angirasa mentioned in the Vedic Chandogya Upanishad, who instructed Krishna in the virtues of absolute nonviolence...

ISBN 978-0-9720292-3-0. Kak, Subhash (2018). Romuva and the Vedic Gods of Lithuania. Romuva and the Vedic Gods of Lithuania Ignatow, Gabriel (2007). "Cultural...

Oikonyms in West, Central, South, and Southeast Asia can be grouped according to various components, reflecting common linguistic and cultural histories...

India. The temple is dedicated to Goddess Shitala. According to legend, the Vedic sage Shandilya did penance in the temple. It is also known as Shandilya...

Judaic Leviathan and Rahab, ancient Greek Cetus, Echidna, Hydra and Scylla, Vedic Vritra and Surasa, and the Norse Jörmungandr, etc. The Drachenkampf mytheme...

and Miuro. Mithra, the "first messenger" of Iranian Manichaeans. Both Vedic Mitra and Avestan Mithra derive from an Indo-Iranian common noun *mitra-...

Pathak, Krishna Mani (2022). "The Cosmic World, the Mystical Mind, and the Vedic Concept of Origination". In Pathak, Krishna Mani (ed.). Quietism, Agnosticism...

Shruti octave. In scholarly works on Hinduism, śruti refers to ancient Vedic texts from India. Monier-Williams traces the contextual history of this...

mountain range in southern Haryana, India. It was an important site during the Vedic period. Its rises 345 to 470 meters from the surrounding land and 740 meters...

reject scriptural authority of vedas, puranas, superstition, astrology, vedic priesthood ritualistic practices, and the concept of rebirth, promoting...

shamanic, or spiritual contexts – in the Indian subcontinent since the Vedic period. The earliest known reports regarding the sacred status of cannabis...

India. The oldest generic brand in continuous use, known in India since the Vedic period (c. 1100 BCE to 500 BCE), is the herbal paste known as chyawanprash...

proper (Vedic Sanskrit eka, with regular contraction of /ai/ to [eː]) as opposed to Indo-Iranian or early Iranian (which has *aiva; compare Vedic eva "only")...

homophones. Historically, the title "Maharaja" has been used by kings since Vedic times and also in the second century by the Indo-Greek rulers (such as the...

Origins of Vedic Culture, Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 50–51. ISBN 9780195169478 Bryant, Edwin. The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture, Oxford:...

Shandilya (IAST: Śāṇḍilya, Sanskrit: शाण्डिल्य) was a Vedic Rishi and was the progenitor of the Śāṇḍilya gotra. The name derives from the Sanskrit words...

Sitamarhi district, Bihar, India, which is said to be the birthplace of the Vedic sage, Bodhayan, who created the Baudhayana sutras. The foundation of the...

karmic debts consisting of and signified by these two dynamics. During the Vedic period, brahmacharya practiced by the Brahmins was believed to ensure the...

Sanskrit) is the 18th nakshatra or lunar mansion in Hindu astronomy and Vedic astrology, associated with the stars Antares, σ Sco, and τ Sco in Scorpius...

heaviness of earth-bound labor. This is true of man in general and the [Vedic] Keśin in particular, but the latter has mastered and transformed these...

romanized: Rājasūya, lit. 'king's sacrifice') is a śrauta ritual of the Vedic religion. It is ceremony that marks a consecration of a king. According...

ancient sage Yajnavalkya, but was likely refined by a number of ancient Vedic scholars. The Upanishad forms the last part, that is the fourteenth kānda...

also known as Usanas, and was claimed to have been written during the Vedic period. However, modern historians claim the composition could date as early...

ancient Vedic texts, Brahmanas, and Sutras, as well as in later medieval texts. Some scholars believe that it originated during the Rig-vedic period,...

three tones during the Vedic era. In the general sense svara means tone, and applies to chanting and singing. The basic svaras of Vedic chanting are udatta...

peacefully practising and spreading Vedic thought and the message of the Bhagavad Gita. The philosophy of original Vedic Dharma is the base of this movement...

form by the Gupta period". This earlier dating is supported by its use of Vedic archaisms throughout the text, as well as dynastic lists that conclude before...

Aphrodite's attributes are entirely different from those of both Eos and the Vedic deity Ushas. A number of improbable non-Greek etymologies have also been...

ideology has roots in an era where the fiction in ancient Indian mythology and Vedic antiquity was presumed to be valid. This fiction was used to "give sustenance...

ph2tēr ("Sky Father"). The god is known under this name in the Rigveda (Vedic Sanskrit Dyaus/Dyaus Pita), Latin (compare Jupiter, from Iuppiter, deriving...

The pair has been compared to similar figures found in Greek, Roman and Vedic mythology, and may also be connected to beliefs surrounding the Germanic...

millennium BCE and was followed by the Vedic Civilisation, which extended over much of northern India and Pakistan. The Vedic Period (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE) is...

Iranian religion, which shares a common Proto-Aryan root with the Indian Vedic religion. Ancient Greek religion and the following the Etruscan religion...

particular nasal sound itself, regardless of written representation. In Vedic Sanskrit, the anusvāra (lit. 'after-sound' or 'subordinate sound') was an...

layer of Vedic literature, but its roots sam and kr occur often enough. The word appears in Rig Veda hymns 6.28.4 and 8.33.9, as well as other Vedic texts...

education on Vedic literature. The performance of several elaborate Vedic ceremonies by Madhava Varma is evidence of the faith of the rulers in Vedic Hinduism...

non-Vedic cultural region of Greater Magadha located to the east of the Gaṅgā-Yamunā confluence along with the similarly Greater Magadhan non-Vedic Indo-Aryan...

Spirit-possession, women, and initiation in Vedic India". www.wisdomlib.org. Retrieved 2026-04-29. Singh, Nagendra Kr (1997). Vedic Mythology. APH Publishing. ISBN 978-81-7024-867-5...

factor in the formation of the Vedic civilization. Wilhelm Rau (1972) has examined the references to pottery in Vedic texts like the Black Yajur Veda...

American, Assyrian and Australian Aboriginal cultures, Gregorian chant, Vedic chant, Quran reading, Islamic Dhikr, Baháʼí chants, various Buddhist chants...

marrying those who belong to their own gotra, or lineage from the same Vedic sage: One should not choose (the bride) from the same gotra or born in the...

(Devanagari); Gārgī Vācaknavī (IAST)) was an ancient Hindu sage and philosopher. In Vedic literature, she is honoured as a great natural philosopher, renowned expounder...

when he undergoes the rite of passage that initiates him into a school for Vedic studies. The term also refers to members of the three varnas in the traditional...

Rudra is a Vedic metal band from Singapore formed in 1992. Rudra play a uniquely composed avant garde blend of styles, including, among others, black...

During the early Vedic period of Rigveda, this area was called the Nandigram where rishi Chyavana lived in his ashram. During the later Vedic period of Mahabharta...

Cemetery H culture (c. 1900–1300 BCE) Iron Age India (c. 1800 – c. 200 BCE) Vedic civilization (c. 1700 – c. 600 BCE) Black and red ware culture (c. 1500–700...

(Sanskrit: कपिल) (7th-6th-century BCE), also referred to as Cakradhanus, was a Vedic sage in Hindu tradition, regarded the founder of the Samkhya school of Hindu...

peoples' sect of Akom, such as the Asante) Indra (Vedic, Hindu mythology and Buddhist mythology) Parjanya (Vedic and Hindu mythology) Raja Indainda (Batak mythology)...

language, and in turn removed less than a millennium from its descendants: Vedic Sanskrit (of the Rigveda) and Old Avestan (of the Gathas). It is the ancestor...

most dialects of Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, Baltic languages, Ancient Greek, Vedic Sanskrit, Tlingit, Turkish, Japanese, Limburgish, Norwegian, Swedish, Western...

Vairocana. The vajra has also been associated as the weapon of Indra, the Vedic king of the devas and Svarga. In Hindu mythology, the vajra is depicted...

BCE). According to Scharfe, "his proximity to the Vedic language as found in the Upanishads and Vedic sūtras suggests the 5th or maybe 6th c. B.C." Salatura...

Prayāga in the ancient Vedas. Prayagraj was also known as Kosambi in the late Vedic period, named by the Kuru rulers of Hastinapura, who developed it as their...