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Paul Thieme was awarded the 1988 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for "he added immensely to our knowledge of Vedic and other classical Indian literature and provided a solid foundation to the study of the history of Indian thought".
The leading character, Sankarshana, is a young and dynamic orthodox graduate of Vedic studies, whose career starts as a glorious campaign against the heretic Buddhists, Jains and other antisocial sects.
The hills are notable as the habitat for over 2,000 species of medicinal plants and as the abode of the Vedic sage Agasthya, founder of the Siddhar practitioners of Rasayana herbal medicine, who is often depicted holding a mortar and pestle.
Biblia Impex India (also Aditya Prakashan, named after the Adityas, a group of Vedic solar deities) is a New Delhi publishing company founded by influential Hindu nationalist Sita Ram Goel in 1963.
Chapters include: Natya, The Significance of Siva's Dance, Karanas Presented in Siva's Tandava, Karanas Presented by Vishnu as Krishna, The Vedic Roots of the Concept of The Great Dancer, Nataraja Pictured in literature, Varieties of Nataraja as Described in Silpa Texts, Nataraja Form in Sculpture and Painting, The Nataraja Concept Beyond Indian Frontiers.
During the later stage of Vedic era, when Purana, Vedanta and Itihas (Epics Ramayana and Maha Bharath) literatures emerged the importance of the basic nature elements Agni, Varuna, Vayu and Indra in the literature decreased.
While Saraswati had flown from north to south during Rig Vedic period, the Drishadwati had flown from south to North in Aravalies from pot of Lord Brahma, Pushkar Lake, near Ajmer, to Nangal Chaudhery in South Haryana and took a left turn to reach Satnali to meet Saraswati coming from North to move to Didwana Lake and further south.
Many streams of thought flow from the six Vedic/Hindu schools, Bhakti sects and Tantra Agamic schools into the one ocean of Hinduism, the first of the Dharma religions.
A satsangi from Vadodara, Nathbhakta met Swaminarayan and requested him to send a sadhu to quell the scholars there who were stating the Swaminarayan Sampraday was not Vedic.
They claim descent from the Vedic Saint Gotama, who is also the reputed ancestor of the Sakya clan of Kshatriyas, of whom sprung the great Buddha ; whence, in many countries where his religion flourishes, he is popularly known by his patronymic Gautama.
Philologist Maurice Bloomfield further connected the pair with the two dogs of Yama in Vedic mythology, and saw them as a Germanic counterpart to a more general and widespread Indo-European "Cerberus"-theme.
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Michael Speidel finds similar parallels in the Vedic Rudra and the Roman Mars.
Vedic school of thought prescribes an initiation (Upanayana, a compulsory sanskara or activity for a Hindu living) to all individuals, including women, before the age of 8 or latest by 12.
It was recently inaugurated on the auspicious occasion of Nityananda Tryodshi which falls on 23 February 2013 and the President of India Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the Vedic Cultural Centre of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) on February 24, at Pune.
Followers of Kallaji are developing a university at Nimbahera in Rajasthan to promote vedic learing.
Kari Nayanar was born in a vedic Brahmin family in Thirukkadaiyur, a coastal town located - 15 km north of Karaikal - on the east coast of Tamil Nadu, where there are Amritaghateswarar - Abirami Temple and the ancient Thirukkadaiyur Mayanam temple.
The reader of this book gets a fair glimpse into the cravings (or philosophical enquiries) of the human spirit through ages; the way such enquiries coursed through historic times in ancient Sumeria, Assyria, Egypt, Greece and Israel and later in Europe and Arabia and found its fulfilment in the long course of the development of Vedic thought in Hinduism, in the north and south of India through successive phases of Vedic, non-Vedic, Puranic and Darsanic thought.
The collapse of the old Kshatriya dynasties under the rigorous power politics of Mahapadma Nanda, who is explicitly denigrated as the son of a Shudra, and the support extended to followers of non-Vedic philosophies, all has been described as negative signs in the Puranas, which prophecized Mahapadma Nanda's rise as a mark of Kali Yuga.
Malladi Chandrasekhara Sastry, is a vedic scholar and walking encyclopedia in Astadasha.
In particular, Evola focuses on the idea of war as understood in the Catholic, Persian and Vedic traditions.
There are also the "Four Superlatives" which include the stone statue of Laozi from the Song Dynasty, the Vedic stone statues of Buddha for Three Lives, the holy Islamic tombs and the pray for wind stone inscriptions.
Practicing Nyas has been since Vedic times and is fore runner of Reiki.
Discusses war along with philosophical/religious observations about sacrifice derived from Vedic scripture.
The Purusha in the title of Purusha Sukta refers to the Parama Purusha, Purushottama, Vedic Supreme God Narayana, in his form as the Viraat Purusha (Enormously Huge Being).
Šagarakti-Šuriaš, Šuriaš (a Kassite sun god corresponding to Babylonian Šamaš, and possibly to Vedic Surya) gives me life, (1245–1233 BC short chronology) was the twenty seventh king of the Third or Kassite dynasty of Babylon and ascended the throne early in the month of Nisan.
Ushanas is the name of a Vedic rishi with the patronymic Kāvya (descendant of Kavi, AVŚ 4.29.6), who was later identified as Ushanas Shukra.
Suraj Kund Sunam is a large Sun temple, located to the east of Sunam city (dated to the Vedic period), about 1.5 kilometres (1 mi) away in the tahsil and sub division of the Sangrur District, was destroyed by Timur or Mohammad Ghaznavi.
Thantri or Tantri is the Vedic head priest of Hindu temples in Kerala and a very few temples of coastal Karnataka in southern India.
J. P. Mallory commented on this book: "Edwin Bryant's The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture ... systematically exposes the logical weaknesses of most of the arguments that support the consensus of either side. This is not only an important work in the field of Indo-Aryan studies but a long overdue challenge for scholarly fair play."
Thuravoor Viswambharan - Professor Viswambaran is a well known Vedic Scholar.
Shekhawati - Located are small towns such as Mandawa and Ramgarh with frescoed havelis between 100 years to 300 years old, and Vedic period Dhosi Hill.
The Romaka Siddhanta ("Doctrine of the Romans") and the Paulisa Siddhanta ("Doctrine of Paul") were two works of Western origin which influenced Varahamihir's thought, though this view is controversial as there is much evidence to suggest that it was actually Vedic thought indigenous to India which first influenced Western astrologers and subsequently came back to India reformulated
He gives 150 BCE (Patañjali) as a terminus ante quem for all Vedic Sanskrit literature, and 1200 BCE (the early Iron Age) as terminus post quem for the Atharvaveda.
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The complete corpus of Vedic mantras as collected in Bloomfield's Vedic Concordance (1907) consists of some 89,000 padas (metric feet), of which 72,000 occur in the four Samhitas.
Numerous geometric patterns and symmetries can be observed in a Vedic square some of which can be found in traditional Islamic art.
While the figure of Verethragna is highly complex, parallels have also been drawn between it and (variously) Vedic Indra
#Some members of the Anavil Brahmin community from South Gujarat have Kaushik as a Gotra, especially Anavil Brahmin with the Desai surname, who where tradition local Brahmin rulers in the South Gujarat region since vedic times.
As they were discussing upon their course of action the Pandava princes came across a Brahmin who complained that a deer has taken his Arani1 (The pair of wooden blocks to generate fire by friction) on its antlers and therefore he was not able to light the fire for the performance of Vedic rituals.