People call him Līlā-Puruṣottama , but do they actually understand his pastimes (Līlās) or even know about it.
Ahalyā Indrāvalokana is one the most controversial episodes in hindu mythology. So I decided to present some facts from the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa regarding the incident
The Rāmāyaṇa, national epic of India and several other South East Asian Countries, is one of the largest ancient epics in world literature. Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa consists of nearly 24,000 verses . Traditionalists call it the Ādi-Kāvya(first poem). It is by far the most influential thing that India has ever produced.
The Mahābhārata , the national epic of India and many South East Asian countries, one of the two major Saṃskṛta epics of ancient India, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa, is the longest epic poem known and has been described as “the longest poem ever written”. Its longest version consists of over 1,00,000 śloka or over 2,00,000 individual verse lines (each śloka is a couplet), and long prose passages. At about 1.8 million words in total, the Mahābhārata is roughly ten times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined, or about four times the length of the Rāmāyaṇa. It is the epitome of Indian Literature.
What exactly is the Hindu identity? Is it Sanatan Dharma, like the traditionalists proclaim? Is it a way of life? What is relationship of it with Jain, Bauddha, Sikh? Are they off shoots?
Hindutva and Hindu Nationalism Now this is one of the most if not most mispercieved concepts in contemporary India. Hindutva is “originally: the state or quality of being Hindu; ‘Hinduness’. According to Merriam-Webster’s Encyclopedia of World Religions, Hindutva is a concept of “Indian cultural, national, and religious identity”. The term “conflates a geographically based religious, […]
There’re undoubtedly major differnces in various Indian traditions, but there’re also similar major differences between the denominations considered Hindu.
In this part, I will try to throw some light on the historical development of Hindu Self Identity and its relation with Sikh , Jaina & Bauddha.Slowly, the Indian groups themselves started using the term, Hindu , differentiating themselves and their “traditional ways” from those of the invaders. The historical development of Hindu self-identity within […]
Hinduism in its current form though bereft of many things which were once its part, is still much diverse and nuanced.
Indian Subcontinent/Hindu Civilaztion has been the birthplace of a plethora of different diverse traditions, starting from Antiquity.