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| Introduction: Sculpture in India was fashioned by unknown artists largely for religious purposes. These sculptors filled the shrines of India's great religious monuments with impressive cult icons in stone, metal, ... [More]
Introduction: Although the vicissitudes of time and climate have spoiled most examples of early painting from India, sacred and secular writings do provide us with fascinating glimpses of this ancient art. Accordin... [More]
| | | Vedanta: After presenting the activist tradition of the Mimamsa, which built up its philosophy on the earliest philosophical ideas about life contained in the Vedas, the heterodox traditions of the Carvakas, J... [More]
Yoga: The Yoga of Patanjali is a meta-psychological technique based upon the philosophy of the Sankhya. Its metaphysics is metapsychology based upon the principle that the outward reality has its roots in t... [More]
| | | Visakhadatta: A curious vagueness besets our knowledge of Visakhadatta, son of the Maharaja Bhaskaradatta or the minister Prthu, grandson of the feudatory Vatecvaradatta. None of these persons are elsewhere known, ... [More]
Shudraka: Shudraka's only existent play presents him as a king, and gives details of his capacities; he was an expert in the Rig Veda, the Sama Veda, mathematics, the arts regarding courtesans, and the science ... [More]
| | | Bakshali Manuscript: In the year 1881 A. D., a farmer in the course of excavation found a manuscript of a work on mathematics, written on birch-bark, at a village called Bakshali near Peshawar. Only about 70 leaves, some ... [More]
Jaina Works: If mathematics played an important part in the religious observances of the ancient Hindus, on account of the precision it gave in the construction of their sacrificial altars, besides providing the m... [More]
| | | Medical Practice: Anatomy
Description of the human anatomy, as it appears in samhitas, is fairly rudimentary. Total number of bones, inclusive of teeth and nails in the body, according to Charaka, is 360, but accordin... [More]
Medical Education: In ancient India, one could become a physician by following any one of the following procedures: he could learn the art and science of it from a teacher by living and working with him in his house ; h... [More]
| | | The Golden Age of the Guptas: The exact origins of the Guptas are somewhat shadowy; indeed, while the word Gupta can be translated as "protect" or "preserve" it can also mean "hidden." But historians ... [More]
Chandragupta and the Rise of the Mauryas: Chandragupta, with the help Chanakya (Kautilya), who is also known as the Indian Machiavelli, destroyed the Nanda rulers of Magadha and established the Mauryan empire. It is said that Chanakya met Cha... [More]
| | | Money, Wages and the Cost of Living: In Vedic times, the unit of value appears to have been the cow, or sometimes the measure of rice; we have no precise knowledge of the exact epoch when gold and other precious materials were adopted a... [More]
State Resources and Monopolies: To compensate for its expenses, the State had to find substantial sources of revenue. These expenses were detailed in a traditional list of eighteen items, and there is no doubt that they were enormou... [More]
| | | Hinduism = Many Gods + Many Castes?: Sanatana Dharma (or Hinduism) is one of the most complex and most misunderstood spiritual/cultural traditions of the world. In this article, I have tried to answer some frequently asked questions (FAQ... [More]
Varna Vyavastha: Class System of Vedic Society: Varna vyavastha (literally the class system) remains one of the most interesting and most debatable topics in the study of Vedic culture. Since the Vedas remain an unraveled mystery even today due to ... [More]
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