The Rig Veda is the collection of ancient Indian Vedic Sanskrit hymns. Of all the tales and anecdotes mentioned in the holy ...

Christians and Jews often see the Hebrew Bible as the world’s oldest book of continuously venerated scripture. But the Bible faces serious competition in this regard from India’s “Rigveda.” The term ...

Astronomers examining the Rig Veda, an ancient Hindu text, identified references to a total solar eclipse dating back approximately 6,000 years, making it the oldest known mention of an eclipse. The ...

The unique creation of Sanskrit was an unparalleled oral tradition far surpassing instead of creating any orthographic system. More or less the same time when the Indo-Aryan language started evolving ...

This afternoon Dr. Ananda K. Coomarasawamy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts will give the first of his series of lectures on "Indian Art and Culture" in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum at ...