The passages are flowery but fitting for an eclipse, describing the sun as being "pierced" with darkness and gloom and proposing that evil beings had caused the sun's "magic arts to vanish." When you ...

The Rig Vedic hymns were composed over 3,000 years ago, most probably by children of men who migrated into India with horses from Central Asia, and married local women. The hymns mostly reveal the ...

Two copies of this rare work by the eminent philologist and orientalist have been gifted to the renowned research centre by anonymous donors at a time when UoP is celebrating 100 years of teaching of ...

Amid the Rig Veda's meticulously organised Mandalas, Anuvakas, Suktas and Riks, lies mentions of potentially the earliest occurrence of what the modern scientific world identifies as a solar eclipse.

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 ...

A new study challenges the long-held belief that Vedic culture was isolated to India. Research reveals a musical link between the Rig Veda and a 3,000-year-old hymn from the Mediterranean, ...

KOCHI: When Mahakavi Vallathol Narayana Menon translated Ramayana into Malayalam, someone remarked that the poet became deaf due to his work. Vallathol replied, in jest: “I’m going to translate Rig ...

Titled "Soma" after the ambrosial drink of the gods of ancient Hindu scripture Rig Veda, Carsten Höller's art exhibition has opened in Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin and will ...

For centuries, the Vedic civilization has been regarded as unique to India, based deeply in the subcontinent, which helped to give shape to its spiritual, philosophical, and cultural identity. The Rig ...