There are certain days in the Indian spiritual calendar that feel larger than a festival, days that seem to carry layers of ...

The Puranas provide solutions to the major riddles of mundane life by describing how the world was created and who created it. The Puranas contain myths and genealogies, written in a flowing form like ...

After penning thrillers and a biography on actress Sridevi, author-screenwriter Satyarth Nayak is back with a new book titled 'Mahagatha: 100 Tales from the Puranas'. Here's an interview with the ...

Vedas were composed 3,000 years ago, while the Puranas were composed 1,500 years ago. In between, came the great epics, Ramayana and Mahabharata, after the Vedas, but before the Puranas. The two ...

The Bhavishya Purana, or the chronicle of the future, is the earliest Sanskrit work that reveals some familiarity with West Asian myths. While presented as a prophecy of events that will happen during ...

Expertise in various aspects of Puranas, the Vedas and other components of the Indian knowledge system can be "creditised" by students, according to the new National Credit Framework (NCrF) released ...

The Indian army has “explored epic battles of the Mahabharata” and also the “strategic brilliance” of the “Mauryas, Guptas, and Marathas” that have shaped “India’s rich military heritage” as part of ...

Sangam (Allahabad) With an eye on Ardh Kumbh, which is scheduled to take place at Teerthraj Prayag in 2019, a group of children are honing their skills in Vedas, Puranas, astrology, vastu, slok and ...