The Rig Veda has over a thousand hymns (sukta) that are arranged in ten chapters (mandala). The first and the tenth mandalas have precisely 191 hymns, indicating that the arrangement of hymns is not ...

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 ...

The mantras of the Rig Veda reveal how the first Hindus engaged with the unknown So the Rig Veda is a collection of over a thousand finely crafted hymns (mantras) distributed over 10 chapters known as ...

I find so much delight in imagining a lovelorn girl could have possibly authored Vedic hymn A year ago, I got into a spat with a young man on twitter. The spat concerned one of my favourite hymns from ...

New Delhi, Dec. 13: Physicist Vivek Sharma who was born in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, and now leads an international group hunting for the Higgs boson sees the search as an attempt to seek out answers to ...

The Bangalore Men – an all-male voices ensemble- led by Jonas Olsson, voice faculty at Bangalore School of Music will present choral hymns, set by British composer Gustav Holst's (1874-1934) ‘Sanskrit ...

The Vedas comprise a vast corpus of Sanskrit poetry, philosophical dialogue, myth, and ritual incantations developed and composed by Aryans over 3,500 years ago. Regarded by Hindus as the primary ...

A book with collections of the “Mundhums” was recently published in Nepal. Mundhums are considered Vedic hymns of the Limbu community, who call the eastern hills of Nepal their home. The book named ...