Daily Archives: January 27, 2007

On the vedic sacrificial ritual and its Babylonian parallels

The mlechCha orientalists Dumont and Albright pointed to certain similarities between the Vedic sacrificial ritual and that found in Babylon. We revisit this to investigate if flow of memes between Eurasian civilizations can throw any light on the date and … Continue reading

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Raised by bAlA and dattAtreya-II

A great nAtha yogi who worshiped dattAtreya was eating curds and saw a boy roaming on the field. He offered the boy the curds but he refused, and it fell on his feet. He told him: “if you had eaten … Continue reading

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Raised by bAlA and dattAtreya-I

In the hot plain to the north of the Wardha river, in the village of Dhamangaon, a band of Moslems led by their Kazi were chasing a young Hindu maid. Nothing unusual for the times, it was one more of … Continue reading

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