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- The dreadful apport
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- The Vyomavyāpin in the Pāśupata-tantra and a discursion on nine-fold Rudra-mantra-s
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- Origins of the serpent cult and Bhāguri’s snake installation from the Sāmaveda tradition
- Two simple stotra-s, sectarian competition, and the Varāha episode from the archaic Skandapurāṇa
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The Sintashta-Petrovka cultures (today Southern Urals, core Russia, and Kazakhstan) provide the first uncontested evidence for chariot technology. They are believed to have started around 2100 BCE and were followed by a widely expanding successor cultural horizon of the Andronovo. … Continue reading
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Tagged Aryan, Aryan Invasion, chariot, Hindu, Hindu knowledge, Indo-Aryan, Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, mantra
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Agni as the divine commander in the Veda and the Purāṇa
With the Sākamedha-parvan with the oblations to Agni Anīkavat having just passed, we present a brief note on Agni as the general of the deva army. Agni is presented as the commander of the deva-s in the brāhmaṇa literature. For … Continue reading
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Tagged agni, Aryan, atharva veda, atharvaveda, brahmana, gods, harivaMsha, Hindu, Hindu ritual, Indo-Aryan, Indo-European, kaumAra ritual, purAna, purANas, Rigveda, ritual, soma ritual, Veda, vedic, Yajurveda
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Asians and Pacific Islanders: The triangle
In our youth, we read with great excitement old books on anthropology obtained from a library with considerable difficulty. The excitement was primarily from learning about the osteology of extinct apes and monkeys, including the closest sister groups of Homo … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient India, Aryan, Aryan Invasion, Asia, Asian, Australia, Austro-Asiatic, Austronesians, China, DNA, genetics, genomics, Japan, Korea, Papuans
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RV 10.5
The Ṛgveda is replete with obscure sūkta-s but RV 10.5 might easily take a place in the top tier of those. One might even ask why even attempt to write a commentary on this. We admit we could be plainly … Continue reading
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Tagged Aryan, atharva veda, atharvaveda, evolution of religions, gods, Greek, Greek thought, Indo-Aryan, Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, mantra, mantra-sAdhana, mantra-shAstra, religion, Rigveda, Veda, vedAnta, vedic
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A brief note on some new developments regarding the genomics of Indians
When we wrote a previous article on this matter we had stated that new data will alter the details of our understanding of picture discussed therein. Indeed, two new manuscripts which were deposited in the past month by McColl et … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics, Scientific ramblings
Tagged ancient India, Aryan, Aryan Invasion, genetics, India, Indo-Aryan, Indo-European, Indo-Iranian
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Of lives of men; of times of men-I
Sharvamanyu and Vidrum arrived at the campus where Somakhya and Lootika were in their final days of college. Sharvamanyu had already been working for several months while Vidrum had just completed the last but one of his major exams for … Continue reading
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Tagged Abrahamism, Aryan, Egypt, Hindu, Indo-Aryan, Iranian, religion, Story, war
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The giants among the lilliputs
For long, despite protestations and assertions to the contrary, people have known that men are all not born equal. There are few men who tower over the rest in one or more of the axes of distinction. For over a … Continue reading
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Tagged ancestors, ancient Hindu thought, Aryan, Hindu, Indo-Aryan, males, Y-chromosome
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Some comparative considerations on the Indo-European religion with a focus on the Roman religion
Studies on the Roman religion The Roman religion is important for our understanding of the early Indo-European religion which forms the basis of our own religion, tradition, and identity. Unfortunately, the religions of the western branches of Indo-European were destroyed … Continue reading
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Tagged Aryan, Classical, evolution of religions, gods, Greek, Hindu, Hittite, Indo-Aryan, Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, religion, Roman
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