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Hridayanadas Das Gosvami teaching religions of India studies at Gainesville Florida, he also taught the same course at Oxford University, what a wonderful achievement. Srila Prabhupada would be so proud, a professor of Sanskrit, hands […]

“Beware the ides of march” the old soothsayer had pronounced as Julius Caesar had passed his way. Alas that which is written in the stars is written in the stars and so it came to […]

The ancient name of Peloponnesus which covered a large area of southern Greece was originally called Inachia. Ina is Sanskrit for the Sun and Inachia simply means the land of the Sun. There is a […]

Comparative Mythology -101 We start with Zeus . Zeus etymologically comes from deus , which is a Sanskrit cognate of Dyaus. Now, Dyaus is a Rig Vedic god of daylight sky. Dyaus is also considered […]

Indonesia is a country in Southeast Asia, it has some 13,000 islands and a population of 258 million people. Although it is now predominantly Muslim its prehistory is Vedic. On the island of Java is […]

By Abhilash Rajendran March 14, 2018 The book titled ‘Geometric Keys of Vedic Wisdom’, written by Lori Tompkins, (published in January 2018) takes the reader into the unknown terrain of the geometric symbols in the […]

The letter “i” reflects “movement” the letter “r” represents “reaching” they combine to make the Sanskrit “ir” meaning “to cause to rise” “to raise” “to move” “to elevate” “to set in motion”. This combines with […]

The letter “i” reflects “movement” the letter “r” represents “reaching” they combine to make the Sanskrit “ir” meaning “to cause to rise” “to raise” “to move” “to elevate” “to set in motion”. This combines with […]

The Sanskrit Ja means “born” “produced” “race” “tribe” “birth” “offspring”, Jan means “generate” “beget” “cause” “create” “grow”, Jana means “birth” “tribe” “people” “race” “man” “origin”, Janus means “birth” “descent” “class”, Jani means “wife” “mother” woman”, […]

The Sanskrit “jam” means “to eat” “to continually consume”, the Sanskrit “jambha” means “swallowing” “tooth” “set of teeth” “tusk” “jaws” “mouth” we have “jambhaka” meaning “crushing” “devouring” “yawning” and we have “jambuka” meaning “jackal” We […]