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 ...

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The galaxy of Hindu literature is very vast and voluminous. Hindu sacred literature is the most ancient of the living literatures of the world. Hindu scriptures can be broadly grouped under two ...

Understanding Fasting in Hinduism In the context of Hinduism, fasting, known as Vrat and Upvas, transcends mere food ...

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 ...

Knowledge can be transmitted orally or in the form of texts. Hindus preferred the oral form. The Ramayana was first presented orally by the poet-sage Valmiki to Luv and Kush, who then recounted the ...

The Purana Qila in Delhi never ceases to confound the visitor. Take its northern gate which is known as the Talaqi Darwaza. Some say it means Forbidden Gate; others think it is the gate of special ...

Glorification of foreign invaders should be stopped, or else when the truth like Sambhal comes out, they won’t be able to show their faces, says CM Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday said ...