The Ganesa Purana: Upasana Khanda \nThe Ganesapurana (GnP.) is a Puranic text probably composed in the fourteenth or fifteenth century. Its contents derive partially from earlier literature dealing with Ganesa, but also draw on the body of myths found in...

The Ganesa purana (GnP.) is a Puranic text probably composed in the fourteenth or fifteenth century. Its contents derive partially from earlier literature dealing with Ganesa, but also draw on the body of myths found in the mahapuranas and upapuranas....

Vamana is assigned fourteenth position in the list of eighteen Mahapuranas or major Puranic texts, preceded by Skanda and suceeded by Kurma. It gets its name after Vamana or the dwarf incarnation of God Visnu, which is the first human...

The Vamana Purana is assigned fourteenth position in the list of eighteen Maha puranas or major Puranic texts, preceded by Skanda and succeeded by Kurma. It gets its name after Vamana or the dwarf incarnation of God Visnu, which is...

Skanda Purana - Part 23 - Vol. 71 (HB) \nThe Book reveals Ancient Indian Tradition & Mythology as Skanda purana core knowledge of religious and historic traditions back then. \n \nBy G.P. Bhatt (Author) Shridhar Balooni & Pratosh Pande (...

Skanda Purana - Part 22 - Vol. 70 (HB) \nThe Book reveals Ancient Indian Tradition & Mythology as Skanda purana core knowledge of religious and historic traditions back then. \n \nBy G.P. Bhatt (Author) Shridhar Balooni & Pratosh Pande (...

Skanda Purana - Part 21: Ancient Indian Tradition & Mythology - Vol. 69 \nThe purest gems lie hidden in the bottom of the ocean or in the depth of rocks. One has to dive deep into the ocean or delve...

The Chinese Buddhist Pilgrims visited India during the early centuries of the Christian era. The Buddhist literature of China contains the records of their travels, the authenticity of which vouchsafed by the facts related in them. The principal Chinese Buddhist...

Ancient Sutras and old Smrtis like Manu and Yajnavalkya do not attach much importance tio Tirthas, but the later literature on this branch of Dharmasastra is very extensive. The Mahabharata regards pilgrimage to Tirthas more meritorious than sacrifices. Hence it...

Advaita Vedanta is the non dualistic school of vedanta primarily explicated by Samkara. The purpose of this study is to undertake an analysis of the epistemological issues inherent in the Advaita Vedanta theory of the Knowing and the known to...

Siddhanta Kaumudi is a critical and scholarly commentary on the sutras of Panini by Bhattoji Dikshit a stalwart grammarian of the Panini system who flourished in the first half of the seventeenth century. The Sutras are arranged topic-wise and fully...

The language whose phonology is described in this work is standard Hindi, i.e., the Hindi used in everyday casual speech by educated native speakers in cities such as Varanasi, Lucknow, Delhi etc., which is different from highly Sanskritized Hindi called...