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 ...

What If History Wasn't What You Thought? Imagine waking up to a world where everything you’ve been told about good and evil is reversed. The stories you grew up with, the heroes you worshipped, the ...

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 ...

The Puranas have revitalised and revolutionised spirituality propounded in the Vedas and Upanishads, and made it all-time relevant, writes ALKA NIGAM The Vedas are for savants and the path of ...

After penning thrillers and a biography on actress Sridevi, author-screenwriter Satyarth Nayak is back with a new book titled 'Mahagatha: 100 Tales from the Puranas'. Here's an interview with the ...

The Puranas are called the fifth Veda, but they are not quite Vedic. We realise this from a single incident that took place in Maharashtra at the start of the 20th century. During the royal rituals of ...

The idea of dharma manifests in the Puranas too. In Brahma Purana, we have the story of Brahma’s sons, Devas and Asuras who are constantly fighting. Swarga is the realm of Devas, full of wealth and ...

The Bhavishya Purana, or the chronicle of the future, is the earliest Sanskrit work that reveals some familiarity with West Asian myths. While presented as a prophecy of events that will happen during ...

The course on Essence of Indian Knowledge Tradition will also focus on Indian philosophical, linguistic and artistic traditions, along with yoga and Indian perspective of modern scientific worldview.