Results for "Atharvaveda"

Bharatvarsha as a shared sacred geography, through Sanskrit scripture, regional literature, and modern archaeological and scientific inquiry.

… cal territory but was venerated as a sacred motherland. The Atharvaveda’s Prithvi Sukta (12.1.12) establishes this profound spiritual and environmental connection to the earth, dec …

On the second lunar day after Dīpāvalī, a sister's invitation brings even Yama home: the Skanda Purāṇa's Yamunā story, the shared meal, prayers for well-being and the many regional…

*Saumanasya*, concord of hearts, is the theme of Atharvaveda 3.30. Long before the festival's familiar household forms, the hymn speaks of peace within a family: {{vers …

… to this arrangement of the text. - *Older ethical passage:* Atharvaveda, Śaunaka recension 3.30.3, checked against the TITUS Śaunaka text; Vedic accents omitted in the display. The …

Why the tradition calls itself eternal — cyclic cosmic time (Yugas, Kalpas, Mahāpralaya), the Vedas as Apauruṣeya (unauthored) sound cognised by Rishis, and the archeo-astronomical…

… the four **Vedas**: *Ṛgveda*, *Sāmaveda*, *Yajurveda* and *Atharvaveda*. Within traditional theology the Vedas are explicitly categorised as **Apauruṣeya** — 'not of human origin' …

The Ṛgveda's female seers composed hymns, debated philosophers at King Janaka's court, and declared themselves the Absolute — even as the same era's texts reveal a narrower, male-p…

… ot. Prayers for the birth of heroic sons recur through the *Atharvaveda*, a plain record of preference for male heirs — even as the same Veda (11.5.18) advocates for the *Upanayana …

What the Ṛgveda actually says about gold, ayas and the metalworkers of the Vedic world — the contested word behind a century of copper-bronze-iron argument, a smith's forge, a warr…

… absence.** There is no sword anywhere in the Ṛgveda or the Atharvaveda — only knives. Some scholars have built dating arguments on that gap. Whether or not those arguments hold, t …

… Semenenko, on the absence of the sword from the Ṛgveda and Atharvaveda. **Not used** - Exam-prep and quiz sites that flatly assert *ayas* "means copper" — the identification is …