Results for "Brahma Sūtras"

Why Dhanteras opens Dīpāvalī's five days: Dhanvantari rising from the churned ocean with the pot of amṛta, the bride who out-lit Yama, the goddess who stays in an honest home, and …

The words Dharma, Sanātana and Hindu — where they come from, what they actually mean, and how the four great sampradāyas (Vaiṣṇavism, Śaivism, Śāktism, Smārtism) scale the same spi…

… criptures.** The *Upaniṣads*, the *Bhagavad Gītā*, and the *Brahma Sūtras* — collectively the *Prasthānatrayī*. - **Core philosophy.** All personal deities are manifestations of th …

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…

… e-altars of the Brāhmaṇa texts and the geometry of the Śulbasūtras.*

… ltars of exactly the right shape and area produced the Śulbasūtras — the world's oldest surviving geometry manuals, including the earliest written statement of the Pythagorean theo …

… 6 — elaboration of the √2 rule. - Kātyāyana and Mānava Śulbasūtras — named as the other two principal texts. - Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa (Śukla Yajurveda), Kāṇḍa 8 onward — the fire-altar …