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- Essay · Lord Vishnu/Trimurti/free
The preserver and sustainer
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- Essay · Lord Ganesha/Shaiva Family/free
Reading the form
… seated, elephant head with one intact and one broken tusk, four arms holding an aṅkuśa, pāśa, modaka, and a hand in abhaya mudrā, the mouse Mūṣika at his feet|entity-ganesha-005-p …
- Deities/Vaishnava / Tridevi/Eternal / Sanatana/free
Goddess Lakshmi
The supreme goddess of prosperity, beauty, and grace. Rising from the Churning of the Cosmic Ocean upon a fully bloomed lotus, she chose Vishnu as her eternal consort, sealing the …
- Essay · Evidence in the Verses · Material Culture/Material Culture/free
Building by the Rope
How a religious requirement to build fire-altars of exactly the right shape and area produced the Śulbasūtras — the world's oldest surviving geometry manuals, including the earlies…
- Story · Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, Uttara Kāṇḍa (sargas 9–12), with the Padma and Kūrma Purāṇas/Intermediate/12 min/free
Ravana's Beginning
Four children of the same sage, the same forest, the same terrible discipline — and four boons that reveal what each of …
- Story · Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, Uttara Kāṇḍa (sarga 34), with Kiṣkindhā Kāṇḍa/Beginner/9 min/free
The Vānara King Who Humbled Rāvaṇa
Before the war, Rāvaṇa went looking for one more king to defeat and found a monkey at his evening prayers. What happened next is the strangest humiliation in the Rāmāyaṇa — and it …
- Story · Bhāgavata Purāṇa, Canto 3, Chapters 25–33/Intermediate/12 min/free
Kapila Muni and Devahūti: The Mother Who Asked About God
When Devahūti, daughter of Manu and mother of the sage Kapila, asks her divine son how the soul can be freed from sorrow, he teaches her the complete science of Sāṅkhya and bhakti …
