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- Essay · Astronomy & Scripture/Foundations/free
Measuring the Heavens — the speed of light and the distance to the Sun
… rcent of the modern value for c — and the 18th verse of the Hanumān Cālīsā carries an orbital distance to the Sun. Two cases of hard astronomy preserved inside devotional text.
- Essay · Fasting & Vratas/Fasting & Vratas/free
Hanumān's Days — the Tuesday and Saturday Vratas
… two weekly claims on it: Tuesday for Mars's courage, which Hanumān embodies, and Saturday for a debt Śani Dev himself is said to owe him. Not two vratas but one fast a devotee kee …
- Essay · Measuring the Heavens — the speed of light and the distance to the Sun/Foundations/free
Orbital mathematics inside devotional poetry
… ions recite daily survive instead in cultural memory. The *Hanumān Cālīsā*, composed by the poet-saint **Tulsīdās** in the 16th century CE, is recited across northern India as a p …
- Essay · Greater India · Anchor/Foundations/free
Across the Cosmic Milk — Sanātana Dharma in Southeast Asia
For centuries the Indian Ocean was a highway, not a barrier. This anchor essay traces how the epics, philosophy and vocabulary of Sanātana Dharma crossed to Śrīvijaya, Majapahit, A…
- Essay · Hanumān's Days — the Tuesday and Saturday Vratas/Fasting & Vratas/free
Keeping the fast
… ersions exist. The core of the practice is recitation: the *Hanumān Chālīsā* or the more martial *Bajraṅg Bāṇ*, offered at a Hanumān shrine or at home. Red flowers and *sindūr* are …
