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  1. Essay · Acoustics & Cosmology/Foundations/free

    Nāda Brahman — the universe as sound, from AUM to the 22 śrutis

    AUM read through cymatics and the Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad, and Nāda Brahman read through the Gandharva Veda — the seven svaras, the 22 microtonal śrutis, and a wave-first model of matter…

  2. Essay · Nāda Brahman — the universe as sound, from AUM to the 22 śrutis/Foundations/free

    Nāda Brahman — the Absolute known as sound

    … da*, the Vedic corpus on music, and elaborated in later handbooks such as the *Saṅgīta Makaranda*. Its distinctive move is to handle acoustics as an applied physical science, mappi …

  3. Essay · Cosmogony/Vedic/free

    Before the Trimūrti — the Brāhmaṇa Prelude

    Before Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Śiva became a coordinated trio, the Brāhmaṇa texts already told stories of one god's injury, rivalry and repair during sacrifice — Viṣṇu as a dwarf and as …

  4. Essay · Before the Trimūrti — the Brāhmaṇa Prelude/Vedic/free

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    … Eggeling's *Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa* translation, in the *Sacred Books of the East* series, remains the standard English rendering for readers who want the full text alongside the Sansk …

  5. Essay · Continuity/Foundations/free

    The Unbroken Chain — a tradition tested by every ending history threw at it

    No single method pins Sanatan Dharma to one exact birth date. There is a better-evidenced claim underneath the age question: this tradition has demonstrably survived its own intern…

  6. Essay · The Unbroken Chain — a tradition tested by every ending history threw at it/Foundations/free

    A tradition that survived its own ending

    … bout the violence about to unfold, and the epic’s own later books (the Śānti Parva and Anuśāsana Parva) are extended meditations on governance, grief, and dharma in the war’s after …

  7. 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…

  8. Essay · Building by the Rope/Material Culture/free

    The falcon made of bricks

    … patha Brāhmaṇa of the Śukla Yajurveda devotes several whole books to it, presenting the construction as a human re-enactment of Prajāpati's assembling of the cosmos. The specifica …

  9. Essay · Building by the Rope/Material Culture/free

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    … re-altar construction; Eggeling's translation in the Sacred Books of the East series. - Taittirīya Saṃhitā — the falcon altar as the rite for one who desires heaven. **Modern scho …

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