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- 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…
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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 …
- 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…
- 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 …
- 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…
- 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 …
- 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 …
