The Rig Veda is the collection of ancient Indian Vedic Sanskrit hymns. Of all the tales and anecdotes mentioned in the holy Rig Veda, there is one early mention of the divine dog-like deity, known as ...

The passages are flowery but fitting for an eclipse, describing the sun as being "pierced" with darkness and gloom and proposing that evil beings had caused the sun's "magic arts to vanish." When you ...

In the beginning, there was only silence and stillness—no earth, no sky, no stars, no life. From the boundless void (sun ...

A new study challenges the long-held belief that Vedic culture was isolated to India. Research reveals a musical link between the Rig Veda and a 3,000-year-old hymn from the Mediterranean, ...

Thanksgiving for the Sun ...

Nahay Khay, Kharna, Sandhya Arghya (offering the setting sun), and Usha Arghya (offering to the rising sun) are also a ...

The theme of dice and gambling is a recurrent one in Indian mythology. From the ‘Gambler’s Lament’ in the Rig Veda, a great ...