A body of fourteen Upanishadic texts dedicated to Shaiva traditions and practice, which expound on the worship of the Hindu deity Shiva, and the symbolism, rites and objects associated with him.
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A Sanskrit poem on the life of Rishabnath, the first Tirthankara of Jainism and his sons Bharata and Bahubali. It…
Established in 1952 and inaugurated in 1954, it is India’s National Academy of Letters, created for the promotion and preservation…
A form of Indian poetry, it is a self-contained rhyming couplet consisting of two lines and formed of twenty-four syllables…
Also called vimoksha, vimukti, mukti and nirvana, it is an Indian philosophical concept that signifies liberation from the cycle of…
Earliest extant text from the Vedic corpus, dated roughly between 1700 and 1200 BCE. Like the other Vedas, the Rigveda…
An ancient writing system used in parts of present-day central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India for official documents and commercial…
A sacred text belonging to the Tibetan Buddhist canon, comprising commentaries, treatises and a collection of abhidharma (ancient Buddhist texts).…
The largest of the eighteen major Puranas, it comprises over eighty-one thousand verses written honour of Skanda, the son of…