Meaning “creation” in Sanskrit, it is one of the cosmic acts of deities in the Hindu religious tradition. It is primarily associated with the Hindu deity, Brahma, and is also one of the five acts (panchakriya) of Shiva in his form as Nataraja.
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An award conferred annually by the Sahitya Kala Parishad for excellence in performing and visual arts as well as literature.
A text of the Lokottaravada school of early Buddhism, it was written in Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit between the second…
The Pali word for dharma, it stands for the “the law of nature” or “the truth” and primarily refers to…
The primary religious scripture of Islam, containing the word of God as revealed by the archangel Jibrail (Gabriel) to the…
A body of religious texts composed in Sanskrit and considered the oldest scriptures in Hinduism. There are four primary texts…
A Sanskrit term meaning “golden.”
A minor Upanishad often classified as one of the eight Shakta Upanishads, it is one of the nineteen late-Vedic texts…
In scholarship, term most frequently referring to the Indo-Aryan family of languages and their scripts — including Sanskrit, Brahmi and Kharoshthi…