To understand the Vedas, we need the help of the Itihasas and Puranas. There are eighteen Puranas, and these are classified as satvika, rajasa and tamasa Puranas, said M.A. Venkatakrishnan in a ...

CHENNAI : Ninety thousand words, 108 chapters, and 60-plus illustrations. Though there are several retellings of the Ramayana, renowned public speaker and scholar Dushyanth Sridhar undertook the ...

Vedas were composed 3,000 years ago, while the Puranas were composed 1,500 years ago. In between, came the great epics, Ramayana and Mahabharata, after the Vedas, but before the Puranas. The two ...

Religious belief and identity are almost a calling card in India today. Sanatan Dharma (like all other religions) is vast and mystical, such that exhaustive knowledge of its foundational texts is ...

The Puranas provide solutions to the major riddles of mundane life by describing how the world was created and who created it. The Puranas contain myths and genealogies, written in a flowing form like ...