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The Bhagavadgita is a rare literary classic whose ideas and philosophy have continued to inspire great thinkers, leaders and the common man for over three millennia. It epitomizes the revolutionary teachings of Krishna, the greatest teacher of Hinduism and the harbinger of a new era. The original Bhagavadgita consisted of twelve chapters, which in the course of a millennium rose to eighteen. Thus a considerable part of the present Bhagavadgita consists of ...
Vedas aren't just the scriptural texts, but the earliest record of Indo-Aryan civilization. On the basis of this corpus of mankind's oldest literature, together with his indepth analyses of the later-day Puranic writings, Professor Bhargava offers the first ever systematic, well-knit study of the Aryan expansion on the Indian subcontinent since c. 3100 BC. Retrieving, thus, hard historical facts from the complex Sanskrit verses of ancient seers, Dr. ...
Did Rama banish his wife Sita? Did Krishna have Radha for his companion? Was Shakuntala Vishvamitra’s daughter? Could Bhagiratha bring about the Ganga’s descent from heaven? Or, was Vyasa really the author of the traditional eighteen puranas? Addressing these and other similar questions, Dr. Bhargava retrieves historically valid answers from the maze of Puranic myths - notwithstanding their deeply entrenched ...
Hinduism is not a founded religion like Christianity of Islam. It grew in the course of centuries. Yet judging from its true scriptures and its universally accepted beliefs and observances it is neither a hotchpotch of diverse beliefs and practices, nor a fellowship of faiths, nor a loosely knit pattern of ideologies, but a clear-cut creed, having its own great religious luminaries corresponding to the prophets and Messiahs of other religions, its own theology, ...
Vedic writings, despite two centuries of critical studies in India and the western world, have unveiled myriad questions that have either baffled scholars or have led to serious controversies like-- who wrote the Rgvedic hymns? Which deities in the Rgveda, constitute the group called Adityas? Who of the two major Vedic Gods, Indra or Varuna, has greater antiquity? Is Ayodhya the birthplace of Lord Rama? and so on. A distinguished Indologist, Prof. P.L. Bhargava ...