Vivvo CMS 4.1 http://www.india-forum.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. http://www.india-forum.com/files.php?file= http://www.india-forum.com/ http://www.india-forum.com/hinduism/The-saura-mata-or-the-sect-of-sUrya-173.html Hinduism Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:16:14 +0000 bR^ihatsamhita 60.19 varAhamihira states that sUrya should be worshipped by installing idols of his and they should be worshipped by specialized priests called magAchAryas. http://www.india-forum.com/hinduism/Is-Multiculturalism-The-Cause-Of-French-Riots-174.html Hinduism Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:20:32 +0000 In his article "Multiculturalism and the Self-Liquidation of Europe," Robert Tracinski looks for the cause of recent French riots and identifies it as European multiculturalism. http://www.india-forum.com/hinduism/Miraculous-Birth-Of--The-Macaulay-Gotra-010.html Hinduism Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:55:00 +0000 "We can all be proud Macaulay-putras!" declares Jaithirth Rao because Macaulay introduced English education in India. Rao traces our success and even our collective identity to this momentous act of Macaulay. http://www.india-forum.com/hinduism/Clouds-Over-Understanding-Of-The-Vedas-139.html Hinduism Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:06:52 +0000 The Myth of the Holy Cow by D.N.Jha published by Verso, London, 2002 is the most damaging book in its contents since the sole intention of the author has been to prove that all ancient Hindu scriptures particularly the Vedas and Shatpath Brahmana etc. uphold beef-eating and this has been the way of life of the Aryans who were our ancestors since the term Hindu came to be introduced much later. The author has cited references from the Vedas, Brahmanas, Upnishads etc. to prove his thesis which perhaps he chose to be the sole mission of his life even though he comes from a Brahamin family and he has dedicated his so called prestigious book to his kin in Rajrani (a symbol of motherhood). http://www.india-forum.com/hinduism/The-World-Of-Myth-140.html Hinduism Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:10:31 +0000 The "clash of civilizations" is mostly about the adumbration of religious ideas and the practice of religion. This clash is acted out by Muslim fundamentalists who cut the throats of hapless journalists, engineers, and other Christians, born-again or not, lost in the alleys of Karachi or Karbala or Kirkuk. Fellow Christian religionists then drop 3,000 pound bombs from 30,000 feet up in retaliation. Meanwhile both seek to poke the eyes of Hindus, who demand from the two some promise of a "Sarva dharma samabhava" (All religions are equal) which by all accounts is a concept dead on arrival at the Vatican or in Mecca. Roman, Greek, Mesopotamian and other pagan cultures are "dead and buried", and the tribal cultures and religions of Africa, Australia, and South America have been decimated. What is left for the predatory religions are one another and the pesky Hindus who keep pushing wrongly, I believe, the idea of "Sarva dharma samabhava". http://www.india-forum.com/hinduism/The-Mythology-Of-The-sword-141.html Hinduism Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:13:36 +0000 nakula the 4th pANDava asked the kuru grandsire on his arrowy death bed about the origin of the sword. nakula said that he believed that the sword was a superior weapon and even if one lost his bow or horse or chariot one could still defend himself against mace and spear wielders if one were a good swordsman.nakula the 4th pANDava asked the kuru grandsire on his arrowy death bed about the origin of the sword. nakula said that he believed that the sword was a superior weapon and even if one lost his bow or horse or chariot one could still defend himself against mace and spear wielders if one were a good swordsman. http://www.india-forum.com/hinduism/The-Ashvina-Stuti-And-Indra-Stuti:-A-Study-Of-Two-Hymns-From-142.html Hinduism Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:22:40 +0000 The adi parvan of the mahAbhArata provides a remarkable "fossilized" sUktaM to the ashvins. It comes in the 3rd chapter of the adi parvan known as the pauShya section (1.3.60 in the critical Poona edition of the mahAbhArata). This section is a particularly interesting in terms of retaining some of the archaic structures of the epic, probably coming unadulterated from the original form of the jaya epic. Its frame narrates the tale of how janamejaya, the kuru emperor, and conqueror of takShashIla came to perform his infamous sarpa yaGYa to avenge the killing of his father parIkShit by the nAga chief. From this frame bud off many archaic tales, one of which is the tale of trial of the sage upamanyu of the clan of the vasiShThas. In this tale, upamanyu as a young student in the ashrama of his teacher Ayodo dhaumya was particularly well-fed in his appearance. dhaumya cuts off his means of food, namely from the alms received in the city or from the cows he took to graze, by instructing him not to eat or drink any of those things. In this state dhaumya asked upamanyu to go and graze his cows. upamanyu without any food eats the leaves of the arka plant and as a consequence goes blind and falls into a pit while crawling about. Upon seeing his absence at sunset that day, dhaumya and his students set out in search of upamanyu and call out to him in the pastures. They hear him crying out from a pit and mention his blindness. dhaumya asks him to invoke the ashvins. He immediately composes a series of R^ichas with which he praises the ashvins. As a result they are pleased and give him an apUpa cake. upamanyu states that he will eat the cake only after offering it to his teacher. They urge upamanyu to do so without offering him, but he refuses. Pleased with his devotion they relieve him of his blindness and the twin gods also give him a denture of gold, unlike the steel denture they had given his teacher dhaumya. As a result dhaumya states that upamanyu has passed his trial and blesses him to be a great scholar of the vedas and the dharmashAstras. http://www.india-forum.com/hinduism/Vedanta-&-Hindu-Philosophy-143.html Hinduism Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:26:29 +0000 Vedanta, meaning "the end of the Veda," is one of the six schools of traditional Hindu philosophy. It is the basis of Hinduism. Vedanta in principle based on summary of teachings of Brahma sutras. http://www.india-forum.com/hinduism/Secularism-As-A-Tool-Of-Adharm---Satya-Sarma-144.html Hinduism Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:28:47 +0000 The basis of Bharat was the eternal dharm. I use the past tense deliberately, because in the short space of the last ten days, ironically on the day we Bharatiyas celebrate dharm?s victory over adharm, we awoke to the fact that this is no longer the case. How we got to this point, and how the path of secularism took us there is the story I want to tell here. http://www.india-forum.com/hinduism/God's-Children-082.html Hinduism Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:21:08 +0000 Sweat was crawling slowly from my forehead, along my cheeks to the edge of my lips where it spread quickly along the parting. I could taste the salt of my labor. The last seed was planted, the last sack carried and the last moments of the day turned to night. The sun was starting to hide behind the mountains in the distance as I flopped down onto the earth. My mother earth, my India, my home. The fields were the only place where I felt more welcome, more real and closer to my land. Letting all the peace of the evening air sink in me, I pulled my small brown, tattered bag and with the last of my energy managed to start walking home India-Forum - Discussion forum on Hinduism, Indian Culture, Indian History ,Indian Politics ,Indian Business, Strategic Security, Internation Affairs.