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 ...

The Puranas have revitalised and revolutionised spirituality propounded in the Vedas and Upanishads, and made it all-time relevant, writes ALKA NIGAM The Vedas are for savants and the path of ...

What If History Wasn't What You Thought? Imagine waking up to a world where everything you’ve been told about good and evil is reversed. The stories you grew up with, the heroes you worshipped, the ...

After penning thrillers and a biography on actress Sridevi, author-screenwriter Satyarth Nayak is back with a new book titled 'Mahagatha: 100 Tales from the Puranas'. Here's an interview with the ...

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 ...

However, in the Puranas, Agastya is seen as a great sage who takes Vedic ideas from North to the South and marries Lopamudra only to repay his debt to his ancestors. Similarly, in the Vedas, we learn ...

People cannot entirely understand the meaning of the Vedas without the help of Puranas and itihasas. Though very old, the imports of Sri Ramayana and Mahabharatha, the two itihasas, and the 18 Puranas ...

Sangam (Allahabad) With an eye on Ardh Kumbh, which is scheduled to take place at Teerthraj Prayag in 2019, a group of children are honing their skills in Vedas, Puranas, astrology, vastu, slok and ...

The idea of dharma manifests in the Puranas too. In Brahma Purana, we have the story of Brahma’s sons, Devas and Asuras who are constantly fighting. Swarga is the realm of Devas, full of wealth and ...