Do manuscripts of Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata have footnotes in them? For example, in Rāmāyaṇa at the end of the war, when Hanumān visits Sītā to relay the news of Rāma's victory, she tells him to spare the lives of Rākṣasi's who'd troubled her earlier, by citing the following story: न ...

Whose marriage happened first, Lord Shiva's or Lord Vishnu's? One of them supported the concept of marriage first. Who?

The Bhagavat Gita says: 14.10 Sometimes the mode of passion becomes prominent, defeating the mode of goodness, O son of Bharata. And sometimes the mode of goodness defeats passion, and at other times the mode of ignorance defeats goodness and passion. In this way there is always co...

How does Jogi live? Bhogi is voracious, rogi lives in travail and yogi is ascetic. Are yogi and jogi same?

Does vedas mention the ways for Liberation ? And I mean specifically Vedas but not others as some Puranas, and texts like Gita (Bhagavadgita) mentioned ways of liberation.

Is there any hymn of verse for not having any kind of good/bad dreams? how can one skip dreams or illusion? In Vishnu sahstra namavali I found one Om dusvapnanashay namah But it is not working as expected.

Is sarpa worship and Naga worship different? What are the fruits of Snake worship? In Hindu culture it is believed that snake is Pitru. So we should worship it.

I would like to know more about the Kurma avatar of Vishnu. I know that Vishnu took the form of a tortoise to facilitate Samudra Manthana. Although, no other details are known. The Wikipedia article is not of much help. Astrologically, Kurma avatar is associated with Shani Graha. Are there any...

Most translations I find online, that are comprehensive, for the Bhagavata Purana, are related to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Are there any non-ISKCON related translations? Theologically, I find this bothersome, because the ISKCON present Krishna as being the Supreme God...