I thought of this question after reading about day-wise restrictions on shaving/haircut These weekly day-wise restrictions must have started after a 7 day week was established. Which is the oldest known reference to a 7 day week (or a particular day of the week) in Hindu scriptures?

I am having a problem with nomenclature when asking questions. What is the correct word to use when referring to Hinduism related documents before book publishing began? Is it scripture? Are there any documents that can NOT be referred as a scripture, but still are very old?

I Asked my parents, what is our Gotra? They told me Shukracharya is our Gotra. I tried Searching over the internet but could not find about Shukracharya Gotra. Even it is not present under the list of gotra in Wikipedia. Is it related to असुरों के गुरु शुक्राचार्य? please can someone help me with...

This theme for Karna was used in Star Plus Mahabharata which is in Sanskrit. Can anyone tell the meaning of the shlok. Also primarily I wanna know where the shlok actually is & who said that? Suto va sut putro vayo Vakova bhavamyaham.. Daiva yettam kule janm Madayettam tu paurusham Pa...

Today I learn something about a monster kalkanja . All I know right now is that he is the son of sage Kashyapa and Kalaka. I try to search some more information about his life time and achievement that he gain in his life time but not find anything. Can anyone give me some information on this?

So can anybody tell me if the lokas can communicate with one another? Are they only separated by space and/or time or are living inside a high-dimensional world, each one entirely on its own? Thanks in advance!

I'd like to know the meaning of the "Shiva Shiva Shiva Shambho" mantra, which is the effect in the mind as well as its history. Is it part of some ancient text? Any information about this mantra is highly appreciated! I've been researching over the internet and the information available is not ...

Brahma has a full beard, moustache but Vishnu and Shiva are picturized clean shaven. Was there any puranic reference to their appearance or may be classical painters like Ravi Varma imagined in a certain way and it caught on? In case of Ganesha or Hanuman the ancient descriptions are so vivid tha...

When an day ends for Brahma there is no living beings, and when a new day start everything is recreated, my question is do the same events take place in the new day of brahma, For example birth of Shree Ganesha, Shree Ram Avatar, Events of Mahabharata and etc?

Our scientists discovered 8 planets till now. other than earth , is pepoles in other yugas like satya yuga, trethayuga, dwaparayuga lived in any other planets ?

As in this question- Water to Sun, it is mentioned that- Offering of water is done, so that Surya's path is not obstructed by demons called Mandehas. As water turning to thunder kills the demons. Which Scriptures specifically say- One should offer water to Sun.

The following extract is from the introduction to The Mahabharata: Volume 1 by Bibek Debroy. There are many different versions or recensions of the Mahabharata. However, between 1919 and 1966, the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (BORI) in Pune produced what has come to be known a...

According to scripture(s) how difficult or rare to get Human life. Please shed light on this.

How and why did Shiva create Veerbhadra and MahaKali. Who were the nine surgas accompanying MahaKali?