I have searched the forum. There have been questions and answers that dealt with the topic, but this is different. I am seeking something different from all that has already been touched upon. I am aware of the fact that Vedas are 'Apaurusheya' and 'Anaadi' and that they were revealed to the sa...

Ram was full of different aspects of his life, such as son, friend, brother, king but I feel that he has spread like a husband because who left his pregnant wife after listening to a dhobi though his wife always stood by his side like a shadow.

Is there Satanic concept in Hinduism?. if so just cite the references. and how you see the Asuran of Purana.

Clearly, there was a conversation between me and the moderator. All comments of mine challenging the moderator have been conveniently deleted by the moderator(s). Only their comments have been retained evidently to showcase their own virtue in this transaction. Without access to the entire conv...

Who is this user? What are their privileges If they are a bot, what rules does it follow to react a certain way to a post (Q or A) Who has access to these rules and how frequently are they edited. Who edits them?

"kayastha" could mean "one who stays in his body". Are they considered kshatriyas? And apparently some of them are "kulin kayasthas". What is their background?

I think this ritual is performed both in the north and south. The Brahminical Pumsavana has been blended with basically a baby shower. I have heard that the ritual prays for a male child and also says "let female children be born elsewhere". Is this true?

I have heard somewhere that, after Devi Sati's dead body (after her self immolation in her own yogAgni) was cut into several pieces by Sri Vishnu's chakra, they fall in various places on earth. For Shakti to get re-united with Shiva, it was necessary for her to re-incarnate as Parvati. For this p...

I hear this thing many times. Also, have another question how Nachiketa reached to Yama Lok and met with the Yamaraj?

In Rig Veda weapons didn't have much power. The notion of astra with supernatural powers doesn't exist in it. Indra's vajra is either a thunderbolt or a club. Greeks had started coming to India by 300 b.c. and the Indians didn't use any weapons like Brahmastra. So these weapons existed (inclu...

I would be glad if anyone please post the VirAja Homa Manthra text of Maha Narayana Upanishad in English with right connotation.

In Hindu's marriage function the married couples are need to see the sky for seeing the Vashistar and Arundhati stars. Why we need to see this and what is the impact on this one.

What is the aim - is the intention to leave a pristine record of this board's findings on Hinduism for prosterity?

In Shiva Purana this sentence "After taking the permission of her parents and relinquishing all of her ornaments and royal apparels, Parvati went to the same place where Lord Shiva himself had done penance" http://www.gloriousindia.com/scriptures/puranas/shiva_purana/narada_preaches_parvati_does...

Don't know which Veda it is but talking about electricity.

There is a TV serial in which he is Siva and Parvati's son but he is also called the supreme deity. Is it based on scripture?

It feels like a mongoose-bite when your effort is consigned to the dustbin out of the blue. Why not give a "vet for duplicates" button to the poster so that he can self-censor for duplicates?

Indra drank Amrita and so he cannot die. How can this be reconciled with "Indra" just being a position? If an Indra or a Brahma dies, would another jiva immediately take that palce? What stops two Jivas attaining one of these positions at the same time?

All we know is that there is a body at Srirangam temple that is claimed to be that of Ramanuja - preserved for centuries using no known embalming techniques. I have read that even some priests at the temple deny this. When was the first account that said that his body was embalmed?

kāla is a sanskrit Homonym word with two completely different meanings, one being time another being black, dark, darkness. I was recently watching a Sadhguru video about space as matter time as darkness. Meanwhile it seems scientists recently correlated both time & dark matter, energy https://ww...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_genealogy_registers_at_Haridwar#cite_note-dis-3 In general Christians kept better records and gravestones can stand the test of time for centuries. Since most Hindu bodies are burnt, it is hard to see how records going way back could have been kept by Hindus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotra "In the 1945 court case of Madhavrao vs Raghavendrarao, which involved a Deshastha Brahmin couple, the definition of gotra as descending from eight sages and then branching out to several families was thrown out by the Bombay High Court. The court called the i...

What are the wrong practices that are done in India on a newborn baby, which otherwise the Doctors consider unnecessary or unhealthy? I heard from a friend that rigorous massage, a normal practice in India, of a newborn baby is dangerous!!!, Can anyone name a few more examples that should be avoi...

Basic Tenant of Scientific Thinking is Evidence.SHOW ME PLAUSIBLE ( preferably objective & verifiable proof) EVIDENCE. If I stand up in front of you and say “LOOK I AM superman …. I am going to crash through those windows and start flying” …. you will reply ..”did you take your medication for t...

Do scriptures prescribe how the yagynpavitam should be made (number of threads, knots etc.)?

From http://sanatan.sdcollegeambala.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/481036.pdf page 133 "In the early 20th century, therefore, the ascetics and bards of the Ramanandi sect finally affirmed their sectarian independence by claiming the unique historical origin of the sect. The mantra was divulged...