Is the Rig Veda Purusha Suktam hymn an interpolation?
Western scholars and Indologists think so, especially the part about caste. Here's what wikipedia says on Varna:
This Purusha Sukta varna verse is now generally considered to have
been inserted at a later date into the Vedic text, possi...
@RamAbloh Now what you can do is: quote a reference which says Purusha Sukta is an interpolation (to answer the question) and then you can add information that this claim is wrong (which you already done I think).
This is a 1672 image of Narasimha and Prahald from archeological society of India found in Amsterdam. Couldn’t do a OCR to text and then Google translate. Any ideas what does it say?
Turiya is said to be non-dual state of being Brahman as mentioned in M.U.
I would like to see their official take on Turiya? Do they also consider Turiya as some non-dual state where the subject & object infuses? In that case, how do they square that with their inherently dualistic philosophies?
In Mahabharata and many other scriptures, there is a class of elite people called Charanas.
For example, consider the following excerpt from Mahabharata
The men carried the message in a trice to the court. And the citizens
of Hastinapura, hearing of the arrival of thousands of Charanas and Munis...
@Pandya Yes , I know , because of thanksgiving and other reasons.
@Pandya - how many new modarators the site currently requires considering the possibility of even one or two modarators decided to resigns in near future , before graduation ? 1 or 2 .
@Pandya - will join aft. 9:30 , if you are free pls. come here we will chat .:-)
@SwiftPushkar once we have working team for couple of months, we can decide it in future. And if any of current mods resigns before election then no. of positions may need to increase by 1.
@TheLittleNaruto - The imagei in your question is not of Vishnu. But a symbolic form of Maharshi Patanjali.
@TheLittleNaruto - I can write ananswer but there is one problen , so insted of discussing in comments , we will talk about that here. First go through the below web page -
@TheLittleNaruto - there is also a Dhyna shloka of patanjali , the description in the shloka and of the image is somewhat matching but not 100% . But this image is found on most of the yoga related sites , mostly western , so the western artist changed the original patanjali image , that is what i think.
Is the Rig Veda Purusha Suktam hymn an interpolation?
Western scholars and Indologists think so, especially the part about caste. Here's what wikipedia says on Varna:
This Purusha Sukta varna verse is now generally considered to have
been inserted at a later date into the Vedic text, possi...
This is a 1672 image of Narasimha and Prahald from archeological society of India found in Amsterdam. Couldn’t do a OCR to text and then Google translate. Any ideas what does it say?
Here in this picture bhagwan vishnu is shown as snake headed. Which form is this?
Or is it some other God like sheshanaga?
Turiya is said to be non-dual state of being Brahman as mentioned in M.U.
I would like to see their official take on Turiya? Do they also consider Turiya as some non-dual state where the subject & object infuses? In that case, how do they square that with their inherently dualistic philosophies?
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