Even though most hindus consider that hinduism is an eternal religion and that it existed from time immemorial, historians on the other hand believes that the roots of hinduism can be traced back to the Vedic period, with the arrival of the Aryans in the Indian subcontinent (1500 BCE - 500 BCE). ...

As per this QnA , the different kinds of Bhakti-Bhāva / Rasa (i.e., Mode/Types of Devotion), which includes: Mādhurya, Vātsalya, Sākhya, Santa, Dāsya., aren't to be found in any of the authoritative scriptures, but are the later views of eminent āchāryas of some relevant sampradāyas. Furt...

Is there anything like spiritual impurity in Hinduism.

There is a treaty signed by the Mitanni kingdom which invokes deities found in the Rig Veda. The Indus Valley artifacts and script also suggest very early Hinduism.

One poster cites Sankaracharya as "Brahman is the source, i.e. the cause of the great body of Scripture, consisting of the Ṛg-veda and other branches" Is Brahman the source of all scripture, including non-Hindu ones?

Therefore, there are several wives for one man, but not several husbands for a woman simultaneously - Aitareya Brahmana III. 3. Is this verse saying about polygamy and forbidding polyandry. Source of this verse is an answer that I found on this cite

Scriptures say "vadha" for the killing of bad entities. There is capital punishment, homicide, slaughtering animals for sacrifice etc. Are there different terms for all these forms of killing?

Around page 2829 of the CE Sanjaya says O king! Abhimanyu was still a child and had not yet attained youth. But he was killed He was full of ecstatic praise for Abhimanyu's valor when he was killing Dhritarashtra's soldiers and kinsmen- but he is pointing out that he was a child-soldier after h...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashupati_seal One seal is said to represent the Pashupati form of Siva. The eminent cryptographer Iravatam Mahadevan thinks Mahadeva and Neelakantha can be deciphered from the inscriptions. The famous dancing girl statuette is said to be of Parvati. https://www.news...

Lord jesus, pitamah bhisma (mahapurush), our freedom fighters, army officers, many leaders in the history, many warrior in the past war, ........ - had death by tremendous suffering. NOW, the IMPORTANT thing is what GOD promised about good & bad karma - JUDGEMENT DAY is the most important - Death...

I am interested in knowing and understanding if there are any Indian classical ragas/ musical instrument associated with the chakras/energy centres? Reason am asking is coz we have seed syllables/beej mantras for each chakras and usually they are chanted in order to activate the respective chakra...

Does apauruṣeyā when applied to Vedas just mean 'not of human origin' leaving the possibility that a superhuman being could have authored them? Or do different schools of Hindu philosophy interpret the word differently? Did anyone belonging to Nyāya school ever use this expression to indicate the...