i am new here and have many questions. i am interested in tantra sadhna and first i need to study the tanrik scriptures in details to get a know how of them. i have studied yoga-vedanta and buddhism in detail also mahamudra and dzogchen path (only study). i practice the direct path of ramana maha...

From this answer by Keshav Srinivasan, Shishupala had three eyes and four arms. When Shishupala was born, he had three eyes and four arms, which terrified his parents, the king and queen of Chedi. Why he had these extra eye and arms?

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Wikipedia says: 2. Every extant school held some scripture to be correct. To show that the Veda was the only correct scripture, Bhaṭṭa ingeniously said that "the absence of an author would safeguard the Veda against all reproach" (apauruṣeya). Does this make Kumārila the first Indian philo...