Identifying Udagayana To understand sanskrit words is highly critical when it poise polysemous nature. A wrong conjecture in Astronomical sense can shift the epochs by drastic time gap which requires a speacial attention and gathering of textual evidence as much as possible. Identifying Udagayana-Praśna 1, Section 1; अथ कर्माण्याचाराद्यानि गृह्यन्ते १; 1. Now (follow) the…
We have many texts with śiśirādayaḥ as counting of ṛtus apart from Vasanta also. Basically, they appear in śrauta sūtras, gṛhyasūtras, and Purāṇās. There have been complications in understanding the texts from where the saṃvatsara began, whether winter Solstice or Vernal equinox. Besides, I chaffed out and separated this first as a problem and I…
Suśruta Saṃhitā One of the Āyurvedic text, Suśruta Saṃhitā, is a well known text which describes surgery with the help of instruments. The names of surgical instruments itself are very peculiar and perhaps have retained the earliest memories of different anthropological taxa’s body parts as the names of these instruments. Probably, as it appears to…
We find many different narratives of Season’s beginning or Season’s head in Indian narratives, in different Indic texts and usually this brings us an understanding that new year also began from these points.
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Swadeshi Indology-3 Conference at IIT Chennai-2017
Oxford Coffee Table Conference- 2018
Sangam Talks based on NFSI conference at CVV Cochin- 2019