How Did the Universe Begin? A Complete Guide to Hindu Creation Stories
I think this is one of the questions I asked my parents the most when I was a kid. Later when I grew…
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Purusha Sukta: When the Universe Was Made From a Giant Cosmic Being
Try to picture this. A being so vast that the moon was born out of his mind and the sun out of his…
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The Nasadiya Sukta: The Hymn That Admits Nobody Knows
Imagine writing the oldest creation hymn your whole civilization will ever produce, a sacred song…
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The Churning of the Ocean (Samudra Manthan): How Gods and Demons Made the World Together
Here is a strange and wonderful idea to sit with. What if the most precious thing in all of…
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Satyabhama and Draupadi — A Conversation the Mahabharata Quietly Preserved
The Mahabharata is remembered for its great confrontations. The dice game. The battlefield of…
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Bhama and Satyabhama — The Name She Was Born With and the Truth That Completed It
If you watched Krishnavataram you may remember this moment — the film suggesting that she was…
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The Banquet Without Salt — How Krishna Showed Satyabhama What She Meant to Him
This is a story about salt.
That is not a sentence you would expect to find in Indian mythology.
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The Letter Rukmini Wrote to Krishna Before Her Wedding
The Bhagavata Purana is one of the most beloved texts in all of Indian literature. It runs to twelve…
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