From Vedic hymns to stone observatories, how ancient India mapped the cosmos, decoded time, and laid the foundations of modern astronomical thought ...

The Nasadiya Sukta, or "Hymn of Creation" from the Rigveda, is one of the world’s oldest meditations on these themes, tracing the origins of existence and exploring the limits of human ...

Consider the creation hymn in the Rig Veda, composed around 1500 to 1000 B.C., called the “Nasadiya Sukta.” This verse addresses fundamental questions of cosmology and the origin of the universe. In a ...

The life force that was covered with emptiness, that one arose through the power of heat,” says Rig- Veda in Nasadiya Sukta (translation; Wendy Doniger).

He then traverses the vast dharmic literature from the Vedas onwards to explain the difference. The Nasadiya Sukta of the Rig Veda, quoted in the third chapter of the book, for instance, shows the ...

In the celebrated Nasadiya Sukta of Rig Veda (10.129) the verses 2 and 3 bring out this complementarity as the basis of the very emergence of all existence: ...

The reimagination of Vanraj Bhatia’s Nasadiya Sukta, taken from Shyam Benegal’s television series Bharat Ek Khoj, which mentioned hymns from Rig Veda, helps to create an immersively haunting ...

Agnihotri tweeted- “HISTORY WAS CREATED TODAY: On the eve of #G20India. Who would have thought that one day NASADIYA SUKTA from RIG VEDA on the science of how the UNIVERSE WAS CREATED from ...

The Vedas, which are the only surviving texts from the early Vedic period and were codified between 1200 B.C. and 900 B.C., contain references to yogic and other practices associated primarily with ...