link to the symbol as I do to some other symbols, mainly triangles and sacred geometry,” Wesson says. “I have a Sanskrit tattoo of 'Om Mani Padme Hum,' which is a sacred Tibetan Buddhist ...

It was 1955 when O R Rajagopalacharya, a Hindi schoolteacher, first fell in love with Sanskrit. He became so besotted with the language that he decided he had to spread the word, to make sure the ...

(The Conversation) — Kamala, a Sanskrit word for lotus ... different faith traditions in the subcontinent. In many Indian love poems, the wide, shapely eyes of beautiful women are compared ...

As Hinduism grew on the continent, however, the Sanskrit language was soon used as a tool of suppression, and symbol of superiority; after all, it was only the upper caste Hindus (comprising less than ...

Nityananda Misra is an unusual equity analyst. When he is not number-crunching, he is busy demystifying Sanskrit shlokas. A rare combination, but one that has led him to dig out some lesser-known ...

We will begin reading a new poem today, a fifth-century court epic by the greatest of all Sanskrit poets ... What the poem is really about is the love, the marriage and — phwoaar!

We will begin reading a new poem today, a fifth-century court epic by the greatest of all Sanskrit poets ... What the poem is really about is the love, the marriage and — phwoaar!

The great Sanskrit epic The Birth of Kumara details ... What the poem is really about is the love, the marriage and — phwoaar! — the lovemaking of Shiva and Parvati. Parvati was the goddess ...