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BY: SUN STAFF - 19.1 2021
Elephants of War
A serial presentation of India's great history, religious movements and temple architecture.
The Indo-Greeks
The Yavanas
"The Yavanas or Yonas were described as living beyond Gandhara. There was another country mentioned in the epic...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 19.1 2021
A Yavana image
Excavations at Bharhut, Madhya Pradesh
A serial presentation of India's great history, religious movements and temple architecture.
The Indo-Greeks
"There is indication of the existence of a sect, information about which is lost in the...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 15.1 2021
A gold dinar honoring Lord Shiva, who is pouring water from flask and holding the vajra (thunderbolt), trident, and tamgha (he-goat).
A serial presentation of India's great history, religious movements and temple architecture.
Today we begin to discuss...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 13.1 2021
Fig 5. Yama from Balasor
A serial presentation of India's great history, religious movements and temple architecture.
The Indo-Scythian Sakas
Concluding his historical survey of ancient Mayurabhanja, author Nagendranath Vasu offers this summary of the...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 13.1 2021
Janmastami Jhanki
A series on the sacred dramas enacted in Mathura and Vrindavan.
In secular and occidental literature, the earliest mentions of Vrindavan and Mathura are found amongst the testimonies of the Greek geographers, who derived their information from...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 12.1 2021
Mitra, the Sun God
A serial presentation of India's great history, religious movements and temple architecture.
The Indo-Scythian Sakas
In his continued historical survey of Orissa's Mayurabhanja district, Nagendranath Vasu describes the history of the...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 11.1 2021
By Dr. N.H. Hebbar.
The history and organization of the eight monasteries known as Ashta-Matts) in Udupi, Karnataka established by Sri Madhvacharya are most interesting. Udupi is one of the rarest Hindu religious centers, where the customs and routines as...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 11.1 2021
An exploration of the rock-cut temple complex at Mahabalipuram.
The Pancha Ratha is a famous rock-cut shrine complex at Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu. This late 7th century example of monolith rock-cut architecture is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, and is now...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 11.1 2021
A serial presentation of India's great history, religious movements and temple architecture.
The Indo-Scythian Sakas
Our survey of the first group of Middle Kingdom inhabitants, the Scythians (Sakas), continues from the study of religious history in Orissa...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 11.1 2021
By HDG Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur
Published in the Harmonist, Sept 19th, 1934.
The Fountainhead of all eternal and temporal manifestations is confined in Sri Krsna alone. The non-absolute phases are emanations from a particular potency whose...Read more...
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By editor - 7.1 2021
The shrine at Bodh Gaya is the only surviving example of Mahayana Buddhist architecture that flourished in the Gangetic region during the first millennium. During the early period of Mauryan rule (400 B.C. to 250 B.C.), wood was the chief building material....Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 7.1 2021
"View of Mutura on the River Jumna"
by Thomas and William Daniell, c. 1803
In the Nectar of Devotion, Chapter 12, Srila Prabhupada describes the glories of residing in Mathura:
"In the Varaha Purana there is a statement praising the...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 7.1 2021
Surya-deva from Ayodhya
A serial presentation of India's great history, religious movements and temple architecture.
The Indo-Scythian Sakas
In his exposition on the history of Orissa's Mayurabhanja District, author Nagendranath Vasu gave a...Read more...
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By Dr. K. L. Kamat - 6.1 2021
The Hoysala dynasty from the 11th century lasted for two hundred and fifty years. They developed sculptural and architectural styles which were radically different than what was in existence. The temple scheme is repeated in multiples of two...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF- 5.1 2021
The Sakas (Scythians) on a frieze at Persepolis in Persia
Circa 80 B.C.: The Yeuh Chi, forerunners to the Kushans, drove the Sakas southwards from Central Asia. In turn, the Parthians diverted the Sakas, their Indo-Scythian cousins, from Persian territory into...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF CORRESPONDENT - 5.1 2021
Devotees gather in Puri
Basanti Jena could not hold back her tears as she stepped into Puri Jagannatha temple, which reopened for devotees, irrespective of their place of stay, on Sunday. Earlier, the Jagannatha temple had reopened on December...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 4.1 2021
The extent of Maurya Empire
A serial presentation of India's great history, religious movements and temple architecture.
This Earth planet was formerly known as Ajanabha, in reference to the reign of King Nabhi, but after Bharata Maharaja ruled the planet, it...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 3.1 2021
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
'Vaisnavite Movements' from IGNOU curriculum, Part 5.
As described in the first segment of this series, "Vaisnavite Movements", we have been presenting the syllabus of curriculum offered by the Indira Gandhi National Open...Read more...
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By editor - 3.1 2021
Official Update:
*H.H. Jayapataka Swami-Official health update*
Friday 1st Jan 2021
23.00 hrs (Indian Standard Time)
Dear God-family, disciples and well wishers of H.H. Jayapataka Swami Maharaja,
We would like to inform the ISKCON community that HH Jayapataka Swami...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 29.12 2020
Kabir, Weaving
Company school, c.1825
Vaisnavite Movements' from IGNOU curriculum, Part 4.
Ramananda (1299-1410)
In northern India, it was Ramananda who initiated the Vaishnava movement. Although Vaishnavism in this region started before him, the credit...Read more...
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By editor - 25.12 2020
LOCATION: Orissa, Bhubaneshwar
MAIN DEITY: Lord Shiva
ESTABLISHED BY: Jajati Keshari in 11th Century
KNOWN FOR: Having self-originated temple
All over in Bhubaneshwara, Lingaraj temple is considered to be the most ancient and the largest of all...Read more...
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By Lokanath Swami - 24.12 2020
War and pious deeds have often come together at this ancient North Indian site.
KURUKSHETRA, about one hundred miles north of New Delhi, is best known as the place where the great battle of the Mahabharata was fought and Lord Krsna spoke the...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 23.12 2020
Ramanujacarya, Ganapathipuram
'Vaisnavite Movements' from IGNOU curriculum, Part 2.
"Vaishnavism in southern India must be traced to the Alwars, after whom there were a number of Vaishnava philosophers till the coming of Ramanuja. Most important...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 21.12 2020
Hari Sankirtan
F. B. Solvyns, Calcutta c. 1799
Today we begin a four-part series entitled 'Vaisnavite Movements', which comprises a section of curriculum currently being presented by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in New Delhi. The...Read more...
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BY: SUN STAFF - 21.12 2020
Sri Sangameswaran - Lord Bharata of Sri Koodalmanikyam Temple, Irinjalakuda, Kerala
In the epic Ramayana, we read the story of Bharata, the second brother of Lord Rama and the son of Emperor Dasaratha and Kaikeyi, of the Solar Dynasty. It is said that after Rama...Read more...
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