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June 6, 2015

Father Sky in ancient Greek and Sanskrit

    In the late stone age, about seven or eight millennia ago, the...

June 5, 2015

Assi Ghat sanskrit mural

  This mural is to be found in one of the winding back...

June 4, 2015

Words for king in Sanskrit, Greek and Old English

    The common word for king is राजा (rājā) in Sanskrit, βασιλευς (basileus)...

June 3, 2015

Immortals and their ambrosia

    In Greek literature the gods are known as the ἄμβροτοι...

June 2, 2015

विद्यार्थी (vidyārthī) and अध्यापक (adhyāpaka) = student and teacher ... or not?

    To students who are new to Hindi, terms such as विद्यार्थी...

June 1, 2015

Why are the vowels ए (ē) and ओ (ō) always long?

  The vowels ए (ē) and ओ (ō) of Sanskrit, and therefore also...

May 31, 2015

Valhalla and Valkyries

    In Norse myth valhöll (the Old Norse term for valhalla) is the hall...

May 31, 2015

The wings of man's mind

  What ancient Greek and Sanskrit can tell us about our thinking...

May 30, 2015

Sun and Moon in Germanic myth

      The following passage is translated from the Prose Edda,...