Father Sky in ancient Greek and Sanskrit
In the late stone age, about seven or eight millennia ago, the...
Assi Ghat sanskrit mural
This mural is to be found in one of the winding back...
Words for king in Sanskrit, Greek and Old English
The common word for king is राजा (rājā) in Sanskrit, βασιλευς (basileus)...
Immortals and their ambrosia
In Greek literature the gods are known as the ἄμβροτοι...
विद्यार्थी (vidyārthī) and अध्यापक (adhyāpaka) = student and teacher ... or not?
To students who are new to Hindi, terms such as विद्यार्थी...
Why are the vowels ए (ē) and ओ (ō) always long?
The vowels ए (ē) and ओ (ō) of Sanskrit, and therefore also...
Valhalla and Valkyries
In Norse myth valhöll (the Old Norse term for valhalla) is the hall...
The wings of man's mind
What ancient Greek and Sanskrit can tell us about our thinking...
Sun and Moon in Germanic myth
The following passage is translated from the Prose Edda,...