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• Namakaranam (नामकरणम्)
  ...s: Vikrama Publications. (Pages 130-144)</ref> To give individual identity in relation with the father, family and society, a name is selected for the ch As quoted in Viramitrodaya, Brhaspati with a poetic exaggeration remarks about the desir
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• Chaulam (चौलम्)
  ...s even in present times. While Chudakarana or Chaulam have been prescribed in various texts as a prerequisite for performing various rituals, it was also ...maining part is clean shaven. In tradition it is popularly called "Śikhā". In Sanskrit the letters "ल (la)" and "ड (ḍa)" are often interchanged. So
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• Annaprashana (अन्नप्राशनम्)
  ...velops it requires greater amount of nutrients. Hence around six months of age the child is started on increased nourishment. It is introduced with differ ...act is endorsed by Acharya Sushruta, who prescribes the weaning of a child in the sixth month and describes the types of food to be given. It was only la
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• Garbhadhana (गर्भाधानम्)
  ...n has been called Garbhadhana. Saunaka gives the similar definition though in slightly different words: the rite by the performance of which a woman rece ...d at the time when the couple are mentally and physically fit to take part in the procreative process.<ref name=":1" />[[File:23. Garbadhana Article.jpg|
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• Dharma and Women’s Rights
  ...woman who suffers irreparable physical, mental and socio-economic damage.  In particular, sexual assault is the most heinous crime which ruins the whole ...hat the right to protection is important especially of women who were seen in Vedic times as ‘sustainers of our society’.
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• Gurukula (गुरुकुलम्)
  ...has now lost its glory owing to the present day educational system brought in by the various rulers of India over the few centuries. Although modern educ ...4) ''Education in Ancient India.'' Benares : Nand Kishore and Bros.,</ref> In this article we discuss the Gurukula set up, the aims of such educational s
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• Dharmasutras (धर्मसूत्राणि)
  ...as Sutragranthas, primarily because a majority of these texts are composed in Sutra style of writing or short terse aphorisms. The sutras lay equal stres ...ls, the Dharmasutras include a broader scope of treatment of a human being in social, economic, political, religious and philosophical spheres. A point o
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• Nachiketa (नचिकेताः)
  ...gend is one of the oldest in Vedic literature. Nachiketa is also mentioned in the Kataka Brahman, which is now part of Taittriya Brahmana. The Kathopanis There are many versions of the name Nachiketa, as seen in different texts
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• Yama Deva (यमदेवः)
  ...he god of death. Following are a few important aspects about Yama as given in various texts. ...r vices, he assigns suitable punishments depending on the severity of sins in their earthly lives and are all sent to naraka (hell).
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• Sadvrutta (सद्वृत्तम्)
  ...This code of conduct is described under the section of preventive medicine in Ayurveda. It is believed that, when religiously observed, this code of cond ...ideline on how these activities and behavioral patterns should be observed in order to have their only positive impact on life.
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• Veera Narayana Temple, Belavadi, Chikmanguluru, Karnataka
  ...illage of Belavadi, Chikamagalur district, Karnataka. The temple was built in the 12^th century CE by the Hindu dynasty of the Hoysalas, based ...his story from ''The Mahabharata'' is famously associated with many places in [[Bharatavarsha (भरतवर्षम्)|Bharatavarsha]]. Belavadi is
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• Women's health and Ayurveda
  ...a advocates use of natural methods to preserve and promote positive health in woman. Special attention has been given to her potential of giving a childb ...ka in Vimanasthanam (विमानस्थानम्).<ref>Charak Samhita ([https://niimh.nic.in/ebooks/ecaraka/?mod=read Vimanasthanam Adhyaya 8 Sutra 94])</ref>
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• Four Oceans in Rigveda (ऋग्वेदोक्त चतुःसमुद्राः)
  ...]''. Gauhati University. (Chapter 5 : Geographical Information as recorded in the Rgvedasamhita)</ref> ...ties. The use of the word "samudram" in the sense of the ocean is met with in the Rigveda. Samudra is said to be the chief of waters.<ref name=":0" />
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• Jatakarma (जातकर्म)
  ...hild-birth. The primitive wonder, supernatural fear and natural care were, in course of time, combined with the cultural devices and aspirations to prote == वेदेषु जातकर्म विषयाः ॥ Jatakarma in Vedic times ==
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• Varuthini and Pravara (वरूथिनी प्रवरश्च)
  ...pict the impressionable nature of a young woman's mind and the role it has in shaping the personality of her children. ...he Asvini devatas in beauty of form. He was gentle in disposition, upright in conduct, he had studied all the Vedas and Vedangas; always gracious to gues
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• Preservation of the Vedas (वेदपरिरक्षणम्)
  ...housands of years, वैदिकविद्या || Vedic education was imparted to students in a गुरुशिष्य-परम्परा || guru-shishya parampa ...m of recitation of the मन्त्राः ॥ mantras - these were all the root causes in protecting the one integral voice of Vedas.
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• Vidya (विद्या)
  ...uired for attaining the higher worlds). Whatever is studied is all unified in the word Brahman.... Therefore they speak of an educated son as being condu ...0 owing to several causes.<ref name=":0">Altekar, A. S. (1944) ''Education in Ancient India.'' Benares : Nand Kishore and Bros.,</ref>
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• Aims of Gurukula System (गुरुकुलव्यवस्थायाः लक्ष्याणि)
  ...ary or professional, was to make the student fit to deal with the problems in life, train him to develop those qualities that would make him a beneficial ...the importance of duties of the student and the famous convocation address in 11th Anuvaka of Taittiriya Upanishad, sums up the importance of these dutie
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• Raktamokshana (रक्तमोक्षणम्)
  ...levant details on Raktamokshana have been described in Ayurveda literature in depth.
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• Kumbh Mela (कुम्भ मेला)
  ...Mela beckons to them and they respond – emerging from their distant abodes in jungles, caves or mountains. The wanderers too, turn their steps towards th ...return to ashes. After the bathing of sages, it is auspicious to take bath in the holy water.
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• Knowledge Acquisition Process
  ...o that we named our country ‘Bharat’ which latterly means a land of people in pursuit of knowledge. Knowledge is considered very holy, very pure and a ma # Nature of elements found in the creation can be defined as its ‘guna dharma’ (गुणधर्म
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• Gurukul in the 21st century
  ...n front of us is that of a natural environment in a jungle with an ashram, in the ashram there are many small, thatched huts and rishis are doing yagya. ...imagery of a traditional Gurukul. A lot seems to have changed since those days. This includes the uniforms, language, subjects, context, mentality of the
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• Upanayana (उपनयनम्)
  ...e Saṁskāras with [[Varnashrama Dharma (वर्णाश्रमधर्मः)|Varna and Āśramas]] in the sense of duty has been established by many authors and historians. ...e upadesha of Gayatri mantra which prepares him for the study of vedas, or in more modern terms the child enters the schooling phase of life ([[Brahmacha
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• Rivers in Rigveda (ऋग्वेदे नदीनां विवेचनम्)
  ...rn region of India and they represent some of the oldest human settlements in the world.
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• Aranyaka (आरण्यकम्)
  ...ere works to be read in the forest’ as against the Brahmanas used by those in grhastha ashrama.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":0" /> ...fe of man. The speculative and intuitive thinking appears to be developing in that stage. Meditative thinking is conspicuous. The Vedic man seems to be t
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• Vidyarthi's Qualities (विद्यातुराणां लक्षणानि)
  ...ls and inferiors. These rules afforded an imperceptible but effective help in the formation of character of a student.<ref name=":0" /> ...uld have given in texts like Smritis, Mahabharata, Chanakyaneeti and later day sources like Subhashitas.
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• Nakshatras (नक्षत्राणि)
  ...(1900), Shabda Sagara, First Edition, Entry: [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.195943/page/n375/mode/2up Nakshatra.]</ref> ...ra) near which the moon was seen, resulting in calling the asterism as the day's nakshatra, from which the 27 asterismal segments of the zodiac came into
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• Jnana Sopanam (ज्ञानसोपानम्) - Buddhi Yoga (बुद्धियोगम्)
  ...rsha. Today, countless number of people play this game all over the globe. In this series of articles presented here we bring forward to you the evolutio Snakes and Ladders is game can be found in various versions with various names across Bharatavarsha. Vaikuntha Pali, M
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• Srirangam
  ...orm of Sri Ranganatha is seen reclining on the coils of Adisesha. A temple in tamil is called 'koil'. However, among the Vaishnavas, the common noun koil ...has its own pushkarini (pond). And it is mostly, geographically, situated in the vicinity of a river.
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• Snataka Dharma (स्नातकधर्मः)
  ...(स्नातकः ॥ a graduate), that is, those who have completed their education in the [[Brahmacharyashrama (ब्रह्मचर्याश्रमः) ...्मः)|Varnashrama Dharma]] in the various Smrti texts. Manusmrti elaborates in detail about the code of conduct for a Snataka. His personal as well as soc
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• Pramanas for Dharma (धर्मप्रमाणानि)
  ...ood ground since time immemorial. That Vedas are the source of all Dharma (in moral, social, religious, judicial, and adhyatmik sense) is irrefutably adv ...oneously and loosely in the sense of sanctioning various unrighteous deeds in the name of changing society and times by different people all over the glo
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• Pathya (पथ्यम्)
  ...imen to be practiced for a healthy living directed by principles laid down in Ayurveda shashtra for samagra jivana vidhana (holistic lifestyle). Our scie ...ed population and moreover world of machines has created unlimited desires in human mind on the one hand, while on the other hand, it has originated anxi
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• Agnihotra (अग्निहोत्रम्)
  ...tyakarma. The procedure to perform Yajnas including Agnihotra is described in Brahmanas and Aranyakas of Veda (also called as Shrutis), thus they are cal ...tually maintaining Agni at home is vested with a grihastha. In the present days, very rarely, grihasthas are maintaining Agni at homes nor are conducting r
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• Daivavyapashraya Chikitsa (दैवव्यपाश्रया चिकित्सा)
  ...re beyond understanding of a normal human being these methods are included in one group separated from regular pharmacological treatment. Moreover, these ...Acharyas have suggested this modality of treatment for better results like in Rajayakshma (राजयक्ष्मा),<ref>Charaka Samhita (Chikitsa
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• Grhyasutras (गृह्यसूत्राणि)
  ...e, the description of the setting up of this fire finds an important place in the Grhyasutras.<ref name=":0">Gopal, Ram. (1959) ''India of Vedic Kalpasut ...They are the oldest manuals on the [[Samskaras (संस्काराः)|samskaras]] and in the whole set of [[Kalpa Vedanga (कल्पवेदाङ्गम्)|
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• Ramanujacharya (रामानुजाचार्यः)
  ...Samskrit : रामानुजाचार्यः) belonging to the 11th century, was instrumental in the establishment of the doctrines pertaining to Visishtadvaita (the philos ...was born on Thursday 4th April 1017 A.D. (Pingala Chaitra Sukla Panchami) in the star of Arudra corresponding to Saka year 939, and Kali year 4118. His
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• Kala (कालः)
  ...period" in a broad sense. The concept of time is explained systematically in [[Vedanga Jyotisha (वेदाङ्गज्योतिषम्)|vedan ...humb|450x450px|'''Kala Chakram. Time is depicted as a Wheel. Konark Temple in Odisha, India houses an elaborate architectural construction of the Surya's
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• Upavasa or Fasting (उपवासः)
  ...ly studied by Ayurveda scholars thousands of years ago and was implemented in Ayurveda treatments effectively. In Shabdakalpadruma, the term upawasa is explained as below,
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• Puranas (पुराणानि)
  ...as show the significance and ancientness of these texts. They are eighteen in number and are associated with the Upapuranas. They describe a wide variety ...that the puranas were the main source of bhagavata katha traditions found in India; the bond that has woven the cultural threads among different peoples
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• Antyesti (अन्त्येष्टिः)
  ...[[Sanatana Dharma (सनातनधर्मः)|Sanatana Dharma]]. It is the last samskara in the life of a person and specifically deals with the conclusive activities ...this term is not an exact translation of Antyeshti, or the crematory rites in the context of Sanatana Dharma.
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• Pataka (पातकम्)
  ...3) ''History of Dharmasastra (Ancient and Medieval Religious and Civil Law in India), Volume 4.'' Poona : Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute</ref> ...e concerned here with the growth and development of the doctrine of Pataka in India from Vedic times to the medieval digests and commentaries on Dharmasa
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• Krshi Vijnana (कृषिविज्ञानम्)
  ...nt protection, mechanics (for making implements) and animal husbandry used in modern parlance. ...tional agricultural practices to find out the ethos behind it and adopt it in the modern times.
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• Sayanacharya (सायणाचार्यः)
  .... As a bhashyakara he was viewed with different perspectives by many later day scholars, hence this article is compiled to throw light on his life and wor Sāyaṇāchārya occupies a unique place in the history of the Samskrit literature. The learned commentaries written by
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• Rasayana Shastra (रसायनशास्त्रम्)
  |description=Talk on Various Facets of Chemistry in Ancient and Medieval India ...ng mercury and its compounds. It is well known that science and technology in ancient and medieval India covered all the major branches of human knowledg
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• Vanaprasthashrama (वानप्रस्थाश्रमः)
  ...and householder and has abandoned his house and family for an ascetic life in the woods ; See. आश्रम), hermit, anchorite A1 past. Mn. MBh. etc. A Brāhmaṇa in the third stage of his religious life;
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• Yoga and Its Impact on Emotional Intelligence
  ...avad Gita, which explicates on yoga, sees that yoga begets high efficiency in work<ref name=":5">Ranganathananda, S. (2000). Universal message of the Bha ...itive aspects of behaviour<ref name=":0" />. Goleman’s research, conducted in 200 large, global companies reveals that - EI especially at the highest le
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• Dharmic Dinacharya (धार्मिक दिनचर्या)
  ...is intricately related to Dharma and spirituality plays a significant role in the deep thinking process. ...sages have propagated to spend 24 hours of a day in a streamlined manner. In short, this period is classified as follows:
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• Agastya (अगस्त्यः)
  Rshi Agastya's encounter with the daityas Ilvala and Vatapi is described in the Chapters 96-99 of the Vana Parva of the Mahabharata. ...er of brahmanas.<ref name=":0" /> It was to this Ilvala that Rshi Agastya, in order to fulfil his duty as a husband towards his wife Lopamudra, once came
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• Family Structure in Sanatana Dharma (सनातनीय कुटुम्बव्यवस्था)
  ...highly respected and followed even to the present day. It was rarely seen in other civilizations of ancient times. ...ontinuity of the family, importance of vivaha samskara, and modern outlook in this article.
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• Jyotisha And Ayurveda (ज्योतिषम् आयुर्वेदश्च)
  ...avyapashraya Chikitsa (दैवव्यपाश्रया चिकित्सा)|Daivavyapashraya]] therapy. In the past, knowledge of Jyotisha was a prerequisite for a qualified physicia To read this article in Hindi click on [[Jyotisha And Ayurveda (ज्योतिष एवं आ
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