Vedic Scholarship

Mahabharata and Bhagavad Gita describe the internal and external conflict we all encounter  and our struggles to achieve and discover meaning and purpose. The...

The King Lists of the Puranas

Thinking how to spend a weekend, I suddenly opened Matsya Purana to look into what’s written over the Satavahanas. Well, I always heard of...

Samudragupta’s Conquests in the West

Samudragupta needs no introduction. Easily one of the greatest conquerors India produced, with Chandragupta Maurya the only king before him who can match his...

Who was Maharana Kumbha?

  This post was earlier published by me at my blog, republishing here. A giant of a personality, both physically and metaphorically, Rana Kumbha...