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Since ancient times, the Hindus have had a lunisolar cycle based on the combination of solar and lunar years, determined by the course of the sun and the moon, but with the lunar year beginning near the solar year. Exactly how their earliest Calendar was arranged remains a mystery. Our focus is on the current form of their Calendar, developed around 400 under the influence of Greek astronomy and introduced into India at no long time. There are two kinds of Hindu years, solar and lunar. To understand the lunar Calendar, we will first explain the solar year, which governs the lunisolar system. Bengal, including Madras's Orissa, Tamil, and Malayalam districts, used solar years for civil purposes. General religious rites and festivals are regulated by the lunar year and the details of private and domestic life, such as choosing auspicious occasions for marriages and journeys, choosing lucky moments for shaving, etc. Almanacs that follow the lunar year contain details about the solar year, such as the sun's course through the zodiac signs. Despite following the solar year, almanacs include lunar year details.
Henry Romano (Author), Demitra (Narrator)
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Vedic Philosophy of the Kali Yuga: Through the Lens of Gnostic Wisdom
According to Vedic philosophy, there are four eras in every world cycle. They represent a gradual decline from enlightenment (Satya Yuga) to chaos and ignorance (Kali Yuga) before it starts again. Each of these eras lasts roughly 2160 years. You're probably familiar with the four ages of Hindu philosophy: Satya Yuga, Treta Yuga, Dwapara Yuga, and Kali Yuga. The golden age is when pure knowledge is widespread, and people live in harmony. The dark age is when everything goes wrong—the World falls into chaos, and humanity descends into ignorance. But what happens next? What is the meaning of 'the end of the world'?
Henry Romano (Author), Rupert Bush (Narrator)
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In his dancing position, Shiva is known as Nataraja, the King of dancers, and is one of the most beautiful forms of Lord Shiva. The upper right hand of Shiva, as Nataraja, holds the damaru drum. It shows nothing, but it represents universal development. Meanwhile, the lower right-hand holds a flame of destruction. There are many stories about Shiva's appearance. There is a third eye between Lord Shiva's eyebrows on his forehead as an example. It represents wisdom or inner vision. The other two eyes represent love and justice. Shiva views everything with the proportions of love, justice, and inner knowledge; thus, he is neither too harsh nor lenient. Shiva's three eyes also symbolize the sun, moon, and fire, how the universe is illuminated. Shiva's wife, Parvati, covered Shiva's eyes with her hands one day, and the entire world was enveloped in darkness. That is how Shiva got his third eye. Shiva ordered the third eye to manifest, producing light, heat, and fire.
Henry Romano (Author), Alastair Cameron (Narrator)
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The Forthcoming End of the Kali Yuga: Unravelling Cyclical Time in Ancient India
Hinduism has a complex system of world ages and cycles of creation and destruction as its chief characteristics. The remarkable theory of the yugas has always played a prominent role within this elaborate system. The article explains why society is and what people should do if they want to live according to religious principles. India’s yuga system was formed during a crucial period in its history, roughly from the 5th century B.C.E. to the 5th century C.E. The dominant Brahmana Vedic tradition had to adapt and transform to survive. It was a period of profound change in all spheres: social, political, economic, religious, and philosophical. Several challenges that confronted the authoritative religious traditions of the Time also led to revolutionary ideas that would become syncretic new religious traditions. During this period, Buddhism and Jainism emerged, and the reworked Brahmana religion we all know today as Hinduism. It was not precisely the need to confront these profound shifts in Indian religious traditions and social conditions that provided the fertile ground for a theory of world ages.
Henry Romano (Author), Alastair Cameron (Narrator)
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Strange Legends of Sanskrit Literature: The Greatest Epics of Lost Technologies, Ancient Advanced Ci
The Vedic and Sanskrit periods are different in matter, spirit, and form from the earlier periods. Sanskrit literature, which is abundant and well developed, is profane; Vedic literature is primarily religious. However, the Upanishads also contain a moralizing spirit despite their speculative tendencies. The Hindu Vedas are filled with gods’ stories, powers, and epic battles supposedly fought thousands of years ago. Sagas are mythological stories intended to be taken as allegories to learn valuable lessons for life. Hindu myths tell of noble gods fighting evil forces, flying Vimanas machines, and battles with powerful weapons. Can we be sure these are just metaphors? Vimana means “having been measured out” or “traveling,” and they were machines that the gods piloted. This flying craft came in various shapes and sizes and could travel a wide range of speeds and distances, like the chariots found in biblical texts. According to Hindu Sanskrit texts, the Vimana aircraft are flying machines of various degrees of sophistication. In comparison with the Vedic age, religion now prevails significantly differently. Several gods are worshipped in the new period, including Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. Most of the prominent deities of the Veda have become secondary deities, although Indra still holds a prominent position as the chief of a warrior’s heaven. As well as the serpent deities and several classes of demigods and demons, some new gods of lesser ranks have also developed, such as Kubera, goddess of wealth; Ganesh, goddess of learning; Karttikeya, god of war; Shri or Lakshmi, goddess of beauty and fortune; and Durga or Parvati, the terrible spouse of Shiva.
Henry Romano (Author), Alastair Cameron (Narrator)
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Spheroidal galaxies produce incredibly challenging questions regarding our modelling of the cosmos development process. Our problem is heightened because elliptical galaxies grew far away and long ago. As a result, the data that can reveal their arrangement is obscure. Nevertheless, there are mild relations between measured characteristics of the galaxies that comprise hidden aspects. One such relationship is the central plane of elliptical galaxies. This plane combines three measured amounts the size, the expanse and velocities of the stars, and the mass of all the stars in the galaxy. A plot of those three measures and three dimensions reveals that they rest on a two-dimensional plane, indicating they are connected. Furthermore, how this came about is a puzzle. What is certain is that elliptical galaxies, as observed today, are very gently growing and evolving systems. Any association in their characteristics must have been marked at birth. Galaxies now are very gradually developing systems. These mounting relations must have been marked long ago when the galaxies constituted. The associations provide observational restrictions on how the stellar mass was compiled. We would sincerely like to differentiate our snapshots of the past inferred from the scaling relations with development models. However, unlike disc galaxies, we have no underlying hypothesis of spheroidal galaxy uncertainty and star configuration. Instead, there are phenomenological ideas that propose the notion that consolidations control the gas reservoir for creating stars. Consolidations without gas are called dry consolidations. A consolidation with gas is wet. A wet consolidation involves star development and leads to multiple alterations in morphology. Modelling consolidations tells us that dry or dryish significant consolidations indeed performed a vital role at a redshift of one or two in valuing for the morphological properties of huge ellipticals.
Henry Romano (Author), Alastair Cameron (Narrator)
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Decoding the Vedic System of Knowledge: Lost Science and Technology in Ancient Indian Epics
The Vedas are among the oldest collections of text in India. Even today, they are taught orally from instructor to student. The teacher painstakingly corrects the pronunciation and intonation of the Vedic texts. Technology has seen virtual classrooms where females also learn and recite the Vedas the way they were changed. Of the three later Vedas, the Samaveda is much the most intricately connected with the Rigveda. Historically, it is of vast importance, for it contains lost technology and scientific matter, all its verses except seventy-five being taken directly from the Rigveda. Its contents are derived chiefly from the eighth and especially the ninth, the Soma book. The Samaveda resembles the Yajurveda in having been compiled only for ritual application, for the verses of which it consists are all meant to be chanted at the ceremonies of the offerings. Removed from their context in the Rigveda, they are strung together without internal connection, their significance depending solely on their relation to particular rites. In form, these stanzas appear in the text of the Sama-Veda as if they were to be spoken or recited, differing from those of the Rigveda only in the way of marking the accent.
Henry Romano (Author), Demitra (Narrator)
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Decoding Hindu Chronology: Exploring the Eras, Calendars and other Reckonings
The Hindus have had from very ancient times the system of lunisolar cycles, made by the combination of solar years, regulated by the course of the sun, and lunar years, regulated by the course of the moon but treated in such a manner as to keep the beginning of the lunar year near the beginning of the solar year. The exact way they arranged the details of their earliest Calendar is still a subject of research. We deal here with their Calendar as it now stands, in a form developed from about A.D. 400 under the influence of the Greek astronomy introduced into India at no long time previously.
Henry Romano (Author), Demitra (Narrator)
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Mysteries of the Rigveda: Lost Technology of the Gods Encoded in the Epics
Before we attempt to describe the world of thought revealed in the hymns of the Rigveda, the question may be asked, to what extent is there lost knowledge, lost technology, and advanced philosophy encoded within it? Is it possible to understand the true meaning of a book occupying so isolated in the remotest age of Indian literature? The answer to this question depends on recognizing the suitable method of interpretation applicable to that ancient body of poetry. Simply, yes, there is ancient lost technology in all ancient Indian Texts; take the concept of the Vimana, for example. When the Rigveda first became known, scholars, as yet only acquainted with the language and literature of classical Sanskrit, found that the Vedic hymns were composed in a mysterious ancient dialect and embodied a world of ideas far removed from that with which they had made themselves familiar.
Henry Romano (Author), Alastair Cameron (Narrator)
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The Great Mysteries of Space: Inexplicable Inisghts in the Cosmos
The universe has long fascinated us with its tremendous scales of distance and time. Nevertheless, how far out does it grow? Where does it end? Furthermore, what lies past the star fields and the currents of galaxies that reach as far as telescopes can observe? These questions are driving to yield to a series of sweeping new lines of examination.
Henry Romano (Author), Kevin Mcalister (Narrator)
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The Most Bizarre Enigmatic Objects in the Universe: Puzzling Mysteries Science is Just Beginning to
Across the endless reaches of time and space. Energy is being continuously Traded. Transferred. Furthermore, Released in Enigmatic bursts. In a grand cosmic game of life, we call this our Cosmos. How does energy produce the cosmos into a complete package? Furthermore, how do we belong and fit within it? Let us explore in-depth the complexities of the cosmos, from the galaxies in the heavens to Earth's most enormous explosions. From the time, space, and bizarre realms, so strange and violent. They stimulate our imaginations of possibilities in Physics. We are finding pretty bizarre objects in the cosmos every year now.
Henry Romano (Author), Kevin Mcalister (Narrator)
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A History of Lost Knowledge in Sanskrit Literature: Ancient Enigmas of an Advanced Epoch Preserved i
Since the Renaissance, there has been no event of such worldwide significance in the history of culture as the discovery of Sanskrit literature in the latter part of the eighteenth century. The highly advanced knowledge preserved in these texts is, however, really only coming to light now. After Alexander's invasion, the Greeks became to some extent acquainted with the Indians; the Arabs, in the Middle Ages, took their knowledge of Indian science to the West; a few European missionaries from the sixteenth century onwards were not only aware of the existence of Sanskrit Knowledge but also gained some familiarity with, the ancient language of India; and Abraham Roger even translated the Sanskrit poet Bhartṛihari into Dutch as early as 1651.
Henry Romano (Author), Alex White (Narrator)
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