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Sanskrit

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...

The wings of man's mind

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

Maiden Dawn

  Both in the Vedic hymns and in the Homeric poems dawn...