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Namaste!

I'm just about finished reading the Bhagavad Gita I bought some time ago, and I'm very interested in reading more texts. Does anyone know of any reliable/good translations of the Ṛg Veda?

Suggestions for translations of any other Hindu texts are great if you have them, but I'm really interested in reading the Ṛg Veda.

Thank you in

Sanskrit Vibhakti Source

pmax3 wrote in hindus Apr 20, 2011 07:53

There was a request some time ago on this forum for an online source for various Vibhakti forms of words in Sanskrit. There were two links provided in the comments to that post, but they don't seem to be working now. Anyway, I found this nice page which allows you to query any Vibhakti table based on the gender and ending vowel:
http://www. ( Read more... )

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Greetings on Ram Navami!

pmax3 wrote in hindus Apr 12, 2011 12:06

Hello people. Heartiest greetings to everyone on the occasion of Ram Navami. Please allow me to share with you a popular passage from Goswami Tulsidas's Ramcharitmanas which in my view contains a beautiful summary of all the ideals that Sri Ram taught us through is acts during his lifetime. The passage, from Lanka Kand, describes Vibheeshan's ( Read more... )

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Kaliyuga.

ocha_no_hanashi wrote in hindus Dec 28, 2010 19:07

According to Vedic astronomy the present age of kaliyuga started on Feb. 18th 3102 BCE. Richard Thompson in his book Vedic Cosmography and Astronomy points out that indeed on this date there occurred a very rare planetary alignment ( Read more... )