In the popular imagination, temples are places of worship where devotees gather to pray and offer rituals. Yet in Bharat’s civilizational history, temples were far more than sacred enclosures for deities. They were living universities, laboratories of science, schools of…
Bharat’s spiritual tradition is one of the richest in the world. The Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, Itihasas, Agamas, stotras, and bhakti poetry form an ocean of wisdom that has guided humanity for millennia. Yet much of this heritage still survives in…
Long before printing presses or modern libraries, India preserved its vast ocean of knowledge in the most humble yet enduring form: palm leaves. These manuscripts, inscribed with scriptures, poetry, medicine, astronomy, and philosophy, formed the ancient libraries of Bharat. They…