A celestial struggle between the Devas and Asuras, it was a grand pursuit for amrit, the nectar of immortality, which promised eternal life and dominion over the cosmos. Yet, when the golden urn ...

Satapatha Brahmana tells in a mythopoeic fashion the story of how devas (Aryans) deprived the Asura of their speech. Asuras and devas both were offspring of Prajapati, the creator. As to his ...

Discover the significance of Mahalakshmi and the power of Sri Stuthi in invoking blessings and auspiciousness.

Take a bath one hour before sunset. According to mythology, during Pradosha devas approached Lord Shiva for help in getting ...

According to Hindu mythology, the gods (Devas) and demons (Asuras or Yakshas) churned the ocean in search of the elixir of life, during which nine sacred jewels emerged—one of them being the ...

Kerala Chief Secretary Sharada Muraleedharan's Facebook post on how her skin colour was being used to measure her ...

Nowroz, a Farsi (Persian) term translating to ‘new day’, is a vibrant spring festival celebrated across multiple countries ...

Edward Hale in ‘Asura in Early Vedic Religion’ argued that while the word deva, which means god in Sanskrit and Vedic literature, the Iranian counterpart daeva, mentioned in the Avesta ...