Baudhayana (800 BCE – 740 BCE) was a great Indian mathematician and a Vedic priest. There is very little information about his personal life. However several of his works are known, covering areas of Mathematics, Dharma, Daily Rituals, etc. His …
Guru Gobind Singh was born on 22 December 1666 at Patna (in modern Bihar) and his original name was Gobind Rai. He was the 10th and last of the Sikh Gurūs and who created the Khalsa, the military brotherhood of the Sikhs. …
The founder of Sikhism, Guru Nanak was born on 15th April 1469, in a Hindu family in the village Talwandi (now NankanaSahib in Pakistan) Punjab. His father’s name was Mehta Kalian Das (Kalu Ji) and his mother’s name was Mata …
Lord Mahavir Swami was born in 599 B.C. on the thirteenth day of the rising moon during the month of Chaitra in the Vira Nirvana Samvat calendar, as Prince Vardhamana. His father was King Siddhartha and his mother was Queen …
Lord Buddha was born as prince Siddharth in a royal family. He was born in the forest of Lumbini near Kapilavastu, Shakya republic of Kosala kingdom (Nepal). As per historical events, he was born in 563 BCE but according to …
Aryabhata (आर्यभट) (476 – 550 CE) was a great Indian mathematician and astronomer who is regarded as a towering figure in both these fields. Several of his calculations have shown remarkable accuracy for the era, while remaining the best available …
Kumbh Mela (कुम्भ मेला) is the world’s largest, grandest, most spectacular event and the Hindu congregation drawing more than 5 crores (50 million) people from all corners of India and abroad. It is primarily a socio-spiritual confluence of sages and …
The Mahabharata has around 100,000 verses, making it the longest epic poem ever written. Similar to the Ramayana, the Mahabharata is also an ancient Indian Sanskrit epic, giving the chronicle of a royal family having two branches Kaurava and Pandavas, …
“ This knowledge is the king of all wisdom, the king of all that is confidential. It is the purest and the topmost and because it gives direct perception of the self by realization it is the perfection of all …
Indus – Sarasvati civilization is also called Harappan civilization as earlier excavation sites were Harappa and Mohenjo Daro. The initial excavation was carried by a famous British archaeologist Alexander Cunningham in 1853 and then it was abandoned. Later in 1919, …