Author: Dr.Priyanka Shandilya. Editorial Note: This article is part of a Series on the purvapaksha of Western interpretations of Āyurveda. The claims and arguments made in the paper “AGNI AND SOMA: A UNIVERSAL CLASSIFICATION” by Dominik Wujastyk are examined with the traditional drishti. Serious claims as to Ayurveda’s “foreign” origins are made by Wujastyk. The interesting and …
Editorial Note: This article is part of a Series on the purvapaksha of Western interpretations of Āyurveda. The claims and arguments made in the paper “Medicine and Dharma” by Dominik Wujastyk are examined with the traditional drishti. Videshi (by drishti) scholar Wujastyk implies in his 2004 paper that Āyurveda is Adharma. Prof. Wujastyk first…
“All ancient Indian sciences have their roots in the vedas and strive toward a common goal, the moksha. Ayurveda and its paradigms too are robustly rooted in Vedas and in the ethico-cultural context of “Bharata”, hence its association with the Vedas is indissoluble”. Ayurveda, the Indian…
Author: Subhodeep Mukhopadhyay. History as it is In Indian history curriculum, Emperor Ashoka is an important figure, being the only other emperor in India apart from Akbar to have received the honorific “Great”. The following is an excerpt on Ashoka from a typical NCERT history text book used in Indian schools. …
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Editorial Note: – An article written much earlier by Madhu Kishwar ji triggered by events in the News, burning of the Manusmriti , protests triggered by Bollywood movies , Court rulings and the like. Though the context seems to have changed in 2019 , the arguments
