Muhūrt (मुहूर्त) is a vedic unit of measurement for time. A 24 hour day+night consists of 30 muhurtas. Each Muhurta is about 48 minutes of duration. Each Muhurta is further divided into 30 Kalā ≈ 48 minutes. Brahmanas and Rig …
Hanuman has a story that during his chldhood, he assumed rising Sun to be a red colored fruit and tried to catch it. While he attempted to get close to Sun, Rahu (moon’s north node), who was supposed to catch …
Bhagavata Purana, composed around 1800 BCE describes in detail, Stars, planets in our solar system, Sun, their dimensions, distances between them, climatic and karmic effects of their movement. sa eṣa bhagavān ādi-puruṣa eva sākṣān nārāyaṇo lokānāṁ svastaya ātmānaṁ trayīmayaṁ karma-viśuddhi-nimittaṁ …
Many ancient Lord Siva temples from Kedarnath till Rameswaram with Kaleshwaram, Sri Kalahasti, Ekambareswar at Kancheepuram, Thillai Nataraja Temple at Chidambaram are aligned in a geographic straight line around 79° E 41’54” Longitude Siva has five temples built, representing the …
Varaha Mihira, astronomer, mathematician, astrologer of 1st century BCE was first to discover ‘Water on Mars‘. He was in the court of King Vikramaditya, who ruled India and neighbouring countries during that era. On this king’s name, a …
In Garuda Purana, Vishnu reveals to Siva, Yogas & Muhurtas, good or bad lunar and week days as per Vedic Astrology when travel should be avoided or undertaken for better prospects. Lord Vishnu told Shiva : ‘Various Yoginis (goddesses) …
There are many myths across many cultures about how eclipses occur. In Rigveda (5-40-5 to 9), seer Atri explained scientifically why eclipse occurs. Puranas have described the story of Rahu, Ketu (North Node and South Node of Moon) in a …
Madhava of Sangamagrama (c. 1340 – c. 1425), was an Indian mathematician-astronomer from the town of Sangamagrama. His writings were later transmitted to Europe via Jesuit missionaries and traders who were active around the ancient port of Muziris at the …
Concept of Time in Vedas is described clearly with its nature, but modern science is yet to understand it. Atharva Veda described about the time in Kand 19, Sooktas 53 and 54. Atharva Veda [53-1] : Kaala or the Time …
There has been multiple misinterpretations and wrong translations of Vedic hymns into english and other languages, where they though Earth was flat. But Roundness of Earth, Centrifugal and Centripetal we can find about Forces between Sun and Earth, Moon Light, …
