The Final Meme of Indian philosophy

Andhras- The world's oldest(surviving) tribe?

The Aitareya Brahmana is special. On many counts. For one, it is pretty old. In fact it is the oldest brahmana and it belongs to the Rig Veda. Secondly, it contains a profusion of curious historical information about bronze age Indian society, contemporary kings and sages, kingdoms as well as quite a few obscure and named tribes who are yet to plunge into the Vedic pale. The 'Vedic pale', we know from several other indicators, was in the earliest Rig Vedic times and before it restricted to what is now Haryana and it's thereabouts. One such reference is to be found in verse VII.18 of the text. Visvāmitra had a hundred and one sons, fifty older than Madhuchandas, fifty younger. Those that were older did not think this right..Them he cursed (saying) “Your offspring shall inherit the ends" (of the earth). These are the (people), the Andhras, Pundras, Sabaras, Pulindas, and Mütibas ,” who live in large numbers beyond the borders; most of the Dasyus are the descend

Tura Kavaseya- The first Philosopher?

Abstract : It has become a general premise of indology that the poetry of the Samhitas, the ritualistic prose of the Brahmanas and the philosophical outpourings of the Upanishads, their development and content are chronologically and qualitatively exclusive of each other i.e. they represent successive stages of Vedic literature, history and philosophy. On closer look, the view fails to hold either in the concern of composition, compilation or even of concept. One safe path across this chronological obscurity is to search out the references to historical personalities, contemporary or reminiscent, contained within these texts. The line of teachers of Vedantic philosophy recorded in Brihadaranyaka Upanishad VI.5 offers a unique opportunity in this regard. Keywords: Tura Kavaseya, Upanishads, Aitareya, Kausitaki, Shatapatha, Kavasa Ailusa, Brihadaranyaka, Sudasa, Somaka, Sahadeva, Janamejaya, Rig Veda, Yajur Veda. The story of philosophy, no doubt, begins with the

India- The country that isn't.

These are times like never before when many parts of the world, swept over by liberal ideals and the all-blending torrents of globalization question the very founding premises of intangible things like 'State', 'nation', 'people', 'patriotism' and so on. They were intangible but they were at the same time immutable, for thousands of years. Now, they seem to make a journey into the abstract and non-existent in people's reasoning. By no means are these changes wrong or without merit. Nationalist feelings can be accused of historically and presently sprouting all kinds of nastiness in collective human behavior. But we are not going to discuss the merits and demerits of any line of political thought. We are going to examine the curious case of one particular 'country'- India. India, or south Asia to be historically accurate, is an entity whose true nature cannot be adequately encompassed by any modern political equation, borders, law

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