Hymns to Surya-Savitri

The Hindu sun god Sūrya was originally one of the 3 deities-sun, rain god Indra and god Agnī before the sway of the Trimurti of Brahma Vishṇu and Shiva. This paper is an attempt to look at the sun deity in terms of non-secular Sanskrit literature

Ribhu, 2011

Savitri and Satyavan: The Path to Immortality. One of the Vedic Myths of Immortality.

Journal of the Ananthacharya Indological Research Institute 2009-2010 , 2009

The present article is about a pillar fragment kept in the compound of Janapada Panchayat, Gyaraspur, MP. It is speculated that one panel on the pillar may be an illustration of the mode of worship of Surya as described in the texts.

2015

PhD thesis on syncretistic stone images of the sun god surya.

Hymn to Agni, RV 2.1, 2023

Gritsamada Bhargava is one of the oldest Rishis of the Rigveda. This Hymn to Agni is a Revelation. It identifys all the Godheads of the Veda with the sacrificial action of Agni.

2018

Interpretation of hymns to Maruts in Rigveda from adhyatma perspective

Birthing the Goddess: The Feminine and the Idea of Birth, 2024

In the beginning there was the One in its splendour, as the Golden Womb, manifested as the sole Lord of land, skies, water, space and that beneath and that deity upheld the earth and the heavens. This is the deity we shall worship with our offerings.

2011

27 Surya, the visible celestial luminary was being worshipped in two important forms i.e. abstract and figurative since time immemorial. The abstract form of Sun is evident from the prehistoric rock art, Harappan and Chalcolithic pottery paintings, Punch-marked and Cast coins in the early historic period of India followed by the Hero stones and royal charters of medieval period of South India. The earliest figurative representation of the Sungod is gradually influenced by the Iranian-Mithra particularly in northern and eastern India.