Why is Belva leaf or Bel patra offered to Lord Shiva.... Continue Reading...

Gods of the directions – ASHTHA-DIGA-PALA Continue Reading...

ARASHURAMESHWAR TEMPLE – ANDHRA PRADESH – CHITTOOR – GUDIMALAM – Part 4 SHIVA – PARASHURAMA – BRAHMA - THE LEGEND - GUDIMALLAM Sage JAMADAGNI was a SAPTARISHI in the current MANAVANTARA and PARASHURAMA or Bhadrarama was his son out of his Kshatriya wife RENUKA & the 6th incarnation of MAHAVISHNU who visited the earth to absolve it from the weight of the sins of mankind. Continue Reading...

In any discussion ofKathak as a major dance-form, several questions arise, since the style evolved gradually duringthe course ofseveral centuries, imbibing diverse influences. There are some primary questions concerning this art form; what is its chronological place in relation to other styles; does it share the Hindu myth and legend of the other dance forms; did it originate in the Moghul Coruts. Continue Reading...

Manipuri may be described as a dance form which is at once the oldest and the youngest among the classical dances. Seemingly free and unbound governed only in a limited manner by the poetic line and the melody, a long waning metrical system, it is in fact rigorously structured and its easy fLowr and spontaneity is its outer form w-hich makes for a smooth commtuiication but is not to be mistaken for simplicity. Continue Reading...

Orissi may well claim to be the earliest classical Indian dance style on the basis of archaeological evidence, the most outstanding being the Rani Gupta caves of the second century B. C. in Orissa. Scholars have dated these caves and their carvings to be earlier than the writing ofthe Natyascistra. Continue Reading...