One of King Sagar 's wives in Hindu legend . Sumati and her co-wife Keshini are given a choice in the number of children they will h...

  Rishyashringa    is a sage from the Ramayana, the first of India's two major epics. Rishyashringa is tasked by King Dasharatha to ...

  Raghu is the grandfather of Ruler Dasharatha and a renowned king of the Ikshvaku dynasty in Hindu mythology. Rama, the protagonist of th...

  Manthara is the hunchbacked maid of King Dasharatha's wife, Kaikeyi, in the Ramayana, the older of the two major Indian epics. Kaike...

Lakshmana is one of King Dasharatha's sons with his wife Sumitra, and the younger half-brother of Rama, the epic's protagonist, in t...

This is the name of the territory along the banks of the river Sarayu where Rama's father, King Dasharatha, ruled in the Ramayana, t...

  Kaikeyi is the second wife of King Dasharatha, the mother of Bharata, and the foster mother of Rama, the epic's protagonist, in the Ra...

Kausalya is the first wife of King Dasharatha and the mother of the god-king Rama in the Ramayana, the earlier of the two major Indian epi...

In Hindu mythology, Jabali is a prominent sage who is the son of the sage Vishvamitra. Despite his biological beginnings, Jabali ultimatel...

  The Hindu religious calendar is based on the lunar calendar, which divides the year into twelve lunar months, each split evenly into ...

Padinenkilkanakku is a collection of eighteen minor works of literature.  It is a collection of early Tamil works of literature that was com...

  Eclipses are universally regarded as exceedingly inauspicious and ritually perilous events.  Indian astronomers, like those of many other ...

 The act of eating is filled with cultural importance and messages all throughout the globe, and Hindu culture is no different.  Given their...

  Dasharatha is a monarch of the Ikshvaku dynasty and the father of Rama, the protagonist of the Ramayana, the earlier of the two major Indi...