Table Of Contents     What Are Agamas? Agamas refer to sacred Hindu texts recorded in various forms  collectively. T...

    (from the Sanskrit word yam, which means "to restrict") The word yati has been used to identify an ascetic, as someone who h...

    Yaska (5th century BCE?) is traditionally credited with writing the Nirukta, a Vedic treatise that provides etymological explanation...

  ("sacrifice's patron"). The yajamana was the person who commissioned the sacrifice and paid for its fulfillment, and there...

  (“obstruction”) In one of the hymns from the Rig Veda (1.32), the earliest Hindu holy literature, the name of the demon slain by the s...

  Vishvakarma is a Sanskrit term that literally refers to a cycle of good and bad deeds ("doing everything") is a phrase that is u...

  Vishnu meaning the “all-pervasive” in Sanskrit, is one among the three most powerful deities in the Hindu pantheon, with Brahma, Shiva a...

  Vishnu Purana is a Hindu epic that tells the story of Lord Vishnu and his One of the eighteen traditional puranas, which comprised an im...

  ("A Vedic [subsidiary] member") Six types of writings considered supplementary to the Vedas since they were created to make th...

Rta is the cosmic order and regularity that allows the rhythms of time and seasons to occur in orderly succession, according to the Vedas ...

  One of the priests who officiated at sacrifices in Hindu sacred texts (Vedas). The hotr, udgatr, adhvaryum, and brahman were the four ch...

  Rg Veda is a Hindu scripture. The most ancient and authoritative Hindu holy writings, and the oldest and most significant of the four ...