The Ancient Geography of India. I. The Buddhist Period, including the Campaigns of Alexander, and the Travels of Hwen-Thsang. By Alexander Cunningham., Major-General, R.E. With thirteen maps.

With his workers during the ceremony, his feet bare and his forehead glowing with a dot of vermilion, sat Shantanu Laxman Kirloskar, the U.S.-educated head of India’s Kirloskar group ...

Many Vedic gods were absorbed into the identities of Vishnu, Shiva, or Devi, while others simply lost relevance as society changed. Their stories, however, remain etched in India’s ancient texts ...

From ancient to modern times, India has played a central role in human ... Hinduism and create a scrapbook that highlights important gods, holy sites, and ancient texts. To honor the great ...

By invoking this historical geography of a ... that stitched together the ancient world, Dalrymple argues, but a “Golden Road”, named for the riches of ideas and knowledge associated with the ...

In ancient India, time was referred to as kala ... One human year is equivalent to one day of the gods; thus, a year of the gods is equal to 360 human years. Moreover, 12,000 years of the gods ...

The award-winning historian William Dalrymple narrates a version in The Golden Road, an outstanding new account of ancient India’s cultural ... “where Indian gods ruled the imaginations ...