The human race is a member of the Mammalian class and Primate Order. So, also an animal. But what differs from other animal species wisdom. It only humans who can domesticate animals use them to fulfill different needs. In hunting/gathering hominid societies, were rich sources meat, skin, bone. artistic curious mind kept records his relationship with world through rock paintings Upper Paleolith...

AND INTRODUCTION The history of early India saw drastic social, political, and economic changes through its many ages and eras. Every time period had its unique interweaving of opposing and coalescing forces that set the dynamics for the culture of the time. These dynamics had far-reaching consequences, one of which was a profound influence of the ideology, practice, and development of religiou...

1. Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi110 029. Introduction Whenever the curiosity of the present day investigator probes into the past and brings to light even fragmentary information on the ingenious methods of our ancestors, it makes a fascinating study. In India, reference to the curative properties of some herbs in the Rigveda (...

Domestication of dogs, buffaloes (?), elephants, and fowls occurred in India between 6000 and 4500 BC. Strong archaeological evidence is available for existence of an advanced civilization in Mohenjo-daro, Harappa (now in Pakistan) and certain other places in northern India around 2500 BC. The people of these civilizations had both humped and humpless cows, buffaloes, elephants, goats, fowl, et...

To revive the Siddha system of medicine, a chronological probe including archaeological and historical sources ofthis discipline is necessary. Siddha system is based on th e atom and 96 101ft uvams of Saiva Siddhanda. Archaeological excavations at Harappa and Mohenjedaro, showing light on Siva-Sakti cult form a background for Siddha. There are views of links with the submerged Lumer ia continen...

Pāṇini’s fourth (?) century BCE Sanskrit grammar uses rewrite rules guided by an explicit and formal metalanguage. The metalanguage makes extensive use of auxiliary markers, in the form of Sanskrit phonemes, to control grammatical derivations. The method of auxiliary markers was rediscovered by Emil Post in the 1920s and shown capable of representing universal computation. The same potential co...

IntroductionIndian Literature with its multiplicity of languages and the plurality cultures dates back to 3000 years ago, comprising Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas Epics like Ramayana Mahabharata. India has a strong literary tradition in various Indian regional Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam so on. writers share oral tradition, indigenous ...

Indian music is primarily melodic. Appreciation of it is supposed to be mainly based on the melodic content and rhythm, and not so much on the timbral content. In north Indian classical vocal music (also known as Hindusthani vocal music) raga forms the base bone. The most common style of performance is khayal. The first part in khayal is known as alap, wherein one tries to establish the image a...

Renunciation is one of the most widely studied subjects among Indic traditions. The image of a half-naked ascetic with a stick in one hand and a begging bowl in other has captured the attention of scholars more often than the mundane householder. Whereas the ascetic captured the imagination with his (and sometimes her) individualistic spirit rebelling against the maligned caste hierarchy, the h...

Developmental ideas and models concerning family life have been disseminated widely around the world where they have become forces for both ideational and behavioral change. In this paper, we examine the ways in which ideas about marriage have been influenced by these ideas of development in Nepal, where, for centuries, young age at marriage, arranged marriage, and polygamy have been common pra...