Audrey Truschke’s single-volume work makes a bold attempt to capture thousands of years of cultural ferment on the Indian ...
In the earliest text written in Marathi, a language of millions in western and central India, a 13th-century religious figure ...
The Brahmastra is often described as a divine weapon, yet many ancient texts hint at a power comparable to or even greater ...
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One of the biggest mathematical achievements in human history has to do with the origin of nothing—or zero, to be more specific. Researchers at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library recently ...