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 Ganesa Purana is a epic book authored by Basudeba Rath.Puranas are almost like an encyclopaedia listing the human achievements in this part of the world till the time they were edited or compiled. In every cycle of time the master editor called Veda Vyas emerges to edit, vet and compile these records. Their significance is enormous even in the present, as they give a peep into the distant past of Hindus when the world was evolving and the psyche of the race was being formed. These Puranas record the arguments that make us to decide as to what is holy and what is vile what is good and what is bad. By going through them we can compare our present day jurisprudence vis-a-vis the ancient norms. Apart from that, they are a huge store house of information conceiving every subject under the sun. It is with the view of unearthing these gems that the present series of the puranas has been planned.

 The Skanda Purana is the largest Mukyapurana, a genre of eighteen Hindu religious texts.The text contains over 81,000 verses, and is of Kaumara literature,titled after Skanda, a son of Shiva and Parvati, who is also known as Murugan.While the text is named after Skanda, he does not feature either more or less prominently in this text than in other Shiva related Puranas.The text has been an important historical record and influence on the Hindu traditions related to the war god Skanda. The earliest text titled Skanda Purana likely existed by the 8th century CE,but the Skanda Purana that has survived into the modern era exists in many version . It is considered as a living text, which has been widely edited, over many centuries, creating numerous variants. The common elements in the variant editions encyclopedically cover cosmogony, mythology, genealogy, dharma, festivals, gemology, temples, geography, discussion of virtues and evil, of theology and of the nature and qualities of S...

  Kartika is the son of Parvati and Shiva, the brother of Ganesha, and a god whose legends have many variations in Hinduism. Kartikeya is also known as Skanda, Subrahmanya, Shanmukha, and Murugan. He has long been revered in South India, Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, and Mauritius as Murugan. Kartikeya is also revered as Mahasena and Kumara in North India. Murugan is sometimes referred to as the God of the Tamil people. It has been hypothesised that after the Sangam era, the Vedic deity of Subrahmanya and the Tamil deity of Murugan were combined. Kartikeya is mentioned by Muruga and Subrahmanya alike.

 Ashtavakra is probably identical to the holy sage with the same name who appears in Mahabharata, though the connection is not clearly stated in any of the texts.Mukherjee identifies Janaka as the father of Sita and disciple of the sage Yajnavalkya in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.note Janaka is also depicted as a king who has attained perfection in vedas.It is essentially the philosophical dialogue between Janaka, the father of Sita and the sage Ashtavakra. According to Hindu scriptures, Ashtavakra is a sage who was born with eight physical abnormalities. Ashtavakra Samhita is the foundation of Ashtavakra Gita. It is a discourse about the sage's advice to Emperor Janaka regarding the Self. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Swami Vivekananda, two of India's most well-known saints, held the Ashtavakra doctrines in the highest regard.This book contains information on the star positions of the planets, the dasa and gochara phalas of the nine planets, and future predictions. It is a great...

 One of the four Vaisnava Sampradayas is the Nimbarka Sampradaya, often referred to as the Hamsa Sampradaya and the Sanakadi Sampradaya. Nimbarka , a Telugu Brahmin yogi and philosopher, founded it. It promotes the dualistic non dualist Vaishnava Bhedabheda theology of Dvaitadvaita. According to Dvaitadvaita, humanity are both separate from God, or Isvara, yet not different from Him. This Sampradaya is specifically a component of Krishnaism's Krishna centric traditions. Sanakadi Sampradaya, Hamsa Sampradaya, and Kumara Sampradaya are other names for Nimbarka Sampradaya. Tradition holds that Sri Hansa Bhagavan gave the Nimbarka Sampradaya Dvaita advaita philosophy to Sri Sanakadi Bhagawan, one of the Four Kumaras, who subsequently conveyed it to Sri Narada Muni and Nimbarka. The four mind born sons of Lord Brahma are known as the Four Kumaras, or Sanaka, Sanandana, Sanatana, and Sanat Kumara. They were made by Brahma to promote creation, but instead they opted to take lifetime vows ...

 One of the six schools of Indian philosophy that originated in ancient India is called Vaisheshika or Vaiseshika. The Vaiseshika was initially an independent school of thought with its own soteriology, logic, logic, metaphysics, and epistemology. The Vaiseshika system eventually resembled the Nyaya school of Hinduism in terms of its philosophical methods, ethical conclusions, and soteriology, but kept its distinctions in terms of epistemology and metaphysics. Like Buddhism, the Vaiseshika school of Hinduism only recognised direct observation and inference as two trustworthy methods of knowledge acquisition.Buddhism and the Vaiseshika school both regard their respective texts as infallible and reliable sources of knowledge, with the exception that the Vaiseshikas believed the Vedas to be a valid and trustworthy source. The Vaisheshika tradition is renowned for its naturalistic ideas. In natural philosophy, it is an instance of atomism. According to this theory, everything in the ph...