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	Astronomy and its Role in Vedic Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Agnicayana altars are supposed to symbolize the universe.10 Garhapatya represents the earth, the dhisnya hearths represent space, and the ahavanıya altar represents sky.
		The altar for the earth was drawn as circular whereas the sky (or heaven) altar was drawn as square.
		S.C. Kak, “Astronomy of the Vedic Altars and the Rigveda”,
	subhashkak.voiceofdharma.com /articles/ast.htm (10676 words)

	vedi
		In the Vedic sacrificial ritual, when a sacrifice is performed for the benefit of a sacrificer, the dimension of the sacrificial altar is derived from the dimension of the sacrificer.
		The first step in the construction of the altar is to determine the size of the angula, or "finger," the fundamental unit of measure used to determine the various dimensions of the altar.
		Thus, unless the sacrificer's body is found to be deficient, the dimension of the sacrificial altar derives from the dimension of the sacrificer.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /george/vedi.html (765 words)

	Altar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Altars were erected by Abraham (Genesis 12:7; 13:4; 22:9), by Isaac (Genesis 26:25), by Jacob (33:20; 35:1, 3), and by Moses (Exodus 17:15, Adonai-nissi).
		In Solomon's temple the altar was of larger dimensions (2 Chr.
		Atop the altar is the tabernacle, a miniature shrine sometimes built in the form of a church, inside of which is a small ark containing the reserved Sacrament for use in communing the sick.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Altars (4035 words)

	Space and Cosmology in the Hindu Temple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The primary Vedic number is three, representing the tripartite division of the physical world into the earth, the atmosphere, and the sky and that of the person into the physical body, the pranas, and the inner sky.
		Second, the altar design is explicitly about the sun's circuit around the earth and so the proportion of 15:14 must be converted into the appropriate count with respect to the length of the year.
		Although the main altar might be square or its derivative, the overall sacred area is taken to be a departure from this shape.
	subhashkak.voiceofdharma.com /articles/time2.htm (5331 words)

	IFVS- Worldwide Forum for Vedic Research & Studies
		Vedic fire altars also through area, shape and construction material symbolized various aspects of terrestrial, astronomical and spiritual sciences.
		But geological evidences encoded in the Vedic and allied literature prove that Indian culture is much more older than the church's concept of the origin of earth which brainwashed the historians, indologists, and scientists of west and their blind followers in India for many decades.
		According to the Vedic scientists represented by Kanada of Vaisheshika philosophy, the present creation composed of both Prakti (matter) and Puru-a (consciousness) is sustained by three forms of Sanskaras.
	www.vedascience.com /Research.htm (2218 words)

	Vedic Math and the Spiritual Dimension: Index
		When the poetic vision of the Vedic seers was externalized in symbols, rituals requiring altars and precise measurement became manifest, providing a means to the attainment of the unmanifest world of consciousness.
		Although Vedic mathematicians are known primarily for their computational genius in arithmetic and algebra, the basis and inspiration for the whole of Indian mathematics is geometry.
		Vedic mathematicians strongly felt that every discipline must have a purpose, and believed that the ultimate goal of life was to achieve self-realization and love of God and thereby be released from the cycle of birth and death.
	www.gosai.com /chaitanya/saranagati/html/vishnu_mjs/math/math.html (3807 words)

	Abstract, Nexus 96, George Joseph: The Geometry of Vedic Altars
		George Gherveghese Joseph examined the geometry of Vedic altars at the Nexus 96 conference.
		The first is from the standpoint of the beliefs connecting the shapes of altars with the specific desires to be fulfilled by their use in the sacrifices.
		George Gherveghese Joseph, "The Geometry of Vedic Altars", pp.
	www.nexusjournal.com /conferences/N1996-Joseph.html (435 words)

	.:SAKSI: Vedic Literature: Mathematics: Mathematics in India of the Vedic age:.
		The Vedic sages attached the greatest importance to the preservation of the text of the Rig Veda along with accent marks and developed special methods of recitation which remind us of the modern error correction and detection codes in modern communication and computer systems, i.e.
		Even though the Vedic sages know the similarity of the relationship between 1 and 10, 2 and 20 etc, there is no explicit mention of the place value system or of the numeral zero.
		The fact that this altar has half the area of the regular square is a clear indication of their knowledge of the Pythagorean triple.
	www.vedah.com /org2/literature/maths/maths_in_india.html (4290 words)

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		Vedic sacrifices-the central act of Vedic culture- were to be offered on precisely built geometrically constructed altars and to be performed at astronomically exactly established times.
		He believes that while the Vedic Indians possessed extensive astronomical knowledge, which they encoded in the text of the Rigveda, the code was lost in later times and the Vedic tradition was interrupted.
		Seidenberg, A. 'The Geometry of the Vedic Rituals' Agni: The Vedic Ritual of the Fire Altar, Vol.
	www.clubs.psu.edu /clubs/vedicsociety/EssayAryan.htm (4555 words)

	The Sampradaya Sun - Independent Vaisnava News - Feature Stories - July 2006
		To understand the principle behind the broader equivalences of Indian art and its cosmology, it is good to begin with the fire altars of the Vedic period that were themselves designed to represent astronomical (outer) as well as inner knowledge.
		The Vedic altars had an astronomical basis related to the reconciliation of the lunar and solar years, which mirrors the reconciliation of the female and male currents within the body and mind of the individual.
		The Hindu temple, as a conception of the astronomical frame of the universe, serves the same purpose as the Vedic altar, which reconciled the motions of the sun and the moon.
	www.harekrsna.com /sun/features/07-06/features361.htm (3937 words)

	Vedic Mathematics
		Vedic Mathematics is the name given to the ancient system of Mathematics which was rediscovered from the Vedas between 1911 and 1918 by Sri Bharati Krsna Tirthaji (1884-1960).
		Vedic Mathematics manifests the coherent and unified structure of mathematics and the methods are complementary, direct and easy.
		In his deep-layer explorations of cryptic Vedic mysteries relating especially to their calculus of shorthand formulae and their neat and ready application to practical problems, the late Shankaracharya shows the rare combination of the probing insight of revealing intuition of a Yogi with the analytic acumen and synthetic talent of a mathematician.
	www.hinduism.co.za /css.htm (5864 words)

	Essays in Indian History: The Aryan Invasion - Theories and Counter-Theories, Harappa and Vedic Civilization
		It is not inconceivable that the Vedic Brahmin developed as a composite of the Harappan priest and the priest of an invading (or migrating) tribe or clan.
		It is important to note that much of the Vedic literature - both in the style and substance of it's verses, appears to be uniquely Indian, and it is not impossible that at least some of the verses may have Harappan origin.
		Vedic influences on the civilizations in Bengal, Assam and Orissa were initially almost minimal, and these Eastern civilizations largely followed their own (and somewhat unique trajectories), as did the civilizations of South India - absorbing Vedic philosophical concepts gradually and only partially.
	members.tripod.com /~INDIA_RESOURCE/aryan.html (4426 words)

	Yantra, Yantras, Vedic Yantra or Vedic Yantras - astrovigyan.com
		Vedic Yantras are Energised (Pran pratishta) by learned purohits, by reciting the vedic mantra of the particular Devi or Deva one lack eighteen thousands time and the Homa of 108 mantra.
		Vedic altars is further developed in the proportional systems of yantras, the ritual diagrams of Tantric initiation and empowerment.
		As in the case of the tradition of Vedic altars mentioned above, there are many types of yantras.
	www.astrovigyan.com /yahtra.htm (739 words)

	Tantra - The Many Faces of Kali
		The Vedic, or orthodox, strand stems from the Vedas, India's oldest surviving sacred texts.
		Composed in Sanskrit, the Vedic hymns are in large part nature poetry written by people overwhelmed by the beauty and power of surrounding nature, which they personified and deified as a pantheon of gods and goddesses.
		The earliest Vedic hymns are tinged with Tantric elements, and at the heart of Tantra lies the sublime metaphysical philosophy of the Upanishads, which form the culmination of Vedic thought.
	www.iloveulove.com /spirituality/hindu/tantrafacesofkali.htm (6049 words)

	Vedic Aryans & the Origin of Civilisation
		Rajaram, a mathematician and Frawley, a Vedic scholar, impute that that invasion theory served the political purpose of psychological subjugation of the people of India by implying the very country they were colonising was in, in fact, invaded and occupied by Western powers in the past.
		The construction of Vedic altars demanded a knowledge of geometric algebra and one of the authors who is a mathematician goes to great lengths to explore ancient Indian mathematics.
		Vedic "Aryans" and the origins of civilization arrives at far-reaching conclusions about ancient history and civilization by combining new insights into the meaning of the Vedas and other ancient Indian scriptures with scientific analysis of ancient sources.
	www.tamilnation.org /books/History/aryan.htm (1966 words)

	Vastu Creations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		An altar is a sacred platform that creates fulfillment: it enhances and expands the potential of the environment in which it is placed.
		We create an altar by placing items that represent each of the five elements - water, fire, earth, air and akasha (a Sanskrit word for space) - specific to the directional environmental forces that are at work in our daily lives.
		The activation of an altar is a very important step and once the process is completed, the altar is alive and acts as a conduit for your connection between the formless world of intention and the physical realm.
	www.vastucreations.com /altars.htm (683 words)

	mandala
		But while the mud-bricks of altars are simply abandoned after the ritual sacrifice, mandalas are deliberately destroyed, their sand swept up upon completion of the initiation and and poured into a nearby stream or river.
		Note that in the east-west direction, drawn vertically here, the furthest extent of the construction lines is proportionately equal to that of the Vedic altar.
		Just as the Vedic altar is abandoned after the completion of the sacrificial ritual, the sand of the mandala is swept away after the completion of the tantric ritual, and then poured into a nearby stream or river.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /george/mandala.html (685 words)

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		Some of these altars are domestic, some public, on a raised platform and arrayed in a row of seven facing East (suggesting the 7 dhish.nya hearths where the sacrificer had to face East).
		These altars were found both in the early and later stages of occupation of the towns from at least 2200 BCE (Lal, B.B "Some Reflections on the Structural Remains at Kalibangan" in Frontiers of the Indus Civ.
		There are all kinds of disparate data--the possibility of the Vedic texts recording astronomical information pertaining to the solstices which, due to the precession of the equinoxes, can be dated to the 3rd or 4th mill BCE is another piece of evidence that keeps resurfacing in Indig.
	www.montclair.edu /risa/d-iaryan.txt (20355 words)

	Essays in Indian History: The Aryan Invasion - Theories and Counter-Theories, Harappa and after
		This would bolster the argument that Brahmins of the Vedic age emerged from the Harappan priesthood, and not from an Aryan invasion.
		It is not inconceivable that the Vedic Brahmin developed as a composite of the Harappan priest and the priest of an invading tribe or clan.
		Vedic influences on the civilizations in Bengal, Assam and Orissa were almost minimal, and these Eastern civilizations largely followed their own (and somewhat unique trajectories), as did the civilizations of Central India, Rajasthan, Sindh, Gujarat and South India.
	members.tripod.com /~INDIA_RESOURCE/aryan-old.html (3640 words)

	The Myth of Aryan Invasion of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As fire altars are the most typical feature of Vedic culture, such finds associate the Vedic with Harappan culture from the beginning.
		That the Harappan culture appeared non-Vedic to its excavators may be attributed to their lack of knowledge of Hindu culture generally, wherein Vedism and Shaivism are the same basic tradition.
		Vedic deities, like Indra and Agni, are those of the Sarasvati river to which the Harappan era belongs.
	www.indiaforum.org /india/hinduism/aryan/page15.html (356 words)

	Ancient Indian Architecture - Crystalinks
		The Vedic grama could have a pur, or a fort-like structure within it.
		It appears that the main distinction was between chhardis (house with a thatched roof), harmyam (a house of brick and stone that had a courtyard in the middle), and gotra (a multi-dwelling complex with sheds for animals).
		Early beginnings of Hindu temple architecture have been traced to the remains at Aihole and Pattadakal in present day Karnataka, and have Vedic altars and late Vedic temples as described by Panini as models.
	www.crystalinks.com /indiarchitecture.html (1420 words)

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		In fact, it was the closing phase of the Vedic Age or the period after the Rigveda.
		There are millions of Indians who study the Vedic language, Sanskrit, and also thousands of Vedic priests and priestly families all over India that have kept the tradition alive.
		In summary, the greatest contribution of the decipherment of the Harappan script is that we now have a clearly defined historical context for both Harappan archaeology and the Vedic literature.
	www.salagram.net /vedicdiscoveries-page.htm (2499 words)

	5.5. THE EVIDENCE FROM COMPARATIVE RELIGION
		This is an important acknowledgment of the fact that the Vedic tradition is only one tradition in the Indo-Aryan religious landscape, a key element in Shrikant Talageri’s reconstruction of ancient Indian history: just as Sanskrit is not the mother of all Indo-Aryan languages, the Vedas are not the wellspring of the whole of Hindu tradition.
		A fire-cult was present in the Indus-Saraswati civilization, and it resembled the practices of the Vedic people who are supposed to have entered India only centuries later, and to have brought this particular tradition with them from their IE homeland.
		Likewise, Sergent admits that “the Indian Vedic fire altar seemed to have borrowed its construction principles from the Indus civilization”, all while “the very idea of the fire cult was Indo-Iranian”.
	www.bharatvani.org /books/ait/ch55.htm (6717 words)

	NEXUS '96 - George Gheveghese Joseph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		These provide a link between the "frozen" geometry unearthed by archaeologists and the earliest written geometry, a guide to constructing Vedic brick altars.
		Its shape and construction were minutely prescribed, while its height could be varied for special occasions.
		There is a view that Indian mathematics originated in the service of religion, but the magico©religious beliefs surrounding the Vedic rituals may be overly emphasized when considering the origins of Indian mathematics.
	www.leonet.it /culture/nexus/96/joseph.html (400 words)

	altars - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		Altars (in Scripture), Altars (in the Greek Churches) : Catholic Encyclopedia [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=altars (107 words)

	Amazing Science
		In the Vedic era, copper was known as lohayasa or red metal.
		Knowledge of mathematics, and geometry in particular, was necessary for the precise construction of the complex Vedic altars, and mathematics was thus one of the topics covered in the brahmanas.
		Far more important to the development of modern mathematics than either Greek or Indian geometry was the development of the place value system of enumeration, the base ten system of calculation which uses nine numerals and zero to represent numbers ranging from the most minuscule decimal to the most inconceivably large power of ten.
	www.hinduism.co.za /amazing.htm (14222 words)

	IndiaStar book-review: Vedic Glossary on Indus Seals by N.Jha
		Science historians have long agreed that the international numeral system (1,2, 3,), based on the concepts of placement and zero, as well as the decimal system were invented by the ancient Hindus.
		In the first part of Vedic Glossary on Indus Seals, Jha describes his major insight into his deciphering efforts: the four- to five-thousand-years-old inscriptions were meant to serve as a link betweenVedic literature and archaeology.
		As an example, on page 19 Jha argues that the Greek script descended directly from the old-Brahmi: the dental consonant 'th' is not found in Semitic but it is in common in Sanskrit and in Greek.
	www.indiastar.com /jha.htm (1074 words)

	INDOlink Book & Media Review : ANCIENT INDIA IN A NEW LIGHT
		Referring to the famous Battle of the Ten Kings in the Rig Veda, 3700 B.C., Frawley writes "The Vedic war is a question of values, not race.
		The literary evidence taken in its entirety shows that the Vedic civilization was an indigenous development.
		One of the most interesting sections of his book is on the Sulbusutras, 3000 B.C.,-- mathematical manuals for the design and construction of Vedic altars.
	www.indolink.com /Book/book3.html (1773 words)

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		Vedic age as well as the theory of an Aryan invasion of India has been shaken.
		Seidenberg, A. 'The Geometry of the Vedic Rituals' Agni: The Vedic Ritual of
		The Indians now believe that the so called Dravidian languages and the Vedic language are derived from a Proto language which was spoken in Harappa.The distinction between Dravidian and Vedic is purely a concoction of European philologists which is really the topic of this book (The Politics of History).
	vepa.us /dir8/Clean_AIT_KaushalBR.html (19029 words)

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