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The Creator With One Temple: Three Different Explanations, and None of Them Agree

Three separate Puranas give three incompatible reasons for Brahma's absence from worship: a wife's curse at a fire ritual, a rival's curse after a lie, and a sage's verdict. What the disagreement itself reveals, and what you actually find at Pushkar today.

August 10, 202614 min read

Temples

The Creator With One Temple: Three Different Explanations, and None of Them Agree

The Creator With One Temple: Three Different Explanations, and None of Them Agree

Budha Graha: How Hindu Astronomy Handled Mercury, Its Hardest Planet

Who Were the Vanaras of the Ramayana? Not What the Mockery Assumes

Kali Yuga Predictions That Came True: What the Bhagavata Purana Foresaw

Chiranjivi: The Eight Immortals of Hinduism and Why Each One Lives Forever

Why Draupadi Married the Five Pandavas: What the Mahabharata Actually Says

Aryan Invasion Theory Debunked: What the Evidence Actually Shows

Lord Balarama and Agriculture: Why the 8th Avatar Carries a Plough

Sati: a practice with almost no scriptural ground, condemned from inside long before it was banned

The Manusmriti problem: what the text actually is, and how the British turned a smriti into a statute

Asura, Daitya, Rakshasa: The Five Words English Calls 'Demon