What is meant by, ‘Hindu’, is the question: that is, to what degree is there a sharing of beliefs among those people of the Indian subcontinent known as Hindus. Around the 850s (BCE), India’s Persian neighbours began replacing their s’s with h’s, and started calling the trans-boundary river Sindhu (aka Indus) the ‘Hindu’, and calling …
I am delighted to have been interviewed by various U.K. radio stations about my new book, A Portrait of Lord Shree Krishna. In these interviews, I discussed my 20 years as a Hare Krishna monk, as well as my work popularising classic Hindu dramas and my translation of Rupa Goswami’s Vidagdha Madhava. To listen to these interviews, …
I would like to express my deep thanks to a dear colleague and friend from Glastonbury, who was also a Hare Krishna monk for many years, and who went on to study Sanskrit, Bengali, and Odian in Odisha for many years, expressly to properly understand the manuscripts and commentaries on Rupa Goswami’s two dramas – Vidagdha …
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