The Oldest Functional Hindu Temple In the World?

www.sarvesamachar.com BIHAR, INDIA, January 23, 2008: The Ma Mundeshwari Temple in Kaimur District, Bihar, has been reported as having been built in 108 CE. Since then rituals and worship have been taking place at the temple without a break, possibly making it the oldest functional temple in the world. It is situated atop the Kaimur Hill and built in an…

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Low Calorie Indian Cookbook For Health Conscious Britons

www.hinduonnet.com LONDON, UK, February 21, 2008: Health-conscious Britons can now dig into rich and spicy curries without guilt as a cookbook of Indian cuisine featuring low calorie recipes is being distributed free to doctor’s clinics. Written by Sudhesh Kumar, a professor of Medicine at the Warwick University, the curries are low on salt and oil and retain their flavor with…

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Daily Inspiration

www.hinduismtoday O God of mercy who performs the dance of illimitable happiness in the hall of inconceivable intelligence! The Rig and the other Vedas are thundering forth in words, announcing to us that all are thy slaves, all things belong to thee, all actions are thine, that thou pervades everywhere, that this is thy nature. Such is the teaching of…

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The Oldest Functional Hindu Temple In the World?

www.sarvesamachar.com BIHAR, INDIA, January 23, 2008: The Ma Mundeshwari Temple in Kaimur District, Bihar, has been reported as having been built in 108 CE. Since then rituals and worship have been taking place at the temple without a break, possibly making it the oldest functional temple in the world. It is situated atop the Kaimur Hill and built in an…

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Tamil Brahmi Script Found in Egypt

www.ifpindia.org QUSEIR-AL-QADIM, EGYPT, February 20, 2008: A broken storage jar with inscriptions in an ancient form of Tamil script, dated to the first century BCE., has been excavated in Egypt. Dr. Roberta Tomber, a pottery specialist at the British Museum, London, identified the fragmentary vessel as a storage jar made in India. Iravatham Mahadevan, a specialist in Tamil epigraphy, has…

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Daily Inspiration

www.hinduismtoday No fruit is too heavy for the tender vine. Similarly, a mother will always find some means to support her child.    Tamil Proverb

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Native Village Welcome Mauritius Prime Minister

www.ndtv.com BIHAR, INDIA, February 20, 2008: Mauritius PM Navinchandra Ramgoolam arrived on Tuesday at his ancestral village in Bihar’s Bhojpur district. Ramgoolam delivered a brief speech and expressed his gratitude to the waiting crowd, where he laid foundation stones of many development projects. On Monday, the Mauritius PM had announced US$250,000 for the development of roads and a hospital there.…

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Conference of the Acharya Sabha Issues Resolutions

www.acharyasabha.org BENGALURU, INDIA, February 18, 2008: The third Conference of the Acharya Sabha was held in the ancient Sri Adi Chunchanagiri Matha from February 9 to 11, 2008. The Acharya Sabha, a group of several heads of Hindu mathas from many lineages, deliberated on a variety of topics of concern and interest to Hindus world-wide and in India in particular.…

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Rope Car Service at Palani Temple Renovated

www.hinduonnet.com PALANI, TAMIL NADU, INDIA, February 19, 2008: The rope car service at the famous Sri Dhandayuthapaniswamy Palani hill temple will resume on February 24, after a gap of nearly six months. The service was suspended on August 26 last year after an accident. An inquiry was conducted following the mishap and all therecommendations of the probe committee have been…

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UK Hindus Say Colonial Policies Made Castes Rigid

www.ndtv.com LONDON, UK, February 15, 2008: A Hindu organization in the UK on Friday blamed the British for the caste system in India, saying the “current adulteration” of the varnashram system is a result of “generations of British colonial bureaucracy.” “It was the British who single-handedly formulated the caste schedules that remain in place today,” Raj Pandit Sharma, a member…

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