Rasla in Sanskrit means 'full of rasa' or nectar; one of the names for India's favourite fruit, the mango, the word is also used to refer to anything ...

Through the centuries, Adi Shankara’s famous commentaries and philosophic treatises have been open for interpretations by many Sanskrit litterateurs and teachers.

At 200,000 verse lines and 1.8 million words, it took more than half a millennium to write the Mahabharata. The epic Sanskrit poem, spanning the tale of love and warfare between rival families, is ...

Sanskrit poetry did not simply disappear under Sultanate rule: it continued to evolve, and was enriched by contact with ...

Renowned Sanskrit scholar and reader of Jadavpur University, Rita Chattopadhyay, today claimed that Anandaram Baruah from Assam wrote the first sonnet in Sanskrit in 1880. Participating at a literary ...

Speaking at the 25th edition of Jahan-e-Khusrau, which commemorates famous Sufi poet and scholar Amir Khusrau, PM Modi said the Sufi tradition has carved a unique identity for itself in India.