Arka Dutta
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M.D. Muthukumaraswamy
Over the centuries, the Dasamahavidyas and the Shakta Tantra systems have been assimilated and integrated into temple rituals and yogic practices that see the human body and the cosmos having similar structures and intersecting points of energy. The ‘yantra’ of intersecting triangles known as Sri…
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Shruti Chakraborty & Manjima Biswas
While many are aware of the mythology behind the creation of Goddess Durga, it is also interesting to look into the process of how her physical form is made. From clay from a prostitute’s house to a connection with the Indian postal service, Sahapedia explores the various rites, rituals and…
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Samayita Banerjee
India’s long-lost treasures will have a difficult homecoming, unless we pay greater attention to antiquities (Representational photo; Photo source: Wikimedia Commons)
In a recent piece of happy news, two ancient Indian sculptures came home to India from the New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Arts…
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Prateeq Kumar
Yoginis are representative of one of the most perplexing affiliates of Tantra which connect the divergent strands of incompatible religious traditions to create a uniquely particular visual language of their own. The Hirapur Yoginis reify this unique particularity …
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Monalisa Behera
Yoginis are a class of divine and semi-divine deities who emerged in the 5th century AD and remained in worship till 13th century AD, after which their cult seems to have become extinct. Originally esoteric deities, by the 10th century Yoginis became prominent in the wider religious landscape, as…
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Monalisa Behera
Yoginis are a class of propitiatory goddesses that are associated with various forms of apotropaic Śakta-tantric practices. Their appearance in the Indian religious landscape was marked by construction of open-air shrines, roughly dating from 8th century till the 13th century, before they…
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Sunil Kumar
चित्र: राजा सलहेस की टेराकोटा मूर्तियां, रमा पंडित, दरभंगा, 2017 । फोटोग्राफर - सुनील कुमार
नेपाल की तरार्इ में स्थित महिसौथा गांव में दुसाध जाति के एक महात्मा थे। उनका नाम था वाक मुनि। वे 12 वर्ष की कठोर तपस्या में लीन थे। इसी दौरान इन्द्रलोक से मायावती नाम की एक अप्सरा फूल लोढ़ने के लिए…
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Sindhuja Parthasarathy
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Ayan Ghosh
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