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What were the previous births of the characters of Mahabharata?
There is a very interesting story about Karna being an Asura named as Dambhodbhava.
Quora: Who was Karna in his previous birth?. Arjuna-Krishna being Nara-Narayana kids, who fought with Dambhodbhava.
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Was Ravana actually a villain? Or was he a devotee of Lord Vishnu?
Ravana was one of the greatest devotees of Lord Siva. He also worshiped Lord Brahma and the two of them had given him enormous powers. Among the Trimurthis, only Lord Vishnu punished him as Lord Rama.
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Why did Lord Shiva fight with Lord Vishnu?
What were the reason(s) behind the fight between Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu? I think the Harivamsa Parva of the Mahabharata narrates this incident.
The story goes like this:
Mahadev makes Goddess ...
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What percentage of Hindus belong to a sect that subscribes to the Vedanta school?
Indian schools of philosophy are traditionally divided into two categories, Astika and Nastika. Astika schools accept the authority of the Vedas as divinely revealed truth (shruti), whereas Nastika ...
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Is Hanuman going to be future Brahma?
I have read in multiple forums, which talks about Hanumana being rewarded as future Brahma.
Can anyone point out, where exactly it is mentioned that he is going to be future Brahma?
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How does Adishankaracharya Advaita explain concept of Avatar?
In Chapter 33 of book Autobiography of a Yogi, Yogananda says that Babaji is Mahaavatar (great incarnation). Sri Mahavatar Babaji is believed to be avatar of Shiva who is still teaching Kriya Yoga to ...
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Where can I read the original story of Bhasmāsura?
When I was a kid, I read the Amar Chitra Katha version of the story of Bhasmāsura - the demon-king who gained a boon from Shiva with the power to burn to ashes anybody on whose head he placed his hand....
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Who is Agastya's brother in the Ramayana?
In the Aranya Kanda of the Ramayana, Rama, Lakshmana, and Sita are on the way to the ashram of the famous sage Agastya when they first stop by at the ashram of another sage:
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Was Krishna's son Pradyumna a rebirth of Kama or of Sanatkumar?
SECTION LXVII of the Sambhava Parva of Mahabharat mentions the various gods and demons who incarnated in human forms as characters of Mahabharat. There's something that I noticed and would like to ask ...
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Where are Madhvacharya's Puranic quotes describing the path to Moksha?
In verse 8.24 of the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says this:
Those who know the Supreme Brahman attain that Supreme by passing away from the world during the influence of the fiery god, in the light, at an ...
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Where is Surapadman in Sanskrit scriptures?
Kandha Puranam is a very revered Tamil scripture that talks about the glories of Lord Muruga (or Kartikeya). It was written by Kachiyappa Sivacharyar as the Tamil equivalent of Skanda Purana, and ...
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Where does the Mahabharata say that liberated souls worship Krishna?
As I discuss in this question, by far the most popular school of Hindu philosophy is the Vedanta school, which bases its tenets on the doctrines laid out in the Brahma Sutras, a work by the sage Vyasa ...
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Is the Kena Upanishad a dialogue between Brahma and Shiva?
One of the most famous Upanishads is the Kena Upanishad, aka the Talavakara Brahmana Upanishad. It gets its name because it begins with the word Kena meaning "by whom"; its first verse ...
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Was Rama Avatar a result of four different curses?
The Ramayan tells us that Lord Vishnu incarnated as Rama on the request of the demigods when the three worlds were being tormented by the tyranny of Ravan. But the Yog Vasishtha adds an interesting ...
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Instances of devotee granting boon to deity
It is normal and expected that a devotee receives boon from deities like Siva, Vishnu etc., But, I came across an incident in Mahabharata, in which Garuda grants boon to Vishnu.
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