Tag: Chanakya

The Venomous Visha Kanyas

Myth Of The Venomous Visha Kanyas Of Ancient India

The Visha Kanyas were supposedly poisonous young women who operated as executioners in ancient India. Any contact with these toxic ladies would mean death.

/ 2017-07-01
Maurya Empire: Chandragupta Maurya And Acharya Chanakya

Spy System of Mauryan Empire

The spy system was an integral part of the Administration of Mauryan Empire. The goals of the secret service was to test the integrity of government officials, spy on cartels and population for conspiracy, to monitor hostile kingdoms, to destabilize...

/ 2017-03-22
ancient mesurement

Ancient Indian units of length measurement

An exact value of the unit of length measurement, used in Indus Valley Civilization, has been determined from the precise scale discovered by Ernest Mackay in the 1930-31 season excavation at Mohenjo­-daro, and further correlated with the present day units...

/ 2015-10-08
Hydrology in Ancient India

Hydrology in Ancient India

Natural entities and forces, such as Sun, Earth, Rivers, Ocean, Wind, Water, etc. have been worshipped in India as Gods since time immemorial. Perhaps it is not a sheer coincidence that the King of these Gods is Indra, the God...

/ 2015-02-15
History of Indian Rupees

History of The Indian Rupee

India was one of the first issuers of coins (circa: 7th/6th century BC), and as a result it has seen a wide range of monetary units throughout its history. There is some historical evidence to show that the first coins...

/ 2015-02-02
The diamonds have been first recognized and mined in India

Diamond Mining in Ancient India

The diamonds have been first recognized and mined in India. For centuries, India was the only place one could find these precious stones.  The earliest known reference to diamond is a Sanskrit manuscript, dated from 320-296 B.C., but Diamonds have been...

/ 2014-11-20
Takshashila - Worlds oldest UniversitY

Takshashila – Worlds oldest University

India has a long and venerable history in the field of higher education. In ancient times, the country was known to have been home to the oldest formal universities in the world. More than 2700 years back a huge university...

/ 2014-09-09
Kumari Kandam- The Lost Continent

Kumari Kandam – The Lost Continent

Kumari Kandam is the legendary sunken continent, according to many of the ancient extant Tamil literatures and some of the Sanskrit literatures. Almost 100 years back tamil nationalists came to identify and associate Kumari Kandam with Lemuria, a hypothetical “lost...

/ 2014-07-09