"A hundred to you, ten thousand years, two Yugas, three Yugas, four we make."

"The waning strength and stability of Dharma in the four yugas is graphically depicted by representing it as a majesti…"

"In the great philosophy of Brahma, such violent turns of the scale are quite unknown. It embraces vast stretches of t…"

"The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the cosmos itself undergoes…"

"It is worth quoting Anthony Grafton’s summation of Scaliger’s assault on the prisca theologia presumptions of his con…"

"The first Graeco-Egyptian astrologists did not invent the discipline they claimed to teach the Hellenic world. They u…"

"In making his own calculation, however, Christopher Columbus preferred the values given by the medieval Persian geogr…"

"You climb a mountain situated close to the sea or a level plain, and then observe the setting of the sun and find out…"

"The gods living in the north at the Meru mountain (i.e., at the north pole) see the Sun, after it has risen, for half…"

"When it is sunrise at Lanka, it is sunset at Siddhapura, midday at Yavakoti, and midnight at Romaka."