Alain Daniélou

"Sanskrit was a complete success and became the language of all cultured people in India and in countries under Indian influence. All scientific, philosophical, historical works were henceforth written…"

"The creation of Sanskrit, the “refined” language, was a prodigious work on a grand scale. Grammarians and semanticists of genius undertook to create a perfect language, artificial and permanent, belon…"

"The faithful of Shiva or Dionysus seek contact with those forces which...lead to a refusal of the politics, ambitions and limitations of ordinary social life. This does not involve simply a recognitio…"

"Symbolically, Ganesha represents the basic unity of the macrocosm and microcosm, the immense being and the individual being . This highly implausible identity is however a fundamental reality and the …"

"When the two boys were of marriageable age, Shiva and Parvati did not know which of the children to marry off first. So they proposed a competition: We shall celebrate the marriage of the one who firs…"

"From the time Muslims started arriving, around 632 AD, the history of India becomes a long, monotonous series of murders, massacres, spoliations, and destructions. It is, as usual, in the name of 'a h…"

"India whose ancient borders stretched until Afghanistan, lost with the country of seven rivers , the historical center of her civilization. At a time when the Muslim invaders seemed to have lost some …"