Week 151: Dating of Hindu Prayers, Supadma + Github, Aesthetic
11/05/2022 - Modern Hindu Content
Welcome to the Eternal Path newsletter! This week we feature: an article and table with the relative dates of origin for Hindu prayers, a note on Supadma (tech-forward Hinduism resource) and an aesthetic!
History Highlight: The Dating of Hindu Prayers
Many Hindu prayers and songs are of surprisingly recent origin. For instance the common aarti “Om Jai Jagdish Hare” was only written in around 1870! To walk us through the relative dating of these prayers, the “Aarohana Avarohana” newsletter has a fantastic article titled “Dating of Prayers as old as time”. The piece provides a background in the centrality of prayers in Hinduism, outlines some temporal categories, outlines some caveats, and stresses the continuity of Hinduism even as new prayers were added in given eras.
A key chart from the article is this chronology
Resource Highlight: Supadma
Supadma is a website featuring Hinduism content alongside “Arts, History, Languages, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Sciences.” Their website is https://www.supadma.com/
A particularly interesting part of their repertoire is their machine translated explorations of Hindu texts, viewable in the tweet below, which links to their GitHub profile
Aesthetic: Karnataka Temple
