[ad_1] Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common. Alexander in particular draws our attention to the so-called “Coltrane circle,” which resembles what any musician will recognize as the “Circle of Fifths,” […]
an 18th century painting illustrating verses from the Purana…
[ad_1] This painting, titled ‘Diwali Rituals’ by Nainsukh, is accompanied by a Sanskrit verse. The verse describes the rituals to be performed on Naraka Chaturdashi and Dipawali (Diwali). The verse itself appears in the Skanda Purana (Karttikamasa-mahatmya; Rites to be performed on Dipawali – Chapter 9), and in the Padma Purana (Uttara-Khanda, The Celebration of […]