Begin at Punarvasu, a double star in the sign of the Couple; call that night conception; walk the twenty-seven nakṣatras in their order at ten days apiece, and the last ends where a pregnancy ends. Their gods, emblems and stories beside the embryology of each ten days — Puṣya the nourisher and the trophoblast, Āśleṣā's serpent and the neural tube, Śravaṇa and the first hearing, Ārdrā and the first cry — on an interactive wheel you can set to a date.
Viṣṇu comes down ten times, and a child takes ten months of the moon to come down into the world. The ten avatāras beside the ten months of the womb as Caraka, Suśruta, Vāgbhaṭa, Varāhamihira and the embryology textbooks describe them — on one interactive gestation clock, with an honest reckoning of what “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny” can still mean.
Wheat to the Sun, rice to the Moon, sesame to Saturn — every jyotiṣī inherits a nine-shelf pantry, but who stocked it? The grains, spices, fruits, tubers, and ritual dishes of each graha, traced source by source through the jātaka texts, the śānti rites, and Āyurveda — with a grain mandala and the full referenced table.
Why are we subject to Rāhu and Ketu at all? The churning of the milk ocean read beside the modern science of life’s origin — poison before nectar, the pot and the protocell — fully illustrated, with an animated hundred-second film of the whole story.
Part One’s dictionary turned over: each gaṇa names a family of amino acids, and the foot’s middle syllable predicts hydropathy by 4.18 units (p = 0.00005) while its neighbours predict nothing — plus codon-for-codon matches in frame, and the Gāyatrī read as an octapeptide.
The series’ closing synthesis: what actually unites the human genome and the Sanskritic text — one medium, one engineering, one vehicle, and no shared author any test can see — ending with the Puruṣa hymn’s own three-thousand-year-old answer, scanned in its own meter.
All four Vedas scanned and set against all 3.05 billion bases: the Gāyatrī expected verbatim dozens of times by pure arithmetic, no triṣṭubh anywhere, a 30-syllable containment cliff, and the pāda’s eight-beat frame that prose and introns lack.
All four Vedas scanned into weight-notation and matched against verified human DNA: a 928-entry concordance of actual loci — the Gāyatrī’s opening pāda eight bases into beta-globin, the Puruṣa hymn’s “all this that has been and shall be” in both insulin and p53 — tallied honestly against chance.
Eight genomes, from malaria to Streptomyces, read as metrical dialects: the tempo scale of life, the anceps third position across the whole tree, a clean test of the R·N·Y primeval-code idea, and how life fills the Virahāṅka duration envelope.
Real genes transcribed into gaṇas and tested with seeded permutations: no hidden ślokas, one instructive mirage, a genuine exon–intron tempo signal, and the codon’s anceps third position measured — code and data included.
Sanskrit prosody is a binary code read in triplets; so is the genetic code. Piṅgala’s binary mathematics, the de Bruijn gaṇa mnemonic, and an exact collapse of the sixty-four codons onto the eight gaṇas — with downloadable reference PDFs and data.
One hundred and one blunt yantras, twenty razor-edged śastras, sutures tied with ant heads — an illustrated, interactive tour of Suśruta’s surgical instruments, from heron-beak forceps to the rhinoplasty that traveled west.
Charaka, Suśruta, and Vāgbhaṭa — the Great Trio of Āyurveda — wrote one science from three angles. An illustrated introduction: the lineages, the dates, the shape of the three books, and why their differences are the point.
Chladni figures, the strict nine-triangle Śrī Yantra, and the exact recipe of drawing sacred geometry with vibration — every figure is solved live in your browser.
In Āyurveda the finest cause governs the grossest effect. An illustrated essay on sūkṣmatā — subtlety — as the locus of power across quality, force, essence, pharmacy, and cognition.
Sanskrit names two separate substances — ākāśa and diś — where English says only “space.” A visual folio in seven plates on the two “skies” that Āyurveda carefully keeps apart.
An ancient sūtra of nine words contains, with uncanny completeness, the architecture of free will, nature, nurture, and the fabric of space-time. A visual essay on Caraka Saṃhitā Sūtrasthāna 1.48 — the nine causative substances, four domains of a life, and the proper province of jyotiṣa.
Long before laboratory tests, two great clinical traditions learned to read the body’s surface as a living document of its interior. A comparative catalogue of diagnostic markings across five anatomical zones — nails, eyes, tongue, hands, and feet — pairing Ayurvedic interpretation with Western clinical signs, and noting where evidence converges.
A complete Jyotish analysis of O.J. Simpson's chart: natal D1/D9/D10/D11, Vimshottari dasha sequence, and five empirical theses on how the lunar nodes shaped every turning point of his life. Includes two downloadable Python scripts.
A comprehensive current audit of the famous/infamous 1985 Carlson astrology study from the journal Nature — sixteen interlocked and manifold methodological problems, reviewed by Claude (Anthropic).
What a failed search for a physical formula accidentally revealed about an ancient numerical scheme — an investigation into the deliberate structure inside 6, 7, 7, 10, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.
A reading in Boulder, then five months locked down in a Rishikesh ashram, a village in the Himalayas, and a birth timed to the charts — the grand-prize essay in the 2020 holiday contest.
I am breathing in and I am breathing out. As sure as the sun does rise, I am as sure that the sun sets. — the second-prize essay in the 2020 holiday contest.
The empty Jyotish chart as an orthographic projection of Buckminster Fuller's vector equilibrium — the cuboctahedron — with an interactive 3D model you can spin and align to the kundali.
Can the twelve-house kuNDali fold into a solid? From the cuboctahedron and the snub tetrahedron into the fourth dimension and the dodecaplex — the original 2008 images restored.
Yoga Sūtras III.26 — from saṁyama on the Sun, knowledge of the worlds: the gāyatrī's three bhuvanas, Vyāsa's seven lokas, and how sunlight really did reveal other worlds.
Yoga Sūtras III.21 — by saṁyama on the form of the body, the eye's light no longer meeting it: invisibility. The sutra's precise optics, from Vyāsa's siddhis to metamaterial cloaks.
A Sanskrit word-of-the-day entry for guṇa — its Vedic definition, its role in Sāṁkhya philosophy as sattva, rajas, and tamas, and the Bhagavad Gītā’s injunction to go beyond all three.