Ved Kovid, Durgadas

Ayurvedic Practitioner, Yoga and Ayurveda Teacher, Ayurvedic Jyotishi, Veda Kovid, Published Author. Web: www.nzayurveda.com

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The Royal Boar of Magadha: Deconstructing the Myth of the Buddha’s Last Meal By Durgadas (Rodney)…

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Pork as the Buddha's Last Meal

The Royal Boar of Magadha: Deconstructing the Myth of the Buddha’s Last Meal By Durgadas (Rodney) Lingham, Dip.Nat.N., Veda Kovid, AYT, AMPKT (c) Durgadas (Rodney) Lingham. All Rights Reserved. No part of this article may be copied or reproduced in any manner except via direct permission from the author in writing. Abstract For centuries, the final meal of Gautama Buddha—recorded in the Pali…

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The Sanskrit Continuum: Tracing India’s Indigenous Culinary Science and Sociolinguistic Evolution…

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The Shreni Vaults: From Vedic Panis to the Sacred Corporate Architecture of Ancient India By…

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Buddhism was perhaps the world's oldest PR Machine, which is why it has been adopted rapidly by the Western World, and then misappropriated, due to fractional historical impacts,

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India's Ancient Gupta Timeline

The Chronological Grid: Reclaiming the Indigenous Timeline of Ancient India By Durgadas, Veda Kovid, AYT, Dip. P. Psyc. (c) Durgadas (Rodney) Lingham. All Rights Reserved. No part of this article may be copied or reproduced in any manner, except via direct permission from the author. Mainstream South Asian historiography rests heavily on a single Eurocentric anchor established by Sir William…

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Mauna

The Architecture of Silence: Tracing the Vertical Core of Indian Linguistics and Consciousness By Durgadas, Ved Kovid [Dip. P. Psych, Dip. Nat, ALC, AMPKT, AMBT, Ayu. Pharm, AYT]. (c) Durgadas (Rodney) Lingham 2026. All Rights Reserved.No part of this article may be copied or reproduced without the direct consent of the author. To the modern, secularised ear, sound is merely a physical…

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Vedic Origins of Buddhism

The Solar Eye and the Serpent’s Bed: A Deconstruction of the Vaidika Architecture of Buddhism By Durgadas (Rodney) Lingham, Veda Kovid, AYT.(d) Durgadas (Rodney) Lingham.No part of this article may be copied or reproduced in any manner, except via direct permission from the author. Background The modern historiographical consensus frequently frames early Buddhism as a radical, clean rupture…

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Misunderstansing Ahimsa

The Architecture of Misunderstanding: Ahimsa and the Western Secular Hangover By Durgadas (Rodney) Lingham, Veda Kovid, AYT, Dip. P.Psych.(c) Durgadas (Rodney) Lingham. All Rights Reserved.No part of this article may be copied or reproduced in any manner, except via direct permission from the author in writing. Views expressed are traditional views alone. The contemporary Western engagement…

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The Victorian Ghost in Modern Ayurveda: Colonial Biases and Textual Cherry-Picking By Durgadas…

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Cyber-Popes and the Cult of Hypnotic Yapping:

Cyber-Popes and the Cult of Hypnotic Yapping: The Prequel to my upcoming book: ‘The Vault of the Sages’. By Durgadas, Veda Kovid, AYT, Dip. P. Psyc.(c) Durgadas (Rodney) Lingham. All Rights Reserved.No part of this article may be copied or reproduced in any manner, except via direct permission from the author. The modern digital landscape does not suffer from a lack of spirituality; it suffers…

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Secular Indology and Its Failures

The Failures of ‘Secular’ Western Histiography By Durgadas (Rodney) Lingham, Veda Kovid. (c) Durgadas (Rodney) Lingham. All Rights Reserved. My part of this article and such concepts may be copied or reproduced in any manner, except via direct written consent from the author. When Western academia examines its own history, it actively seeks and constructs continuity—drawing an unbroken line…

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Balarama also has a deeper Astrological Side, when we replace him as the traditional avatara over Buddha (as the 8th or 9th avatar). Here, Krishna remains the Moon, Balarama assumes rulership over Budha (Mercury), and also Pushan of the Vedas.

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Balaramiya - a Lost Text

The Balarāmīya: The Lost Matrix of Soil, Steel, and Medicine By Durgadas (Rodney) Lingham, Veda Kovid.(c) Durgadas (Rodney) Lingham. All Rights Reserved.My part of this article and such concepts may be copied or reproduced in any manner, except via direct written consent from the author. While the Solar Dynasty (Sūryavaṃśa) emphasizes sky-bound cosmic order, structural geometry, and the…

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Social Schizophrenia and History

By Durgadas, Veda Kovid, Dip. P. Psych. (c) Durgadas (Rodney) Lingham. All Rights Reserved.NO PART OF THIS ARTICLE MAY BE COPIED OR REPRODUCED IN ANY MANNER, EXCEPT VIA DIRECT PERMISSION FROM THE AUTHOR AND WEBMASTER. In my past articles, I have engaged in forensic histiography, which also involves looking at the socio-psychological complexes behind many modern, outdated theories on indigenous…

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The Malabari Gaudiya Crucible

How South Indian Śākta Shamanism Inspired Bengali Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism By Durgadas, Veda Kovid, Ved Kovid (c) Durgadas (Rodney) Lingham. All Rights Reserved.NO PART OF THIS ARTICLE MAY BE COPIED OR REPRODUCED IN ANY MANNER, EXCEPT VIA DIRECT PERMISSION FROM THE AUTHOR AND WEBMASTER. The conventional historiography of the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava movement (known in the West, in its corrupted Catholic…

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The Myth of the 'Mughlai' Cuisine

How Ancient India Shaped the Culinary and Intellectual Matrix of the World By Durgadas (Rodney) Lingham,Veda Kovid.(c) Durgadas (Rodney) Lingham. All Rights Reserved.No part of this article may be copied or reproduced in any manner, except via written permission from the author. The standard, Eurocentric historical model portrays ancient India as a passive, sponge-like basin. This conventional…