Aravind Srinivas

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3,937 appearances 8 recordings 7 series first heard Jun 2024 last heard 7 Jul

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The Joe Rogan Experience · #2521 - Aravind Srinivas · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

And the secret of how to actually break into these viuhas, viuhas means formations, was only known to a few people.

And it's incredible.

Like you could say, okay, like somebody had to be extremely skillful to have that sort of like visualizations and imaginations of describing a story like that.

And obviously like Tolkien has done an amazing job with Lord of the Rings, you know, in creating so much detail.

At the same time, a lot of it actually coming through in real life in some form, again, not exactly the same weapons, but similar style, makes you wonder, was there actually something around then?

And people have tried excavations in all these areas.

There's two main areas in the Mahabharata.

Hastinapur was the name of the kingdom.

And people have done excavations around there and have found some artifacts that might date back to those years.

But there are also some details that are described in the epics that don't quite align with reality.

For example, all the men, all the main warriors in that era were described as very tall, very big, seven, eight feet, whatever.

I don't even know exact numbers.

But our history...

Studies by archaeologists also say that people who lived in those years in those regions were probably not more than six feet tall.

So it's not clear exactly what happened, what was correct, what was not correct, and we just have to keep probing more.

But I find the idea fascinating to think of what could have existed in sacred texts that was only partially communicated to the next generation and having a lot of reinterpretations.

Another thing that is very interesting to think about is Vedic math.

So basically Vedic math is like a branch of mathematics that, you know, some people in India are grown up learning.

Like I read it myself too.

And some people actually practice it just to be sharper at mental math for doing their exams, like GMAT and things like that, GRE.

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