Mahakala: A Corridor Leading to Hindu Cultural Reclamation

Commentary on the civilisational significance of the newly-inaugurated Mahakal Corridor in Ujjain.

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“MAHAKALA” IS BOTH A WORD AND A PHILOSOPHY. As a word, its mention occurs seventy-three times across a wide literary spread including the Purāṇa, Rasa-śāstra (latrochemistry in Ayurveda), Kathā (Br̥hatkathā, etc), Kōśa (lexicons), Mantra-śāstra, Tantra-śāstra, and the Mahābhārata. 

But drawing from the Indian tradition of the inseparability between…