Brandon Vedas

Brandon Vedas

male, deceased (2003)
Brandon Carl Vedas, (also known by his nickname ripper on IRC) was a member of the Shroomery.org community who died of an overdose on mostly...
Adi Shankara

Adi Shankara

male
Adi Shankara, a Hindu philsospher of the Advaita Vedanta school, wrote many works in his life-time of thirty two years; however, many works thought...

Vyasa

male
Vyāsa (Devanāgarī: व्यास) is a central and much revered figure in the majority of Hindu traditions. He is also sometimes called Veda Vyasa (वेद व्...
Narayana Guru

Narayana Guru

male, 153 years old
Nārāyana Guru (नारायण गुरु,നാരായണ ഗുരു), also known as Sree Nārāyana Guru Swami, was a saint, sage and social reformer of India. He was born into a...
Ralph T. H. Griffith

Ralph T. H. Griffith

male, deceased (1906)
Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith, scholar of indology, B.A. of Queen's College was elected to the vacant Sanskrit Scholarship on Nov 24, 1849. He...

Yayati

male
Yayati (Sanskrit: ययाति) was a Puranic king and the son of king Nahusha. He was a great scholar of Vedas. He had two wives, Devyani and Sharmishth...
Alain Daniélou

Alain Daniélou

male, deceased (1994)
Alain Daniélou was a French historian, intellectual, musicologist, Indologist, and a noted western convert to, and adept of Shaivite Hinduism. His m...

Janaka

male
In ancient India, Janaka (Sanskrit: जनक, "janaka") or Raja Janaka was the king of Mithila Kingdom. He was born in modern-day Janakpur, Nepal; he is...

Sayana

male, deceased (1387)
Sayana's major work is his "Vedartha Prakasha" (literally, "the meaning of the Vedas made manifest"), or commentary on the Vedas. His commentary on...
Hermann Jacobi

Hermann Jacobi

male, deceased (1937)
Hermann Georg Jacobi was an eminent German Indologist. Jacobi was born in Köln on 1 February 1850. After leaving school he went to Berlin, where i...