If you travel to Cambodia, you will come across a folklore that a sage from India known as Kaundinya travelled across the sea to what is now called Cambodia, where he encountered a Naga princess, who ...

Named after the legendary Indian mariner Kaundinya, who is fabled to have sailed across the Indian Ocean to Southeast Asia, the new vessel embodies a spirit of exploration and cultural exchange. Its ...

What INSV Kaundinya, the Indian Navy’s stitched ship, tells us about history, culture, and its UPSC relevance.

Long before colonial ships reached Southeast Asia, an Indian mariner named Kaundinya undertook a sea voyage that would alter the course of regional history. In a time when crossing the seas was seen ...

New Delhi: The Indian Navy on May 21 brought back a vessel to its fleet that once lost to time. The hand-made one-of-a-kind wooden ship, INSV Kaundinya, is no ordinary vessel. It is a tribute to ...

A 5th-century replica merchant ship, INSV Kaundinya, has set sail from Karwar on an eight-day journey to Porbandar. From ...

The project — part of an initiative to revive India’s rich maritime heritage — is being executed through a tripartite ...

Hyderabad: In an age of high-tech warships and stealth submarines, the Indian Navy has done something truly remarkable. It has launched a ship without weapons, without engines, and without even a ...

The Indian Navy on Wednesday inducted a traditionally built stitched ship as INSV Kaundinya, named after a legendary first-century Indian mariner, at a ceremony held at the strategically located ...

Kaundinya Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary and an elephant reserve situated in Andhra Pradesh. Kaundinya is a region to which elephants returned after 200 years. In fact, in the last decade, ...

Centuries ago, Kaundinya, an Indian mariner, journeyed to the Mekong Delta, encountering Queen Soma of the Naga clan. Their union sparked the rise of Funan, the first Indianised state in Southeast ...