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Monthly Archives: January 2007
Worth coming back
She said: “We return to that halcyon year and a half. When the son of Brinda was toiling relentlessly, fueled by testosterone and goaded by his crafty, parents we set out the seek the truth. Beyond the row of 3 … Continue reading
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The killing of lomaharShaNa
The bhArgava mArkaNDeya told jaimini that he had no time to narrate to him lengthy tales as was his usual tradition, because he was starting his sacrificial satra and need to begin the specified oblations. Instead, he asked him to … Continue reading
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A vidyA of atharvaNa-bhadra-kAlI
The atharvaN-s have several distinctive prescriptions of mantra prayoga-s for pratya~NgirA or atharvaNa-bhadrakAlI. One such is the mahAchaNDayogeshvarI vidyA. It is recommended only for those who study the AV, though no niyama or purashcharaNa is required for deployment.pippalAda R^iShiH; Chando … Continue reading
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On the vedic sacrificial ritual and its Babylonian parallels
The mlechCha orientalists Dumont and Albright pointed to certain similarities between the Vedic sacrificial ritual and that found in Babylon. We revisit this to investigate if flow of memes between Eurasian civilizations can throw any light on the date and … Continue reading
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Raised by bAlA and dattAtreya-II
A great nAtha yogi who worshiped dattAtreya was eating curds and saw a boy roaming on the field. He offered the boy the curds but he refused, and it fell on his feet. He told him: “if you had eaten … Continue reading
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Raised by bAlA and dattAtreya-I
In the hot plain to the north of the Wardha river, in the village of Dhamangaon, a band of Moslems led by their Kazi were chasing a young Hindu maid. Nothing unusual for the times, it was one more of … Continue reading
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Microraptor as a biplane
When the chInAchArya Xu announced his dramatic find Microraptor gui in the British tabloid something struck me as odd. One of the best preserved skeletons, the holotype, was in a very typically bird-like pose with the femur, tibia and tarso-metatarsus … Continue reading
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devarAja stava or the devadeveshvara stava
The R^iShi of the most glorious of stava-s is puShkara; the Chandas in anuShTup and the god of gods, indra is the devatA. varastvindra-jitAmitra- vR^itrahan-pAkashAsana | deva-deva mahAbhAga tvaM hi vardhiShNutAM gataH ||ananta-tejo virajo yasho-vijaya vardhana | aprabhus-tvaM prabhur-nityam-uttiShTha surapUjita … Continue reading
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On the samarA~NgaNa sUtradhAra: yantra-s
The vimAna has been noticed by many since the publication of the samarA~NgaNa sUtradhAra (SS) of the great rAja bhoja-deva paramAra. The description is certainly obscure in parts (especially given the corrupt manuscripts), but what can be made sense of … Continue reading
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The silent return
On the path of nothingness we returned; before us stood the bright prajApati, with rudra’s bright dart pinning him to the welkin. In one hand we held an iron trident, in the other we held a skull. Beyond the carcass … Continue reading
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dIvAkIrtya-s, eclipses and severed heads
We saw how the aitareya brAhmaNa describes the divAkIrtya-s as the frame of solstice points that “holds up” the sun. The pa~nchavimsha brAhman 4.6 describes the divAkIrtya-s, just as the taittirIya and kaTha texts, in the context of the solstice … Continue reading
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mantra of trailokyavijayA
The mantra of the goddess trailokyavijayA is provided by the yuddha-jayArNava tantraM. A somewhat corrupt version of this tantra is incorporated into the agni purANa. Stand-alone manuscripts of the YJA also exist, though they have not been edited or published. … Continue reading
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The crashing doors
This note should be considered along with our earlier notes on the topic: The crossing of ashmanvatI The path of fire von Dechend and De Santillana, while flippantly referring to “the Hindu verbiage,” repeatedly find themselves needing to take recourse … Continue reading
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shrI rAmAnuja deshika, one of the last great kaumAra tantrics
The below note is neither meant as a sectarian effusion nor a historical account. It is a hagiography and just that. sarva-bhUtAmakaM manmanobodhakaM sat-kR^ipAsAgaraM devasenApate pAhi mAM pAhi mAM pAhi mAM deva tubhyaM namo deva tubhyaM namo deva tubhyaM namaH … Continue reading
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The divAkIrtya sAmans
The celebrated divAkIrtya gAnaM deployed during the eclipse and the solstice rites comprises of 5 sAmans that are expounded in the pa~nchaviMsha brAhman 4.6. Not surprisingly they are termed collectively termed Adityasya vrata shukriyAni and are the following sAmans: bhrAja: … Continue reading
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Strike as expected
We had the dUradR^iShTi about the movements of the khANDavan vairi-s. We knew precisely how they were going to strike. So we waited patiently and as we knew that they had two prayogas against us and where the abhichAra was … Continue reading
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The deployment of bR^ihat and rathantara
The ancient bhArgava ushanA kAvya has declared how the bR^ihat and rathantara are to be deployed for attacking the bhrAtR^ivya-s. When dispatched the two sAmans assumes the form of a chakra of brahman and proceed to slay the foe even … Continue reading
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The enigma of ash mounds
These thoughts sprung in course of one of those extended conversations that we had. As we passed by train to the city of our birth we saw the typical landscape of the southern Deccan plains: The clusters of castellated granite … Continue reading
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