Daily Archives: March 6, 2007

vikrama enters the graveyard

tataH shamashAnam saMprApa niHsha~Nko bhuta-saMkulaMsarvApAyamayaM kAyam ivA .a.ayAsashatAshrayaMThen fearlessly he entered the crematorium which was full of ghostsIt was like the body of all deaths, the abode of a hundred misfortunes. mastiShka-lipta-shubraasthi prakaraM lohitAsavamAkrIDaM iva kAlasya kapAla-chaShakA-kulaMFull of heaps of … Continue reading

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The jarAbodhIya sAmans

shakti was the son of maitrAvaruNi vasiShTha. The sons of shakti were the shAktya-s like parAshara and gauravIti. They were performing a yAga in which pashu-puroDAshas were offered. For this purpose the R^iShi gaurivIti shAktya had shot a deer. Just … Continue reading

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