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Monthly Archives: February 2008
He will see the real thing.
Mis-creant and we rode past the 7 betelnut trees that stood in a row on our ashva-s. Beyond it was the realm of mR^ityu, where those dragged by the dUta-s of vaivasvata were making their last journeys. Those 7 betelnut … Continue reading
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nandin
Many modern Hindus, especially in colloquial speech, refer to the vAhana of rudra as nandin. This is actually very erroneous. Technically nandin was always the mighty gaNa of rudra and not the vAhana, which is vR^iSha(bha). Since the vedic period … Continue reading
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shrauta ritualists 1900-2008- an approximate lower bound estimate
I have seen a bunch of estimates by Kashikar et al, Kannan and via various personal contacts. Drawing from all of them I come up with some numbers. These numbers can only be considered the rough lower bound Tamil Nad … Continue reading
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The pa~nchAvarNa stava
The great siddhAnta tantric aghorashiva deshika from the mid-1100s of the CE from the Tamil country composed an epitome of siddhAnta worship of the 5- headed sadAshiva and the AvaraNas of his maNDala. This is the pa~nchAvarNa stava, which resembles … Continue reading
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Cooper’s book on Marathas
Randolf Cooper is one of the few white historians to reconsider the great struggle between the Maharatta-s and the Britons and investigate it more neutrally. A chance to glance at his work: “The Anglo-Maratha Campaigns and the Contest for India…” … Continue reading
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The other vIra appears
All the vIra-s had been attacked by the prayoga-s of the ari-s as implied in their cryptic message on the phala-s of the nR^I trees. The jyeShTha vIra had then been tied down by a kAmini sent by the ari-prayoga. … Continue reading
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Early temples and iconic worship
It is nearly inconceivable for the average modern Hindu to imagine his religion as being aniconic. Worship at temples is an average Hindu’s major or only of religious activity, and it is not uncommon for practically every Hindu to keep … Continue reading
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Arthur Avalon
Early on we realized that a Hindu needs to return the gaze on the Leukosphere and make it a topic of socio-anthropological studies. The Malhotran theory of U-turns, as we have seen in the past, is a frame-work that allows … Continue reading
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Some musing on wars
I had never been a good student of recent military history. ekanetra or va~Nga paNDita could always fill in the gaping lacunae in my knowledge if required. In our youth ekanetra gave me such a gripping account of the battle … Continue reading
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A lost kaumAra mahAsthala
In the late 1800s our predecessor was returning to his home base after attending to secular business in the town of Guntur in the Andhra country on his horse. It was late evening and he had reached the eastern fringe … Continue reading
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On bats
Our residence in childhood was graced by a lamppost and a large audumbara tree, which at night gave us the chance to study both fast-flying insect-eating microbats and slower flying large-eyed megabats. The deliberate climbing movements of the large megabats … Continue reading
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Thinking of kShemendra
The deva-bhASha is the language of the kavI-s right from the days of the hoary vipra-s from the misty past of the R^igveda saMhitA. In the galaxy of literature in the deva-vANI, which is filled with extraordinary luminaries, kShemendra from … Continue reading
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Retrospections on the curtain-raiser to the long past Great War 1
It was a year before the great abhichAra of dashAnta had struck us. We noticed that our forgettable acquaintance satya-druha who had been cursed by the deva-s was caught by something, much like bhIma by the serpentine nahuSha. We soon … Continue reading
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The vyomavyApin mantra
The celebrated mantra of the Urdhva srotas, the vyomvyApin comprises of 368 syllables. Below is the version I am familiar with. Examination of 3 manuscripts vy1 from Chidambaram, vy2 from Madurai and vy3 from Tiruvatuturai reveals certain variations from version … Continue reading
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The kAlAtman maNDala at Angkor Wat
The basic geometry of the kAlAtmaka yantra The inscription records of Angkor Wat by the French archaeologists points to a rare tantric prayoga of the siddhAnta srotas, whose performance appears to barely survive today in the drAviDA country (perhaps until … Continue reading
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