Monthly Archives: October 2008

Actions of the vairi-s 2

Posted on October 19, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Yesterday, the grAhin, which had been kept at bay for a day came back to needle us. We called upon rudra to bear us aid in the second hour past mid-night and used the apsarA to relieve us from the … Continue reading →

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hrada-kachCha

Posted on October 18, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

It was in the summer of 1995, just before I left the shores of jambudvIpa for krau~nchadvIpa. The boundless energy and false idealism of youth filled us then. The brAhmaNa from the lATa country, who was then my friend, and … Continue reading →

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Devil in the detail

Posted on October 18, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI
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The actions of the vairi-s

Posted on October 18, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

On the 8th of the month the vairi sent the little imp, a cheTaka, to needle us. The cheTaka was repulsed and sent back. On 14th the cheTaka reappeared and broke through the first line of defense and was repulsed. … Continue reading →

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sadAshiva stuti and other issues

Posted on October 16, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

From miThThu’s citation we get this version of the sadAshiva stuti: OM ekAkSharAya rudrAya tvakArAyAtma-rUpiNe | ukArAyAdidevAya vidyA-dehAya vai namaH || 1 tR^itiyAya makArAya shivAya paramAtmane | sUryAgni-soma-varNAya yajamAnAya vai namaH || 2 namaste bhagavAn rudra bhAskarAmita-tejase | bhImAya vyoma-rUpAya … Continue reading →

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Moonlight revelry, moonlight suffering and miTThu

Posted on October 15, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

My pitAshrI reminded that me that many moons ago on this particular full moon we had lazed with our friends and clansmen on the terrace drinking flavored milky hoping that shivAsha~Nkarau would pass over head asking if we were awake. … Continue reading →

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The mind in a whirlpool

Posted on October 14, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI
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The tradition of vAgbhaTa in the drAviDa and Andhra countries

Posted on October 12, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

We had earlier briefly alluded to the living tradition of vAgbhaTa in the chera country, which is practiced by the aShTavaidya-s. We currently believe this might be an early transmission of the great physician’s tradition to the south of the … Continue reading →

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Turtle shells

Posted on October 12, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Though they are one of the most recognizable animals of the present, the evolutionary history of turtles has confounded us for long. Until the late 1990s their anapsid skull was taken as an indicator of the primitive condition for amniotes. … Continue reading →

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rAvaNa tantra-s

Posted on October 10, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

I had the opportunity to examine a series of related manuscripts which were called rAvaNa tantra-s or graha tantra-s with shrI Ravlekar’s contact, the remarkable GK. Unfortunately, I could only examine them and do nothing more. I only have in … Continue reading →

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So many things to talk about

Posted on October 6, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

The chat with Sharada encompassed a wide gallimaufry of items, even as the one long chat with her sister after the expedition to the trishUla-sthala, or the many conversations with her niece over the years. I remarked to her that … Continue reading →

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TAkarAja-s?

Posted on October 5, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

After long we spoke to Sharada. She mentioned reading our note on lolimbarAja. She described her own little walk through medieval Hindu history in relationship to the development of medicine. She mentioned that her father had a couple of medical … Continue reading →

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The wives of Mars and the Carmen Arvale

Posted on October 4, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

In our earlier discussion we had argued based on structural homologies the marut-s of the vedic system are “para-skanda”. We speculated that kumAra himself descends from a para-vedic Indo-Iranian system, which contained an ancestral version of the deity, who in … Continue reading →

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samaravyUha-1

Posted on October 2, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

In life as one wages various fierce yuddha-s the historical analogies sometimes come up providing a vivid imagery in the mind’s eye. In course of the great war we observed something interesting, even if shocking: we lost track of the … Continue reading →

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Abhyantara dhyAna of the shrIkula system.

Posted on October 1, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

taDil-lekhA-tanvIM tapana-shashi-vaishvAnara-mayIM niShaNNAM ShaNNAm apy upari kamalAnAM tava kalAm | mahA-padmATavyAM mR^idita-mala-mAyena manasA mahAntaH pashyanto dadhati paramAhlAda-laharIm || Sau21 || With a body of the form of a lightning streak, constituted of the sun, the moon and fire, verily seated … Continue reading →

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