Monthly Archives: December 2008

mahAsamara-2

Posted on December 30, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Update (30-31 Dec): The ari-dala sent a huge force on the sachiva with all their commanders to taking to the field leading their respective divisions. On us they deployed abhichAra to keep us knotted. We sent the signal to the … Continue reading →

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mahAsamara

Posted on December 28, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Update 4 (27-28th Dec): In course of our expedition, unexpectedly the prati-prayoga again destroyed our “shield of kArtavIrya”, but this time comprehensively. We then went into the hands of sleep, the dark maid. We awoke at the end of a … Continue reading →

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Iranian miscellany

Posted on December 26, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

[disclaimer: I tend to use Indic-style spellings in most cases] One of the questions often pondered upon is the state of the Iranian religion before the ascendancy of the cult of zarathuShTra in greater Iran. There are multiple facets to … Continue reading →

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ailabakArebhyo namaH

Posted on December 21, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Facing south we sung the jarAbodhIya and sprinkling water with a clump of darbha from the pot into which had been stirred in the black tila. We place the piyAru-s in the mouths of the howling dogs of rudra: “rudrasyailabakArebhyo … Continue reading →

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shrauta-tantric traditions related to the vIran ravi-s of the chera country

Posted on December 20, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

While the shrauta tradition all over bhArata preserves the archaisms of the early Aryans in certain parts, it has developed unusual local accretions. While the shrauta traditions in the interiors of Thanjavur and Maharashtra are amongst the most conservative (unlike … Continue reading →

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Thanjavur-I

Posted on December 16, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

After worshiping rudra at mallikArjuna for 10 days shivAjI rapidly moved via Nandyal, Kadappah, Tirupati and Kalahasti and approached the vicinity of Jinji. He then sent 5000 troops to besiege the fort of Jinji which was held by Nasir Mohammed … Continue reading →

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A record of the early Arab invasions before the ravaging of sindhu

Posted on December 15, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

The kingdom of saindhava under its last Hindu ruler whose memory has been erased from the Indian mind stretched from Kanyakubja in the East, Kashmir in the North and most of Balochistan and the Makran coast in the West. Sadly … Continue reading →

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Pursuit by the aghAyu

Posted on December 14, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Like the Xvarena departing from an ancient asura-worshipping king our powers forsook us in the great struggle. Yet we kept fighting like bhImasena against rAdheya on the fateful 15th day. In some ways it was like the fight of veNkaTAdri … Continue reading →

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pAkashAstra: Hindu and Hinduized alien food

Posted on December 13, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

The field of pAkashAstra is well worthy of study as it is dying along with many other shAstra-s. Unfortunately, I no longer have access to some remarkable pAka texts that I examined in the city of my youth. Towards the … Continue reading →

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Chaos in Lorenz-84

Posted on December 12, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI
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The beginnings of revatI: The vaidika elements

Posted on December 4, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

pathyA revatIr bahudhA virUpAH sarvAH sa~Ngatya varivas te akran | tAs tvA sarvAH saMvidAnA hvayantu dashamIm ugraH sumanA vasheha ||AV 6.4.7; AV-P 3.1.7 The revatI-s of the path of several diverse forms, have all assembled and made extensive wealth for … Continue reading →

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Precession of the world axis

Posted on December 3, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Kindly provided by valguli the “ugrikA”: you created that title for yourself :-) (It is interesting that a number of people from your minuscule rAShTra are interested in our rAShTra – may be it is statistically significantly above chance?)

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gandharva nagara

Posted on December 1, 2008 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

ST said that she had returned from South America. She had gone there in the quest of Ananda even as ekanetra had found his own Ananda right in his own kShetra. We began by reminiscing how in the year before … Continue reading →

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