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Monthly Archives: August 2012
AtharvavedIya tArkShya yAga
We had earlier seen the mantra deployments relating to the vedokta Ashu-tArkShya vidhi. We shall now consider another tArkShya vidhi practiced by the knowers of the atharvaNa shruti. The day before the rite a pandal is put up and and … Continue reading
Posted in Heathen thought
Tagged agni, ariShTanemi, atharva veda, garuDa, Hindu ritual, oShadhi, ritual, tArkShya
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prabhAvatI in puruShapura and nAstika myth-making
The nAstika teacher paramArtha who operated in midst of the chIna-s ~525-569 CE, wrote a hagiography of the famous dharmAcharya vasubandhu of puruShapura (modern Peshawar in the Islamic terrorist state). In this hagiography he gives a sthalapaurANika account for puruShapura … Continue reading
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Tagged buddhist, harivaMsha, Hindu, indra, Nepal, Peshawar, pradyumna, purANas, sthalapurANa, vaiShNava, vasubandhu, viShNu
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The conversion
It was many many moons ago. We were seated upon the wall near the viShTa-parvata when the kR^iShNa-shUdra materialized in front of us. He was looking agitated. Just a few days before the English teacher had asked the class to … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Politics
Tagged breakup of India, Hindu, India, politics, secularism, terrorist states
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aShTatva nidarshanaM
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Tagged context free, eight-fold symmetry, fractal, recursion, rotation, translation
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