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- Two simple stotra-s, sectarian competition, and the Varāha episode from the archaic Skandapurāṇa
- The zombie obeys: a note on host manipulation by parasites and its ecological consequences
- Cārucitrābhisambodhi
- RV 10.78
- The turning of the yugacakra
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- A catalog of attractors, repellors, cycles, and other oscillations of some common functional iterates
- The wink of the Gorgon and the twang of the Lyre
- Some poems
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Monthly Archives: January 2013
Some notes on the shaiva temple celebrations and an excursus on the fishing, diving and hunting festivals of rudra
An integral aspect of the life of the post-Vedic Hindu community was participation in the temple celebrations. It was considered highly beneficial in the tAntrika tradition, both to the individual and the community, and helps explain the basic premises of … Continue reading
Posted in Heathen thought, History
Tagged festival, Hindu, Hindu ritual, idols, images, India, procession, ritual, saiva, shaiva, temple
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The Indo-Australian connection thickens
The arrival of the European Christians in Australia was a catastrophic event for the aboriginal peoples of that island. They never recovered from that encounter and today eke out a shambolic and reduced existence, almost as though the karma-phala of … Continue reading
Posted in History, Scientific ramblings
Tagged aborigines, Australia, Carpentarians, dingo, direct journey, India, Indus Mariners, Indus Valley, maritime, microliths, negrito, Sahul
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Some notes on the dispersion of the kaumAra-shAsana
In the early 1900s the English archaeologist John Marshall began excavations at Bhita (pronounced: bhITA) near prayAga, modern Uttar Pradesh. He wrote an account of this excavation aided by the native assistants in the archaeological survey of India’s annual report … Continue reading
Between the rasArNava and the chitrabandha-s
In the glorious summer we sought, through the secret practice, the enlightenment, which the elixir of viveka confers upon the lucky. We reclined in the holy land of bhArata, now sullied by the faded vigor of our peoples and the … Continue reading
Posted in art, Heathen thought, Life, Scientific ramblings
Tagged ashoka tree, bhAravi, D4, Dialium, entropy, histones, kAlidAsa, kirAtArjunIyam, low-complexity, post-translational modification, Sanskrit, Saraca, sarvatobhadra, square, symmetry
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A case report in bhUtavidyA
S has a remarkable collection of tales concerning her observations at the interface between disease, folk tAntrika ritual and the high realms of mantra prayoga. With her permission I retell a few. She had agreed to revisit this topic many … Continue reading
Posted in Heathen thought, Life
Tagged abhichAra, bhagat, bhairava temple, bhUtavidyA, disease, oShadhi prayoga, sorcery, valaga
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