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Monthly Archives: June 2013
susmeratayA saha saMmelana
Holding a trident he arrived at the great smashANa at the foot of kollagiri from the subterranean temple of nR^isiMha where he had practiced the mantra of the adhomukha. It was in the midst of a storm: the trees in … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient India, kaula, magician, mantra-sAdhana, mantra-shAstra, sorcery, Story, tantra, vidyAdhara
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The sixth cycle of samarAichcha kahA: a vaNija tradition
The jaina AchArya haribhadra sUri collected a series of old tales and presented them in a didactic form for emphasizing jaina principles in the novel known as the samarAichcha kahA. It was written in a vulgar prAkR^ita which was most … Continue reading
Posted in art, Heathen thought, History
Tagged ancient India, Bali, haribhadra sUri, island, jaina, merchant, novel, Story, Sumatra, trade
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Computational driftwood
The above object is a gnarled piece of driftwood. Only that it never floated in the sea and exists only in the virtual realm – a pure mathematical abstraction – a combination of three functions. Some would say it is … Continue reading
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Tagged driftwood, fractals, Mandelbulb, mathematical entity, Platonic ideals, virtual reality
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The songs of shunaHshepa and nArada
In the nocturnal ritual of the soma rite 27th and 28th sAmavedic stuti-s are described below. These songs are sung sometime between 12.30-1.00 AM. The sAmavedic mantra-s have the following musical pattern with respect to the three sAmavedin ritualists: The … Continue reading
Time, world history, or the lack thereof
Many years ago in our old home we came across a book won by the bhArgava-trasadasyau in a contest that had the biographies of many a Euro-American figure. At that point we were impressed by certain threads in the German … Continue reading
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Tagged atharva veda, cyclic, dynamics, Germanic, Hindu, Hindu science, kAla, linear, Mongols, Oswald Spengler, time, world history
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A brief rant on the Indian political system
The coming elections in the secular, socialist, democratic republic of India certainly seem to be a rather important fork in the road. A member of the clan mentioned that an exuberant Hindu politician had declared that this election will mark … Continue reading
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