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- Bhāskara-II’s polygons and an algebraic approximation for sines of pi by x
- Origins of the serpent cult and Bhāguri’s snake installation from the Sāmaveda tradition
- Two simple stotra-s, sectarian competition, and the Varāha episode from the archaic Skandapurāṇa
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- 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
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Monthly Archives: July 2013
A brief note on prahlAda, hiraNyakashipu and an early nArasiMhAkhyAna
The daitya-s prahrAda/prahlAda and virochana are known in the veda itself. The killing of prahlAda and his clan by indra in a battle in the high heavens is alluded to in more than one post-RV vaidika text. This great battle … Continue reading
Posted in Heathen thought
Tagged Hindu, hiranyakashipu, indra, mahAbharata, narasimha, nR^isiMha, prahlada, purAna, purANas, rAmAyaNa, rudra, Veda, viShNu
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A Sayyid kills a Kashmirian yogin
The Kashmirian brAhmaNa jonarAja wrote a rAjataraMgiNi describing the rule of various Moslem tyrants in Kashmira after the end of Hindu rule. He is rather laudatory in his description of the Sultan Zayn al Abidin (reign 1418-1470 CE), who is … Continue reading
Posted in Heathen thought, History, Politics
Tagged Anti-Hindu, Hindu, Kashmir, Kashmiryat, persecution of heathens, yogin
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khilonmAda-charchA
Visualize a situation where a plasmid encoding a bacteriocin infects a bacterium. This bacteriocin kills all other conspecifics (to the extent we can define a conspecific in bacteria). Consequently, the rivals who might compete for the same resource as the … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics, Scientific ramblings
Tagged Army of Islam, bacteriophage, Coccinella, harmonia, Islamic, kin selection, ladybird, memetic virus, microsporidian, nosema, plasmid
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kumAra chakra with the twelve dreadful goddesses
The account of the mantra practice of these kaumAra goddesses was originally intended as part of the great skanda vrata. Given that that might take a while to complete, and that these goddess might be worshiped in other rites in … Continue reading
Posted in Heathen thought
Tagged goddesses, karttikeya, kaumAra ritual, kumAra, skanda, twelve goddess
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Dinosaurian endothermy
Modern dinosaurs are endothermic but were the extinct Cenozoic dinosaurs endothermic? If so were the Mesozoic dinosaurs endothermic? Modern mammals are endothermic, were the extinct Cenozoic mammals endothermic? Were the Mesozoic mammals endothermic and what about the Permian stem mammals … Continue reading
The fake scientist
He was born in the Gangetic doab in a clan of vaNija-s. He had inherited the skill honed by centuries of selection in business transactions of “cracking the situation”. However, he did not have deep introspective skills or a passion … Continue reading
Posted in Scientific ramblings
Tagged bad research, cancer research, Euro-American science, fake blots, fake gels, fake science, fraud, fraudulent chromatin remodelers, fraudulent enhancer protein interactions, fraudulent methylated histone binding proteins, fraudulent protein-protein interactions, image manipulation
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Virtual viruses and virtual cell lysis
Posted in art
Tagged art and science, cell lysis, fractals, icosahedron, IFS, Mandelbulb, simulating life, virus
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The mayAbheda sUkta: a discursion
In the great pravargya ritual the mAhAvIra pot containing the milk of a cow and a goat, i.e. the gharma offering, is intensely heated until it starts glowing. When the pot starts glowing the hotar looks at it starts reciting … Continue reading
Posted in Heathen thought, History
Tagged gandharva, gharma, Hindu, Hindu ritual, indra, mahAvIra pot, mAyA, mAyAbheda, prANa, pravargya, Rigveda, sun, Veda, yoga vAsiShTha; indrajAla
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