Tag Archives: war

Transcripts of conversations: the addiction principle:

Posted on March 15, 2022 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

A friend recorded some of our verbalizations and made transcripts of them. He sent them to us to and we decide to edit them and post them as and when we get the chance — not out of a narcissistic … Continue reading →

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Huntington and the clash: 21 years later

Posted on February 8, 2021 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

This note is part biographical and part survey of the major geopolitical abstractions that may be gleaned from the events in the past 21 years. Perhaps, there is nothing much of substance in this note but an uninformed Hindu might … Continue reading →

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Winners and Losers

Posted on August 10, 2020 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Somakhya and Lootika were visiting the Śūlapuruṣadeśa for work reasons. Unlike their ārya ancestors, they did not like being on the move much. It was a rare occasion that both had been able to travel together and it brought them … Continue reading →

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Mongolica: Qubilai Khan’s campaign to destroy the Southern Song

Posted on February 26, 2018 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

The final act in Mongol conquest of China shows the military capability of Qubilai and why his grandfather, the great Khan had singled him out as the one who someday would adorn his throne. We shall place here a very … Continue reading →

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Of lives of men; of times of men-I

Posted on November 7, 2017 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

Sharvamanyu and Vidrum arrived at the campus where Somakhya and Lootika were in their final days of college. Sharvamanyu had already been working for several months while Vidrum had just completed the last but one of his major exams for … Continue reading →

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The Rāmāyaṇa and a para-Rāmāyaṇa in numbers-II: Evolving early Indo-Aryan warfare

Posted on July 16, 2017 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

This article might be read in as a continuation of this earlier one. The methods/caveats mentioned therein apply here too. Some of the counts mentioned in this article might be approximate but should be generally in the correct range, i.e. … Continue reading →

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The indrajAla-sUktaM and the atharvan military ritual

Posted on June 28, 2014 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

An atharvan military ritual for kShatriya-s headed to war involves deployment of AV-vulgate 8.8 or its cognate AV-P 16.29. The ritual is specified by the kaushika sUtra 16.9-20 and some details are provided by the atharvan commentators dArila and keshava. … Continue reading →

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Beetles and men: some glimpses of history through the contemporary lens

Posted on March 17, 2013 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

The tale of poisoned arrows The bushmen clans generally used to not fight each other because most adult males are armed with arrows that have been smeared with deadly toxins. However, when from the mid-1600s the Dutch started intruding into … Continue reading →

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A page from the chIna-Tibet encounter

Posted on March 12, 2012 by mAnasa-taraMgiNI

A wordy exchange between a chIna general and a Tibetan minister during the height of the great Tibetan-Chinese contest in the Kokonor region in the late 600s of the common era. The chIna-s were always conscious of applying their numerical … Continue reading →

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