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Mahābhārata – Episode 51 – Trigartas Attack the Matsya Kingdom

Back at Hastināpura, the spies that Duryodhana had set out in search of the Pāṇḍavas returned to the capital and reported to their king. “We thoroughly searched the forests and we were unable to find the Pāṇḍavas there. We don’t know where they are gone. We heard that their chariots were taken to Dvārāvati and we went there to take a look. It appears that the charioteers had brought empty chariots without the heroes in it. There was no trace of the Pāṇḍavas or Draupadī anywhere. It is quite likely that they are dead. On a different note, there is pleasant news.

P S Shivaswami Iyer – Part 2

Shivaswami Iyer was a Sanskrit scholar. V Krishnaswami Iyer was his friend, colleague, and sometimes an opponent in his profession as a lawyer. Krishnaswami Iyer founded a Saṃskṛta Mahāpāṭhaśālā in Mylapore, Madras and also established a medical school called Venkataramana Ayurvedic Dispensary. He too was a great scholar of Sanskrit and had compiled a Sanskrit work called Ārya-caritam.

Backdrop of DVG's Political Philosophy

But at the doctrinal level, this consequence is the direct outcome of imposing the selfsame untested theory of freedom, democracy, liberty and related ideas fashioned in the West on an entire people who had fashioned their lives for more than three millennia based on a thoroughly different political, cultural and social inheritance. In other words, an all-encompassing and far-reaching change was thrust upon the entire population of the seventh largest country in the world without their consent. Bharatavarsha continues to pay the human cost of this change.

Mahābhārata – Episode 50 – The Killing of Kīcaka

Draupadī told Bhīma, “I cried out loud, pouring out my miseries, for I could not control my sorrow; not with a desire to criticize the Mahārāja. Let bygones be bygones; now we must take up the work at hand, that which is possible to accomplish. Every day, Sudeṣṇā looks at me and my body, and says in a tone of suspicion, “Will the king ever let her go if he sets eyes on her!” She constantly doubts my fidelity. Knowing her thoughts and temperament, her brother Kīcaka, himself an evil man, constantly asks for my hand and pleads with me.

ವಾಲ್ಮೀಕಿಮುನಿಗಳ ಅಲಂಕಾರಸೌಭಾಗ್ಯ—ಅನುಮಾನ, ಸಾರ, ಉಲ್ಲೇಖ, ಉಪಮಾನೋಪಮೇಯ, ಅನನ್ವಯ, ಸ್ವಭಾವೋಕ್ತಿ

ಅನುಮಾನಾಲಂಕಾರವು “ಅನುಮಾನ”ವೆಂಬ ತಾರ್ಕಿಕಪ್ರಮಾಣವನ್ನೇ ಆಧರಿಸಿದೆ. ಇದನ್ನು ಕೆಲವರು ಅಲಂಕಾರವಾಗಿಯೇ ಅಂಗೀಕರಿಸರು. ಬಲುಮಟ್ಟಿಗೆ ಕಾವ್ಯಲಿಂಗದಲ್ಲಿಯೇ ಇದು ಅಡಕವಾದೀತು. ಆದರೆ ಇಂಥ ಅಲಂಕಾರದಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಆದಿಕವಿಗಳ ಕೌಶಲ ಪ್ರಸ್ಫುಟ.

ಮಳೆಗಾಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಮೋಡ ಕವಿದು ಸೂರ್ಯನ ಸುಳಿವೇ ಇಲ್ಲದಿದ್ದಾಗ ಸಂಜೆಯಾಗುವುದನ್ನು ತಾವರೆಗಳ ಮುದುಡುವಿಕೆಯಿಂದ, ಹಕ್ಕಿಗಳ ಗೂಡುಸೇರುವಿಕೆಯಿಂದ, ಜಾಜಿಹೂಗಳ ಅರಳುಗಳಿಂದ ಅನುಮಾನಿಸಬೇಕಿದೆ:

ನಿಲೀಯಮಾನೈರ್ವಿಹಗೈರ್ನಿಮೀಲದ್ಭಿಶ್ಚ ಪಂಕಜೈಃ |

ವಿಕಸಂತ್ಯಾ ಚ ಮಾಲತ್ಯಾ ಗತೋऽಸ್ತಂ ಜ್ಞಾಯತೇ ರವಿಃ || (೪.೨೮.೫೨)

The Eight Ātma-guṇas of Gautama-dharma-sūtra (Part 1)

Kalpa is one of the six Vedāṅgas (limbs of the Vedas).[1] The traditional view is that without the help of these Vedāṅgas, the real meaning of the Veda cannot be deciphered. The etymological expansion of the word ‘kalpa’ is ‘kalpante vā anena vedāḥ’ – it helps us understand the Vedas correctly; it ensures that we execute the Vedas in the right manner.

P. S. Shivaswami Iyer - Part 1

During 1934-35, during Sir Mirza Ismail's term as the Diwan of Mysore, there were many prominent men from Madras who would come to Bangalore to spend their summer here. P S Shivaswami Iyer was one such person. His ancestors belonged to aristocratic and affluent families and thus Shivawami Iyer was well off even by birth. Just as the saying goes, "Śucīnāṃ śrīmatām gehe," he was born to a wealthy family yet a noble, dignified, and morally upright one.

D V Gundappa's Critique of Western Notions of Political Philosophy

At the individual level, the Bhagavad Gita’s dictum of uddharedAtmanAtmAnam (Let a person raise and purify himself by his own efforts) and its emphasis on Svadharma also means that one must rule oneself, which in turn means that the onus is upon the individual to constantly rectify himself. Hidden within these tenets is a call to discard one’s ego at every step. The opaque wall of ego blocks the sunlight of self-reflection required for the said rectification.