Books written and institutions established by Dr. Padma Subrahmanyam for the promotion of Art and National Integration
Author:hari
Diwan Gundopanth Road[i] in Bangalore lies to the north of City Market when we traverse from Arcot Srinivasacharlu Road towards Doddapet. The word “Diwan” has been in vogue in the Kannada language for a really long period. I’m unware of the root language from which this was borrowed into Kannada. The word is prevalent even in Marathi and Hindi.
After Yama left, Sāvitrī returned to the place where her husband’s lifeless body lay. She placed his head on her lap once again and Satyavān slowly came back to life. His eyes were filled with deep love as he looked at Sāvitrī again and again, as though he had come back to her after a long voyage. As he looked at her, he said – “Seems like I have slept for too long. Why didn’t you wake me up? Where is that dark-skinned man who pulled me along with him?” Sāvitrī said – “Yes, my dear. You slept for a long time on my lap. Yama, the controller and master of all living beings is now gone.
ಈಗ ಕಾಂಡಾನುಸಾರವಾಗಿ ಪರಿಶೀಲಿಸೋಣ:
ಬಾಲಕಾಂಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಮನಮುಟ್ಟುವ ಉಪಮೆಗಳೇ ವಿರಳ. ಅಷ್ಟೇಕೆ, ಉಳಿದ ಅಲಂಕಾರಗಳೂ ಕಡಮೆ. ಆದರೂ ಪ್ರಾತಿನಿಧಿಕವಾಗಿ ಅತ್ಯುತ್ತಮವೆನ್ನಬಹುದಾದ ಒಂದು ಉದಾಹರಣೆಯನ್ನು ಕಾಣಬಹುದು:
ಅಕರ್ದಮಮಿದಂ ತೀರ್ಥಂ ಭರದ್ವಾಜ ನಿಶಾಮಯ |
ರಮಣೀಯಂ ಪ್ರಸನ್ನಾಂಬು ಸನ್ಮನುಷ್ಯಮನೋ ಯಥಾ || (೧.೨.೫)
The Right Age for Conducting Upanayana[1]
There are several varying rules and prescriptions about the age of the boy who is to undergo the upanayana (the boy is referred to as the ‘vaṭu’). What is interesting to note is that the age was counted from conception.[2] From the earliest times we see in ancient India the notion that the age of a child must be counted.
1.Śiva’s form as Naṭarāja
Ala-ud-din Khalji raided Chittorgarh and took its king Raja Ratan Singh as his prisoner. Rani Padmini was the wife of this same Raja Ratan Singh. Khalji pretended to befriend Ratan Singh, took his hospitality, and while exiting from Chittorgarh, took him prisoner by stealth and deceit. He sent this shameless message to Rani Padmini: “If you want to see your husband free, you must submit yourself to me.” Unfazed, Rani Padmini assembled five hundred palanquins with five hundred female helpers and a force of three thousand soldiers, went out and rescued Ratan Singh.
Ayurveda, being a medical science, does not consider cosmology as one of its central preoccupations. Vagbhata’s Ashtanga-Hrdayam, which contains the definitive summary of classical Ayurveda, makes not even a passing reference to cosmological theories.
Elaborate references to these theories, based mostly upon the Sankhya system, may however be found in the texts of Charaka and Sushruta. These theories owe their presence in these texts to two major reasons:
The couple gathered fruits and put them together in a bundle. As Satyavān was working on the logs, his body began sweating all over. He had a tremendous headache. He immediately stopped his work, went to Sāvitrī, and said, “Sāvitrī! My limbs, head, and the entire body is aching. There is some pain in my chest too. I feels like a spear has pierced my head. I don’t seem to be keeping well. I'm not able to stand on my feet and feel like lying down.” Sāvitrī rested his head on her lap and let him spread out on the ground. She recalled Nārada’s words.