October 2018
The sage Mārkaṇḍeya narrated several traditional stories to the Pāṇḍavas during their stay in Dvaitavana. The story of Dharma-vyādha is one among those.
There lived a brāhmaṇa by name Kauṣika. He was well-versed in the Vedas, of noble character, and a tapasvi. Once, when he was reciting the Vedas under a tree, a balāka bird excreted upon him. The brāhmaṇa was enraged and looked at it with eyes filled with anger. The bird lost its life the next...
The Muzrai Amendment
In 1891, the government decided that a separate body needed to be established for regulating the activities of the Muzrai institutions, namely temples, maṭhas (Hindu monasteries that include a temple, a school, and residential facilities for ascetics), choultries (resting houses), mosques, and other institutions associated with god, religion, and dharma. The people’s representative council had suggested several times that...
You and I are constantly changing.
Throughout our lives, we change in many ways: at the level of the body, in the emotional sphere, in the mental realm, in our various relationships with people, the roles that we play in society, and in many other ways.
This change is continuous and unstoppable, yet we recognize certain ‘phases’ in our life. Let us consider education as an example. We learn new things every day but there are definite phases such...
सम्प्रति भाविकाभिधानं किञ्चन साहित्यतत्त्वमवगाहामहे।
भाविकमिति सम्भाविततत्त्वं दण्ड्यादिभिस्तु मौलिकमेवम्।
इतिवृत्तश्रीकारणमतिलोकमनोज्ञवर्णनेङ्गितयुक्तम्॥७॥
तत्त्वस्यास्य स्वरूपनिरूपणं भामहेन सम्यगकारि। यथा—
“भाविकत्वमिति प्राहुः प्रबन्धविषयं गुणम्।
प्रत्यक्षा इव दृश्यन्ते यत्रार्था भूतभाविनः”॥ (काव्यालङ्कारः, ३.५३)
एतदनुसारं भाविकमितीदं काव्यतत्त्वं न केवलम् अलङ्कारमात्रपर्यवसायि, अपि तु काव्यप्रपञ्चे प्रकृष्टं सर्वङ्कषं च किमपि...
K M Munshi writes in his preface to the fifth volume of the History and Culture of the Indian People,
“The year A.D. 1000 was a fateful year for India. In that year, Mahmūd of Ghaznī first invaded it. That event, in my opinion, divides Ancient from Medieval India… It was, however, disturbed on occasions, for instance, by the raids of Alexander; by the influx of the Bactrian Greeks, the Kushāṇas and the Śakas; by the invasion of the Hūṇas; by...
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