The visitation on the knoll
It was the time Somakhya and Indrasena were by themselves — without their companions — for that is close to the ultimate test of a man. At that point, they were working on the mysterious three-gene...
View ArticleIndian elections 2024
The ways of the fierce gods are not easy for men to comprehend with their finite lives. A course of five years might seem like nothing in historical time, but the dice rolled by the gods in that window...
View ArticleThe sixteen-fold Puruṣa
The Puruṣa-sūkta, or the chant of Puruṣa-Nārāyaṇa, is a late Vedic composition with multiple variants that occupies a focal position in the history of the Indo-Aryan strand of the Indo-European...
View ArticleGiordano Bruno: science in the midst of magic and spirits
We had originally wished to write a piece or two about the system of thought of the great Renaissance thinker Giordano Bruno, but, as ever, the attempt to be comprehensive came in the way of producing...
View ArticleThrough the rear-view mirror
A trail of memories, both victorious and unkind, In the rear-view mirror’s gaze, I find. Through the dusty glass, I see my past, A journey in Indian dust marked by shadows cast. Yet in the mirror’s...
View ArticleAnalyzing Vedic texts using word embeddings
Word2Vec is a natural language processing technique developed by Mikolov and colleagues that generates word embeddings, i.e., dense vector representations of words in a text, which capture their...
View ArticleThe tangled pantheon: Shinto, Indian, Cīna and Koreanic in the Japonic...
While heavily influenced by the Sinitic transmissions, Japan retained its own unique traditions throughout the historical period. While the curtain of history lifts up late in Japan compared to the...
View ArticleElephant-speak
Proboscideans are mammals with a deep evolutionary history of sociality and high intelligence (not immediately apparent from encephalization alone) that made them potential rivals as well as candidates...
View ArticleThe Aurora Borealis and Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
dhūmaketum bhāṛjīkaṃ vyuṣṭiṣu yajñānām adhvaraśriyam ॥[We elect Agni…] the comet, with smoky radiance, at the break of the dawns, the opulence of the ceremonies of the sacrifice.-A cometary metaphor...
View ArticleA geopolitical round-up: Vijayavijaya and related issues
In earlier accounts, we have detailed how the Mahāmleccha Deep State had engineered the uccāṭana of Vijaya-nāma-vyāpārin. In a dramatic reversal of fate, the Picchilaka made a comeback against all odds...
View ArticleSome notes on the Mantra-brāhmaṇa of the Sāmaveda with a focus on Virūpākṣa...
Of the Sāmavedic schools, the Kauthuma-s follow the śrautasūtra of Lāṭyāyana and the gṛhyasūtra of Gobhila. The Rāṇāyanīya-s follow the śrautasūtra of Drāhyāyaṇa and the gṛhyasūtra of Khādira (also...
View ArticleAn attractor generating the projection of a 3D torus on a plane
The attractor in consideration was probably rediscovered by multiple explorers of chaotic maps in the early days of the computational exploration of such objects. We first discovered it in our 14th or...
View ArticleThe Dvādaśa-śloka of the Paścimāmnāya
Rudraśakti While the four core āmnāya-s of the kaula tradition are presented by its texts (e.g., Ciñciṇīmata-sāra-samuccaya) as directional lodges, they also have an evolutionary relationship between...
View ArticleSome notes on the Haṃsa in mantra traditions crisscrossing the Smārta-Śaiva...
The haṃsa (the divine swan/gander) is identified across Hindu mantra traditions with the breath cycle. While this mantra is vocalized as so.ahaṃ haṃsaḥ । (the haṃsa mantra), it is also identified with...
View ArticleThe Uttarāmnāya and the Trailokya-mohana-kavaca
A “depiction’’ of the deity of the Uttarāmnāya manifesting in viyat-pada during the 17-fold meditation yugapad yānti yatra+āśu sāmarasyaṃ viyatpade । nistaraṅge nirābhāse pare saptadaśābhidhe ॥...
View ArticleThe accidental yogin
The results of the senior college admission exams were finally out. For Vidrum, it felt like the Marahaṭṭa-s reaching Delhi after having overcome the 26-year Jihad and many other a threat to their very...
View ArticlePrakīrṇā vicārāḥ
When the Egyptian religion came to an end at the hands of the second Abrahamism around 550 CE (following the closure of the temple of Philae around 537 CE by Justinian I), the tradition was already a...
View ArticleThe out of Africa tale of the domestic cat
The cat is a lion when catching a mouse, but it is a mouse when on the battlefield of the leopard -translation into English of a verse of some poet from Islamic Iran Molecular divergence estimates...
View ArticleBāla-pralāpa, bālajñāna and some philosophy
In the long past days of our youth, the entrance exam to junior college often featured a problem in the mathematics paper involving the ages of a father and his son [Footnote 1]. If one interpreted the...
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