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The engineer, the dead fish and the bag of earth-II
From chapter 1 mR^ita-matsyo nAma dvitIyo.adhyAyaH | Sometime later the country abruptly returned to normalcy – the Hindus heaved a sigh of relief. The buzz going around was that the seasoned...
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The engineer, the dead fish and the bag of earth-III
From chapter 2 jiva-rajjusarjo nAma tritIyo .adhyAyaH | Somakhya and Lootika breezed through their doctoral programs in two and a half years after over coming several obstacles placed by mlechCha-s who...
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The engineer, the dead fish and the bag of earth-IV
From chapter 3 kalpito viShANur nAma chaturtho .adhyAyaH | After making oblations of caprine cheese and gruel in the ritual fire to the goat-riding god puShaN, Lootika prepared to leave. On the flight...
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The engineer, the dead fish and the bag of earth-V
From part-IV trayAyudho nAma pa~nchamo .adhyAyaH | The next day Somakhya was browsing the news when he came across a curious item: “There are reports of heavy cross-border shelling by Pakistani troops...
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The engineer, the dead fish and the bag of earth-the End
From Part-V kathA-puchChaM Viruses have been around since the beginning of life and locked in conflict with cells and other viruses since then. In course of this epic conflict they have given genes to...
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Revisiting dawn in the R^igveda
One of the most physically and mentally demanding performances in the agnichayana and other soma rituals based on that model is the atirAtra or the overnight rite. The highpoint of it is the great...
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A stotra to shiva and viShNu with a few allusions to kumAra thrown in
The stotra is attributed to the R^iShi agastya and is embedded in the vAmana purANa: Filed under: Heathen thought Tagged: shiva, skanda, viShNu
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Tyrannosaurs of the south redux: megaraptorans as tyrannosaurs?
Shortly after we had reached the mlechCha-land we read an abstract of a presentation in a meeting on vertebrate paleontology where Argentinian scientists reported the discovery of a large theropod (~6m...
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Remembering Emperor Julian
On 26th June 363 CE the great philosopher-emperor Julian died from a wound that was inflicted in all likelihood by a Christian traitor in his own ranks (said to be sent by Christian saint Basil for his...
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The indrajAla-sUktaM and the atharvan military ritual
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...
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Attenuated fractality- cube and octagon : Dodecahedron and decagon
Filed under: art Tagged: fractals, IFS, Mandelbulb
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Denisovans, Sherpas and Tibetans
Many years ago we discovered that EGLN1 and its orthologs were iron and 2-oxoglutarate-dependent dioxygenase that hydroxylated prolines. About 8 months after we had published a paper detailing this...
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A geopolitical segment
Nothing has really changed in the world as long as the mlechCha-marUnmattAbhisaMdhi continues as usual. Yet, a large fraction of the Hindus we have observed have a weak apprehension of this outside a...
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Some meanderings on early medieval history from the view point of nAstika...
This epistle is a brief discussion on the socio-political developments in early medieval India emerging from philological comparisons between jaina sources, other nAstika material and Astika sources....
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Poem on Sübütäi’s attack on Qazvin
The great Mongol Noyan Jebe upon receiving the news of the death of the Moslem Sultan Khwarizm Shah asked Chingiz Khan’s permission to extend their conquests westwards. At the head of 10,000 men he...
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A visitation and ruminations
Most of our fellow travelers in school and college, with some exceptions occasionally alluded to in some form on these pages, were boring people to us. Their interests, political views or aspirations...
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A zarathuShtrian exit at a Hindu funeral
This note continues with the examples we have been providing on these pages illustrating the role of the kavi as a naturalist or an observer of nature. The verse below is a macabre one composed by one...
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Some comparative considerations on the Indo-European religion with a focus on...
The Roman religion is important for our understanding of the early Indo-European religion which forms the basis of our own religion, tradition, and identity. Unfortunately, the religions of the western...
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The fourth story
Some stories are written for the readers, some are written for the writers, some due to imagination running wild, some due to perverse inspiration, or some combination of some or all of these. From...
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The dance of the bhairava
bhairava on a cadaver from Nepal netrAku~nchana-sAraNa-krama-kR^ita-pravyakta-naktaM dino dik-chakrAnta-visarpi-sallari-saTA-bhArAvaruddhAmbaraH | hasta-nyasta-kapAla-kandara-darI-muktAbhra-dhArAH...
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