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Friday, August 28, 2020

Long lives - Tales from the Mahabharata

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Some of the characters in the Mahabharata lived long lives. Even Arjuna was about to become a grandfather when the great battle was fought...
Friday, August 21, 2020

Vidura Niti - 4 The Nine Gates and Ten Who Do Not Know About Dharma

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I  ended the third piece on Vidura Niti with listing the six who live off six others. Let's move to the seven. Yes, I am talking about s...
Friday, August 14, 2020

Vidur Niti - 3 The Two Thorns and Six Vices

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N umber play - that's where I ended the second article on Vidura Niti. Vidura spoke to Dhritarashtra about using the one - intelligence...
Friday, August 7, 2020

Vidur Niti - 2: The Stupid

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H aving begun by talking about the traits of learned people, Vidura then talked ' stupid '. If the learned can be described and iden...
Monday, July 27, 2020

Vidura Niti - 1 Sleeplessness and a Message

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W hen does sleeplessness takes over? When a " weak one is attacked by a stronger enemy, if one’s faculties are weak, if one has lost ev...
Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Devi Mahatmya - 13

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Devi Mahatmya -  Markandeya Purana , tr. by Bibek Debroy Ch 11  - Chapter 13 (Ch 89 in the book) Rishi Sumedha concluded his account of the ...
Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Devi Mahatmya - 12

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Devi Mahatmya -  Markandeya Purana , tr. by Bibek Debroy Ch 11  - Chapter 12 (Ch 89 in the book) - Ch 13 In this chapter, the goddess descri...
Monday, April 6, 2020

Devi Mahatmya - 11

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Devi Mahatmya -  Markandeya Purana , tr. by Bibek Debroy Ch 10  - Chapter 11 (Ch 88 in the book) - Ch 12 With both Shumbha and Nishumbha dea...
Sunday, April 5, 2020

Devi Mahatmya - 10

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Devi Mahatmya -  Markandeya Purana , tr. by Bibek Debroy Ch 9  - Chapter 10 (Ch 87 in the book) - Ch 11 With Nishumbha killed, Shumbha taunt...
Saturday, April 4, 2020

Devi Mahatmya - 9

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Devi Mahatmya - Markandeya Purana , tr. by Bibek Debroy Ch 8 - Chapter 9 (Ch 86 in the book) - Ch 10 King Suratha exclaims that the Devi m...
Friday, April 3, 2020

Devi Mahatmya - 8

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  Devi Mahatmya -  Markandeya Purana , tr. by Bibek Debroy Ch 7   <<  Chapter  8  (Ch 85 in the book)  >>  Ch 9 W ith both Chand...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

Devi Mahatmya - 7

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Devi Mahatmya -  Markandeya Purana , tr. by Bibek Debroy Ch 6   <<  Chapter 7 (Ch 84 in the book)  >>   Ch 8 C handa a...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Devi Mahatmya - 6

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Devi Mahatmya -  Markandeya Purana , tr. by Bibek Debroy Ch 5   <<  Chapter 6 (Ch 83 in the book)  >>   Ch 7 S ugreeva...
Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Devi Mahatmya - 5

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Devi Mahatmya -  Markandeya Purana , tr. by Bibek Debroy Ch 4   <<  Chapter 5 (Ch 82 in the book)  >>   Ch 6 R ishi Su...
Monday, March 30, 2020

Devi Mahatmya - 4

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Devi Mahatmya -  Markandeya Purana , tr. by Bibek Debroy Ch 3   <<  Chapter 4 (Ch 81 in the book)  >>   Ch 5 W ith Mah...
Sunday, March 29, 2020

Devi Mahatmya - 3

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Devi Mahatmya -  Markandeya Purana , tr. by Bibek Debroy Ch 2   <<  Chapter 3 (Ch 80 in the book)  >>   Ch 4 D evi Amb...
Saturday, March 28, 2020

Devi Mahatmya - 2

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Devi Mahatmya -  Markandeya Purana , tr. by Bibek Debroy Ch 1 << Chapter 2 (Ch 79 in the book) >> Ch 3 H aving told...
Friday, March 27, 2020

Devi Mahatmya - 1

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Devi Mahatmya -  Markandeya Purana , tr. by Bibek Debroy Ch 1  (Ch 78 in the book)  >> Ch 2 O f the five sections in the Ma...
Sunday, January 5, 2020

Best books I read in 2019 and 2018

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I  will cheat a bit here. I did not read as many books as I would have liked in 2019, so I will include 2018 in this list. Since I do no...

Krishna Yogeshwara, by Sanjay Dixit - Review

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Krishna Yogeshvara - The Dice of Kutil Dharma (Book 2 of the Lord Krishna Trilogy) Amazon India Agendas and subversion; free will a...