Abhinav Agarwal

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Friday, September 25, 2020

Vidura Niti - 8 - Messengers, Gluttony, Security, and Help

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V idura likens the Kouravas to the forest and the Pandavas to the tigers that reside in the forest. His injunction to the king is to not cut...
Friday, September 18, 2020

Vidura Niti - 7 - Lineage, Conduct, and Relatives

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So far we have covered three chapters of Vidura Niti - 254 of 541 shlokas - or a little less than half of Vidura Niti, which is entirely con...
Friday, September 11, 2020

Vidura Niti - 6 Bearing false witness and lying for land

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Vidura ended the previous chapter by telling the king that Yudhishthira was fit to rule, that he had suffered much on account of his 'co...
Friday, September 4, 2020

Vidura Niti - 5

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The first chapter of Vidura Niti ended with Vidura advising Dhritarashtra to do the right thing and hand over the Pandava's "rightf...
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...
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