Always in absolute command, Daruwalla manages to give us always a poem and its speaker, unless he borrows a learned mask, as in the lyric triptych here called "In the Footsteps of the Sanskrit Poets. A Summer of Tigers That is, to what extent did the "dhvani revolution" of this Kashmiri...
while Sanskrit Vartman Patram and Vishwasya Vrittantam were started in Gujarat over the last five years.Since 1974, there has been a short daily news broadcast on state-run All India Radio.These broadcast
A portion of it is the well-known Kena- (or Talavakara-) upanishad,' on the nature of Brahma, as the supreme of deities. If the Samaveda has thus its ample share of Brahmana-literature, though in part of a somewhat questionable character, it is not less richly supplied with sutra-...
It is said; the true nature of the Supreme Goddess is beyond mind and matter. She is limitless and formless. She isArupa. But, when She takes a form, theBinduis her intense representation. TheBindusymbolizes Her most subtle micro form as the Universal Mother, womb, yoni, creator, retainer...
“There is not in the whole range of Sanskrit literature a more charming poem than the Ramayana. The classical purity, clearness and simplicity of its style, the exquisite touches of true poetic feeling with which it abounds, its graphic descriptions of heroic incidents, nature’s grandest ...
A Criti-cal Study of the Manuscripts of Selected Commentaries on the Kirātārjunīya, an Epic Poem in Sanskrit. PhD dissertation, University of Hamburg. Krishnamacharya, V. (1947), Descriptive Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Adyar Li-brary. Vol. VI Grammar, Prosody and Lexicography. ...
santigaṇitāḥ sūktibheṣajaṃbhūṣaṇaṃyaiḥsvavaiduṣyātsaujanyena vitanyate(25.14)Such persons are counted as virtuous, who because of their learningand out of goodwillfurnish [a poem] with embellishment in the form of the remedy for well-turned sayings.The verse can...
This text is the longest narrative poem of the Caṅkam literature. It was authored by the poet Māṅkuṭi Marutaṉ to advise the Pāṇṭiya king Neṭuñceḻiyaṉ, who was the victor of the battle at Talaiyālaṅkāṉam. It narrates all that goes on over a whole...
(bodhicittot-pada) and thereby become a bodhisattva. For Mahayana Buddhism, awakening consists in understanding the true nature of reality. While non-Mahayana doctrine emphasizes the absence of the self in persons, Mahayana thought extends this idea to all things. The radical extension of the ...