“This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins [wise men or priests in the Vedi...
Then Kakusandha the Blessed One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha, addressed the mendicants: ‘Mendicants, the brahmins and householders have been possessed by Māra Dūsī. He told them to abuse you in the hope of upsetting your minds so that he can find a vulnerability. Come...
坎纳 我们是婆罗门 Kanna, we are Brahmins. 是不允许横越大海的 It is forbidden to cross the seas. 拉马努金 Ramanujan? 拉马努金 听我说 Ramanujan, listen to me. 这些成果非常重要 不该就这样埋没 This work is too important to die with you. 它必须被公之于众 It must be published. 如果你一个...
When William Jones himself started the task of determining the antiquity of Indian history he published the dates of ancient Puranic kings as calculated by the learned Brahmins in his service keeping the base year as the start of the Kaliyuga or the Mahabharata war. The above page is from on...
the entire family – no easy task as my grandparents had two boys in succession after my uncle was born, the youngest being my father. With seven individuals to look after – my two aunts were born before the three boys – Koi Goo completed the unimaginable every day: keeping my ...
and is closely knit across political parties, government services, including IB, and other vital sectors of life is behind the terror that seeks to destroy the secular, democratic state. He hastens to clarify that very few Brahminists are Brahmins. Many are from other high Hindu castes, some...
and the land was covered with flowers… He suddenly saw an old man who came out of a gorge and spoke to [Buddha]pālita in the language of Brahmins.” The old man inquired whether he had brought a certain scripture, which the pilgrim had not. Then the old man reprimanded him saying:...
[Hence] the Brahmins who recite the story of sage Satyatapa at every change of the moon, in place of OM are evidently reciting “īṃ” Verse 5 yatsadyo vacasāṃ pravṛttkaraṇe dṛṣṭa prabhāvaṃ budhaiḥ tārtīyaṃ tadahaṃ namāmi manasā tavbījaminduprabha...
We include notes from field research conducted by both authors2, on various occasions, in the Kozhikode (Calicut), Malappuram, and Kannur districts of Kerala, and provide insights from interviews with practitioners from these regions, particularly the Mu¯ ssats, Nambi Brahmins, Kal.ari ...