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IndiaShining: Frits Staal, an influential Indologist, passes away
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posted by nrsattiraju 97 days ago
The worldwide community of Indology scholars, among others, mourns the passing of Professor Johan Frederik Staal, known to his many friends and colleagues simply as ‘Frits.' He died at his home near Chiangmai in Thailand on Sunday, February 19. Staal, had been Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and South/Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California.
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IndiaShining: Panchatantra,continued from previous post.
In the history of the Indian narrative tradition, other fable – narrative traditions evolved down the ages like those evolving with the Panchatantra and its recension the Hitopadesha. Here niti (Policy) evolves as the third important strand influencing the Indian thought.discuss | | category: IndiaShining | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
IndiaShining: Panchatantra-A storehouse of wisdom
According to Benfey, the Panchatantra is a nitishastra, a book on statesmanship for kings and ministers. He concludes the introduction by saying "my research in the field of fables, fairy stories and tales of Orient and Occident have convinced me that not few fables, but a large number of fairy tales and stories, was spread from India all over the world."* ...Professor Edgerton observes: Vishnu Sarma challenges our persistent assumption that animal fables function mainly as adjuncts to religious dogma, acting as indoctrination devices to condition the moral behaviour of small children and obedient adults. "Vishnu Sarma undertakes," Edgerton notes, "to instruct three dull and ignorant princes in the principles of polity, by means of stories . . . .[This is] a textbook of artha, 'worldly wisdom', or niti, polity, which the Hindus regard as one of the three objects of human desire, the other being dharma, 'religion or morally proper conduct' and kama 'love' . . . . They glorify shrewdness, practical wisdom, in the affairs of life, and especially of politics, of government."discuss | | category: IndiaShining | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
IndiaShining: Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita occurs in the Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata and comprises 18 chapters from the 25th through 42nd and consists of 700 verses. ....The message of the Gita is not sectarian or addressed to any particular school of thought. It is universal in its approach for everyone. Brahmin or outcast: `All paths lead to me,’ it says. It is because of this universality that it has found favour with all classes and schools. .... There are many who regard the story of the Gita as an allegory; Swami Nikhilananda, for example, takes Arjuna as an allegory of Atman, Krishna as an allegory of Brahman, Arjuna's chariot as the body, etc. Compare to this the chariot allegory found in the Katha Upanishad.discuss | | category: IndiaShining | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
IndiaShining: Mahabharatacontd
Vyasa appears for the first time as the author of, and an important character in the Mahabharata. It is impossible to point out if or when the 'historical' Vyasa lived, or to disentangle a possible factual story from any non-factual elements contained in the epic....There is some evidence however that writing may have been known to Vyasa based on archeological findings of styli in the Painted Grey Ware culture, dated between 1100 BC and 700 BC. and archeological evidence of the Brahmi script being used from at least 600 BC.discuss | | category: IndiaShining | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
IndiaShining: The Epics. History, Tradition, and Myth-MAHABHARATA
The Mahabharata, translated as “Great India”, or “the great tale of the Bharata Dynasty”, is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Ramayana. It is the longest epic poem in the world consisting about one hundred thousand verses, plus long prose passages, or some 1.8 million words in total. Tthe Mahabharata is roughly ten times the length of the Iliad and Odyssey combined, or about four times the length of the Ramayana. The epic is part of the Hindu itihasa (or “history”).discuss | | category: IndiaShining | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
IndiaShining: The Epics, History,Tradition and Myth-Ramayana
Swami Vivekananda Speech at Chicago – Welcome Address On11TH SEPTEMBER 1893 :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxUzKoIt5aM RAMAYANA ‘RAMA WASN’T ONLY A VIRTUOUS KING BUT ALSO SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTOOD ` THE NATURE OF EVIL AND HOW IT COULD BE CONQUERED. ONE OF THE THINGS RAMA TEACHES US IS THAT BEING A MERE BYSTANDER CANNOT VANQUISH EVIL.’discuss | | category: IndiaShining | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
IndiaShining: Materialism
While life is yours, live joyously; None can escape Death's searching eye: When once this frame of ours they burn, How shall it e'er again return? Materialism is a Nastika system based on materialistic and atheist school of thought and was founded in approximately 500BC. It is also known as Lokāyata. It is named after its founder, Charvaka, author of the Bārhaspatya-sūtras. we do not find any systematic work on materialism, nor any organised school of followers as the other philosophical schools possess. Our knowledge of Indian materialism or Charvaka philosophy is fragmentary, and is based largely on criticism of the ideas by other schools.discuss | | category: IndiaShining | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
IndiaShining: The Upanishads
Shah Jehan was influenced by the Emperor Akbar’s liberal religious attitude and shared his viewpoint. Shah Jehan’s eldest son, Dara Shikoh, a liberal Muslim like his father, wrote a book called Majma-ul-Bahrain meaning The Mingling of the Two Seas that attempted to reconcile Islam with Hinduism. He got the Upanishads translated into Persian in 1657known by the name Sirr-e-Akbar (The Greatest Mystery). The introduction states that the Qur'an's "Kitab al-maknun" or hidden book is none other than the Upanishads. Two years later, in 1659, his brother Aurangzeb, had him executed under Sharia law as an apostate from Islam. This may have been a pretext, because Aurangzeb ascended the throne after Shikoh's execution. #discuss | | category: IndiaShining | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
IndiaShining: Jun 2 Synthesis and Adjustment. The beginnings of the Caste System
“The enlightened and wise regards with equal mind a Brahmin endowed with learning and humility, an outcaste, a cow, an elephant, and even a dog”.—Bhagawat Gita 5.18 . Lord Krishna says that a learned man will look upon that all living beings have a soul which is a part of God and are equal. Urwick maintains that, in order to understand Plato’s Republic, we should first grasp the fundamentals of Hindu thought.discuss | | category: IndiaShining | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
IndiaShining: What is Hinduism?
“It is there in (Aryavarta) we must seek not only for the cradle of the Brahmin religion but for the cradle of the high civilization of the Hindus, which gradually extended itself in the west to Ethiopia, to Egypt, to Phoenicia; in the East to Siam, to China and Japan;- in the South to Ceylon, to Java and to Sumatra; in the North to Persia, to Chaldea, and to Colchis, whence it came to Greece and to Rome and at length to the distant abode of the Hyperboreans.”-Count Magnus Fredrik Ferdinand Bjornstjernadiscuss | | category: IndiaShining | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
IndiaShining: The Coming of the Aryans
Who were these people of the Indus Valley civilization and whence had they come? There are lots of theories regarding Aryan invasion. In reality, most Dravidians or South Indians are physically not very different from the Indo-Aryans of North India. Both the Aryans and the Dravidians belong to the Mediterranean sub-branch of the Caucasoid racediscuss | | category: IndiaShining | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
Tech: What do you see is not always true?
You are seeing what you want to see. To make sense of the world it is necessary to organize incoming sensations into information which is meaningful. Gestalt psychologists believe one way this is done is by perceiving individual sensory stimuli as a meaningful whole
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IndiaShining: Indus Civilization – Legacy
Around 2ndmillennium several regional cultures emerged around Indus Valley, in present day Punjab, Rajasthan. These cultures had varying degrees of influence of Indus Valley civilization. The Indus Valley civilization began to decline gradually from around 1800 BC and by 1700 BC most of the cities were abandoned. Repeated floods and desertification of the valley contributed to the decline of this culture.
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