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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: 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
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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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: Indian History
The people of the Indus Civilization achieved great accuracy in measuring length, mass and time. Their measurements were extremely precise. Their smallest division, which is marked on an ivory scale found in Lothal, was approximately 1.704mm, the smallest division ever recorded on a scale of the Bronze Age. Harappan engineers followed the decimal division of measurement, for all practical purposes, including the measurement of mass as revealed by their hexahedron weights. Brick sizes were in a perfect ratio of 4:2:1 and the decimal system was used.discuss | | category: IndiaShining | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
News: My tribute to late Sri Dr. Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy.
Chief Minister of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and four other people were killed when their helicopter crashed in the dense jungles of southern India during a pounding rainstorm.Reddy worked his way into the Cong ... see morediscuss | | category: News | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
Miscellaneous: WHAT A STRANGE CREATURE YOU ARE
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IndiaShining: If Bengal implodes, India is endangered
"WHAT BENGAL thinks today, the rest of India thinks tomorrow". Gopal Krishna Gokhale's aphorism of an era long bygone rings bitterly ironical in the context of today's West Bengal. Never much in the news except in the bottom paragraphs of inside pages, and not rating high in size or economic prosperity relative to its peers, but nevertheless, acre for acre, the state is perhaps one of the most vital chunks of geostrategic real estate in the country, deserving of far more focus than is generally accorded to its affairs.1 comment | category: IndiaShining | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
IndiaShining: Discovery of India
Kakatiya Empire.discuss | | category: IndiaShining | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas
IndiaShining: Discovery of India
This is about ancient Indian History and Aryan invasion theories.discuss | | category: IndiaShining | Content type: Text/Pictures | Add this link to... | tell a friend | bakwaas