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Oct 1, 2004 9:10 am
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Animals in Indus Valley Civilization On the seals found in Mohan-Jo-Daro and Harappa, there are pictures of animals. I am looking for the list of animals and...
... It is difficult to give an authoritative list of Indus animals on seals, since so many of the animals and birds found there are mythological. They include...
Dear Indologists, Below I am enclosing the text of the advertisement for a position in Hindu Studies at the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, ...
Dear Colleagues, Here is the ad for a position in Southeast Asian Buddhism at the University of Michigan. Please circulate it to relevant lists and ...
... <kishore_future@y...> wrote: King Asoka (Asoka Vardhana Maurya) was a great king, who has been praised no end. After a change of heart, witnessing the...
Harry Spier wrote about the difference between kArmamala and karmamaal. Actually there is none; kArma means that which pertains to karma. It is a taddhita-...
Hi, I am a novice to Indology. Please aplogise my ignorance. I am interested in learning about the nature of astronomical data found in Vedas. I am not even...
I am forwarding the message I received from Swamiji Advayananda of Chinmaya International foundation ( Higher learning in Vedanta and other Darsanas) at...
Dear list-members, I have two questions regarding interpretation of compounds without any comprehensive context. The source is a fragment of medieval Sanskrit...
... Acting as if trying to offend but without serious intention -- just as a jester does ... jealous for ther first time or newly aroused jealousy Regards, ...
Hi group. I wonder if someone, off the top of his or her head, would settle an argument I am having with a friend, wherein I am 'arguing' from a position of...
My dear Dr.Orelskaya, Aardraaparadha also occurs in the verse Ksipto hastaavalagna etc.cited in Dhvanyaloka II Udyota.Karika 5.and its meaning is a person who...
Dear Colleagues, I am forwarding the text of the ad for a position in South/Southeast Asian Islam at the Department of Asian Languages and the Department of...
Dear Sanskritists, What is literal meaning of sphijaikena? The context is mRdvAsane sphijaikena hastapadau nirAzrayaM nidhAya ... (VijJAnabhairava.78) The...
"zAp" / "shaapa" It is curious that ancient rishis could just utter a "zAp" and make the concerned person go through disasters which, according to the ...
Dear Prashant, Curses don't necessarily cause real changes in the real world (although I have accumulated insufficient tapas to verify this experientially),...
Simon Brodbeck
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Oct 14, 2004 4:34 pm
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We might add: Smith, William L. Explaining the Inexplicable: Uses of the Curse in Rama Literature. In: Eivind Kahrs, ed., Kalyanamitraraganam, Essays in Honor...
Dear list! The site "Indian Epigraphy" (http://indepigr.narod.ru/index_1.htm) updated. New Collection of Orissa and Andhra Inscriptions, including inscriptions...
Announcement Following the death of Dr Julia Leslie the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and the Centre for Gender and Religions Research at SOAS...
Simon Brodbeck
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Oct 17, 2004 12:54 am
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... someone (with ... scorches ... curse him, ... that ... It seems ... cursing, but that ... That's what they say about what he might do, but does he or...
Dear Filippo, Thankyou for your thoughts. No, I don't think Yudhishthira ever actualises his alleged eye-zapping potential. Your explanation sounds more or...
Simon Brodbeck
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Oct 17, 2004 4:42 pm
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Burning with eyes seems to be the exreme [high voltage] step one instantaneously takes when overwhelmed by moral indignation. Classic cases of burning , of...
... actualises his alleged eye-zapping potential. Your explanation sounds more or less right, although with the accumulation of constraints on their behaviour...
... Consider the cases of Kamadeva being burnt by Siva and Sakuntala being cursed by Sage Durvassa. The cases are not interchangeable. Many of the sages seem...
Dear list. There are several indological search engines available through my university's library catalogue, but I have not found a way to easily search...