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‘Sanskrit-Speaking’ Villages, Faith-Based Development and the Indian Census
Over three sections, the 2001 and 2011 Indian censuses are scrutinised to locate, down to the sub‑district administrative and village levels, where L1‑L3 (first to third language) Sanskrit tokens were returned during census enumeration.
McCartney, Patrick S.D.
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The influence of the Indian philosophical tradition on Sanskrit translations of the Bible (on the example of the Gospel of John) [PDF]
The article is an attempt to describe briefly the history of translation of the Bible into Sanskrit and give examples of how Sanskrit translations of Biblical texts were affected by the influence of Indian Religious and Philosophical tradition.
Sergey Lobanov
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Why Did the Buddhists Adopt Sanskrit?
Western scholarship has long wondered about the reasons that led the Buddhists, or, to be more precise, specific sectarian components of the Indian Buddhist communities (most conspicuously the [Mūla]sarvāstivādins), to abandon the Middle Indic ...
Eltschinger Vincent
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Sanskrit educational texts in Kawi culture; The case of the "Kārakasaṁgraha"
This article provides a revised critical edition and annotated translation of the Kārakasaṁgraha, a Sanskrit grammatical treatise as it has been preserved in Balinese manuscripts.
Zakariya Pamuji Aminullah +1 more
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Varāhamihira’s Physiognomic Omens in the Garuḍapurāṇa
In this paper, I study the three chapters devoted to human physiognomy in the Garuḍapurāṇa. Two of the three come directly from Varāhamihira’s sixth-century Bṛhatsaṃhitā with the commentary (vivṛti) of the Kaśmirian Bhaṭṭotpala (fl. ca.
Kenneth Zysk
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Royal Patronage of Sanskrit & Mahmood Shah I
It is a common notion that during the reign of Muslim kings or Sultans, Sanskrit was not given much attention, and that was one of the reasons it declined.
Dr. Arshad Mehmood Hashmi
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Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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वसुदेवसुतं देवं कंसचाणूरमर्दनम्। देवकीपरमानन्दं कृष्णं वन्दे जगद्गुरुम्।। निद्रितो जनो यथा स्वप्नदृष्टं तदीयं देहं तदीयं स्वरूपमिति सञ्चिन्तयति करोति च कार्यं तदनुसारं तथैव जीवः तत्पूर्वजन्मना लब्धं जडदेहमिमं स्वरूपं तस्य सञ्चिन्तयति तिष्ठति च सर्वथ ...
डा. श्रीविश्वरञ्जन पाण्डा
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The Elephant's Footprint: An Ancient Indian Logic Diagram
A seminal article by Margaret Baron, published in 1969, explored the history of set diagrams (Venn diagrams). However, Baron did not look beyond the evidence of European sources. This article presents evidence of a literary simile from ancient India that
Dominik Wujastyk
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मानव जीवन के कल्याण हेतु यज्ञ - वैदिक वांग्मय के सन्दर्भ में
भारतीय परंपराओं के प्रचलन में तत्वदर्शी ऋषियो ने यज्ञ को भारतीय धर्म का पिता कहा गया है जिसमें मनुष्य जीवन का भी समग्र दर्शन समाहित है। मानव जीवन में यज्ञ की अनिवार्यता वैदिक वांग्मय का निर्देश है। मनुष्य जीवन के विविध आयाम में यज्ञ लाभ को वैदिक वांग्मय
Tanushee Pathak, Gayatri Kishor
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