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Why Did the Buddhists Adopt Sanskrit?
Open Linguistics, 2017 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"
Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of IndonesiaThis 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
History of Science in South Asia, 2019 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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Prachi Prajna, 2021 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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Royal Patronage of Sanskrit & Mahmood Shah I
دریافت, 2023 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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मानव जीवन के कल्याण हेतु यज्ञ - वैदिक वांग्मय के सन्दर्भ में
Interdisciplinary Journal of Yagya Research, 2022 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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The Elephant's Footprint: An Ancient Indian Logic Diagram
Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2018 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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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.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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Molecules, 2022 The unpredictable invasion of the Mupli beetle, Luprops tristis Fabricius (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), makes areas uninhabitable to humans. These beetles produce a strong-smelling, irritating secretion as a defence mechanism, which causes blisters on ...
Ovungal Sabira +11 more
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Weather, EarlyView.The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary among its peers in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the diverse origins of the words we use. In this two‐part paper, we will explore these origins, including the Pontic‐Caspian steppe, the British Empire, latinophone scientists and a TV show. We
Kieran M. R. Hunt
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