ಈಗ ಕಾಂಡಾನುಸಾರವಾಗಿ ಪರಿಶೀಲಿಸೋಣ: ಬಾಲಕಾಂಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಮನಮುಟ್ಟುವ ಉಪಮೆಗಳೇ ವಿರಳ. ಅಷ್ಟೇಕೆ, ಉಳಿದ ಅಲಂಕಾರಗಳೂ ಕಡಮೆ. ಆದರೂ ಪ್ರಾತಿನಿಧಿಕವಾಗಿ ಅತ್ಯುತ್ತಮವೆನ್ನಬಹುದಾದ ಒಂದು ಉದಾಹರಣೆಯನ್ನು ಕಾ...
The Right Age for Conducting Upanayana[1] There are several varying rules and prescriptions about the age of the boy who is to undergo the upanayana (the boy i...
1.Śiva’s form as Naṭarāja We know from the first chapter of the Nāṭyaśāstra (verses 41-45) that according to tradition, Śiva’s cosmic dance inspired Bharata to...
Ala-ud-din Khalji raided Chittorgarh and took its king Raja Ratan Singh as his prisoner. Rani Padmini was the wife of this same Raja Ratan Singh. Khalji pretend...
Ayurveda, being a medical science, does not consider cosmology as one of its central preoccupations. Vagbhata’s Ashtanga-Hrdayam, which contains the definitive...
Final Days I had visited Vasudevaiah’s home about a month before the day of his demise. He sat up in his bed, made space for me, and insisted that I sit right...
The couple gathered fruits and put them together in a bundle. As Satyavān was working on the logs, his body began sweating all over. He had a tremendous headach...
ವಿವಿಧಘನಾಲಂಕಾರಂ ವಿಚಿತ್ರವರ್ಣಾವಲೀಮಯಸ್ಫುರಣಮ್ | ಶಕ್ರಾಯುಧಮಿವ ವಕ್ರಂ ವಲ್ಮೀಕಭುವಂ ಕವಿಂ ನೌಮಿ || (ಆರ್ಯಾಸಪ್ತಶತೀ, ೧.೩೦) ೧ ಭಗವಾನ್ ವಾಲ್ಮೀಕಿಮಹರ್ಷಿಗಳ ಆದಿಕಾವ್ಯ ರಾಮಾಯಣವು ಕಾಳಿದಾ...
Most of our ancient thinkers were of the opinion that only the male members of the brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, and vaiśya varṇas were eligible to study the Vedas.[1] An...
This article is an adapted version of the talk presented by Arjun Bharadwaj at the Swadeshi Indology Conference in December 2017 The following sections...
Among the Sanskrit Vidwans whose patronage I sought, it was Sri Motaganahalli Sankara Sastri who showered me with love and affection. There was no other Vidwan...
The moment I think of R Narasimhacharya, C Vasudevaiah’s name floats up to the surface of my memories. Both of them would come together to social events. They u...