Bhāravi - 1
After Kālidāsa, Bhāravi is perhaps the only poet who steered the ship of Sanskrit narrative poetry along a new route. Successive poets merely followed his lead....
After Kālidāsa, Bhāravi is perhaps the only poet who steered the ship of Sanskrit narrative poetry along a new route. Successive poets merely followed his lead....
As Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa went ahead with the sages, they arrived at the banks of the river Jāhnavī. Upon Rāma’s request, Viśvāmitra started narrating the st...
138. Na hi svato'satī śaktiḥ kartumanyena śakyate It is impossible to impart some power which we don’t have in the first place. Milk has the inherent capacity...
How is Brahma? sarvataḥ pāṇipādaṃ tat sarvatokṣi-śiro-mukham । sarvataḥ śrutimalloke sarvam āvṛtya tiṣṭhati ॥ BG 13.14 “Its limbs are everywhere, as...
ಕಾದಂಬರಿಗಳ ಪೌರಾಣಿಕ ಪರ್ಯಾವರಣವನ್ನು ಪುಷ್ಟಿಗೊಳಿಸುವಂತೆ ಅನೇಕ ಪ್ರಸಂಗಗಳು ರೂಪಿತವಾಗಿವೆ. ರುದ್ರಸಾಕ್ಷಾತ್ಕಾರ, ಆಪೋದೇವಿಯರ ದರ್ಶನ, ತ್ರಿಶಂಕುವಿನ ದಿವ್ಯದೇಹನಿರ್ಮಾಣ (‘ಮಹಾಬ್ರಾಹ್ಮಣ’), ಬ್ರ...
While discussing about mārga and deśī, the author has brought much clarity in drawing the lines of distinction between the two, and at the same time showing...
The next morning, the brothers woke up, bowed down to the confluence of the rivers Sarayū and Jāhnavī and arrived at the region of Maladā and Karūṣā – the regio...
130. Na hi bhikṣuko bhikṣukāntaraṃ yācitumarhati satyanyasminnabhikṣuke When there is someone who isn’t a beggar in the vicinity one beggar shouldn’t beg from...
अवस्थात्रयम् इह खलु सप्राणैः सर्वैरपि जाग्रत्-स्वप्न-सुषुप्तिसञ्ज्ञाः तिस्रोऽवस्थाः प्रत्यहम् अनुभूयन्ते। जाग्रति स्वप्ने च यो भेदः सुतराम् अनुभूयते स सुषुप्तौ...
123. Naṭasāmājika-nyāya An actor portrays many characters on stage, may it be Rāma or Bhīma. He provides the connoisseurs a feast of rasa by showing the sorrow...
When Viṣṇu was about to take birth as the sons of Daśaratha, Brahmā addressed the devas – “You should create powerful beings to assist Viṣṇu. Beget vānaras who...
115. Dīrghaśaṣkulībhakṣaṇa-nyāya When eating large/long śaṣkulīs i.e. chakli all the five sense organs feel happy! Since they are large, let's assume that we h...