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Sir K Seshadri Iyer (Part 4)

Standing Committee An incident took place at the Representative Assembly of Mysore. During one of the sessions of the Representative Assembly, M Venkatakrishna...

K Krishnamoorthy (Part 5)

On Bharata’s repeated use of ‘bhāva’ in words such as vibhāva, anubhāva and vyabhicāri-bhāva: It should be noted that Bharata has coined all these techn...

Karna and the Encouragement to Adharma

ವಿದ್ವದ್ರಸಿಕ, ಸಹೃದಯ ಶ್ರೀ ಟಿ. ಎನ್. ಪದ್ಮನಾಭನ್

“ಮೇಲೆ ನೋಡೆ ಕಣ್ಣ ತಣಿಪ ನೀಲಪಟದಿ ವಿವಿಧ ರೂಪಜಾಲಗಳನು ಬಣ್ಣಿಸಿರ್ಪ ಚಿತ್ರಚತುರನಾರ್?” ಎಂಬ ಪದ್ಯವನ್ನು ಮಾಧ್ಯಮಿಕ ಶಾಲೆಯ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಯಾಗಿ ಉರುಹೊಡೆದಾಗ ನನಗೆ ಪೂಜ್ಯ ಡಿ.ವಿ.ಜಿ. ಅವರ ಮತ್ತು ಅ...

Kathāmṛta - 81 - Śaśāṅkavatī-lambaka - The Story of Śrutadhī and The Story of Vimalabuddhi

He was delighted to see Vinayavatī who was gathering flowers on the river bank while he was on the way to take bath. He bathed and by the time he came back, the...

The Āṅgikābhinaya of Baḍagutiṭṭu Yakṣagāna (Part 4)

An interesting feature of Yakṣagāna is that movements are adapted as per the bhūmikā, i.e., character. The hèjjès, sthānakas, and hastas are a function of the n...

Ch. 4 Yoga of Unattached Karma (Part 1)

Note vivarisidenidāṃ pūrvadi vivasvataṃgeṃdu Kṛṣṇanoreyal Pārthaṃ। avatāraṃgaḻadeṃtene svavapurdhṛti dharmarakṣegeṃdaṃ devaṃ॥ Said Kṛṣṇa to Arjuna “Long...

Kālidāsa - 3

Unless poetry caters to people with varying tastes, it will not find a strong footing. It naturally follows that the poet should know the ways of the world well...

Gandhari and the Gambling Episode

Characters of the Mahabharata :Duryodhana

Kathāmṛta - 80 - Śaśāṅkavatī-lambaka - The Story of Bhadrabāhu and his minister, The Story of Puṣkarākṣa and Vinayavatī, and The Story of Lāvaṇyamañjarī

The story of Bhadrabāhu and his intelligent minster There lived a king named Bhadrabāhu in the Magadha kingdom. He had an intelligent minister named Mantragupt...

Critical Appreciation of Prahasanas - Part 15

Śāṇḍilya who had cried hoarse seeing Vasantasenā body isn’t so sad seeing his preceptor dead, he calls him vācāla - which positively means a great orator but al...