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Masti Venkatesha Iyengar - The Generous Gentleman

Generosity of Personality Masti was not particularly affluent. His earnings were not much compared to what government officials earn today. He felt that whatev...

Ch. 2 Yoga of Discernment of Reality (Part 9)

The principle of the Self decides everything The teaching of the Gītā begins from the second chapter in which Bhagavān classifies the entire Universe into the...

ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತಕವಿಗಳ ಕಾವ್ಯಮೀಮಾಂಸೆ - 35

ಮೀಮಾಂಸಕರು ಮೊದಲಿನಿಂದಲೂ ಕಾವ್ಯವಿರೋಧಿಗಳು. ಅವರತ್ತ ಕವಿ ಹೀಗೆ ಕಟಾಕ್ಷಿಸುತ್ತಾನೆ: ಅರ್ಥೇಷ್ವಲಂಕಾರವಿದಃ ಪ್ರಮಾಣಂ          &nb...

The Four Vyuhas of Vishnu

Bhakti as an Enabler of Jnana

Kathāmṛta - 56 - Alaṅkāravatī-lambaka - The Story of Alaṅkāravatī and the Rāmāyaṇa

निशुम्भभरनम्रोर्वीखर्विताः पर्वता अपि | यं नमन्तीव नृत्यन्तं नमामस्तं विनायकम् || [Owing to the crushing weight capable of bending even the earth, the m...

Some Councillors - Part 1

Purna Krishna Rao was a councillor during the era of Dewan Rangacharlu. He was the very first councillor from Mysuru. He was born and brought up in Mysuru. I...

Rāḻḻapalli Ananthakrishna Sarma (Part 2)

Literary Feats At the behest of H. H. Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV, there was an āśu-kavitā competition held in 1925 at Mysore in which the participating poets had t...

ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತಕವಿಗಳ ಕಾವ್ಯಮೀಮಾಂಸೆ - 34

ಕಾವ್ಯಕಲೆ ಸಕಲಮಾನವರಿಗೆ ಸಂತೋಷಕಾರಿಯೆಂಬ ತಥ್ಯವನ್ನು ತನ್ನದಾದ ನಿರುಪಮರೀತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಹೀಗೆ ಸಮರ್ಥಿಸುತ್ತಾನೆ: ಆವರ್ಣಶಕ್ತಿಗ್ರಹಮಾಪವರ್ಗಂ       &nbsp...

The Glory of Bhakti in the Vishnupurana and the Bhagavatam

ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತಕವಿಗಳ ಕಾವ್ಯಮೀಮಾಂಸೆ - 33

ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ-ಸಂಗೀತಗಳ ತೌಲನಿಕವ್ಯತ್ಯಾಸವನ್ನು ಕವಿಯು ಬಲ್ಲ: ಕರ್ಣಂ ಗತಂ ಶುಷ್ಯತಿ ಕರ್ಣ ಏವ             ಸಂಗೀತಕಂ ಸೈಕತವ...

Kathāmṛta - 55 - Sūryaprabha-lambaka - The Story of Guṇaśarmā

One day, the king was having his meal. Guṇaśarmā, who sat in his proximity refused to eat a certain dish which was brought to him by the cook. When asked the re...