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The Virtuous Person in Public Life

G P Rajarathnam: The Gem who Trod the Royal Path - Part 4

Kāleju Baravaṇigè (‘College Writings’) Rajarathnam gave ample opportunities to his students to showcase their talents through publications like Namma Bendre, N...

Kathāmṛta - 40 - Madanamañcukā-lambaka - The Story of Uṣā - Kaliṅgasenā's travel to Kauśāmbi

5. The next day when Somaprabhā came back Kaliṅgasenā during her interaction with her said, ‘It is certain that my wedding with Prasenajit would happen; my moth...

G P Rajarathnam: The Gem who Trod the Royal Path - Part 3

Recognition of Self Understanding and responding to the tender minds of children needs a kind of dissolution of Self. It needs an assessment of our self from a...

Buḍḍu Saheb Climbs a Hill

Janab Muhammad Buḍan Khān was the inspector of Urdu schools. He would come to inspect the Anglo-Hindustani school in our town[1] once or twice a year. Muslims...

ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತಕವಿಗಳ ಕಾವ್ಯಮೀಮಾಂಸೆ - 19

ಭವಭೂತಿ “ಉತ್ತರರಾಮಚರಿತ”ದ ಕಡೆಯ ಅಂಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಗರ್ಭಾಂಕತಂತ್ರವನ್ನು ಬಳಸಿ ಸೀತಾ-ರಾಮರ ಪುನರ್ಮೇಲನವನ್ನು ಸಾಧಿಸಿದ್ದಾನೆ. ಇದನ್ನು ವಾಲ್ಮೀಕಿಮುನಿಗಳ ರಾಮಾಯಣದ ಕಡೆಯ ಭಾಗವೆಂಬಂತೆಯೂ ಕಲ್ಪಿಸಿದ್ದಾನೆ...

The Eminence and the Philosophy of Puranas

Prof. S K Ramachandra Rao - Savyasācitva

Bhāmaha writes the following in his Kāvyālaṅkāra “upeyuṣāmapi divaṃ sannibandhavidhāyinām| āsta eva nirātaṅkaṃ kāntaṃ kāvyamayaṃ vapuḥ ||” “Many people...

Kathāmṛta - 39 - Madanamañcukā-lambaka - The Stories of Tejasvatī and Hariśarmā

4. As Kaliṅgasenā stood on her balcony watching Somaprabhā fly away, a vidyādhara called Madanavega saw her and was awestruck by her beauty. But he thought it w...

Mahāmahopādhyāya Vidvān N. Ranganatha - Sincerity of Values

Sincerity to Values There are several institutions, which received Sharma’s ‘dohada’ (instigation for healthy growth) – Rashtrotthana Parishat, Kannada Sahitya...

Ch. 2 Yoga of Discernment of Reality (Part 1)

Gist ಸ್ಮಿತದಿಂ ಸೌಹೃದವೀಕ್ಷಾ- ಮೃತದಿಂ ಫಲ್ಗುಣನ ಸಂತವಿಡುತವನುಲಿದಾ ಮತಿಮೋಹವ ನೀಗುವ ಜೀ- ವಿತತ್ತ್ವವ ಪಾಡಿದಂ ಜಗದ್ಗುರು ಕೃಷ್ಣಂ || 1 || With a smile and a nectar-like glan...

ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತಕವಿಗಳ ಕಾವ್ಯಮೀಮಾಂಸೆ - 18

ಭವಭೂತಿ ಮಹಾಕವಿ ಭವಭೂತಿಯ ರೂಪಕಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಆತನ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿತ್ವ ಮತ್ತು ಕೃತಿತ್ವಗಳಲ್ಲದೆ ಕಾವ್ಯಮೀಮಾಂಸೆಯ ಸೂಚನೆಗಳೂ ಗಣ್ಯವಾಗಿವೆ. ಅವುಗಳನ್ನು ಪರಾಮರ್ಶಿಸಬಹುದು. “ಮಾಲತೀಮಾಧವ”ದ ಪ್ರಸ್ತಾವನೆಯಲ್ಲಿ...