Introduction Problems form an inescapable passage in every person’s life. However much one tries to avoid them, the truth is that they remain to be experienced...
A note about the translation of verses: In translating Sanskrit into English, we had to chart our course through a thoroughly challenging terrain. The reason f...
The following two verses are solutions to a single challenge that posits Viṣṇu is Śiva: कपाली च कलापी च शिरसा भाति योऽवतात्। स देहार्धसमासक्तकेशवश्चन्द्रशेखरः...
There is another variety of poetic challenges in which every foot of a verse is composed by a different poet. The one who composes the first line has the respon...
“Kālidāsa composed poems in Kannada”: वाणीवीणागुणरणनचिन्माधुरीमोदयुक्त्या गौरीशर्वाद्वयनयजयप्रीतिसंस्फूर्तिशक्त्या। देशस्यास्य प्रसृमरकलाशास्त्रविज्ञानरक्त्य...
“Sun arose in the West and moon in East”: “धातर्मेरुमहीध्रलङ्घनधिया विन्ध्याद्रिणा सर्वतो व्याप्तं व्योमतलं दिवेति च निशेत्यस्तं प्रतीतिर्गता”। दूतेनैवमभाषि...
“Crescent moon appears on Śiva’s neck”: उमानर्मविलासोद्यन्नखरक्षतहेतुना। ग्रीवायामर्धचन्द्रोऽसौ चन्द्रचूडस्य दृश्यते॥[1] Caught in throes of love, Umā adorne...
“A male horse gives birth to foals”: जानेऽहं घनसलिलाकरस्य गर्भे जीवालिः प्रविलसतीत्यनूह्यरीतिः। तत्रैषाऽद्भुतघटनाऽपि सत्यमेव ह्यश्वोऽसौ निजतनयान् स्वयं प्रस...
“Bamboo doesn’t bend. Sun is the real thief”: जनश्रुतिं यदाहिरीनिवेदकोऽह्नि नान्नभा- गिति प्रमार्ष्टुमागतः सभोजनो वनं प्रगे। निधाय भाजनं नते तृणध्वजेऽलपत्ततो...