jaldhar

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by jaldhar 8y ago
(Btw word to the wise, Most Wikipedia articles dealing with Indian philosophy including the ones you cited are crap.) Anyway... Very little is actually known about the Charvakas except through quotes by their opponents but we can definitely
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by jaldhar 8y ago
Make a roguelike game. A basic one can be implemented in a couple of KLOC and will make good use of STL, algorithms, and memory management. Best of all when you are finished you will have a fun game to play! The annual 7DRL challenge in w
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by jaldhar 8y ago
You are right that Kumbha is Aquarius but the kumbha in kumbha mela is from its’ primary meaning of pot. Specifically the pot of amrta (the nectar of immortality) that the Devas and Asuras got together to churn and then fought over. In th
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by jaldhar 8y ago
Many people are not aware of this but large parts of India are already below the replacement birth rate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_union_ter... And this happened without heavy-handed state poli
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by jaldhar 8y ago
Fireworks are the best part of Diwali. Banning them would go over as well as mandating tofurkey on Thanksgiving. This is a big problem with environmentalism IMO. Thing which propenents think are just common sense get viewed as attacks on
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by jaldhar 8y ago
That’s not completely true. There are wordless melodies associated with Samavedic recitation all over India. For instance my Guruji knew a particular set and we are Gujarati Brahmanas. However in Kerala they have a specific Shakha of the
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by jaldhar 8y ago
I don't think puns so much but Sanskrit is the world champion of double entendres. Like one poem which can be read as a praise of ascetism or a description of an adulterous love affair. Or the one which if read forwards tells the sto
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by jaldhar 9y ago
This glorious utopia will last for all of five minutes until the last surviving SJW decides robots need rights. And honestly, would xir be wrong? If we ever get to the point where robots can fully take over most human jobs even intellectua
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by jaldhar 9y ago
Mrgashiras is a nakshatra (one of 27 800 arcminute divisions of the zodiac) not a constellation per se. The nakshatras are however associated with specific stars. Mrgashiras with Gamma Orionis (the "right shoulder" I think?&quot
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by jaldhar 9y ago
>This reeks Well, it would wouldn’t it?
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by jaldhar 9y ago
I think you mean the Blue Mountains not Misty Mountains right? According to the map in the Silmarillion they were the Eastern border of Beleriand.
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Is a language only a language if it is spoken? Sanskrit has a lot of cultural significance to Indians and it forms the basis of the vocabulary of the modern Indian languages (even the Dravidian ones.) So it is somewhat like Latin but perha
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by jaldhar 9y ago
Using language to centralize power or even create a nation-state where one did not exist is the rule rather than the exception I would say. See Italy, Greece, France, Germany and Great Britain for recent Western examples.
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by jaldhar 9y ago
You don't know many BJP and RSS people do you? This "shocking revelation" was known by nationalist historians long ago and only "proves" that Indian culture is the most ancient and once ruled the world.
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by jaldhar 9y ago
This is a really dumb argument. First of all Sanskrit has a precise definition in Indian culture. It is Sanskrit ("perfected" or perhaps more appropriately "systemized") as opposed to Prakrit ("natural") lang
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by jaldhar 9y ago
FWIW I'm Gujarati so I really couldn't say. All the Keralites I've met have been vegetarians but its a small sample.
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> "if anything is mentioned in those books they fall over themselves to mention them." As a Pandit whose education in Sanskrit was strictly on classical lines I definitely get a "Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the rig
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by jaldhar 9y ago
I don't know enough about Buddhism to judge if the article is accurate but separating out teaching from people sounds rather "Protestant" to my ears. In Hinduism which I know more about we have the concept of karma. Karma is
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by jaldhar 9y ago
If by "tenets" of Hinduism you mean texts which have not been considered imperative for at least two millennia then maybe but let me remind you that Hindus are not "people of the book". You can accuse Hindutva types of