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dharma-visheSha-prasUtAd dravya-guNa-karma-sAmAnya-visheSha-samavAyAnAM padArthAnAM sAdharmya-vaidharmAbhyAM tattvaj~nAnAn niHshreyasaM ||
Who is a Hindu? manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2025/07/06/who… A corrected and slightly clearer version of an earlier post.
A note by @goghritaM goghritam.wordpress.com/2025/07/26/not… Also note: namaḥ kalpānta-hutabhug-jvālāmālāntara-sthite | Which could be seen as a shaiva visualization.
You can multiple patterns: IE word for queen (e.g., rAj~nI>); Iranic vazIr which several Slavs have laterally acquired; Semitic something like mAlikA ~ chieftainess; the female half of dampatI ~ Latin domina and its successors. A chIna character for queen. Some strange Kartvelian…
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Traditional Hindu surgical instruments collected by English labeled according to a Bangali identification. I've not checked with original saMhitA
Sometimes, so incredible a fossil is found that your jaw is left on the floor. Mirasaura: finally tells us what that hump of the drepanosaurs was all about. nature.com/articles/s4158…
Sedna-like trans-Neptunian objects are distant solar system minor planet-like bodies with a possible comet-like composition -- hence, like inner Oort's cloud bodies. At least some, like Sedna itself, likely have an organic-molecule-rich surface made of tholins. They have highly…
There is some type of bear-cult or bear sacrifice recorded among the Ainu, the Amur River Gilyaks and the Uralic-speaking Saami people. Even the Danish human geneticist-explorer Eske Willerslev had supposedly been afflicted by disrespect for a bear ritual. Witzel had proposed…
Michael Witzel after participating in a Japanese fire rite at Shingu: "It was like taking part, as a Westerner like me would think, in a pre-Christian ritual that symbolized the bringing of fire by Prometheus and the simultaneous delivery of the sun deity, Amaterasu, from her…
The Japanese spice shichimi tōgarashi goes well with plain dAl.
Some Indian players, both men and women, have some really peculiar names...
With the rise of war b/w 🇹🇭 & 🇰🇭, the Khmer have gone full force, and this is now both a spiritual & mundane war. Currently, black magicians are casting war magic & both Khmer and Thai Brahmins are doing supplication prayers,Thais to Siam Devadhiraj & the Khmer to Vishnu.
mR^igendrau prati khaDgavR^indaM gachChati | pashurAjye pratirodho mahAn pravartate ||
A speculative reconstruction of the late Triassic paleo-Pranhita-Godavari showing the dome-headed stem archosaur Kranasaura with a Leptosuchus-like phytosaur lurking in the background in the
Hopefully this spread more widely in the nation with a move against strays
Goa Govt passes bill to ban pitbull, rottweiler dog breeds.
A scene from Maleri in Telangana early in the Age of Reptiles (230-235 million years ago). The large phytosaur Parasuchus in the background, with the allokotosaurian Malerisaurus in the foreground. Interestingly, in the Triassic, India had a monsoonal clime. Artwork by Gabriel…
Dinosaur running
The speed of an Ostrich against the speed of a Car
The clouded leopard and Snow leopard are not leopards. The clouded leopard is the earliest branching pantherine cat, and the snow leopard is closer to the tiger than leopards and lions. May be the Tibetan word shan might be a good alernative but would be an uphill task to get…
A large phorusrhacoid bird, the apex land predator of its time was eaten by an alligator Purussaurus 12-16 million years ago:
Human genes involved in language FOXP2 A Forkhead transcription factor that regulates genes involved in motor planning and neural plasticity. Mutations cause speech apraxia. CNTNAP2 A neural cell adhesion molecule regulated by FOXP2. Variants associated with language delay,…