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Our new note: Elephant-speak
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The Indian Zelensky has been launched and placed in initial orbit.
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A late gupta age gajalakshmI seal found when the Haridvar-Kanpur canal was being dug. Read shrI-[va/pa]drAntapa-viShayasyAdhikaraNasya
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A rule of the thumb: the more you distance yourself from the sanAtana-dharma the more likely you are to advocate destabilizing the Indian state
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deva tumburu: the mUladevatA of the vAmasrotas, the great rudra going back to the atharvan tradition
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A bicephalic representation of ardhanArIshvara from the gupta age
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1 of the underrated iconographic traditions is that of seuna yadava-s which was lost after their catastrophic fall to the marUnmatta-s (1300s). The recently discovered anantashayana is an e.g. Glimpses can also be seen at shaiva bhUleshvara. Who was the likely royal couple shown?
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rudra tumburu with the chaturbhagini-s: jayA, vijayA, ajitA and aparAjitA
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Archaeologist Wakankar discovered this sketch of the saMkarShaNa-vAsudeva-ekAnaMshA triad in a cave at Tikla on the mathurA-ujjayini route. He thought it was a king& queen with an attendant holding an umbrella. Neumayer's sketch of figures& inscription below. However, the
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A nation which fails to control its internet is like one which cannot control of its airspace. The chIna-s got this one right.
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By entering the US presidential race Tulsi Gabbard has made transparent H hate in the mlechCha world that many H were blind to. It's not about Modi it is not about Shah it's about every H like you or me. The mlechCha-marUnmatta combine will try its best to make yazidis out of us
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A rendering of bagalAmukhI sarvastambhinI brahmAstra-devI, in her later anthropocephalic form. The older depictions of her arising from the yoginI-kaula matrix were avicephalous congruent with her name. While the older traditions have largely been forgotten she continued to be a
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The goddess shrI:
chandrAM hiraNmayIM lakshmIM jAtavedo ma Avaha ||
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A rare surviving example of northern bronze of maheshvara and umA from around 10-1100s still in worship to this date in Chamba
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The vaxx obstruction in India by the US & the rejection of the Indian vaxx (A-Z included) validity by UK & probably US is a good illustration of the Anglosphere's use of the pandemic as a cover to enforce its geopolitical objectives.
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the shrIkula goddess ashvArUDhA fighting dAnava-s in the bhaNDAsura war
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Essentially the US is announcing that it wants to interfere in Indian affairs to the detriment of the H
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The necklace of the goddess bhavAnI (taleju, Nepal)) depicting the durgA-s, mAtR^i-s & vIra-s
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An image of rudra and rudrANI with the infant skanda from the Shamalaji complex in the lATAnarta country. It is notable that they have already kept the peacock ready for him
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A vision of tumburu rudra with the chaturbhagini-s, the root deities of the vAma-srotas jayA, vijayA, ajitA and aparAjitA
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A spiked mace known in the itihAsa-purANa as a parigha
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The roaring god bR^ihaspati breaking open the cave of vala to release the cows, as vAmadeva gautama says:
sa suShTubhA sa R^ikvatA gaNena
valaM ruroja phaligaM raveNa |
bR^ihaspatir usriyA havyasUdaH
kanikradad vAvashatIr ud Ajat ||
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The manifestation of the god viShNu in his leonine form nR^isiMha. The leonine metaphor for viShNu goes back to the shruti.
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I'm uncomfortable with a stadium being named after a sitting PM
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A Khmer image of the great god skanda
10th century statue looted from Cambodian temple is subject of forfeiture action filed in Manhattan federal court
@HSINewYork
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Traditional Hindu surgical instruments collected by English labeled according to a Bangali identification. I've not checked with original saMhitA
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One of the most significant acts of the British empire was the destruction of sacerdotal monarchies all over the world while protecting its own. Japan bucked that trend at an enormous human cost.
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A rendering of the supreme kaula goddess ShoDashI: for more see next twt
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R^ikShakarNI: the ursine mAtR^ikA, the lady of the bears, of the shaiva mantramArga. She was installed in the circle of mAtR^ikA-s in certain saiddhAntika traditions (e.g., that based on kalottara-tantra). In the dakShiNasrotas & derivatives, she is worshiped as an ekavIra deity
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A Khmer image of the god viShNu atop the god tArkShyo ariShTanemi in the midst of battle with the dAnava-s
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The great god agni samudra-vAsasas manifesting before father bhR^igu and his successors revealing his glory as vaishvAnara
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viShNu as varAha slaying the daitya hiraNyAkSa hearken to the narration of the cycle in the skandapurANa. While clearly having a shaiva bias, we believe it had merely adapted it from an early pro-varAha version of the myth
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vinAyaka and madanAvatI with some ghosts of his retinue in the background
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The marut-s with devI rodasI capturing the shruti-vAkya:
R^ikSho na vo marutaH shimIvAn |
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Learn some Sanskrit and try to read the original texts to the extent you can.
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Mongol general Qutlugh lamenting the conversion of his coethnics to Mohd'ism in the 1300s:
What have we done, that we have set aside the yasa and yosun of Chingiz Khan and taken up the religion founded in past by the Arabs that is divided into seventy-odd sects? And the choice of
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The natural li~Nga at the temple near Manshera in modern Islam-occupied NW India. It was likely of ancient origin going back to at least shAhIya times. It was restored by the men of mahArAja raNajita siMha of the sikhs. There is said to be small group H still maintaining it
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Two of the indravant-s, deva-s vAyu and viShNu proceeding to join indra in the vR^itratUrya. A certain sect might like this 🙂
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viShNu as the deity of the world axis par excellence from Jammu in 1800s.
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The supreme cosmogonic goddess aditi:
ditir no divA pashum aditir naktam advayAH |
aditiH pAtv aMhasaH sadAvR^idhA ||
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To repeat ourselves: The farther you move from the sanAtana-dharma the greater will be the probability of wanting to destroy the Indian state.
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A convex shrI-chakra. This convexity causes all outer triangles to approach the bounding circle unlike the planar one
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A Nepalian shrI-yantra from the malla period. Likely worshiped by one of the royal dIkShita-s: it is the highest object worship of the shaiva-shAkta system encapsulating a circuit of numerous divinities in a geometry defined by the Golden ratio and the 3-4-5 triangle
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This is neither an innocent opinion nor one coming from simple ignorance rather it is the willful prevarication typical of white academics of various flavors batting for Abrahamism, even as the tyrants from his land did when the lorded over the H.
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An interesting rudra from Odisha: can be interpreted as a late eastern depiction of tumburu
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How the pieces of the Gondwanan supercontinent fit together
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Advice indra gave to rohitAshva when he was fleeing from varuNa -- very Aryan -- if only we could follow it.
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A remarkable early image of nR^isiMha from the Panjab (said to be in private holding in TSP). The antelope skin garment like that of rudra is unusual. The identification of the deity is supported by the inscription below in brAhmI
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A rendering of the peculiar mArjArAruDha-rudra & shakti worshipped in the east in the mahAvidyA-stotra tradition. We believe that the core of mahAvidyA-stotra, neglected text, is an ancient shaiva text that lay close to the root of the group of traditions that spawned the
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A li~Nga from the vicinity of Kali~njara showing a chandella lord disfigured by the medieval green peace activists. The inscription is not entirely readable: shrImad x si
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The goddess uShas arriving with agni jAtavedas -- characteristic of the open daily rite
agne vivasvad uShasash chitraM rAdho amartya |
A dAshuShe jAtavedo vahA tvam adyA devAM uSharbudhaH ||
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The god pUShan and goddess sarasvatI. puShan is rendered with an aShTra go-opasha that is effectively the same as that of his Greek cognate Hermes, but forgotten after the decline of his cult in later-day India
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Emergence of worlds from the shrI-viShNu substratum -- metaphorically shown as the "ocean" of mahat
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Visualization of rudra tryambaka: What does the term tryambaka mean? We hold that it means mother -> goddess. This is supported by the fact the ritual devoted to this form of rudra also invokes the goddess ambikA. The ritual sUtra-s mention the 3 rudrian goddess rudrANI, bhavAnI
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The Japanese master Kukai in the 800s of CE: "the sound of any one single letter among the letters and words of Sanskrit contains within itself infinite meanings. When they are pronounced in Chinese, they become as the shards of a broken jewel." ~translation Takagi&Dreitlein
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An image of the cheetah from the mysterious Harappan civilization of India. It is possible the Harappan had already tamed cheetahs. A potential tame cheetah has been found in the Anatolian site of Arslan Tepe. Since they were not natively found there, it appears to have been
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A remarakble viShNu from kushabhavanapura (unfortunately known as Sultanpur, UP). It was likely commissioned by the pratihAra royalty who are shown
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shikhara of udayeshvara built by king bhoja-deva's brother udayAditya: the splendor of paramAra architecture before coming of maruNmattas
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When Afzal Khan was demolishing temples and literally putting H in the meatgrinder, the great rAjan knew that there was no way to take him on right away or directly to succeed. Hence, he took the time for extraordinary preparations so that when he did strike it was a success.
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A Japanese scroll showing the devAsura-saMgrAma. indra on airAvata leads the charge even as tricephalic rAhu seizes the moon.
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indra storming the fortress of the dAnava-s (post-settlement Indo-Aryan iconography)
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original version a famous va~NgIya lithograph of the 10 vidyA-s. While emerging late in the shaiva-shAkta tradition in eastern locus, the 10 vidyA tradition spread widely through the H nation. By an interesting coincidence my late grandmothers bore the names of successive vidyA-s
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If true this would be rather remarkable: I wish they provided a transcription of the actual inscription.
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The twin gods, the ashvin-s appearing with the god vivasvant as they did to father manu (as in RV 1.46.13)
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The latest Indian empire has survived 75 years -- against the hopes and wishes of the mlechCha and marUnmatta potentates. But it is quite possible that the ultimate reckoning will be forced on the H in the coming years. I suspect we have already seen the forward floaters of that
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sarasvatI: the trans-functional goddess of PIE provenance: imagery capturing her trans-functionality
pArAvataghnIm avase suvR^iktibhiH sarasvatIm A vivAsema dhItibhiH ||
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The making of nation: the Indo-Aryan world at the time of the national epic
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A remarkable piece of H temple jewelry whose provenance has unfortunately been lost. Quiz: what do the deities flank the central pendant signify?
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Let us remember the day with a sense of history. A day why H are still around, have our thread on our shoulder& still sacrifice to gods worshipped by the Arya-s of yore:
19th May 1520, emperor kR^iShNadeva-rAya smashed the Jihad of the Army of Islam in a great victory at Raichur
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The birth of death: the god vivasvant and goddess saraNyu with their kids yamI and rAjan yama with the pAsha
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The youthful warrior goddess bAlA of the shrIkula system in the bhaNDAsura war. She slew the 30 bhaNDaputra-s. She is the warrior equivalent of the goddess parA of the trika system in shrIkula and the deity of the famed tripurashekhara mantra.
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The ghost of Karl Marx manifests in "Kerela" to take in the implementation of his vision
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Remember this can easily happen to us. Has already happened in our civilizational centers to the east and west.
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the yoginI hastipishAchI or ainginI or bhUjanA from the bhairava shrine of the chAhamAna-s at harSha parvata.
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The mahAnt's headgear should be noted: it shows the affinities of the nAtha tradition to the old shaiva deshika-s who were typified by such a headgear. Like him many of the shaiva-deshika-s were administrators in on old India
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deva soma as seen by the atharvan-s.
yA oShadhIH somarAj~nIr bahvIH shatavichakShaNAH |
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A statue of the famous chAlukya queen lokamahAdevI at the lokeshvara temple.
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The mighty gods indra and viShNu:
indrAviShNU nR^ivad u Shu stavAnA
sharma no yantam amavad varUtham ||
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Hindu dogs were traditionally trained not for cuddling or keeping in a cupboard but for war and tracking. In the shruti indra had such a bitch which he dispatched to search for the stolen cows: likely reflective of the use of the dog by by the early Aryans on the steppes. The
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A rendering of the mysterious, ancient goddess pR^ishnI with her sons, the marut-s. As bharadvAja states:
rudrasya ye mILhuShaH santi putrA
yAMsh cho nu dAdhR^ivir bharadhyai |
vide hi mAtA maho mahI ShA
set pR^ishniH subhve garbham AdhAt ||
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manthAna-bhairava emerging at the churning of the world ocean with the watery agents (going back to AV)
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A rendering of vanadurgA, as an ectype of vindhyavAsinI. However, as the devatA vanadurgA, the origins of her tradition are rather enigmatic. Her mantra is given in inverted form in the tAntrika upaniShat known as vanadurgopaniShat. This text is structurally close to the
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One thing H really need to learn is to not amplify their enemies voices
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