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Śatakatraya
The ''Śatakatraya'' (), (also known as , ) refers to three Indian collections of Sanskrit poetry, containing a hundred verses each. The three ''Satakam, śataka's'' are known as the , , and , and are attributed to Bhartṛhari c. 5th century CE. The three ''Śataka''s Indian scholar K. M. Joglekar in his translation work 'Bhartrihari: Niti and Vairagya Shatakas' says that, "The Shatakas were composed when Bhartrihari had renounced the world. It is not easy to say in what order they were written, from the subject matter of each of them, it is likely that Shringarashatak was written first, then followed the Niti and lastly the Vairagyashataka". The ''Nītiśataka'' deals with ''nīti'', roughly meaning ethics and morality. ''Śṛṅgāraśataka'' deals with love and women. ''Vairāgyaśataka'' contains verses on renunciation. The Sanskrit scholar Barbara Stoler Miller translated these sections as ''Among Fools and Kings'', ''Passionate Encounters'' and ''Refuge in the Forest'' resp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhartṛhari
Bhartṛhari (Devanagari: ; Bhartrihari; fl. c. 5th century CE), was an Indian-Hindu linguistic philosopher and poet, known for his contributions to the fields of linguistics, grammar, and philosophy. He is believed to have been born in the 5th century in Ujjain, Malwa, India. He decided to live a monastic life and find a higher meaning but was unable to detach from worldly life. He lived as a yogi in Ujjain until his death. He is best known for his works, the '' Vākyapadīya'' (a treatise on sentences and words), ''Mahābhāṣyatikā'' (a commentary on Patanjali's ''Mahabhashya''), ''Vākyapadīyavṛtti'' (a commentary on ''Vākyapadīya kāṇḍas'' 1 and 2), ''Śabdadhātusamīkṣā'', and the 300-verse collection ''Śatakatraya''. Bhartrhari's philosophy is marked by the concept of "Shabda-Brahman", that the ultimate reality is expressed through words. He posited that language and cognition are linked and that by understanding grammar one can attain spiritual liberati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanskrit Poetry
Sanskrit literature is a broad term for all literature composed in Sanskrit. This includes texts composed in the earliest attested descendant of the Proto-Indo-Aryan language known as Vedic Sanskrit, texts in Classical Sanskrit as well as some mixed and non-standard forms of Sanskrit. Literature in the older language begins during the Vedic period with the composition of the Rigveda, Ṛg·veda between about 1500 and 1000 BCE, followed by other Vedic works right up to the time of the grammarian Pāṇini around 6th or 4th century BCE (after which Classical Sanskrit texts gradually became the norm). Vedic Sanskrit is the language of the extensive liturgical works of the Historical Vedic religion, Vedic religion, while Classical music, Classical Sanskrit is the language of many of the prominent texts associated with the major Indian religions, especially Hinduism and the Hindu texts, but also Buddhism, and Jainism. Some Sanskrit Buddhist literature, Sanskrit Buddhist texts are als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
D D Kosambi
Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (31 July 1907 – 29 June 1966) was an Indian polymath with interests in mathematics, statistics, philology, history, and genetics. He contributed to genetics by introducing the ''Kosambi map function''. In statistics, he was the first person to develop orthogonal infinite series expressions for stochastic processes via the Kosambi–Karhunen–Loève theorem. He is also well known for his work in numismatics and for compiling critical editions of ancient Sanskrit texts. His father, Dharmananda Damodar Kosambi, had studied ancient Indian texts with a particular emphasis on Buddhism and its literature in the Pali language. Damodar Kosambi emulated him by developing a keen interest in his country's ancient history. He was also a Marxist historian specialising in ancient India who employed the historical materialist approach in his work. He is particularly known for his classic work '' An Introduction to the Study of Indian History''. He is describe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satakam
A shataka () is a genre of Sanskrit literature. It comprises works that contain one hundred verses. It is also a popular genre of Telugu literature. Etymology The Sanskrit word ''śatakam'' means one hundred. Literature * Dayashataka by Vedanta Desika * Andhra Nayaka Satakam by Kasula Purushottama Kavi *Dasarathi Satakam by Kancherla Gopanna (Ramadasu) *Subhashita Trisati (three sets of hundred) by Bhatruthahari * Vrushadhipa Satakam by Paalkuriki Somanna * Vyaja Ninda by Kasula Purushottama Kavi * Hamsaladeevi Gopala Satakam by Kasula Purushottama Kavi * Manasa bodha Satakam by Kasula Purushottama Kavi * Bhakta Kalpadruma Satakam by Kasula Purushottama Kavi * Sumathi Satakam Sumati Satakam ( Telugu: సుమతీ శతకము) is one of the most famous Telugu Satakams. It is a neeti (moral) Satakam. Sataka Karta (Sataka Creator) Sumati Satakam is composed of more than a 100 poems (padyalu). According to man ... by Baddena Bhupaludu References Sanskrit words ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since 2023; and, since its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is near Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations averag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Stoler Miller
Barbara Stoler Miller (August 8, 1940 – April 19, 1993) was a scholar of Sanskrit literature. Her translation of the '' Bhagavad Gita'' was extremely successful and she helped popularize Indian literature in the U.S. She was the president of the Association for Asian Studies in 1990. Biography Born in New York City on August 8, 1940, she attended Great Neck High School on Long Island in New York, graduating in 1958. She was one of three children. She went on to Barnard College and Columbia University, where she earned her B.A. in philosophy from 1959 to 1962 and her M.A. in Indic Studies from 1962 to 1964. During this period, she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, was awarded the Montague Philosophy Prize, and was awarded her B.A. magna cum laude at Barnard in 1962. Miller proceeded to earn a Ph.D. in Indic Studies, with distinction, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. She was one of the last of the era of scholars trained by the W. Norman Brown and Stella Kramrisch, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dharmananda Damodar Kosambi
Dharmananda Damodar Kosambi (9 October 1876 – 4 June 1947) was a Portuguese Buddhist scholar and Pāli language expert. He was the father of the mathematician and prominent Marxist historian Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi. Biography Kosambi was born in the Sancoale village of Portuguese Goa in 1876 in orthodox Gaud Saraswat Brahmin (GSB) family. He was married at the age of sixteen. He was passionately interested in knowledge and felt that married life would not allow him to pursue this goal. He thus attempted to leave home several times, but lacked the courage to do so and he returned to his family. However, after the birth of his first daughter, Manik, he did leave his family not returning for nearly four years. Needless to say, his wife, Balabai, suffered during these years, as it was uncommon at the time for a married man to leave his wife and family. Later, Kosambi first traveled to Pune with an intention to learn Sanskrit. From Pune, he traveled to Varanasi after brief so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bharthari (king)
Bharatthari, also known as "Baba Bharthari" or "Jogi Sant" Bharthari in many parts of India, is the hero of many folk stories in North India. He was the ruler of Ujjain, before renouncing the world and abdicating in the favor of his younger brother Vikramaditya. He's based on a historical figure named Bhartrihari. Stories of Bharthari and his nephew King Gopi Chand of Bengal, who are considered Nath panth yogis, abound in the Indian folklore of Rajasthan, Punjab, Gujarat, Haryana, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal. Many of the details about the lives of Bharthari and his brother Vikramaditya are from the tales of ''Baital Pachisi'' (Twenty five tales of Baital), translated as 'Vikram and The Vampire' by Sir Richard Francis Burton in 1870. Folklore Bhartrhari was the elder son of King Gandharva Sena, who received the kingdom of Ujjain from The celestial god Indra and the King of Dhara. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur W
The Countess (French language, French: ''La Comtesse''; born Arthur Berloget), also known as Pauline and Arthur W, was a French transgender courtesan, demimondaine, singer, artist, and writer who was prominent in Parisian society throughout the 1850s and 1860s. She was the mistress of a French nobility, nobleman and later became a singer in Parisian cafés and cabarets. Berloget was an active member of an LGBT community in Paris, whose members were called ''filles'', ''mignons'' and ''tribade sisters''. She was drafted to serve in the French Army, and was forced to temporarily de-transition. She was arrested in 1861 for robbery and for desertion, deserting her post, and was sentenced to ten years in prison. In 1874, she authored an autobiography ''The Secret Confessions of a Parisian: The Countess, 1850-1871'', which was published in 1895. Her autobiography describes intimate details of her life living as a woman during the Second French Empire and the beginning of Belle Époque ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emeneau
Murray Barnson Emeneau (February 28, 1904 – August 29, 2005) was the founder of the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Early life and education Emeneau was born in Lunenburg, a fishing town on the east coast of Nova Scotia, Canada. Having distinguished himself in classical languages in high school, he obtained a four-year scholarship to Dalhousie University in Halifax to further his classical studies. On obtaining his B.A. degree from Dalhousie, Emeneau was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Balliol College at Oxford University. From Oxford he arrived at Yale University in 1926, where he took a teaching appointment in Latin. While at Yale, Emeneau began Sanskrit and Indo-European studies with the Sanskritist Franklin Edgerton and Indo-Europeanist Edgar Sturtevant. In 1931 Emeneau was awarded his Ph.D. with a dissertation on the '' Vetālapañcaviṃśatī''. Given the dire employment situation in the early 1930s, Emeneau stayed on at Yale after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bilhana
Kavi Bilhana was an 11th-century Kashmiri poet. He is known for his love poem, the '' Caurapañcāśikā''. According to legend, Bilhana fell in love with the daughter of King Madanabhirama, Princess Yaminipurnatilaka, and had a secretive love affair. Bilhana kavi came to rajya for to learn Chandassu . They were discovered, and Bilhana was thrown into prison. While awaiting judgement, he wrote the ''Caurapâñcâśikâ'', a fifty-stanza love poem, not knowing whether he would be sent into exile or die on the gallows. It is unknown what fate Bilhana encountered. Nevertheless, his poem was transmitted orally around India. There are several versions, including ones from South India which had a happy ending; the Kashmiri version does not specify what the outcome was. The ''Caurapâñcâśikâ'' was first translated into a European language, French, in 1848. Subsequently, it was translated several other times. Notable translations are those of Sir Edwin Arnold(London 1896) and E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Advaita Ashrama
Advaita Ashrama, Mayavati, is a branch of the Ramakrishna Math, founded on 19 March 1899 at the behest of Vivekananda,founded by Vivekananda in 1899. ''The Telegraph (Calcutta), The Telegraph, 20 May 2003.'' by his disciples James Henry Sevier, and Charlotte Sevier. Today it publishes the original writings of Vivekananda. As an ashram dedicated to the study and practice of Advaita Vedanta, no images or idols are worshipped there, not even of Ramakrishna; and no images were kept in the premises according to the Ashram ideals set by Vivekananda. Also referred as the Mayawati Ashram, it is located at an altitude of 1940 meters, 22 km from Champawat in Champawat district, Uttarakhand, and 9 km from the town of Lohaghat. The ashra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
