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4 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The ancient deity of the saura-kaula tradition mimicked in some ways by the marIchI tradition of the tAthAgata-s. The kashmirian mantravAdin abhinavagupta mentions that 8 tantra-s pertaining to the deity as the bhargAShTashikAkula. While the tradition seems to be mostly lost
a facet of it still survives in shrIkula (dakShiNAMnAya) as aruNA mentioned for example in the saundaryalaharI. While this is the dakShiNAMnAya reflex of the goddess, the uttarAMnAya has a parallel reflex which wherein the goddess bhargashikhA manifests in explicit kAlI forms as
paramArkakAlI, mArtANDakAlI and khasholkA worshiped in the jayadratha yAmala & associated with mArtANDabhairava (who in the dakShinAMnAya is seen as the protector of the practitioners of shrIkula). There are citations to the bhargashikhA tantra itself in various kashmirian& other
texts. A shambhu-para representation of the deity:

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5 Oct
There is this tantalizing fragment from the nishvAsaguhya where where nandin is explaining the pa~nchabrahma as per the vaimala& saiddhAntika tradition to a v1 interlocutor
पञ्च-मन्त्रमयं देवं पञ्च-मन्त्र-शरीरिणम् |
पञ्चमन्त्र ... मन्त्र ... सदाशिवम् ||
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Unfortunately there are lacunae in the text & the next sentence is mostly lost but it seems to describe shiva's form as made up of the 5-brahma-s. nandin clearly lays out the objectives of the deployment of 5:
दीक्षा ज्ञानं च चर्या च मन्त्र-भूति-विनिर्णयम् |
मन्त्र-भूतार्थ-चर्या च रुद्र-सायोज्य-गामिनी ||
Note: mantra-bhUti-vinirNayaM: ascertaining the power of the mantra & and mantra-bhUtArtha-charyA: the practice of their actualization; the final objective is oneness with rudra.
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12 Sep
The RV has two main words for river: nadi & sindhu. nadi is less popular: counts below:
maNDala 1 11
maNDala 2 5
maNDala 3 3
maNDala 4 9
maNDala 5 8
maNDala 6 3
maNDala 7 9
maNDala 8 8
maNDala 9 9
maNDala 10 4
sindhu is significantly more popular:
maNDala 1 58
maNDala 2 8
maNDala 3 9
maNDala 4 16
maNDala 5 10
maNDala 6 6
maNDala 7 10
maNDala 8 23
maNDala 9 35
maNDala 10 35
While the bharadvAja-s have the most celebrated sUkta to
water-cycle goddess sarasvatI; yet they mention the rivers the least. What is going on there? Was their residence farther away from a river? However, they do mention samudra more frequently than most others.
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11 Sep
Sep 11 1683 CE: The battle of Vienna between the Army of Islam under the Osman vazir & his Xtian allies against the Xtian coalition of Poles, Germans & Austrians led by the king of Poland Jan Sobieski. The Mohds despite having weaker artillery came close to taking the city but
the Germans &Polish cavalry which interesting included some Mongol units proved took the day for the Xtians,even as the Crimean Mongol units on the Turkish side seemed to have mostly betrayed them. In part the Mohd. loss was probably due to the vazir wanting to take Vienna intact
While I have no dog in that battle, I had curious encounter with an educated man with diverse interests who did a relatively mundane job of landscaping/planting/composting work. Either he or his parents had come from Germany but he said that he counted among his ancestors Mongols
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11 Sep
This is a question of phylogenetic radius akin to that faced in defining biological categories likes species or genus. If the center is an Indian cow then how far does the radius go? Are serially bison, yak, gaur and buffalo fine? What are the rules to resolve it? IMO we first go
with biology. The buffalo (not what Americans think a buffalo is) & the rest of the bovid TMK don't hybridize. Hence, the buffalo can be placed outside this radius. Then we come human social function. The saola, the gaur are typically wild & don't perform the same Homo-centric
function; likewise with the wild bison. Hence, they might be excluded. However, the yak closer to bison & banteng closer to gaur might still be valid because they are functionally equivalent to the cow. Hence, I think the Indian or the non-Indian cows should be considered
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1 Sep
A comment on this newly discovered Kashmirian image: While the deity is being called durgA due to the lions, the deity should be more correctly understood as shrI=lakShmI, with the lions merely emphasizing her transfunctional role.
For comparison see earlier image of parallel iconography:

Also see below for other parallel Kashmirian images
Image # 1 currently at New York
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27 Aug
Some notes concerning the recent report of a pre-Neolithic young forager woman from Leang Panninge, South Sulawesi. Unfortunately, due to magazine fever many molecular paleoanthropology papers while presenting important specimens are shitilly written&illustrated. So we have to
wade through some of that to get points of interest:
1. The ancestral Asian split up into several far ranging groups by at least 50ky: i. The Tianyuan man-like Eastern group. ii Onge-Hòabìnhian group extending from at least at least the Andamans through Laos, Vietnam& Malayasia
iii. An early-diverging sister group of the Onge-Hòabìnhian clade were the hunter-gatherers of the Indian subcontinent from whom Indians on an average get a major fraction of our ancestry. iv. The Tibetan-Jomon group which once stretched over Asia from at least Nepal-Tibet to
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