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10 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Some of the key sights marked, which 1 should see. Pleiades: 1. kR^ittikAH: the 0 point of old Indo-Aryan ecliptic of the yajuSh and AV traditions, naked eye open cluster. 2. M31: Andromeda galaxy: naked eye on a good night like in this picture. easy for small telescope/binocs
M33: some people claim to have seen it with naked eye!! I've only managed it with 20x80 binocs. Best with small telescope. M34: Binocs OK, great with small telescope. NGC752 best with small telescope, at least 6 in reflector.
alpha Persei: good starfield of the Milky Way near it
Perseus Double cluster: great even with binocs. Beta Persei,Algol: archetypal eclisping binary. Rho Persei: A nice red giant in the final stages of it is life. Epsilon Aurigae is strange giant eclipsing binary with 1 of the components probably being a binary itself with dust disk
Zeta Aurigae Another long period eclipsing binary with a nice orangish primary star.

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The text of the devikA-dhAtR^i and tvAShTrI-sArasvata oblations as per the taittirIya-shruti. Who is the deity dhAtR^i? The later itihAsa-purANa place him in the Aditya class. In the RV it may be an epithet for multiple deities, but explicitly it mentioned
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There has been some discussion about the removal of special schools/programs for "gifted children" in the US. This is a topic we have long wondered about: are these really useful? For an India parallel 1 could think of the IIT & some lesser know programs with a high entrance
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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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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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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
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The RV has two main words for river: nadi & sindhu. nadi is less popular: counts below:
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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
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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
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