To understand the jibe by an MP in the Indian Parliament who called Hindus go-mutra drinkers, note that India may have gained political independence but it remains intellectually colonized.
It is under the heel of Anglosphere-sepoys of European racism.
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The racism is perpetuated using language and colonial ideas that are so embedded in the school and media narratives that they are taken to be the truth.
The sepoys say:
-Hindus are not mature enough to run their temples
-their festivals are profane and noisy
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-their languages are judged not fit for the courts
-it is all right for people to mock their gods and their manners, but if they reply in kind they are put in jail
-they are told that they should accept insults in silence and just work hard
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-part of their taxes are given to enemies who want to dismantle their culture
-the schoolbooks their children are made to read ridicule their history
The sepoys control the bureaucracy, education, newspapers, and the media
Justice is not granted
One must fight for it
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If the sepoys in the entertainment world continue to mock our culture, boycott them
Let there be a price to businesses that support hateful narratives on India in their colleges
As the saying goes:
"If he knows not and knows not that he knows not;
he is a fool, shun him."
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Bhoja राजा भोज Paramāra Dynasty (r. 1010 - 1055) of Central India was arguably the world's most brilliant king ever.
He was a warrior, he also wrote 84 books on subjects as varying as grammar, music, statecraft, politics, city-building, medicine, ship-building, and so on.
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His life is described in Bhoja-prabandha भोजप्रबन्ध by बल्लाल सेन.
Amongst other fields he also wrote on yantras or self-driven machines and planes made of wood in समराङ्गणसूत्रधार
Are Indian students being told about this greatest king of all time?
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A chapter in Bhoja's Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra समराङ्गणसूत्रधार on Drāviḍa temples:
For example, some people insist "go" means "cow" always.
Therefore, "gopala" is just "cowherd"
"goswami" is "master of cows" and so on
But गो m. f. (Nom. गौः)
1 Cattle, kine (pl.)
2 Anything coming from a cow; such as milk, flesh, leather &c.
3 The stars
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4 The sky (hence the Cowhed is also Gopala)
5 A ray of light
6 A diamond
7 Heaven
8 An arrow
9 The earth
10 Speech, words (Sarasvati)
11 The eye
12 Organ of senses (hence Goswami)
13 Moon
14 and more
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Brihadaranyaka Upanisad 2.2.6 says that the Saptarshi: Atri, Bharadvaja, Gautama, Jamadagni, Kashyapa, Vashistha and Vishvamitra are [mirrored as] the cognitive centers in the head.
The work of Sanskrit scholars in translating thousands of texts into Chinese over a period of centuries required creation of new words.
According to famed linguist Wang Li, Sanskrit words came to be embedded in Chinese language deeply in many ways that most are unaware.
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Scholar Victor Mair estimates that at least 35000 words are from Sanskrit, & many are in common use (e.g., fang-bian [convenient; from Sk., upāya, skill-in-means] and cha-na [instant; from Sk., kṣaṇa (क्षण, instant])
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Old Chinese was mainly monosyllabic. di- & polysyllabic word creation influence of Sanskrit
= pú ti xīn mind of enlightenment, gōng dé shuǐ meritorious water, zheng si wei right thought, po luo mi duo, pāramitā is perfection, fēi xiǎng fēi fēi xiǎng not thought nor non-thought
Dhāraṇīs in Sanskrit (written phonetically in Chinese characters) have been inscribed on pillars and rocks for over a thousand years in Asia (including on the Great Wall)
Here's one installed in Taiwan in 2005
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Hymn praising Shiva and Vishnu (Harihara) for their compassion through the yugas :