कहां राजा भोज कहां गंगू तेली is corrupt form of कहां राजा भोज कहां गंगेय तेलंग
Gangeya Telang was king of Telang country who was his ally sometime and also a rival.
This saying indicates that Bhoja was absolutely incomparable in royalty and achievement.
Also the story of Raja Bhoja and Kalidasa is like a novelistic thing in a play (because they didn't belong to the same time) quite like A Connecticut Yankee in the Court of King Arthur.
Indian schoolbooks leaving out Raja Bhoja and Rajendra Chola is like British history books leaving out Elizabeth I and William Shakespeare.
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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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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