It really bothers me that Indian history books don't speak of how Raja Bhoja and his ally Rajendra Chola ruled over most of India.

Bhoja was the most brilliant king of history with 84 books

His armies went as far as Kabul.

He was a great builder.

link.medium.com/zYJu3xfBpnb
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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Feb 5
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.

1)
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

2)
-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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Jan 18
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.

1)
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?

2)
A chapter in Bhoja's Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra समराङ्गणसूत्रधार on Drāviḍa temples:

orca.cardiff.ac.uk/13911/1/Dravid…

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Dec 7, 2021
So let's put the Kanyādānam कन्यादानम् controversy to rest.

कन्या + आदानम् = कन्यादानम्, i.e. "Reception of the bride"

Beautiful.
Quite like विद्या + आलयः = विद्यालयः.

विवाह is the "interbinding" of two equal life flows वाह

The last vow of the groom and the bride is:

यथा सम्मनसौ भूत्वा सखायाविव सचावहै

Let us work together like two friends, two seekers of the same goal.

2)
Rgveda 10.85 Vivāha Sūktam is the template of the Vedic wedding

It is the wedding between Sūryā (Sun as bride) and Soma (Moon as husband)

The arrival of the bride at the ceremony is like the appearance of the Sun who illuminates (enters) the groom.

It is beautiful sūkta

3)
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Dec 7, 2021
Kanyā Dānam in a Wedding Ceremony? by A.V. Srinivasan

People wrongly think that currently popular word-meanings have been for ever

दानम् [दा-ल्युट्] : Giving, granting, teaching, &c. (in general); giving in marriage (cf. कन्यादान)

1)

indiafacts.org.in/abandon-kanya-…
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

2)
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

3)
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Nov 8, 2021
Secret meaning of the seven rishis:

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.

2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils + mouth
More rahasyam:

Based on what your strongest "sense" is, you can trace your gotra to that Rishi.
BU 2.2.4:

इमावेव गोतमभरद्वाजौ, अयमेव गोतमः, अयं भरद्वाजः; इमावेव विष्वामित्रजमदग्नी, अयमेव विश्वामित्रः, अयं जमदग्निः; इमावेव वसिष्ठकश्यपौ, अयमेव वसिष्ठः, अयं कश्यपः; वागेवात्रिः, वाचा ह्यन्नमद्यते, अत्तिर्ह वै नामैतद्यदत्रिरिति; सर्वस्यात्ता भवति, सर्वमस्यान्नं भवति य एवं वेद ॥
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Nov 5, 2021
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.

1)
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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