Though தெய்வம்/teyvam means 'deity' in Tamiḻ now, does Tiruvaḷḷuvar use it like the Saṃskṛtam word (e.g. BG 18:14 bit.ly/2HEoQ8y), in the broad sense of "more-than-human indispensables in human action", in kuṟaḷ 619 on āḷviṉai/puruṣārtha?ytamizh.com/thirukural/kural…

With this particular speaker, one can't tell right away if it's just a number that occurred to him even as he spoke, or it is a reference to some obscure tantra text. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I would probably have reacted more mockingly had I read this some years earlier, but now my reaction is along these lines: "With all the fantasizing people do anyway, there seems little to lose and quite a bit to gain in this sort of benign visualization." economictimes.indiatimes.com…

Here is some newspaper coverage of recent additions to the epigraphic corpus on public water-works in Tamiḻakam from the 15-17th centuries CE (which seems to fall within the period of Vijayanagara rule, though the article makes no mention of this). timesofindia.indiatimes.com/….

Ṛgveda 01.164.43 can be heard in this recitation of Ṛgveda 01.164.41-46, where the commonly (mis?)quoted "ekam sat viprāḥ bahudhā vadanti" also appears in its original context. aurobindo.ru/workings/mather… facebook.com/sankaratv/video… (Watch from 56:20 to 58:08)

Semi-related: When the pictured product was passed around at a family gathering, an uncle of mine remarked how millets and palm-sugar were once affordable alternatives, from which their traditional users are being priced out due to an ongoing hipster takeover.

...and the land where a kapilā/कपिला cow finds no fewer (and perhaps more) fond mentions than cows of any other hue that preoccupy our woke sisters and brothers. xitter.cf/longhandnotes/status/1… xitter.cf/SNChd/status/766318345….

Of course, dhātu-s & pratyaya-s (eg. gsnu)are only part of the grammatical metalanguage not meant to be spoken at large, not the natural language supposedly more free of articulatory torments. However, grammar teachers would have had to speak it, and I wondered how they coped.2/2

In fact, it was in part your earlier question below that prompted mine above. When the instructor in the video uttered the name of the pratyaya, my reaction was "What did he just say?!😳" before he went on to write ग्स्नु on the board. Imagine the plight of pre-board pupils! 1/2

For historical/geographical reasons अवैष्णव may just connect better in this context in the Hindi-speaking parts. xitter.cf/longhandnotes/status/1…

...and maybe in some commonsense workaday ways also more shape-rotator-ish. xitter.cf/longhandnotes/status/1….

You mean "Ramayana cookies"? newindianexpress.com/opinion….

वृत्त्यन्वीक्षणतत्परैस् तद् अपरं हृत्स्पन्दवद् भाव्यते।। xitter.cf/BreatheLesss/status/19….

Aside: What would you accept as a faithful transliteration of how এক is said in Bengali? xitter.cf/longhandnotes/status/1….

In a similar spirit with more self-help-y articulation... xitter.cf/longhandnotes/status/1… #PricedIn

Do these corroborate some birth-chart-signalled phase transitions as well (retrodictively if not foreseeably)?

Sanskrit query: Svāmī Śāntacittānanda cited Rāmakṛṣṇa Paramahaṃsa saying "শুদ্ধ মন শুদ্ধ বুদ্ধি শুদ্ধ আত্মা এক!" ("Pure mind, pure intellect and pure Self are one."). Can we use a "plural one" as in "शुद्धं मनः, शुद्धा बुद्धिः, शुद्ध आत्मा, एके!"? Or better say समाः/अभिन्नाः?

To clarify (not for @antasthaH😅), bringing up a confound doesn't imply denial of an effect. It's just that an effect maybe more readily shown for those of us without high baseline virtue*, if only pravṛtti is steadied! *eg.With such follies when younger xitter.cf/longhandnotes/status/1…

Those crossovers happen more and more as things start to get personal, which is everytime (since "The political is personal." after all, at least in this Talebian sense: xitter.cf/TalebWisdom/status/140…).

Those of us who at different times have been part of ostensibly mutually opposed political/religious groupings maybe familiar with how we may find ourselves preferring the company of those are on the "other side" for the "right reasons" than "our side" for the "wrong reasons".