Er. Shailesh Bharadwaj
sa yo mAM veda na ha vai tasya kena chana karmaNA loma mIyate na steyena na bhrUNahatyayA na mAtR^ivadhena na pitR^ivadhena
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Something modern-H will not like to hear: Neither dowry nor bride-price are H traditions, but steppe ones introduced through Scythians. Mongols were exogamous: groom would compen...
Learnt something new today, while the popularity of Ramayana in the orient is well known, it appears to exist on the banks of Volga too. The Kalmyk Mongols of Russia preserved a f...
Good thread, will recommend it to everyone. What is noteworthy is that H flirting with modernity is the same today in the non-luddite section. Chinaman a century ago was in the f...
What if calamity befalls the king in an enemy kingdom? Manu: right of primogeniture prevails Kautilya: find someone suitable from his extended family for the throne. If not, then...
If I heard many people pose the same Q many times then I'd perhaps pick a book than cast a fantasy where the wise ancient simply "knew better" than to industrialize & indulge in pl...
I don't even need to Google these lines to know they are fake. No way would a scholar like Elst put Sikh & Dogra rule in the same umbrella of Hindu Control. Nor would be use Maha...
In early-modern Japan, most scholars subscribed to a sino-centric worldview, Japanese practices in accordance with the Confucianist "Way" were good while rest had to be transformed...
From Galdan's Erdeni Yin Erike: βIn the time of the Mahasammata, humans were divided in four izagur β Qa'an, Biraman, Noyon, Kharaligβ This is akin to H caste, also reference to...
I'd previously dismissed the flying yantra as typical H hyperbole, but now I believe it might be the man-lifting-kite which is known to be invented by the Chinese. The Qi Emperor...