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19 July 2024
- 16:2416:24, 19 July 2024 diff hist +6,927 N World Civilizations: Mesopotamia, Part 8 - Religion, the World of Gods and Men, and Civilizational Constants Created page with "==== Religion: The World of Gods and Men ==== First, regarding gods and temples: Mesopotamians believed in a variety of gods. Each god had a Sumerian name and an Akkadian name, and both were considered to be equivalent. The Sumerian and Mesopotamian deities might have been different originally, in pre-civilizational times. But by the time they had interacted and constituted a single civilizational identity, their gods had merged and were considered equivalent. We will se..." Tag: Visual edit
- 16:1516:15, 19 July 2024 diff hist +23 World Civilizations: Mesopotamia, Part 7 - The Real Meaning of Myths and Gods No edit summary current
- 16:1516:15, 19 July 2024 diff hist +28 World Civilizations: Mesopotamia, Part 7 - The Real Meaning of Myths and Gods No edit summary
- 16:0716:07, 19 July 2024 diff hist +28 World Civilizations: Mesopotamia, Part 7 - The Real Meaning of Myths and Gods No edit summary
- 16:0716:07, 19 July 2024 diff hist +16,798 N World Civilizations: Mesopotamia, Part 7 - The Real Meaning of Myths and Gods Created page with "This series of articles studies other ancient civilizations: their history, their achievements, their intellectual thought, their religions and their eventual takeover by either Christianity or Islam. Last time we started our exploration of the Mesopotamian civilization by looking at their civilizational geography, political history and how bilinguality shaped their lexicographic bases for tradition and its consequences in their intellectual thinking and their worldview..." Tag: Visual edit
- 11:5011:50, 19 July 2024 diff hist +28 World Civilizations: Mesopotamia, Part 6 - Spoken, Written, and Dictionary to Religion No edit summary current
- 11:5011:50, 19 July 2024 diff hist +6,660 N World Civilizations: Mesopotamia, Part 6 - Spoken, Written, and Dictionary to Religion Created page with "==== Spoken vs Written ==== Indian tradition on the contrary, places primacy in the spoken word over the written word. In fact only very late, writing was used to record ancient sacred texts. Writing down a sacred text like the Veda was considered a sin for a long time as the written perishable material word was considered inferior compared to the heard word that is ethereal. The most authoritative Saṃskṛta texts in Hinduism are referred to as śruti which literally..." Tag: Visual edit
- 11:4711:47, 19 July 2024 diff hist +28 World Civilizations: Mesopotamia, Part 5 - From the Dictionary to Poetry, Philosophy, and Reality No edit summary current
- 11:4611:46, 19 July 2024 diff hist +28 World Civilizations: Mesopotamia, Part 5 - From the Dictionary to Poetry, Philosophy, and Reality No edit summary
- 11:4611:46, 19 July 2024 diff hist +6,563 N World Civilizations: Mesopotamia, Part 5 - From the Dictionary to Poetry, Philosophy, and Reality Created page with "==== From Dictionary to Poetry ==== Exhaustive lexicographic lists also stimulated poetry as they revealed clearly the alliterations and rhymes of related words which could be exploited in composing poems. Such parallelism in structure and meaning can be seen in the poetry of all languages and exhaustive lists of a theme of items in a rhyming manner too occur in the poetry of all languages, but it becomes easier to spot and exploit when one constructs an exhaustive word..." Tag: Visual edit
- 11:4111:41, 19 July 2024 diff hist +28 World Civilizations: Mesopotamia, Part 4 - Is Dictionary Literature? No edit summary current
- 11:4111:41, 19 July 2024 diff hist +8,306 N World Civilizations: Mesopotamia, Part 4 - Is Dictionary Literature? Created page with " The cuneiform script and the bilinguality in Sumerian-Akkadian is so integral to Mesopotamian culture that their entire philosophy and worldview is based on this process of writing and reading. Let me ask the following questions: * What is the first greatest literature that the English language has produced? * What text should one start with to first read in order to get a feel for English culture? * What text is the trademark of English culture? * What text forms the..." Tag: Visual edit
- 11:3011:30, 19 July 2024 diff hist +28 World Civilizations: Mesopotamia, Part 3 - The Written Word and How Cuneiform Works No edit summary current
- 11:3011:30, 19 July 2024 diff hist +11,368 N World Civilizations: Mesopotamia, Part 3 - The Written Word and How Cuneiform Works Created page with " A very important aspect of Mesopotamian culture is its writing - they attached a huge importance to writing soon after they developed into a full fledged civilization. It is impossible to understand the worldview of this civilization without appreciating the bilingualism and its writing script - the cuneiform. Cuneiform initially started off as a pictogram - a picture of water like 💧 representing water - much like our whatsapp emojis. This was in the very beginning..." Tag: Visual edit
- 11:2811:28, 19 July 2024 diff hist +28 World Civilizations: Mesopotamia, Part 2 - A Brief History and Bilingualism No edit summary current
- 11:2811:28, 19 July 2024 diff hist +12,655 N World Civilizations: Mesopotamia, Part 2 - A Brief History and Bilingualism Created page with "==== A Brief History of Mesopotamian Civilization ==== In this section, we shall sketch a brief overview of the political and cultural history of this civilization. Mere facts about events are not useful for most people; hence, only as much that is required to understand the intellectual aspects and worldviews of the civilization is presented. As was said in the geography section, Mesopotamia being flat with no natural impenetrable barriers, is predicted to see the rise..." Tag: Visual edit
- 11:2511:25, 19 July 2024 diff hist +1 The Forgotten Legacy of Raja Subodh Mallik: Part 1 - The Man and the Setting No edit summary current Tag: Visual edit
- 11:2111:21, 19 July 2024 diff hist +28 World Civilizations: Mesopotamia, Part 1 - Geography, Destiny, A Civilization from Mud No edit summary current
- 11:2111:21, 19 July 2024 diff hist +7,211 N World Civilizations: Mesopotamia, Part 1 - Geography, Destiny, A Civilization from Mud Created page with " This series of articles studies other ancient civilizations: their history, their achievements, their intellectual thought, their religions and their eventual takeover by either Christianity or Islam. I believe that this has valuable insights to offer for modern Hindus as well. First, we are one of the few surviving ancient civilizations who still maintain our continuity with the very beginnings of our civilization. Most of the world is now dominated by the two Abraha..." Tag: Visual edit
- 11:1011:10, 19 July 2024 diff hist +28 The Forgotten Legacy of Raja Subodh Mallik: Part 2 - Aurobindo, the House, and a Story of Shameful Neglect No edit summary current
- 11:1011:10, 19 July 2024 diff hist +15,807 N The Forgotten Legacy of Raja Subodh Mallik: Part 2 - Aurobindo, the House, and a Story of Shameful Neglect Created page with " Subodh Mallik was also a close partner and confidante of someone who I consider to be one of the most important figures in modern Indian history - Aurobindo Ghosh. The well-known Śrī Aurobindo, in his political avatar, was one of the most prominent names in the nationalist politics of this period. Having spent many years working as a teacher in the administration of the Gaekwad Maharaja of Baroda, Aurobindo also worked to rouse the national consciousness through his f..." Tag: Visual edit
- 11:0211:02, 19 July 2024 diff hist +28 The Forgotten Legacy of Raja Subodh Mallik: Part 1 - The Man and the Setting No edit summary
- 11:0111:01, 19 July 2024 diff hist +11,582 N The Forgotten Legacy of Raja Subodh Mallik: Part 1 - The Man and the Setting Created page with " The address is 12, Wellington Square, Kolkata. There’s a park across the building that is named after a famous man, and the infamous Lenin Sarani is just a small walk away, being one of the few things that starkly remind you that the Communists really did rule West Bengal for 35 years! We are standing in front of what’s left of Raja Subodh Chandra Mallik’s ancestral home. Wellington Square itself is now known as Raja Subodh Mallik Square in his honor, and so is..." Tag: Visual edit
- 10:5810:58, 19 July 2024 diff hist +28 Pāṇinian Grammar: Part 10 - The Light Before Heavy Principle No edit summary current
- 10:5810:58, 19 July 2024 diff hist +12,760 N Pāṇinian Grammar: Part 10 - The Light Before Heavy Principle Created page with "==== Where Should the Head Be ==== Now which is a better way of communicating - telling the head first and then its modifiers (head initial)? - or telling the head last after describing it completely using the modifiers (head final)? What are the advantages and disadvantages of a head-initial versus head-final communication at least for a noun-adjective case? Think about it for a minute yourself before reading further. Turns out head-initial constructions where the main..." Tag: Visual edit
- 10:4710:47, 19 July 2024 diff hist +28 Pāṇinian Grammar: Part 9 - Initial and Final Heads No edit summary current
- 10:4710:47, 19 July 2024 diff hist +15,710 N Pāṇinian Grammar: Part 9 - Initial and Final Heads Created page with " This series of articles is dedicated to Pāṇinian grammar of the Saṃskṛta language, as presented in his treatise “Aṣṭādhyāyī”. In trying to characterise the grammar of the Saṃskṛta language spoken in his day, Pāṇini Maharṣi manufactures legitimate and only legitimate words of the Saṃskṛta language, by designing a set of 4000 rules in a highly compressed language of the “sūtra” that operates on the sounds, verb roots, prefixes and suffi..." Tag: Visual edit
- 10:4210:42, 19 July 2024 diff hist +28 Pāṇinian Grammar: Part 8 - The Programming Genius of Pāṇini No edit summary current
- 10:4210:42, 19 July 2024 diff hist +7,168 N Pāṇinian Grammar: Part 8 - The Programming Genius of Pāṇini Created page with " Let us now see an example of the multiple inheritance case. Consider the three sets of Sandhi rules below. # इ/उ/ऋ/ऌ + vowel = य्/व् /र् /ल् + vowel (Part 1 - इकः यण् अचि) # अ + vowel = guna (medium grade of the vowel) # Vowel + Vowel (same pair) = Long Vowel I give various examples of the three rules: # प्रति + उषा = प्रत्युषा, सु + आगतम् = स्वागतम्, मा..." Tag: Visual edit
- 10:3810:38, 19 July 2024 diff hist +28 Pāṇinian Grammar:Part 7 - Introduction to Object Oriented Programming No edit summary current
- 10:3810:38, 19 July 2024 diff hist +7,772 N Pāṇinian Grammar:Part 7 - Introduction to Object Oriented Programming Created page with " In this section, I will take a little step further and introduce object oriented programming concepts. Again, this can be safely skipped for those to whom it is a day job. In this section, I am going to introduce a few more concepts that may sound sophisticated but are in essence simple to understand. They are the following - class, object and inheritance. ==== Class & Object ==== The standard types of data that computers are trained to manipulate are routine objects..." Tag: Visual edit
- 10:3110:31, 19 July 2024 diff hist +28 Pāṇinian Grammar: Part 6 - Introduction to Programming No edit summary current
- 10:3110:31, 19 July 2024 diff hist +8,816 N Pāṇinian Grammar: Part 6 - Introduction to Programming Created page with " This series of articles is dedicated to Pāṇinian grammar of the Saṃskṛta language, as presented in his treatise “Aṣṭādhyāyī”. In trying to characterize the grammar of the Saṃskṛta language spoken in his day, Pāṇini Maharṣi manufactures legitimate and only legitimate words of the Saṃskṛta language, by designing a set of 4000 rules in a highly compressed language of the “sūtra” that operates on the sounds, verb roots, prefixes and suffi..." Tag: Visual edit
- 10:2710:27, 19 July 2024 diff hist +28 Pāṇinian Grammar: Part 5 - Uses of Consonant इत् Markers No edit summary current
- 10:2710:27, 19 July 2024 diff hist +10,613 N Pāṇinian Grammar: Part 5 - Uses of Consonant इत् Markers Created page with "==== What Suffixes a Root or a Nominal Stem Can Take ==== There are a lot of suffixes in English taken by lots of words. For example, take the suffix “ion” in English that converts a verb ending in a silent “e” into an abstract noun. * dilute = dilution * substitute = substitution * deplete = depletion But not all verb roots in English that end in “e” can take this “ion”. As examples, see below. take = taktion make = maktion measure = measurtion (these..." Tag: Visual edit
- 10:2310:23, 19 July 2024 diff hist +28 Pāṇinian Grammar: Part 4 - Saṃskṛta Roots, Ablaut, and the Vedic Accent No edit summary current
- 10:2310:23, 19 July 2024 diff hist +15,380 N Pāṇinian Grammar: Part 4 - Saṃskṛta Roots, Ablaut, and the Vedic Accent Created page with " To understand what Pāṇini did, we must have a rough idea of the Saṃskṛta language - after all, that is the language for which he is designing a formal grammar, right? You do not need to remember all the language specific information that I tell below, but only the overall gist of what is happening. ==== Roots & Ablaut ==== For that, let us look at some Saṃskṛta words with their meanings: करोति = he/she/it does सरति = he/she/it flows च..." Tag: Visual edit
- 01:2201:22, 19 July 2024 diff hist +28 Pāṇinian Grammar: Part 3 - Generative Grammar No edit summary current
- 01:2201:22, 19 July 2024 diff hist +13,487 N Pāṇinian Grammar: Part 3 - Generative Grammar Created page with " This series of articles is dedicated to Pāṇinian grammar of the Saṃskṛta language, as presented in his treatise “Aṣṭādhyāyi”. In trying to characterize the grammar of the Saṃskṛta language spoken in his day, Pāṇini Maharṣi manufactures legitimate and only legitimate words of the Saṃskṛta language, by designing a set of 4000 rules in a highly compressed language of the “sūtra” that operates on the sounds, verb roots, prefixes and suffix..." Tag: Visual edit
- 01:1601:16, 19 July 2024 diff hist +28 Pāṇinian Grammar: Part 2 - Pāṇini’s Problem No edit summary current
- 01:1601:16, 19 July 2024 diff hist +9,945 N Pāṇinian Grammar: Part 2 - Pāṇini’s Problem Created page with " Pāṇini was facing the same problem as a fruit vendor. There is a phenomenon called Sandhi in Saṃskṛta wherein final sounds of a word change so as to accommodate well with the beginning sound of the word that follows it. For example, no language in this world tolerates two vowels coming together at word boundaries - they avoid it by some or the other means. Example: a book (OK in English) but a egg (not OK in English). Why? Because there is a succession of two v..." Tag: Visual edit
18 July 2024
- 13:4213:42, 18 July 2024 diff hist +28 Pāṇinian Grammar, Part 1 - Introduction to Optimal Ordering and Meta-Language No edit summary current
- 13:4213:42, 18 July 2024 diff hist +15,090 N Pāṇinian Grammar, Part 1 - Introduction to Optimal Ordering and Meta-Language Created page with " This series of articles is dedicated to Pāṇinian grammar of the Saṃskṛta language, as presented in his treatise “Aṣṭādhyāyi”. In trying to characterize the grammar of the Sanskrit language spoken in his day, Pāṇini Maharṣi manufactures legitimate and only legitimate words of the Sanskrit language, by designing a set of 4000 rules in a highly compressed language of the “sūtra” that operates on the sounds, verb roots, prefixes and suffixes, to g..." Tag: Visual edit
- 04:4804:48, 18 July 2024 diff hist +28 The Saga of the Padmanabhadasas IV - Practice and Patronage of the present day Travancore Royals No edit summary current
- 04:4704:47, 18 July 2024 diff hist +19,929 N The Saga of the Padmanabhadasas IV - Practice and Patronage of the present day Travancore Royals Created page with " Śrī Padmanābhasvāmī Perumāḻ is the lord and sovereign of the land here in Thiruvananthapuram. Even while flying in, it is apparent from the skies that He has blessed this land with abundance. On landing, the small and elegant airport offers a royal welcome: the entrance is adorned with lamp-holding madanikās, distinctive Kerala murals, a portrait of the Travancore Mahārājā, and a sleek snake-boat from the famous races. This airport land, once owned by the mo..." Tag: Visual edit
- 04:3804:38, 18 July 2024 diff hist +28 The Saga of the Padmanabhadasas III - Upholders of Tradition No edit summary current
- 04:3804:38, 18 July 2024 diff hist +11,663 N The Saga of the Padmanabhadasas III - Upholders of Tradition Created page with " In the previous part, we discussed how Travancore stood against the inimical forces to defend Dharma. Now, we will look at their role as upholders of tradition. Even while being Dāsas of Padmanābha, the Mahārājas of Travancore also looked after temples belonging to other deities. For instance they donated the seven and half (miniature) gold coated elephants of Ezharaponnana to Ettumanoor Shiva temple. The family deity of Travancore Mahārājas was also the Godde..." Tag: Visual edit
- 04:3304:33, 18 July 2024 diff hist +28 The Saga of the Padmanabhadasas II - Defenders of Hindu Dharma No edit summary current
- 04:3304:33, 18 July 2024 diff hist +13,471 N The Saga of the Padmanabhadasas II - Defenders of Hindu Dharma Created page with " If there is one kingdom that we can showcase as a model state that followed Hindu dharma in its truest most sincerest form it is the Travancore Kingdom. The followers were not only enlightened men and women of the arts but also looked after their state subjects with love and care. Feeding the poor, participating in traditions and festivities with the public, making donations where needed, making social changes as required, involving themselves in education of their citi..." Tag: Visual edit
- 04:2904:29, 18 July 2024 diff hist +28 The Saga of the Padmanabhadasas - History of Travancore Kingdom 1 No edit summary current