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4 years ago @ Musings - Sri Dakshinamurthy · 0 replies · +2 points

I should have asked. But the bookstore sells audio recordings, so I assumed.... Unfortunately, they did not have a recording of such an event.

4 years ago @ Musings - Sri Dakshinamurthy · 2 replies · +2 points

Thank you, and Happy 2020, Rajan!

I'm told Arsha Vidya Gurukulam at Saylorsburg, PA, is one of the few Hindu temples to celebrate the Gregorian calendar new year. They perform an abhishekam of their presiding deity, Sri Dakshinamurti on that day. The Sri Rudram chant, I wish I could have recorded it.

4 years ago @ Musings - Is there such a thing ... · 0 replies · +2 points

IMO, it is an interesting individual perspective that needs some research backing.

4 years ago @ Musings - The obliquity of the e... · 0 replies · +1 points

There is precious little written about the observational basis of ancient Indian astronomy, and way too much parsing of texts, to my knowledge.

Surya Siddhanta seems to be a work with many revisions; modern equivalent might be a text book with many editions.

4 years ago @ Musings - The obliquity of the e... · 0 replies · +1 points

1. Yes, 3000 BCE is about 500 years before Harappa hit its peak at around 2500 BC.

Do remember though, Indian literature remembers a flowing Saraswati, and apparently also the event when the Yamuna switched from being a tributary of rivers flowing into the Arabian Sea into a tributary of the Ganga.

2. Which version of Sanskrit? I agree Panini's Sanskrit was not spoken 3000 BC. But Panini was the culmination of a long development.

3. Yes, my advice to people would be to figure out how measurements were made rather than doing textual analysis. Human ingenuity that we haven't figured out yet is not to be discounted. "“The way that the ancient Egyptians cut and moved stone is still very mysterious.”" for instance.

4 years ago @ Musings - The start of India\'s ... · 0 replies · +1 points

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4 years ago @ Musings - History and Modernity · 0 replies · +1 points

Not just a shared history/mythology, but one that " can be used on a national basis to determine and validate behavior".

4 years ago @ Musings - Religious Freedom and... · 0 replies · +1 points

FYI, this is an old one, so this I don’t expect you to have remembered. https://arunsmusings.blogspot.com/2013/01/an-obse...

4 years ago @ Musings - Religious Freedom and... · 0 replies · +1 points

You are unfamiliar with the evidence that even in Mohun Roy’s time Hindus did not see Muslims or European Christianity as religious competition. There is no discussion among Hindus of the truth or falsity of the Abrahamics doctrines; they are seen as merely other traditions. It is evident you haven’t read: https://arunsmusings.blogspot.com/2019/06/disambi...

Please do the courtesy of reading documents I’ve linked to. I should put a test, perhaps, like what was Tajamul Hussain’s proposal? How does the Christian view of conversion distinguish it from any other human practice?

PS: it is also evident that you haven’t read the paper linked here. https://arunsmusings.blogspot.com/2019/07/more-on...

4 years ago @ Musings - Quote on the \"secular... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks!

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