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deepikapawar · 1 year

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Sanskrit Language is finding its way back to People’s Tongues

The letters and akharas used for creating Sanskrit are the most precise. It has already been incorporated into the Brahmi and Devanagari scripts. This is a global acknowledgment of the language, which even the computational language has adopted. Sanskrit has long been employed for therapeutic purposes, whether psychological or spiritual. The Globe accepted it and incorporated it into their daily lives through their practice of yoga and meditation. Many people are enrolling for Sanskrit courses online, where they can learn every aspect of the language in any form of communication.

One thing that makes Sanskrit different from other languages is its clarity. The fact that Sanskrit is not an object-specific language is among its most significant characteristics in this regard. Aspirant can take up Sanskrit course online helping to gain the insight of the traditional language.

Use of Clear Language in Today’s Time

Sanskrit has numerous words for the same object. Most people believe that this makes learning Sanskrit challenging because there isn’t consistency among the different terms that could be used to refer to a specific object. Though, it clarifies and narrows the meaning.

One of the significant examples of how Sanskrit is back in today’s time is its use at NASA. Since Sanskrit adheres to strict grammar rules and has an ordered syntax, it will be much more appropriate for use in artificial intelligence (AI) for space communication. The meaning remains the same even if you rearrange the words in a Sanskrit sentence. NASA has long expressed interest in Sanskrit. As a result, there is less ambiguity, even though Sanskrit never asks about the topic of ambiguity because words and sentences always mean the same thing.

Use of Sanskrit in AI

In AI, natural language is developed to strengthen logical relationships with scientific accuracy. The deployment of the Lisp language in the operation of AI presented numerous difficulties. Sanskrit is an accurate language, and as AI evolves, much progress needs to be made. By now, the program ought to be finished. The addition of Sanskrit is flawless and will undoubtedly give the work an advantage. The comment raised by NASA Sanskrit Correction is accurate, even though the agency has not yet released an official statement. It still needs to be determined how AI evolved and how it came to function like a human.

Use of Sanskrit in Art

Not just science but art is also adopting Sanskrit as a part of communication. At the Habitat International Film Festival in Delhi, many movies were shown, including the Sanskrit movie Taya. The film about a Namboodiri woman was presented at the international film festivals in Bengaluru and Kolkata, receiving a lot of positive feedback.

A film festival specifically for Sanskrit movies has been developed in response to the increase of powerful movies in the language. Rashtriya Sanskrit Chalachitra Utsav (Film Festival), the first Sanskrit film festival, was held in Ujjain to promote and honor Sanskrit cinema. A Sanskrit translation of the Spanish epic Don Quixote was unveiled when Luis Garca Montero, director general of the Instituto Cervantes in Spain, visited Delhi in July this year. The novel explores idealism vs. materialism, life and death, and other universal themes. Sanskrit experts Nityanand Shastri and Jagaddhar Zadoo translated the text. Eight chapters from the book’s first section are translated into contemporary Sanskrit in the current edition.

India’s PM Narendra Modi, too, pressed on the Sanskrit language learning. He named Irish national Rutger Kortenhorst, a Sanskrit scholar who teaches Sanskrit in Ireland. He also named professor Shriman Boris Zakharin, a Sanskrit teacher at Moscow State University in Russia, who successfully published many books and research papers while also mentioning the Sydney Sanskrit School in Australia, where the language is taught.

Sanskrit studies are now offered at several prestigious institutions in the country where the language originated, including the IITs and Pandit Deendayal Energy University (PDEU).

Sanskrit — The Past and Future

One of the oldest languages still in use, Sanskrit has made a significant impact on the development of Indian culture and civilization. But even now, its elegance, reason, and nearly faultless construction have a worldwide allure. Sanskrit is used correctly in daily life and can give its user more imagination and creativity, clearer thinking, deeper attention, and better memory.

Sanskrit improves students’ ability and comprehension in science, math, and computers, as well as their self-awareness, speech clarity, language skills, and capacity for logical thought. Additionally, Sanskrit speaking course helps students develop a deeper understanding of who they are and the world around them. These are enduring traits.

Conclusion

One of the best ways to learn the deeper aspect of Sanskrit is by taking spoken Sanskrit classes from expert tutors. Sanskrit speaking course by Sanskrit Shiksha is the best medium to learn the language and bring it back in today’s time.

#sanskrit learning online #sanskrit courses

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best-online-learning-platform · 1 year

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#online learning platform #best online learning platform #online sanskrit class #learn yoga online #vedic math online classes

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littleguru · 2 years

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Best Online Sanskrit Course:

Are you looking for the best online Sanskrit course? Look no further than little guru! Our course is designed for beginners and those with no prior knowledge of Sanskrit. We start with the basics and gradually build up to more complex concepts. By the end of the course, you will be able to read, write, and understand Sanskrit.

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gilbirda · 1 year

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DPxDC cheat sheet

So. I'm not a nitpicking person. I understand that mistakes can be made and typos are a thing and sometimes we are just not the kind of person that can make words work for a variety of reasons (dyslexia, for example).

This is not for that people.

This is for everyone who stumbled into this fandom by mistake and had learned things via osmosis and don't have the energy/time to check the source material for the "correct" thing.

Y'all are valid.

This is a cheat sheet of correct terms and fandom things that are not correct that I've seen in fics.

Disclaimer: while experimenting with canon is fun, this is just to lay down the rules of what's what so it can be the springboard of y'all's beautiful creations.

Given that some people just can't behave online: "If you don't have anything constructive to say, don't say anything." Did I say something wrong? You have resources better than this? You want to make a nitpick? Cool! More info to the mix — But come at me in a hurtful and insulting way and I'm blocking you on the spot.

[Will add more when I think more/have suggestions]

DP SIDE - Post "A Glitch in Time" Canon

Sam is Jewish

Sam is ultra-recyclo-vegetarian aka "doesn't eat anything with a face". Is not a real thing.

It's "Amity Park" not "Amity Ville".

Wes is fanon, same as Kyle. Info on Wes here

It's "Casper High", not "Caspar High".

Mr. Lancer doesn't have a canon name. Common fanon ones are William or Edward.

Ghost obsessions are canon. In AGIT, it's explained that ghosts have a purpose or drive. Danny's purpose is "protection" of both humans and ghosts.

Ghost cores are fanon-ish (there is a mention that Danny's ice powers come from his "core" temperature and is never addressed again, of course) (Episode is "Urban Jungle"). Then in the videogame there are different "types" of ghost powers and something about their cores? Very confusing.

Ghost speak is fanon. However, in AGIT, it's revealed that there's an ghost alphabet, and it's ancient form is based on sanskrit and tamil alphabets. Codex of Ghost alphabet.

Ghost Hunger is canon! In AGIT it's revealed that ghosts feed on emotions and thoughts to stay sapient. If they don't, they become feral with time. Halfas feed from their human side, remaining stable.

Danny is the bridge between the spirit world and living world - canon!

Danny beats the Ghost King Pariah Dark in combat, but faints and that fight is never addressed in the series again. Ghost King!Danny is fanon-ish so go ham with interpreting that. (Episode is "Reign Storm")

Tucker is the reincarnation?? (never stated in canon, but he does look alike) of a pharaoh named "Duul Aman" (Duulaman is also accepted as spelling). Said pharaoh never appears in the series as a ghost, just a picture. Who does appear is his (evil) right hand man, Hotep-Ra, who tries to manipulate Tucker (Episode is "King Tuck"). That Tucker gets cool magic from this event is fanon. But cool.

Sam gets possessed by Undergrowth via a vine straight into her spine (gross). Undergrowth calls her "his daughter" and she tries to lure Danny into "joining her to take over the world". (Episode is "Urban Jungle"). That Sam gets cool plant powers from this event is fanon. But cool.

The Fenton parents are never physically abusive - just comedically neglectful in the way parents are depicted in early 2000s cartoons. Incompetent, misguided, dumb... but they are shown to love their kids. The even accept Danny the 2 canon times they find out about him (Episodes "Reality Trip" and "Phantom Planet").

Jazz is never shown as "mature" in the sense that she had to parent Danny and be the responsible adult. She is comedically the "annoying and meddling older sister" from early 2000s cartoons. She wants to be considered an adult. She couldn't see Youngblood, who is a child ghost that cannot be seen by adults, and Danny had to push her into acting childish to make her see him.

Axiom labs is bought by Vlad's company "Vlad.co" not "DALV.co". DALV.co was the fake company that paid for Maddie and Danny to fly to a conference but stranded them in a forest where Vlad's cabin coincidentally was. (Episode "Maternal Instincts")

Dan is not older Danny. He is not even called "Dan" in canon, just "Dark Danny". He is Danny's ghost half, who killed his human half, ate/merged with Vlad's ghost side and then tried to kill Vlad's human side. Was losing his humanity what made him evil? Was it merging with the Bad Guy(tm) of the series? 🤷‍♀️ Take it as you will. (Episode is "The Ultimate Enemy")

Freakshow is NOT a clown. He is the ringmaster of a goth circus (called Circus Gothica). Danny's headcanoned fear of clowns can be traced back to the "circus" and clown-related imagery surrounding Freakshow's performances, but not directly BY Freakshow. (Episodes "Control Freaks" and "Reality Trip")

DC SIDE

Damian (not Damien or Demian) is never confirmed his religion. Fanon has accepted he is Muslim.

Bruce is from a Jewish family (Martha Wayne was Jewish), but he considers himself an atheist. Same with Kate Kane (Batwoman).

It's "Selina" Kyle, not "Selena" or "Salina".

It's "Talia" Al Ghul, not "Thalia".

It's "Jason", not "Jayson".

Damian is vegetarian, not vegan. It means he doesn't eat meat, but eats animal produces like eggs, milk, etc. He went vegetarian after rescuing Batcow from a slaughterhouse, he didn't arrive at the manor already being vegetarian.

Duke is NOT adopted. Bruce is fostering him temporarily and is more of a mentor to him than a father. Duke considers the others his siblings, though. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DUKE: Part 1 | Part 2

Dick was not adopted as a kid, Dick was Bruce's ward. That term is not used anymore, though. Adoption happened later in Dick's adulthood.

It's Gotham, not "Gothem".

Cassandra IS adopted. Legally.

Cassandra's nickname is "Cass", not "Cassie". Cassie is the nickname of another character also named Cassandra (Cassandra Sandsmark, Wondergirl)

"Little Wing" is a canon nickname for Jason from Dick.

"Baby bird" or "Baby bat" are fanon-ish(?). Little Wing, Dickie, Dickie-bird... Canon! Jaylad is not canon, but Jaybird is canon! A GREAT post with receipts about all nicknames. ("Replacement" isn't canon btw).

Stephanie Brown was the 4th Robin. She is not adopted, and was part of the batfamily because she was dating Tim. She is still considered batfamily even if they are not dating anymore.

In Hush, when Jason comes back to Gotham, Jason puts a knife on Tim's throat, but barely leaves a cut. Tim's throat wasn't injured during the Titans Tower attack.

Cass is selectively mute because she wasn't taught any language beyond what she needed to predict people's movements. She doesn't know sign language. She doesn't know how to read and write (more recent comics show her reading a bit). But she could learn, with difficulty. Very in depth analysis of Cass' disability.

Jason's "Pit Madness" is fanon. Canon offers Ra's saying "the Pit alters the mind - could happen for a few days or for years, you never know" or something like that, and that's it. There is reason to believe that the Lazarus Pit can cloud judgement for a while but there is no voice in the back of the head or the Pit taking over.

Tim never expressed special interest in photography or in it as a hobby. Nor he is a coffee addict more than the other bats, who pull all nighters on the reg. He is actually addicted to energy drinks.

There are 2 main Conner/Kon-El/Superboy I portrayed in fics: Young Justice cartoon one (grumpy, same age as Dick, kind of an asshole, has daddy issues, wears black shirt and jeans, has a space motorcycle and a pet wolf) and 90s comics one (leather jacket, piercings, punny guy, same age as Tim, has a #nohomo relationship with Tim, kind of a himbo).

There are a few Ghost superheroes - Greta Hayes (Secret), she was in Tim's run as Young Justice's leader; and Boston Brand (Deadman), who is a member of Justice League Dark (with Constantine and Zatanna and Swamp Thing!). So the DC heroes are familiar with ghosts and ghost powers.

It's "rogues" gallery, not "rouge". Rouge means "red" in french.

Clark is never abusive to Conner, he just doesn't know what to do with him and chooses to ignore the problem; which, yeah, is mean, but not to the levels that fanon has taken it. And this is in the Young Justice cartoons, not across all depictions. In comics, they consider each other family and that's why Conner took a kryptonian name (Kon-El - of house of El, Kal's family)

The whole "No metas in Gotham" is not true. Batman understands that Gotham is very Fucked Up and that if you add metahumans and heroes with powers trying to do good to the mix it could make things worse. Outsiders don't understand Gotham and if they get jokerized or mind controlled, it will get ugly real quick. That's why Signal is cool beans! Duke is a gothamite through and through.

While is interesting that no one in the Batfam knows about Tim's missing spleen, is very probable that Alfred knows - post about this

Constantine is more powerful than it looks like. A post about interesting abilities.

Damian has a metal spine. Yeah I don't know how it works either. They used it as way for Talia to control Damian for a bit :(

Interesting links:

What's fanon in DP

Fan project for Ghost Speak, written and spoken form, and a ghost speak generator - post AGIT canon

Transcripts of all the Danny Phantom episodes

The whole DP series + the complementary comics + A Glitch in Time comic (if you are able to buy the AGIT comic please do 🙇‍♀️)

How to pronounce Ra's Al Ghul

BatPham ship names (updated regularly).

What are the canon ages of the Batfam?

In depth guide to everything Batman in one place (be prepared to go down the rabbit hole)

Fanon vs Canon Batfam edition

Superfam family tree

Interactive map of Gotham (Gotham Knights videogame)

Timeline of events (Batfam adoption order and ages when those events happen)

Map of Gotham (made based on various sources, with annotations (check the reblogs for more info))

The Titans Tower attack: Fanon vs Canon

This person has dedicated a lot of time to research receipts of Comic stuff so check out their masterlist

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Suggestions are welcome! Please be kind with each other and remember to have fun with this fandom!

#dpxdc cheat sheet #cheat sheet #dp #danny phantom #dc #batman dc #dpxdc #dp x dc #dc x dp #dp crossovers

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talonabraxas · 9 months

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"True illuminates have no dreams. Dreams are for those who are asleep. True illuminates live in the higher worlds, out of the physical body, in a state of intensified wakefulness without ever dreaming." - Samael Aun Weor

Dream Yoga

The effort to awaken the consciousness in the dream state is called Dream Yoga. This term is most known from the tradition of Tilopa, Naropa, Marpa, and Milarepa, although the tradition of Niguma also includes Dream Yoga. Yoga comes from the Sanskrit word "yug," which means to "reunite" or "yoke together." This is the same as the root of our word religion, the Latin word "religare,"which means "to bind together." What is sought in both cases is the union of our consciousness with its source, but this can only happen when our consciousness is awakened and purified of all that is unclean.

The yogic tradition of Tilopa has been maintained in Tibetan Buddhism for hundreds of years. It is a series of teachings of which dream yoga is a vital part. It has been practiced and taught by all the Dalai Lamas, and such great initiates as Tsongkhapa and Milarepa.

The basic goal of Dream Yoga is to harness the power of the dream state and use it to awaken the consciousness. You can learn more about this by reading scriptures from the tradition.

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mangotalkies · 11 months

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Hey, your first anon here. I studied sanskrit in school but then i just left it after my high-school. Do you have any idea about how you'll start learning it because even i want to utilize the next few months I'll get after mid june to pick it up again.

I have no idea where to start except gathering the confidence to contact my sanskrit teacher from school whom i haven't talked to for years :'

hey there special anon, apologies for the late reply.

i don’t have a concrete plan yet. i scoured through a bunch of online resources and narrowed down on three resources:

https://www.learnsanskrit.org/ - it has a pretty comprehensive approach to learning sanskrit, and it’s free. i found some other courses/websites too but they’re not free, so i’m not super keen on them, and i found them less extensive compared to this free website. this one is for beginners as well as for those who want to skip the basics.

apart from this, i found this other website that kinda helps with conversational sanskrit, if that’s of interest to you, also free - http://www.acharya.gen.in:8080/sanskrit/new-lessons.php

lastly, i’m reading this book - sanskrit swayam shikshak by shripad d. satwalekar. i only found the hindi edition, not sure if there’s an english translation. personally, it would help me familiarise myself with the devanagari script. i also feel like the hindi version would emphasise some nuances better, which could get missed out in english - just my assumption though, i could be wrong.

so i’m gonna focus on the first and third one majorly, at least for now. i'm a complete beginner (didn't study it in school) so i've chosen these. if i’m consistent enough, i’ll look into more books and courses.

it would be a great idea to contact your teacher though, personal attention and recommendations can be really helpful when it comes to self studying a language. it might be a little awkward to establish contact again (😅), so it's upto you. if you do, please let me know the advice you get.

hope this helps!

if anyone else reading this has better recommendations, please comment.

#anon asks #answered #resources #sanskrit #i'm a little all over the place #first anon!

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hindisoup · 12 days

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Hiii, I've been following your blog since some time. And I've been very fascinated and impressed by your journey. I'm sure at this point you know hindi better than me (I'm not proud of this, I'll focus better on Hindi from now). And I've always had this question, I'm not sure if I asked you or if you have already answered it or not. But how did you start learning Hindi? Are you Indian or indian origin? And how has your journey been? Did you find difficulties? What was easy for you and what did you like/dislike about the culture as you continued learning the language? I'm very curious.

Hi and thank you so much for such a nice ask!

Here's my previous answer to how I got into Hindi in the first place.

In short, I am just a Finnish linguaphile with no connection to India or South Asia whatsoever. I have loved learning about different languages since childhood but Hindi (and Urdu on the side) has been my passion for the past six to seven years now.

I got into the language very typically through Hindi cinema but more than just the aesthetics I'm fascinated by the history, art, socio-political fabric, nature and just all of it. I love learning new things in general and there's always something new about Indian people or culture that draws my interest. Looking at things - whether political, religious or whatever - from a distance, I try to observe and form an understanding more than form opinions - it's not my place and all I have is endless respect for Indian people. I've never been to India but believe me I have long to-do and to-see lists when I eventually one day get to go there.

My language journey has been very enjoyable. I've done some online courses, had iTalki tutors, done some videos to practice pronunciation, made a huge Anki deck and done lots of reading, podcast listening and film watching. I was making great progress but my learning has been on somewhat hiatus since last autumn when I got a new job that took all my energy. Since January I've been writing a PhD thesis proposal that has taken all my spare time and my Hindi learning has diminished to scrolling Tumblr poems and listening to film songs while commuting. The passion is still there and I intend to return to my routines as soon as possible.

What I love most about Hindi as a language is the logic of it. It's - for me at least - very easy to 'get' Hindi, as in understanding the grammar rules - why things are the way they are. Hindi is a very learner-friendly language that way. A bigger issue is the immense vocabulary and understanding of the historical and cultural roots around borrowing sounds and words from Sanskrit, Persian and other languages - how they play together and how they do not etc. When learning Hindi you are never just learning Hindi!

I had some trouble learning Devanagari at first and learning to differentiate all the sounds (and produce them from my mouth). It took time, but one day they clicked. I'm not perfect and there's a lot of room for improvement but seeing the progress I've made is very encouraging and helps me keep on learning. Learning Nastaliq and Naskh is another story - and another journey altogether!

#ask #hindi #urdu #languange learning

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paradoxcase · 5 months

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Chapter 7 of Nona the Ninth

I just noticed we started having Nine Houses skulls at the beginnings of the chapters again. The first two chapters that were just about Nona have what looks like the locked tomb at the front, the third where the kids and the school were introduced as a tree with an apple, maybe that's biblical, I don't know, chapter four has a Seventh skull, which is weird because nothing about the Seventh House or anyone in it was mentioned there (unless one of these characters is secretly a House refugee or something), chapter five is a Ninth skull, which, sure, chapter six is a Sixth skull, which also makes sense, and now this one is a Second skull

So maybe she's like some combination of Gideon and Harrow, or Gideon and Harrow's memories of the pool scene got merged in Harrow's body due to Gideon being in there for a while?

Well that's a new addition to the pool scene, unless this is just Nona being hungry for breakfast and conflating it with the dream

Actually, you know, I have to wonder what Camilla makes of these dreams at all, because I don't think anyone ever actually told Camilla about the pool scene at any point

I know she has like, a child's disdain for immature things, but she also went from being completely helpless to being like a ten year old in six months, so I wonder if she's also going to do more lightning-fast maturation throughout this book, although it looks like the whole book takes place over the span of five days

That's an odd opinion for a human to have

So earlier the book mentioned a "cooling cupboard" which I thought was meant to be the refrigerator, but now we have an actual refrigerator, too. I looked up "cooling cupboard" to see if it meant something in New Zealand English or something, and found something completely unexpected:

There's no mention of it being used widely anywhere outside of the US, and apparently they went out of use after freon started being produced. Searching for "cooling cupboard new zealand" mostly turns up hits for online stores located in New Zealand that are selling computer cooling hardware, so I'm stumped

Apparently sultanas are grapes, like not even a particularly exotic kind of grape, either, but there's considerable variation on how the term is used. Wiktionary thinks it can be a synonym for golden raisin? Only, why would you say "dried raisins", raisins are already dried grapes, that's the whole point of raisins

Prithibi appears to be the name of a Bengali rock band and a consulting firm. The consulting firm's webpage claims it's the Sanskrit word for "world" but I don't trust consulting firms to be subject-matter experts on Indian linguistics so I checked wiktionary and apparently it's actually a Bengali word that's a learned borrowing from a similar-but-not-identical Sanskrit word for "world". I wonder if this here is meant to be a reference to the Sanskrit word, the Bengali rock band, or the consulting firm. Antioch is well-known, of course

I wonder if Honesty was being sarcastic? But he does respect Hot Sauce, so I don't know. Anyway, I am also curious about why her name is Hot Sauce

Why do Camilla and Palamedes need a bigger bowl? Does having two souls in the same body burn more calories, or something?

Does she mean, she reminds We Suffer that Wake could fuck up and get killed, or that Wake could fuck up and start sleeping with someone sent to kill her? The last part makes me think the latter, but I don't know how much We Suffer actually would know known about that relationship

I mean, she's essentially been cut off from G1deon for 10,000 years, since he never knew she was there and never tried to communicate with her at all, and that didn't stop her from getting together with Wake. Honestly, now that I think about it, why didn't Pyrrha ever try to communicate with him? Why didn't she write "yo, it's me, Pyrrha, I aten't dead" on a piece of paper somewhere in his room for him to find when he came back to awareness, not once in 10,000 years? Or did he know? I guess we don't actually know. He told Harrow "I forget" but maybe he was just hiding Pyrrha's existence from her?

And I guess from the last bit Pyrrha didn't have quite the same relationship with G1deon as Camilla and Palamedes do

Malewife Palamedes?

So they are sometimes both active at once? I guess by the trial, Pyrrha is referring to the imaging/response challenge that Gideon and Harrow did. Except, if the body that's dually occupied is the one that needs to have cerebral fluid drained, why was she doing it to G1deon, since he was the necromancer it would have been her body, wouldn't it? Also, why did they create this trial that Pyrrha and G1deon thought required this precaution with absolutely no indication that that was the case and just left it there for the next Lyctor aspirants to find and play with? Also, how is both of them being active at once helping them with whatever is going on with Site B and C?

I wonder how many conversations like this happen in this apartment

Honestly, I appreciate that the next part of the story starts out with "wow, Honesty got busted up!" and then when the actual story comes out, the part where he got hurt actually turns out to be the least interesting and least worrying part

So you swap irises with your cavalier when you achieve Lyctorhood, so irises must be somehow some indicator of your soul, or a part of your soul, so no iris = no soul, maybe? Only, Protesilaus in Gideon the Ninth was essentially a body being animated without a soul, and his eyes were normal, and so were Harrow's parents, etc. So maybe it's just another kind of special eye that means something special about their souls, like John's eyes. John's eyes came from the soul of a planet, but there should only be three more of those left and I don't think they're hanging out in human bodies like Alecto is? What other kinds of strange souls exist in this universe?

And I guess the Convoy is an actual convoy and not a metaphor for something else? A convoy that's very hot and operated by people with white eyes, and the militia are trying to cover it up. I wonder if this is some kind of anti-House initiative that BOE are doing

#the locked tomb #nona the ninth

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frostfire-17 · 6 months

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could you recommend any texts about the hittite language? (preferably including non-paywalled ones)

I can recommend a couple! For a broader look, you might check out A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages, which I will admit I haven't sat down and read, but all the chapters are by people who know what they're talking about and I believe it's designed for a layperson to read. (Yakubovich is probably going to give you a heck of a lot of sociolinguistics stuff in his chapter on Hittite, though, because that's how he rolls.) Don't know if this is available online; you might need to just try and interlibrary loan it if your library doesn't have it.

If you're looking for straight-up textbooks/grammars, I I think both of these are available in pdf on academia.edu (you need a free account), and possssibly elsewhere on the internet, or you can again try interlibrary loan. The first is van den Hout's The Elements of Hittite (which I learned Hittite from, in its pre-publication Kinko's-bound version, lo these many years ago!). It's a nice little textbook that walks you through the grammar and to a lesser extent the writing system, and has you read some of Mursili II's annals as you go. The second is Hoffner and Melchert's A Grammar of the Hittite Language, which I only ever used as a reference grammar, so I can't tell you how it is as a textbook? It's more comprehensive than van den Hout in terms of grammar, certainly, and more interested in a linguistics perspective, but it doesn't deal with the cuneiform system at all and is overall less user-friendly.

(I have to add, though, that I'm not sure how either of these will treat a lone user without an instructor. You will fare better if you know some Greek, Latin, or Sanskrit, to give you a sense of how ancient IE languages set themselves up - in general a familiarity with noun cases will at least help you out some.) Good luck!

#hittites yay!#asks

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bookwyrminspiration · 9 months

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quil!!!!!! my dad is teaching me and my siblings khmer!!!!!! i cannot pronounce SO MANY of these but oh man. this is so fun languages are so interesting too like. spanish obv uses the roman alphabet along w many others. chinese uses VAST amounts of characters. and these are the couple of languages i am very vaguely learning and then now you go to khmer which comes from sanskrit like so many other languages have throughout asia and i am learning the writing system which is SO!!! COOL!!! even though it's very small lessons haha. right now we're learning the consonants and srah, which is like. the consonants are the base part and then srah are modifying vowels that you add to consonants and roots, and the root uhhh. i haven't learned that part yet but is ALSO a thing that you add. i'm trying to figure out how to pronounce the srah rn there are SO MANY and i am so used to english. but i am so excited ahhh

also attempting to not get ahead of myself getting excited abt being able to more easily learn other languages that come from sanskrit lmaooo i'm barely even learning the alphabet!!! but was taught the word for love is srolang among a few other words and that is very cool. one day i will not space out when someone speaks khmer and i will actually understand people when we randomly go over to relatives' houses!!!! whoo!!!!!

Yooo!!! That is so cool! Seriously thrilled for you. Learning languages is a lot of work but it's also so rewarding, especially when it's got personal meaning to you.

This also made me realize I didn't know what Khmer's writing system was, so I looked and it certainly looks a little daunting if you have no familiarity with it. But Persian also shares a common origin with Sanskrit, and I'd love to learn Persian one day (because I was raised Baha'i) so perhaps one day we'll both have more familiarity with those languages! And be able to branch out!

But it's so cool to learn how other languages work, and I wish you lots of luck with the srah and pronunciations and everything! You are one step closer to understanding when people speak khmer and claiming that part of your heritage :), and they may be small steps but all the steps count

In a similar vein, I'm staring Nahuatl this semester! Which I'm so excited for, I literally rearranged half my schedule to accommodate it. The Aztecs spoke Nahuatl, and while family is cagey about it it's near certain that we have some indigenous Aztec roots, so I'm really excited to reconnect in this more distanced way. It's still spoken by like 1.5 million people today, so it's possible some of the classes in the future will be with native speakers teaching online from Mexico.

Hooray to both of us starting new languages and reconnecting!

#quil's queries #soryasongsaa #long post #semester hasn't started yet so I don't know quite what I'm in for #but like. I wanna learn this language so bad I am going to make it work #i'm good at school everything will be fine <- is nervous about the semester in general #but I know everything will be fine everything will be FINE I will make it so #anyway #super super thrilled for you!#and I'm so glad you have someone close to teach it to you. to make it all the more meaningful

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deepikapawar · 2 years

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Sanskrit was the tongue of free thinkers who challenged everything and expressed a variety of viewpoints on a wide range of topics. The academics of ancient India spoke Sanskrit in particular.

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hrk4 · 4 months

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Bhagavad-Gita Classes / March to May 2024

Dear friends,

Greetings!

If you have five minutes to spare, I will tell you about my encounter with the Bhagavad-Gita.

I was nineteen when I first read the Gita, in English translation, from cover to cover.

I was quite impressed by it despite my near-complete ignorance of philosophy coupled with the disdainful scepticism that is natural to a college student. I got a chance to read through it again when my uncle Dr. Koti Sreekrishna prepared an independent English translation of the first few chapters. Little did I realize then that I would be co-translating the Gita some years down the road.

Our work, The New Bhagavad-Gita, was published in 2011. Since then, I've had the opportunity to go through the Gita multiple times, always hoping that the Gita will go through me at least once!

You might be wondering who I am.

This is me: Hari Ravikumar.

I am an author/editor who has (co-)written/edited some forty books, primarily related to Indian culture and heritage.

Readers praised The New Bhagavad-Gita for its simple language and accessible content. I've always believed that any new knowledge should help make us a better person. And only if we understand the message can we even try to practice it!

Upon the request of a few friends, I will be teaching an online Bhagavad-Gita course in English, spanning March to May 2024, for anyone who is interested. Except for a working knowledge of English, no other pre-requisites are expected.

Starting on the auspicious day of Maha-shivaratri, the hour-long classes will be on zoom, five days a week (on week-days, at 6.30 am IST) with no homework. I will read out the Sanskrit shloka, give the meaning of the words, and explain the import of the verse. I will try to ensure that the basic concepts are clear to everyone.

In this manner, I will go through all seven hundred verses of the text.

What I am not going to do is enforce any views or beliefs; neither am I going to teach Sanskrit nor am I going to discuss technical details related to the Mahabharata. I will refrain from referring to any other treatise (such as Upanishads, Brahma-sutras, commentaries on the Gita, etc.)

I feel that whatever has been expounded in the Gita is meant to be experimented in our life and to be realized by experience rather than by blind faith or excessive intellectualisation.

By the end of the course, you will get an idea of what the Bhagavad-Gita contains—and perhaps seriously begin improving the quality of your life.

However, with this new learning, if you are expecting to win an election, find a girlfriend/boyfriend, get a promotion, or double your net worth, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed.

While teaching the class, I will be using the book The New Bhagavad-Gita (which you can get in the US on Amazon at this link and in India on Pothi at this link). It is not compulsory to buy the book but if you are one of those people who prefer having a book for ready reference, you may consider getting a copy.

If you are a serious student and have a great deal of extra time, you can get a copy of The Complete Bhagavad-Gita (available in three volumes: Vol. 1, Vol. 2, and Vol. 3) and study it.

I must warn you, this is going to be a really expensive course. It needs your undivided attention for 40+ hours in a span of three months.

In terms of money, however, it is free.

If you're interested to join the course or if you wish to know more, join this WhatsApp group.

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embodiedawakeningacademy · 1 year

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How is Sexual Energy a Healing Modality by Sacred Sexuality?

Tantra is the approach of existing in a full association with life and owning a living relationship with what is indicated for opening yourself or your senses, your awareness, or your emotions; it is the realization of the current moment and participating validity from that area of exposure. Tantra plunges us more profoundly into the understanding of who we are.

It completes an active merging of body and spirit. Sacred Sexuality or tantric sex is a sexual practice part of the ancient spiritual path known as Tantra. Tantra is a Sanskrit term that summarises weaving or joining the male and female forces within us, heaven and earth, the human body with the transcendent and the energy.

Tantra is discovering a union with life beyond the separate sense of self. The sacred or tantric sex, an aspect of Tantra, is seen as a door to that transcendent truth once we learn to take advantage of it. Tantric sex involves many erotic activities and physical stimulation of the erogenous zones most people associate with sex.

A typical tantric session involves sexual energy healing with intimacy and delicacy in sex, which includes hugs, caresses, and, above all, being present in the body and focusing on energy movement between the participating bodies. During tantric sex, you barely move, and attention is focused on a space of devotion and meditation. Suppose you relax and take it easy or speed up and slow down the action. In that case, you can have an online tantra course with Embodied Awakening Academy, which has the expertise to deliver the essence of sacred Sexuality and help you heal with sexual energy, and provide ultimate satisfaction.

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an-asuryampasya · 1 year

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termites are, in fact, the fucking worst.

They make me feel so useless.

We have- had, now- this Telugu-English dictionary. Always called it the 'Brown dictionary' at home, because it was by Charles Philip Brown and it had to distinguished from the host of other dictionaries dotting the shelves (my grandfather has an extensive collection of books and that includes multiple Telugu-English dictionaries, as well as English-Telugu, Sanskrit-Telugu, Hindi-English, English-Hindi, and probably a bunch of others my kid-self couldn't be bothered about. Well now I very much can be bothered and I'll go check on them in a bit, but first, back to me moping about a dictionary. Also yes, my grandfather really likes collecting stuff. It's a goldmine that I'm only now beginning to appreciate as my interest in archives, conservation, and history grows. Also if you're new here (and my url doesn't make sense to you), hi, I'm Very Telugu on main sometimes and ramble about languages occassionally. Right, back to moping).

I'm stupidly fond of that dictionary. I rarely use it of course - probably why this even happened, it never seeing any sunlight - because I google shit like any other person. But just, growing up and having a rare moment of seeing my dad stumped by a word and us pulling out the Brown dictionary to look it up made me oddly excited? It's a nice memory (-I say, ignoring all the times when I'd have been groaning as he sent me to hunt it down because I'm certain those times happened too). Mostly though, the dictionary amuses me for a different reason. That book is wayyyy older than me, and I've been aware of it right since a time when I read books, but was young enough that I didn't really understand the need for author names. I mean, if I like a book and need to identify it, I need the title of the book itself. What do you mean it's possible to like an author and seek out more of their stuff? What good does knowing the author do? What do you MEAN dictionaries have authors??? The Oxford dictionary is just the Oxford dictionary??? And yeah, dad calls this one the brown dictionary, but that's because the cover of the book is brown, see? [Note: it was not, in fact, brown. The cover was orange and white. It was the other Telugu-English dictionary that was brown in colour, but I couldn't care less about that one at the time.]

[I eventually learned why it was called the Brown dictionary when my dad once asked for it and I grabbed the brown coloured dictionary and my dad was all ???]

So y'know, the title of that dictionary always makes me laugh when I remember why it's called that, and yeah I'm kinda emotionally attached to it now. Except today I decided it's time I look up my url on there because sure, I know what it means, but it's the brown dictionary. For old times' sake and all.

[side note: if you're wondering, my url means "she who never beholds the sun" (as my ideal state is me being holed up in my room). It's a Sanskrit word too, but Sanskrit dictionaries tend to carry only the figurative meaning of "part of a king's harem", so I'm particular about clarifying that I mean the more literal Telugu meaning when I use it. Bonus fact! I was delighted to learn of this word for the first time when my brother's ENT called him an asuryampasya. xD Great doc, that one.]

And well. That's when we discovered that the termites had attacked. They got some of the other stuff too, including somthing my mum is inordinately fond of and aaaaaaaah. I tried looking up online to see if we could buy another copy of the dictionary at least, but a used copy is priced at some forty fucking thousand (INR, that is. But still too expensive to buy just for old times' sake when technically I can just google the words I want.)

So that's it, then. The book is not so badly damaged that it's entirely useless so I can't even throw it out without feeling guilty, but large swathes of it are too messed up to use (the entry of asuryampasya is half eaten, with what's remaining reading 'she beholds the sun'). And I just. Feel so helpless. I read up on conservation practices and study the theory of how light ruins books and what chemical treatments are done and stuff but what is the point of me hoarding all that theoretical knowledge when the ONE book from my grandfather's collection I'm actually fond of got chewed up right in front of me, and I did nothing. Just. Scream. I feel very sad and useless. I should go check on the other books and stuff but I'm too upset to do it right now.

I'll get to it eventually, but until then it's moping (and making that the internet's problem like this) I guess. :(

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