April 2020
ಕುಮಾರವ್ಯಾಸನ ಯುದ್ಧವರ್ಣನೆಯಲ್ಲಿನ ಕಲ್ಪನಾಶಕ್ತಿ ಹಾಗೂ ಯುದ್ಧದ ಬಗೆಗೆ ಅವನ ಅಭಿಮತ
ಮಹಾಭಾರತದ, ಮಹಾಕಥಾನಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಕುರುಕ್ಷೇತ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ ಹದಿನೆಂಟು ದಿವಸ, ಹದಿನೆಂಟು ಅಕ್ಷೌಹಿಣಿ ಸೈನ್ಯದ ನಡುವೆ ನಡೆಯುವ ಮಹಾಯುದ್ಧವಲ್ಲದೆ, ಅನೇಕ ಸಣ್ಣ ಪುಟ್ಟ ಯುದ್ಧಗಳು, ಕಾಳಗಗಳ ವಿವರಣೆ, ವರ್ಣನೆಗಳು, ವೈವಿಧ್ಯಮಯವಾಗಿ ನಿರೂಪಿಸ್ಪಲ್ಪಟ್ಟಿವೆ. ಕುಮಾರವ್ಯಾಸನ ಯುದ್ಧದ ವರ್ಣನೆಗಳು ಕದನಕುತೂಹಲರಾಗವನ್ನು ವಿಸ್ತಾರಮಾಡಿದಂತೆ ನಿಧಾನವಾಗಿ ಆರಂಭಗೊಂಡು, ಧಪ ಧಪ ಧಪ ಸಾ ಎಂದು ಸುರಿಮಳೆಯಾಗಿ ಸುರಿದು ಮತ್ತೆ ಇಳಿಮುಖವಾಗಿ ಶಾಂತ ಮುಕ್ತಾಯ ಕಂಡಂತೆ, ಸಾವಿನ...
Acharya’s Singing
After a few months (since our stay at the Vasanta Mahal), Vidvān Mysore Vasudevacharya’s vocal concert was organised at the reseidence of Dr. B.K Narayana Rao, who was known for his Eye-hospital. It was a gathering of about fifty to sixty of our friends. Srinivasa Sastri was the chief guest. After rendering a varṇa, Acharya sung about two to three kīrtanas. Once he had finished singing them and had just started with the next...
Renowned as a doctor, a compassionate man, and an extremely capable surgeon in the old Mysore area, Rao Bahadur Dr. T V Arumugam Mudaliar was a contemporary of Sir. M Visvesvaraya. When he was the Chief Superintendent of Bangalore’s Victoria Hospital, its fame spread far and wide. The primary reason for this was his medical skill combined with his compassion for people. His sympathy was like medicine. The two together made him valuable to...
Yayāti was the tenth in the line of descendants from Dakṣa-prajāpati; his son was Pūru. Further in his lineage Duṣyanta was born.
The preceptor of the Asuras, Śukrācārya knew the mystic art of mṛta-sañjīvini that could revive people from death. Using that he would bring back to life all the dead Asuras in the ongoing war between the Devas and Asuras. All those who were thus revived went back to fighting the Devas with renewed vigour. The...
Lolla Lakṣmī-dhara (15th–16th cen. CE) was a scholar-poet in the court of Kṛṣṇa-deva-rāya. He is well-known as the author of Lakṣmī-dharā, arguably the best available commentary on Saundarya-laharī. The tenets of Śrī-vidyā are said to be extremely esoteric. They are to be learned through a Guru alone. Lakṣmī-dhara took a bold stand in his work by proclaiming, “I hereby declare myself as the Guru of all honest seekers of present and future!”[1]...
Introduction to books
I have mentioned above that Ramanna made me read Kannada Rāmāyaṇa, Bhārata and other books regularly. Bhāgavata and Ranganātha-rāmāyaṇa - both these books were very dear to him. He had many poems from Āndhra Rāmāyaṇa committed to memory. He used to quote them at times during many conversations. Once a Vaiśya[1] came to visit him. Ramanna asked (in Telugu) :
“What made you come? It has been a long time since I last saw you...
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