દિપ પટેલ | Deep Patel
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દિપ પટેલ | Deep Patel
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What's the context here??




absolute equivalence of brahman and atman

Hanuman is present across Varanasi. However, what I found unique about Hanuman statues in the city is this peculiar iconography. In many cases, he's depicted crushing a figurine, possibly of a pisach or asur. This then reminds one of the famous verses of Hanuman Chalisa...










No! Was always a language spoken by the Brahmins, and they intended to keep it so. Hence the whole idea of it being a "language of the gods". In fact given that Vedic Sanskrit was mostly an agglutinative language, it wouldnt be easy to converse in it. Plus Brahmins wanted to gatekeep the language, control the language of their religion and thus control the religion. However, knowledge production and writing in Sanskrit carried on throughout Indian history, for many kingdoms it was a language of the court. But barely spoken, hence has died out completely as a spoken language. Only gods talk in it now :P






The British are often blamed for millions of Indian famine deaths. This is exactly backwards; like all Malthusian agrarian civilizations famines were a primordial feature of Indian life, ended in peacetime by Raj-built railroads that allowed shipping food to affected areas.






