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dharma-visheSha-prasUtAd dravya-guNa-karma-sAmAnya-visheSha-samavAyAnAM padArthAnAM sAdharmya-vaidharmAbhyAM tattvaj~nAnAn niHshreyasaM ||
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A narration: Communication or Coincidence. https://t.co/oxYMOJBD0c
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The year 1991 flashed in our mind along with the letters S, K, G, K, S. Those were the initials of five of six people who had once mattered to us in life but were now memories from a past world tha…
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Australopithecus deyiremeda comes of age as foot, hip and face are united. Interestingly, the opposable toe shows that it was likely a much better climber Homo, though bipedal on the ground. Notably, he was big on consuming C3 plants -- fruits and leafy vegetables -- guess the
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Nature - 3.4-million-year-old hominin fossils discovered in Ethiopia provide insight into the diet and locomotion of Australopithecus deyiremeda.
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A Mongolian manuscript in Tibetan script depicting "pictures used to avert Ada-s (malignant spirits) causing pediatric diseases)". It preserves a memory of therocephalous and avicephalous kaumAra mAtR^i-s with the Mongolic symbols above them.
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loke .adbhutAni dR^ishyante: shvA mitraM bhavati gardabhasya
Doggo providing emotional support for his donkey friend. Two different species, one shared heart. Sometimes the best therapist has four paws…
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Conflicts in African wild: ghoreNa kariyAdena khaDgasya vadhaH |
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Australopithecus deyiremeda comes of age as foot, hip and face are united. Interestingly, the opposable toe shows that it was likely a much better climber Homo, though bipedal on the ground. Notably, he was big on consuming C3 plants -- fruits and leafy vegetables -- guess the
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Nature - 3.4-million-year-old hominin fossils discovered in Ethiopia provide insight into the diet and locomotion of Australopithecus deyiremeda.
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Apropos the last RT, we touch up the making of the shaiva flag as part of various temple celebrations in this note: https://t.co/bW8JTicxVV
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An integral aspect of the life of the post-Vedic Hindu community was participation in the temple celebrations. It was considered highly beneficial in the tAntrika tradition, both to the individual …
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Dhvajārohaṇa is how the Mahotsava for an Āgamika temple begins. Īśvara-Saṃhitā of the Pāñcarātras has a chapter just for this part of the Mahotsava, culminating in the hoisting of the flag. The rest of the Mahotsava is covered in the next chapter. Śrīmat-Kāmika of the
🚨 Avimukteshwaranand: "I have never read any mention in the scriptures that Flag Hoisting should be done. ~ There is no point in our participation." Two words for him 👇🏼
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The circle of bhAnavI-kaulinI or the rising of the kAlI-s in the kha-vyoman
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It is amazing to see how, during the Mongol empire, print runs of up to several thousand copies of religious texts were made. For example, in 1328 CE, a Mongol general Ürük Buqa printed 2000 copies of the "Great Bear (=Seven Stars) sUtra" (supposedly brought to the East by
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A chIna depiction of the deities of the Big Dipper, who were worshipped in the "sUtra of the 7 stars or Big Dipper" attributed the buddha. Through this vehicle, the cult was prominent across Mongolia, Korea, Japan, Cina, and Thailand.
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Some mountain goats/sheep: 167. Chiru (Pantholops hodgsonii), 168. Rocky Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus), 169. Mishmi Takin (Budorcas taxicolor), 170. Bhutan Takin (Budorcas whitei), 171. Sichuan Takin (Budorcas tibetana), 172. Golden Takin (Budorcas bedfordi), 173. Aoudad
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On of the more surprising journeys of a mantra is that of a kAlI mantra finding its way into a the Mongolian shamanic ritual of the summoning back of the spirit that has left the body of an ill person (see QT). A version of this ritual attributed to padmasambhava for the curing
Among the Mongols, Turks and Manchus, there is a ritual wherein a grievously ill person's spirit is believed to have wandered away. A shaman can summon it back to cure the said individual. Below is an account of the same among the Mongols drawn from the researchers the Hungarian
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Snow Trek… This video by shows famous Grizzly Bear 399 and her four cubs travelling to their den site in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, near Grand Teton National Park. 🎦 Credit: Gregory B. Balvin.
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Credits to @blog_supplement for their post that inspired this infographic
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Did nest building evolve convergently in archosaurs and mammals or was it ancestral lost in most lepidosaurs?
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Cousin eats cousin: the mantis and roaches are members of the same clade
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It is interesting to note that the English warrior during the occupation of India, Sleeman, who fought the thugs, discovered the first sauropod vertebra in India, which the British paleontologist Lydekker then named as Titanosaurus.
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