हिन्दू नववर्ष का शुभागमन (31.03.2014)
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Indus Script Based on Sanskrit Language
Indus Script Based on Sanskrit Language. Feb 21, 2014 by Jeyakumar Ramasami. Inscriptions on Indus seals give details about animals sacrificed and nature of ceremony. Some ceremonies were performed for obtaining remission of sins and others were for pleasing the souls of dead ancestors (Pithru Karma ceremony). Indus script had remained un-deciphered for a long time. There are some valid reasons for that. The Indus valley civilization flourished quite a long time back, approximately 4,000 years back. The time gap is really big and the modern day man is not able to visualize the context in which these seals were prepared and what is written over those seals. The earliest Indus archaeologists made the fundamental mistake of identifying these excavation sites as a “Megapolises,” whereas in reality they were “Necropolises.” This fundamental mistake had made it difficult to identify and recognize the role of seals and its inscriptions. There are many decipherment...
A book release ceremony for Chinese translation of "Bhagavad Gita: as it is” and "Bhagavata Purana"
Embassy of India, Beijing Trade & Commerce Wing. “A book release ceremony for Chinese translation of "Bhagavad Gita: as it is” and "Bhagavata Purana" was held at Embassy of India, Beijing on 7Jan, 2014. Dr. B. Bala Bhaskar, Deputy Chief of Mission, together with Dr. Wang Lei, Director-General, International Cooperation Bureau, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences released the books”.
* When a Dead Language Is Cutting-Edge *
* When a Dead Language Is Cutting-Edge * Marcy Braverman Goldstein ’92 makes an enterprise out of an interest she once thought “obscure.” By Karen McCally ’02 (PhD) IN DEMAND: Based in Charlotte, N.C., Goldstein takes her Sanskrit workshops on the road, to places such as Willow Street Yoga Center, in Silver Spring, Md., where she conducted “Sanskrit: The Language of Yoga in Texts, A¯sana, and KIrtan,” in November. (Photo: Adam Fenster) It’s not a typical path to entrepreneurship: a bachelor of arts in religion, followed by doctoral study of religion with training in what’s often considered a dead language to boot. But the knowledge Marcy Braverman Goldstein’92 has painstakingly acquired, and which she shares with tuition-paying college students near her home in Charlotte, N.C., is knowledge she’s discovered many other people in her community would like to have themselves. “I realized the knowledge from my educa...
