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Indian History a victory march of Islam
The first decade of the last century was indeed remarkable for re-discoveries of the lost manuscripts of several invaluable saMskR^ita works from the hidden chests of Keralas monasteries and private libraries. Among those delightful finds was this poetic yet historic chronicle of early vijayanagara period called madhurA-vijaya or kampArAya-charitam penned none other than by ga~NgAdevI the spouse of prince kampanarAya the son of bukkarAya, the co-founder of that empire. Discovery of this work in ...
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Hoax Called Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam - III
In the previous parts we have seen how ancient sources of nIti have treated the aphorism of vasudhaiva kuTumbakaM. In this concluding part, we shall survey the rest of the sources where this shloka has appeared and understand the contexts of its usage.The Hoax Called Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: Part I - HitopadeshaThe Hoax Called Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: Part II - Panchatantra and kauTilyaThe Hoax Called Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: Part III - Upanishada and Poeticsvasudhaiva kuTumbakam in vikrama-charitaVer...
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Hoax Called Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam - II
In the previous part, we had gleaned through hitopadesha to understand the message of ancient AchArya of politics about vasudhaiva kuTumbakam, encapsulated in a pair of satirical fables. Far from coming as an ideal or a recommendation, the shloka there was made to come from a shrewd subversionist, the lesson being that one has to exercise discretion from unwittingly trusting such brotherhood-preachers, and that the price for befriending and sheltering the wrong kind under the influence of such u...
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The Hoax called Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam
Along with its short form vasudhaiva kuTumbakam, this shloka somehow finds a massive popularity among the modern Hindus. Of late though, the secular variety seems to have developed quite a fetish for it and the verse has gained a rhetorical note. Apparently it offers them an aesthetic emblem of multiculturalism and universalism, as well as an authority of yore to denounce the nationalistic thought as narrow-minded. Even the most Samskrita-phobic ones therefore can be seen reciting this shloka on...
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