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  • Aspects of the Hundred Syllable Vajrasttva Mantra II


    Jayarava's Raves — Authority Authority: 106
    Having dealt with some of the issues of the linguistics of the mantra [1], I want now to look at the mantra as a text. While in the Tibetanised version the main theme is taken to be purification of karma, in the corrected Sanskrit one of the other themes emerges into the foreground: samaya. Samaya is our relationship ...
    2 weeks ago

  • On English (and other dialects of Sanskrit)


    The Hannibal Blog — Authority Authority: 119
    I mentioned en passant in the previous post that the Sanskrit word vira, hero, is related to the Latin vir, man, and thus to our virtue and virility. And, of course, to the Modern Hindi vir , brave. ( Thank you, Susan .) Well, that sort of thing brings out the language geek in me, and I can’t help ...
    3 weeks ago

  • Aspects of the Hundred Syllable Vajrasattva Mantra I


    Jayarava's Raves — Authority Authority: 106
    Siddhaṃ writing on palm leaf from 11th century Nepal. A section of the Aṣṭasāhasrika Prajñāpārimtā Sūtra In my annotated translation of the Hundred Syllable mantra I tried to convey what the Sanskrit text of the mantra was and how it might be translated [1] - I did this in such a way as to open up the ...
    3 weeks ago

  • New Articles on Dhāraṇī


    Jayarava's Raves — Authority Authority: 106
    Gāndhārī Alphabet in the Kharoṣṭhī script It was with some anticipation that I began to read Ronald Davidsons new review article in the Journal of Indian Philosophy on the meaning of dhāraṇī in Mahāyāna Buddhism - a subject in desperate need of an overhaul. However Davidson seems to have ...
    4 weeks ago

  • Finding a folly euphonic


    Sentence first — Authority Authority: 106
    *AmphigourieQu’il est heureux de se défendreQuand le coeur ne s’est pas rendu!Mais qu’il est fâcheux de se rendreQuand le bonheur est suspendu!Par un discours sans suite et tendre,Égarez un coeur eperdu;Souvent par un mal-entenduL’amant adroit se fait entendre.*Translation:How happy to defend our heart,When ...
    5 weeks ago

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