Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Mudrarakshasa / Review / Film Promo / Screened / Online / Download
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudrarakshasa
http://www.narthaki.com/info/rev09/rev698.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE_D31OZ6m4
https://archive.org/search.php?query=mudrarakshasam
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24694492/Mudra-Rakshasa-Sanskrit-Play-on-Chanakya-With-English-Translation
http://www.mediafire.com/?jzozmdqlyzt
Thursday, November 26, 2015
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Mister Android
What’s more, the good teacher says this is only the tip of the iceberg. “This data pertains only for my last seven-eight apps,” he clarifies. “I learnt about Google Analytics only recently.”
Meet Imran Khan, a 34-year-old mathematics teacher at a government Sanskrit senior secondary school in Alwar who moonlights as a super-creator of educational apps. With no formal education in computers, leave alone app development, Khan has learnt everything he knows from books and that all-encompassing source of knowledge called the ‘Google gurudev’. In fact, his tryst with software development began only in 2005, when he designed a
website – www.gktalks.com – to answer general knowledge-related questions.
“My younger brother, Idrees, left his books at home after he bagged a job at a Gurgaon software firm. He had completed his B Tech in Computer Science from the Institute of Engineering and Technology in Alwar. As I was free after school, I began looking up those books. I learnt html and designed a website,” he says. “Last month, when I ran Google Analytics, I found it had got 2.5 lakh page views.”
Imran said though he has created more than 100 websites until now, he manages only two
–www.gktalks.com and www.gyanmajari.com.
Imran even participated in a national seminar on education organised by the ministry of human resources in September 2014, and undertook sessions on IT in education at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, with trainee IAS officers as his audience.
By Imran’s own admission, his app journey began at a time when he didn’t even know what the word stood for. “The then district collector of Alwar, Ashutosh AT Pednekar, saw my website and sent for me. He asked me to design the website for the District Institute of Education and Training (DIET). Pednekar was the one who suggested that I start developing apps. I had no clue what an app was – he had to show me some on his tablet,” Imran recalls.
In 2012, he developed his first app – the NCERT Learn Science – for the Class 9 students. Of all the apps he has made so far, General Science in Hindi is the top grosser, with around 500,000 downloads.
Imran, who did a two-year basic teacher training course after his senior secondary degree, became a third grade government teacher in 1999. He was posted in Kota for four years, before being transferred to the government school in Jaton Ka Bagh – just five kilometres from his native village, Khareda, in Malakhera.
Pednekar, for his part, believes he was lucky to chance upon a gem like Imran. “We were looking for private players to develop websites for us when somebody suggested his name. So we asked him to develop a couple of websites for us.”
Call him Mister Android. This teacher from a Sanskrit school in Rajasthan’s Alwar district has created 42 Android apps, and counting, in just three years. While these apps have been downloaded by 2.5 million users until now, the screen views alone have come up to 18 million.
What’s more, the good teacher says this is only the tip of the iceberg. “This data pertains only for my last seven-eight apps,” he clarifies. “I learnt about Google Analytics only recently.”
Meet Imran Khan, a 34-year-old mathematics teacher at a government Sanskrit senior secondary school in Alwar who moonlights as a super-creator of educational apps. With no formal education in computers, leave alone app development, Khan has learnt everything he knows from books and that all-encompassing source of knowledge called the ‘Google gurudev’. In fact, his tryst with software development began only in 2005, when he designed a website – www.gktalks.com – to answer general knowledge-related questions.
“My younger brother, Idrees, left his books at home after he bagged a job at a Gurgaon software firm. He had completed his B Tech in Computer Science from the Institute of Engineering and Technology in Alwar. As I was free after school, I began looking up those books. I learnt html and designed a website,” he says. “Last month, when I ran Google Analytics, I found it had got 2.5 lakh page views.”
Imran said though he has created more than 100 websites until now, he manages only two –www.gktalks.com and www.gyanmajari.com.
Imran even participated in a national seminar on education organised by the ministry of human resources in September 2014, and undertook sessions on IT in education at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, with trainee IAS officers as his audience.
By Imran’s own admission, his app journey began at a time when he didn’t even know what the word stood for. “The then district collector of Alwar, Ashutosh AT Pednekar, saw my website and sent for me. He asked me to design the website for the District Institute of Education and Training (DIET). Pednekar was the one who suggested that I start developing apps. I had no clue what an app was – he had to show me some on his tablet,” Imran recalls.
In 2012, he developed his first app – the NCERT Learn Science – for the Class 9 students. Of all the apps he has made so far, General Science in Hindi is the top grosser, with around 500,000 downloads.
Imran, who did a two-year basic teacher training course after his senior secondary degree, became a third grade government teacher in 1999. He was posted in Kota for four years, before being transferred to the government school in Jaton Ka Bagh – just five kilometres from his native village, Khareda, in Malakhera.
Pednekar, for his part, believes he was lucky to chance upon a gem like Imran. “We were looking for private players to develop websites for us when somebody suggested his name. So we asked him to develop a couple of websites for us.”
Sastra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shastra
Veda
http://veda.wikidot.com/dharma-shastra
Org
http://www.shastras.org/
http://www.shaastra.org/
Mantra
http://www.srimantrashastra.com/
Edu
http://sastra.edu/
http://www.sastratechnologies.in/
http://www.sastrarobotics.com/
Slides
http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?searchfrom=header&q=Shastra+sanskrit
Tube
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Shastra+sanskrit
Veda
http://veda.wikidot.com/dharma-shastra
Org
http://www.shastras.org/
http://www.shaastra.org/
Mantra
http://www.srimantrashastra.com/
Edu
http://sastra.edu/
http://www.sastratechnologies.in/
http://www.sastrarobotics.com/
Slides
http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?searchfrom=header&q=Shastra+sanskrit
Tube
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Shastra+sanskrit
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Sunday, August 30, 2015
Saturday, August 29, 2015
Sainthood
With their canonisation, as the finale of the long-drawn process is known in Catholic parlance, the centuries old Syro Malabar Catholic Church has three Saints, the first being Sister Alphonsa raised to the revered rank in 2008.
The two from Kerala were declared as saints during a special mass at St Peter's Square at Vatican, Syro Malabar Catholic Church sources said.
According to church scholars, Syro Malabar Church, which traces its origin to the visit of Apostle St Thomas to the Kerala coast in the first century AD, is one of the 22 Eastern Churches in Full Communion with Rome.
The Pope declared Chavara and Euphrasia as Saints during a special mass at St Peter's Square at Vatican, a moment shared in elation and spiritual fervour by churches across Kerala where the faithful throng in large numbers for thanks giving service and prayers.
A large number of devotees, two Cardinals, bishops and clergy and nuns from Kerala attended the ceremony at Vatican also.
Three places closely associated to the lives of Chavara and Euprhasia at Mannman in Kottayam, Koonammavu in Ernakulam and Ollur in Thrissur have already been in a jubilant mood for the last several days.
Schoolchildren looking at a painting exhibition as part of canonization of Father Kuriakose Elias Chavara at CMI Public School, Kozhikode, on November 22, 2014. (TOI photo)
Founder of the congregation Carmalites of Mary Immaculate (CMI), F Kuriakose Elias Chavara (1805-1871) was more than a spiritual leader of Syro Malabar Catholic community.
Historians and church chroniclers consider him as a social reformer who gave thrust to secular education of not only Catholics but also of children other communities, especially the depressed classes. Incidentally, one of the first institutions he founded was a Sanskrit school.
Monday, August 17, 2015
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Ten hints to have command over Sanskrit
Ten hints to have command over Sanskrit.
1. Use only Sanskrit and nothing but Sanskrit at least while conversing with Sanskritists. Don't overuse the same few nouns and verbs. Try to add more verbs, more nouns on more subjects.
2. Write something in Sanskrit. While writing, as much as possible
try to use correct grammar. Always place Apte's dictionary in front of
you. Even though this dictionary does not give meanings in Sanskrit, it
is helpful in having clear picture in understanding the words of
Sanskrit. Amarakosha with any Sanskrit commentary you must have.
3. Make the habit or reading Ramayana everyday. It is different matter that Ramayana is in our blood and in our culture. The advantage you will have by reading Ramayana is, while reading it you will have the experience of talking with Sanskrit. Ramayana's language is very simple, at the same time very attractive. All the sentence patterns, idioms, important proverbs that are necessary for the practical transactions are interwoven in the diction of Ramayana. While reading it, you are swimming in the Sanskrit-ocean.
4. Read Sanskrit works extensively. In every subject and in every category, the important works you have to read. Don't confine your reading to narrowness by thinking ‘my subject is this, my subject is that'. This kind of thinking is nothing but stupidity. Only after reading any thing will be ‘your' subject and not before that. By reading widely, you will be able to understand how the Sanskrit is used differently by different authors. Don't restrict your reading to old writings. Read even modern works of fiction and nonfiction. You have to read even research works written in Sanskrit.
5. Don't neglect the introductions if they are written in Sanskrit. Read Sanskrit commentaries and notes. Don't forget to use indices for quick references.
6. Write in Sanskrit. Write any thing you want. Short stories, poems, articles, dramas and even novels.
7.If you are interested in writing classical style, try to imitate any well known poems by altering the words of synonyms. Be careful in metre. As much as possible memorize the definitions of important metres in Vrttaratnakara. Check your verses meticulously to know whether the definition is strictly applicable. Remember that this is for your practice. Don't publish your first effort.
8. Try to write commentary on Subhaashitas. Here, commentary means word to word meaning, that's all. Split the words of original according to the Sandhi rules. After it is done, add a dash or = mark to every word and write correct synonym . Take help of any classical dictionary like Amarakosha. Try to summarize the verses in simple prose.
9.Some poets with wonderful and strange enthusiasm do create verses rapidly in their mouth without help of paper and pen. This process is called ‘Aashu-kavitva'. Try it. In the initial stage, it seems difficult. But, be persistent and you will become successful !
10. And lastly, try to present your paper in Sanskrit in the seminars.
N.B.Don't start to quarrel with the guys who will tell you that Sanskrit is dead. You have to prove Sanskrit's lively status by showing them something written afresh in Sanskrit.
1. Use only Sanskrit and nothing but Sanskrit at least while conversing with Sanskritists. Don't overuse the same few nouns and verbs. Try to add more verbs, more nouns on more subjects.
3. Make the habit or reading Ramayana everyday. It is different matter that Ramayana is in our blood and in our culture. The advantage you will have by reading Ramayana is, while reading it you will have the experience of talking with Sanskrit. Ramayana's language is very simple, at the same time very attractive. All the sentence patterns, idioms, important proverbs that are necessary for the practical transactions are interwoven in the diction of Ramayana. While reading it, you are swimming in the Sanskrit-ocean.
4. Read Sanskrit works extensively. In every subject and in every category, the important works you have to read. Don't confine your reading to narrowness by thinking ‘my subject is this, my subject is that'. This kind of thinking is nothing but stupidity. Only after reading any thing will be ‘your' subject and not before that. By reading widely, you will be able to understand how the Sanskrit is used differently by different authors. Don't restrict your reading to old writings. Read even modern works of fiction and nonfiction. You have to read even research works written in Sanskrit.
5. Don't neglect the introductions if they are written in Sanskrit. Read Sanskrit commentaries and notes. Don't forget to use indices for quick references.
6. Write in Sanskrit. Write any thing you want. Short stories, poems, articles, dramas and even novels.
7.If you are interested in writing classical style, try to imitate any well known poems by altering the words of synonyms. Be careful in metre. As much as possible memorize the definitions of important metres in Vrttaratnakara. Check your verses meticulously to know whether the definition is strictly applicable. Remember that this is for your practice. Don't publish your first effort.
8. Try to write commentary on Subhaashitas. Here, commentary means word to word meaning, that's all. Split the words of original according to the Sandhi rules. After it is done, add a dash or = mark to every word and write correct synonym . Take help of any classical dictionary like Amarakosha. Try to summarize the verses in simple prose.
9.Some poets with wonderful and strange enthusiasm do create verses rapidly in their mouth without help of paper and pen. This process is called ‘Aashu-kavitva'. Try it. In the initial stage, it seems difficult. But, be persistent and you will become successful !
10. And lastly, try to present your paper in Sanskrit in the seminars.
N.B.Don't start to quarrel with the guys who will tell you that Sanskrit is dead. You have to prove Sanskrit's lively status by showing them something written afresh in Sanskrit.
Saturday, June 20, 2015
Days
Each
Day of the week is connected with a cosmic entity. Did you know that
Monday is the Moon’s day in most of the languages around the world?
Somavãra = Monday = Lundi = Moon
Lunar or Moon makes Monday the day of the Moon.
Names of the 7 Days and the Sanskrit connection:
Somavãra = Monday = Lundi = Moon
Lunar or Moon makes Monday the day of the Moon.
Names of the 7 Days and the Sanskrit connection:
- Ravivãra: Sunday (day of Sun; Ravi means 'Sun' in Sanskrit)
- Somavãra: Monday (day of Moon; Som means 'Moon' in Sanskrit)
- Mañgalvãra: Tuesday (day of Mars; Mangal denotes Mars in Sanskrit)
- Budhavãra: Wednesday (day of Mercury; Budh is the planet Mercury)
- Guruvãra: Thursday (day of Jupiter; Guru is the planet Jupiter)
- Shukravãra: Friday (day of Venus; Shukra is the planet Venus)
- Shanivãra: Saturday (day of Saturn; Shani is the planet Saturn)
Months
Do you know what December means; Das means ten and Ambar means sky, so December means the tenth sky.
Nav means nine in Sanskrit. November means the ninth sky.
October means the eighth month.
Sapt means seven, amber means sky, so Saptamber became September.
August is Shasht, which means sixth; so August is the sixth month.
January is the 11th month, February is the 12th month and March which means going ahead – that is when the new year begins. That is when the Sun arrives in the first point of Aries, at the end of March.
Even today, in Afghanistan, Iran and all these countries, they celebrate March 21st as the new year day because this was the ancient vedic concept. March means new. Feb means fag end. Don’t we say, ‘Fag end’, that is February.
Why is 'March' the beginning of new year? Is there some scientific significance/explanation? In fact, in India, we celebrate the new year couple of times in a year: during March and also during the Diwali celebrations. Why twice and what is the reason?
Europe
Lithuanian is very archaic and has preserved linguistically a great deal from Sanskrit, the original Mother Language of Europe. Below are a few examples of the linguistic similarities:
- Asva(Lithuanian)=Ashva(San
skrit) meaning 'horse' - Dievas (Lithuanian)=Devas (Sanskrit) meaning 'gods', 'the shining ones';
- Dumas (Lithuanian)=Dhumas(Sanskr
it) meaning 'smoke' - Sunus (Lithuanian)=Sunus(Sanskri
t) meaning 'son' - Vyras(Lithuanian)=Viras(Sa
nskrit) meaning 'man' - Padas(Lithuanian)=Padas(Sa
nskrit) meaning 'sole of the foot' - Ugnis(Lithuanian)=Agnis(Sa
nskrit) meaning 'fire' - Vilkas(Lithuanian)=Vrkas(S
anskrit) meaning 'wolf' - Ratas(Lithuanian)=Rathas(S
anskrit) meaning 'carriage' - Senis(Lithuanian)=Sanas(Sa
nskrit) meaning 'old' - Dantis(Lithuanian)=Dantas(
Sanskrit) meaning 'teeth' - Naktis(Lithuanian)=Naktis(
Sanskrit) meaning 'night'
In the Anglo-Saxon tradition also, it is said that two German brothers Hengist ("Stallion") and Horsa ("Horse") led the armies that conquered Britain. Many believe this is a continuation of the original tradition of the Vedic horse twins. Similar to Lithuania, you will find the same tradition of horse-headed gables on roofs throughout Germany in honor of Hengist and Horsa.
So the next time you travel through Europe and see these horse gabled roofs, smile and realize their connection to Europe's ancient Vedic past.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_language
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Lithuanian+language
Friday, June 19, 2015
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Monday, May 11, 2015
Hitopadesha
The Hitopadesha is divided into four books:
Tube
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Hitopadesha
Slides
http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?searchfrom=header&q=Hitopadesha
Tales
http://www.chandiramani.com/tohe.html
Edu
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00litlinks/hitopadesha_arnold/
Fun
http://mocomi.com/fun/stories/hitopadesha/
Best
http://www.satyanarayanadas.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Best-of-Hitopadesha.pdf
- Mitralabha (Gaining Friends),
- Suhrudbheda (Causing dissension between friends),
- Vigraha (Separation) and
- Sandhi (Union).
Tube
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Hitopadesha
Slides
http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?searchfrom=header&q=Hitopadesha
Tales
http://www.chandiramani.com/tohe.html
Edu
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00litlinks/hitopadesha_arnold/
Fun
http://mocomi.com/fun/stories/hitopadesha/
Best
http://www.satyanarayanadas.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Best-of-Hitopadesha.pdf
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Friday, January 16, 2015
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