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Suhas Mahesh

7 months

3000y old, but so so fresh. 220 masterpieces from Sanskrit and Prakrit. Advice, intrigue, flirtation, quarrels, laughs, yearning and letting go. OUT ON 14 FEB @HarperCollinsIN Get a copy, gift a copy. Links soon! @AnushaSRao2

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Academic Life ~1100 CE (Original Sanskrit next tweet)

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King Bhoja hears news of war as he's composing his champu-ramayana. He decides to finish the yuddha-kanda after taking inspiration from battle. He never returns. (champu-ramayana is still incomplete)

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these guys think hardware means building a juicer, friend. early in my PhD, I did 500 nm UV lithography to study photon recycling in semiconductors; experiments would only work in winter because of weird thermal expansion/humidity effects. this is hard stuff.

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so asml makes 25 machines a year at like $300M each, every good fab is completely dependent on them, and you're telling me no one in the startup world is crazy enough to try to compete? this is one of the main ai supply chain bottlenecks

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The midwit meme in ~1000 CE (Sanskrit original follows)

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In the 1950s, Raghuvira compiled the granddaddy of all English-Sanskrit dictionaries on little cards. He died in a car accident in 1963; it was never printed. 60y later, it's being printed in 9 vols 🎊🎉 Should be available in march.

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Kashmiri poet Bilhana cries bitterly at the gates of Dhara nagara after realizing king Bhoja passed away before he could meet him (~1000 CE)

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"This idea came out of his ass" Delightful when 21st century slang pops up in 1000 year old texts.

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our only window into how the streets of ancient india sounded: bazaar scene in prakrit novel kuvalayamala (800 CE) some 20 langs are featured, including tajika (=arabic)

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My interview in Sanskrit on DD News today

डीडी न्यूज़

@DDNewsHindi

4 years

मिलिए ऑक्सफोर्ड के युवा भौतिक विज्ञानी सुहास महेश से जो संस्कृत में रचते हैं रसपूर्ण कविताएं #Sanskrit ▶️

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Training a machine learning model to write like the Ramayana

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When Nazi prisoners outsmarted the guards with letters in Sanskrit 📜🔥

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Think yourself a Zen person? Visit one of these manuscript libraries to unlock unknown levels of blinding rage 🧵from experience.

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Government plans law on protection of Indian manuscripts

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9 months

"Prakrit was the language of the common people, while Sanskrit was the language of the elites." Both were the language of elites for most of history.

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9 months

Tell me about a common historical myth that makes your hackles rise. I don't mean actual disinformation like Holocaust denial; I mean stuff like "Napoleon was short!" For me it's probably "corsets were torture devices for the rich" and "romantic love is a very modern concept."

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Since Rama is the flavour of the day here... From Vidyakara-sahasraka ~1800 CE Mithila

Suhas Mahesh

@suhasm

7 months

3000y old, but so so fresh. 220 masterpieces from Sanskrit and Prakrit. Advice, intrigue, flirtation, quarrels, laughs, yearning and letting go. OUT ON 14 FEB @HarperCollinsIN Get a copy, gift a copy. Links soon! @AnushaSRao2

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As a school boy, I encountered this question that made an impression on the way I thought about science: You step out of the house during an eclipse, and see little rings beamed onto the pavement by the trees. Find the density of the sun. [solution follows]

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eclipse, at home

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Yavanapriya ("dear to Romans") is one of the names of black pepper in Sanskrit.

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The next time you grind pepper on your meal, remember how highly prized the spice was to the Romans, who spent 50 million sesterces a year importing pepper from India. As a price for not plundering Rome in 410 AD, Alaric the Goth was paid off with three thousand pounds of pepper!

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an old Sanskrit verse on a Bengali caught stealing fish "What's under your arm" "A book" "It drips?" "from rasa in the story" "I see a tail" "palmleaves" "I can see scales" "that's writing" "Why does it smell?" "stench from the battle scenes" the gaudas cheat the world thus.

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As a Bengali, I feel entitled to say that this image -- of a man plundering a large fish from the deposed prime minister's residence -- is one of the most Bengali pictures of all time

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this is no small comfort this is what gives me life just knowing that her feet and mine still tread the one same earth. Ramayana 6.5.10

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I remember this verse (~800 CE) whenever I hear of a theoretician's prediction getting lab approval 25y later. In today's case, @chklovskii 's DC step-up voltage transformer based on the quantum hall effect:

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grammarian panini's last moments before a lion eats him up. students flee. last words are the final sutra of the ashtadhyayi: ah! ah! अ अ (8.4.68) @typingvanara

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This is not some tired re-translation of the usual material. We read 150 full size Sanskrit, Prakrit, Apabhramsha texts for this project, many never translated, some still languishing as manuscripts. You've spent a lifetime on Sanskrit? You'll still see stuff you haven't seen

Suhas Mahesh

@suhasm

7 months

3000y old, but so so fresh. 220 masterpieces from Sanskrit and Prakrit. Advice, intrigue, flirtation, quarrels, laughs, yearning and letting go. OUT ON 14 FEB @HarperCollinsIN Get a copy, gift a copy. Links soon! @AnushaSRao2

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Aug 11 519 AD genius astronomer aryabhata and his son devarajan observe an eclipse from a ship off the kerala coast they are unbrahmined for the sins of going to sea and observing an eclipse

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Suhas Mahesh

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if you like this stuff, @AnushaSRao2 and I have a 📔 coming out this valentine's day via @HarperCollinsIN How to Love in Sanskrit 3000 years of pick-up lines, wisdom and solace translated to be enjoyed 100%, you won't regret picking this up

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this is no small comfort this is what gives me life just knowing that her feet and mine still tread the one same earth. Ramayana 6.5.10

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37 nobel laureates. 6 days. 1 little island. a photo diary from the 73rd nobel laureate meeting at Lindau👇

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An old trick: Translate very loosely, conflate common language with technical language, and you can find your idea of choice in a text 🤮

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Why did Vivekananda ask Nikola Tesla in 1896 to find an equation connecting mass and energy? Because in Shanti Parva Section 233 of the Mahabharata, Vyasa says that matter can become energy. Check your Mbh. for details. 1/2

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How to shit yourself in fear in Sanskrit: udarabhedi bhayam (Why have we forgotten all the best phrases?)

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English-Kannada Dictionary written by my great grandfather Gunda Shastry. Taught himself English by reading Agatha Christie novels.

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a roman empire "bharat mata" mosaic surrounded by her exports: ivory, pepper, sandal, textiles, elephant, tiger from sicily (300 CE). snapped this at @metmuseum

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An apt one for Twitter these days...

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Tactics from this material got me a girlfriend, then a wife, in @AnushaSRao2 . Might work for you too?

Suhas Mahesh

@suhasm

7 months

3000y old, but so so fresh. 220 masterpieces from Sanskrit and Prakrit. Advice, intrigue, flirtation, quarrels, laughs, yearning and letting go. OUT ON 14 FEB @HarperCollinsIN Get a copy, gift a copy. Links soon! @AnushaSRao2

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नो बद्धं शरदिन्दु-धाम-धवलं पाणौ मुहुः कङ्कणं व्रीडा-मन्थर-कोमलं नव-वधू-वक्त्रं च नास्वादितम् । नीतं नैव यशः सुरेन्द्र-भवनं शस्त्रेण शास्त्रेण वा कालो जीर्ण-मठेषु धृष्ट-पिशुनैः छात्रैः सह प्रेरितः ॥ सुभाषितरत्नकोषः 1469

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A Sanskrit verse using only two consonants: s and r ससार सारसीं सास्रां सोऽसौ सरसि सारसः । रासं रासं ससारासौ सरसो ऽसारसं सरः ॥ स्वीयम् The Sarus crane approached his tearful mate. She only honked and left for a lonely lake.

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so a reader posted this extract from How to Love in Sanskrit on Tumblr and it got 5000 notes 😵🔥

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@Chikisarkar Jagannatha Panditaraja (Sanskrit) Nilakantha Dikshita (Sanskrit) Bhanudatta (Sanskrit) Bihari: (Braj Bhasha) Lakshmisha: (Kannada)

Lakshmisa - Wikipedia

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a cute verse on little skanda for skanda shashti subhashita-ratna-kosha 91 (~1100 CE) author unknown

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remarkably both of them are still alive -- one is 97 and other 101

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Astrophysicist and Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar used to travel 80 kilometers every week from the Yerkes Observatory to the University of Chicago, where he taught a course attended by only two students. When asked why he spent his time this way, the professor replied

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Very excited to have been chosen as a Schmidt Science Fellow @ericschmidt Goodbye for now @OxfordPhysics @SnaithGroup . Hello new adventures! (host institution tbd)

Schmidt Science Fellows

@SchmidtFellows

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Welcome to our 2021 Schmidt Science Fellows 3/6 – Anastasia Korolj @UofT , Suhas Mahesh @UniofOxford , Sebastian Musslick @Princeton , and Ofer Neufeld @TechnionLive Learn more about these new Fellows and the full 2021 cohort here:

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"ramanuja, shankara etc were social reformers" "all acharyas ultimately said the same thing" "adi shankara revived a moribund vedic dharma" 😂

Amy Colleen

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9 months

Tell me about a common historical myth that makes your hackles rise. I don't mean actual disinformation like Holocaust denial; I mean stuff like "Napoleon was short!" For me it's probably "corsets were torture devices for the rich" and "romantic love is a very modern concept."

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chandragupta maurya shares a joke with one of his many female greek bodyguards 300 BCE

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@MilesCranmer pip install pypalettes. it's great for exactly this. works with matplotlib, so you don't have to change your code.

Python Color Palette Finder

Browse 2500+ color palette. Find the perfect match for your Python Chart. Get the matplotlib code.

python-graph-gallery.com

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a fun fact is that garlic was a-ok in early jainism. jain monks liked sucking on garlic (see acharanga sutra) got banned later on

Vishu Guttal !! ವಿಶ್ವೇಶ ಗುತ್ತಲ್

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I am pretty sure Jainosaurus has aversion for onions and garlic too.

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As @AnushaSRao2 frequently says: If he writes one Sanskrit verse for you, he loves you. If he writes a hundred verses, he loves Sanskrit verse.

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Gotta read all the Sanskrit poetry in the world to woo a girl and a get her to marry me.

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an interesting verse from the prakrit Gahasattasai, almost blasphemous to some

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growing old

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tatha's review is here: "ślāghanīya. vayodharmakke takkante māḍiddāre. haḷē padyagaḷannu hosa rītiyalli tōrisiddāre. tumba chennāgide" 🔥 "Praiseworthy. These is the right thing to do at that age. Old poems presented in a new style. Beautiful"

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book has reached oldest and most important reader-- my 94yo grandfather. waiting for his review @AnushaSRao2

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these days we forget that humans would memorize vast tracts commonly, and some still do. at the 6th buddhist council in 1954, monks recited the pali canon from memory-- 10M syllables, exactly the way it was done upon the Buddha's death this is like memorizing 140 animal farms.

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On the topic of AI training on copyrighted data, many people have echoed the argument made by Andrew Ng below. But it would be interesting to think about what copyright law would be like if humans had the ability to memorize entire books and recite them when prompted to do so.

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best sellers at Mumbai airport

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@Chikisarkar Some more: Melpathur Narayana Bhattatiri, Kanaka Dasa, Keshav Das, Allasani Pedanna, Pothanam, Tulsidas.

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enjoying seeing displays of the book while I wait for my copy to fly to me. From @Bahrisons_books in Delhi.

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How Patanjali's Mahābhāṣya was taken in a palanquin to Srinagar when the manuscript was discovered

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tatha thinks grandson has gone off the rails since I seemed to stay in college way past 21. hopefully book will convince him I turned out alright

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book has reached oldest and most important reader-- my 94yo grandfather. waiting for his review @AnushaSRao2

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What did the Sanskrit grammarian say when his little daughter was being too loud? शश्छोऽटि (8-4-63) "Shush, Choti"

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the book has an answer to these jaded souls ⬇️

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3 years

An old complaint Dharmakirti, Buddhist philosopher, ~600 CE.

Dr Laura Richmond | laurarichmond.bsky.social

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When we write anything even vaguely academic, we kill ourselves citationing the fuck out of everything, while 18th/19th century dudes were just there publishing five volumes of ‘Here are some Thoughts I had in the Bath’.

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Bhushana bhatta's opening prayer to Shiva and Parvati: to be able to complete his father's masterpiece* such that none can tell where one ends and the other begins, as is the case with the divine couple in their Ardhanarishvara form *Bana's Kadambari

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Michael Hahn would tell students it takes 10 yrs before you pick up a Sanskrit text and read it just like that. Sounds right to me. Grammar ≠ biggest issue. You're now a time traveller, relearning all social protocols like a 2 yr old. Can't speed that up.

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what’s the best translation of Bhagavad Gita? or should I suck it up and learn Sanskrit?

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When they deny you tenure, but you jump to the industry

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So the autograph manuscript of ಕುಮಾರವ್ಯಾಸ ಭಾರತ exists, and is decaying away in a little box in a village in Dharwad

Palm scripts of Kumaravyasa's magnum opus in tatters

Call it the height of apathy or negligence by the elected representatives and officials concerned, the original manuscript...

www.deccanherald.com

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Another example: Sanskrit writers sometimes talk about the water in a sword blade (dhārājala). How can a sword have water in it? Dictionaries will lead astray; translations will ignore. To know, you have to see a Wootz steel sword. That's why it takes 10 years.

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Michael Hahn would tell students it takes 10 yrs before you pick up a Sanskrit text and read it just like that. Sounds right to me. Grammar ≠ biggest issue. You're now a time traveller, relearning all social protocols like a 2 yr old. Can't speed that up.

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Verse using only three consonants (ra,ta,na) arātir atanor ātta-nārī-tanur anuttaraḥ । trinetraḥ tanutān nūnaṃ natānāṃ no nirārtitām ॥ svīyam Three eyed Shiva, who is Cupid's foe, whose body holds a woman, and who is unmatched— may he keep us, who bow to him, well.

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kashmiri king matrigupta wordlessly honors the author bhartrimentha by placing his sanskrit epic poem on a golden plate, implying that that it is positively dripping with rasa (500 CE?)

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It is astounding that this was written in the 1100s, and is still 100% intelligible to a native speaker of Kannada.

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Bettada melondu - Narayani - Akka mahadevi via @YouTube

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Why just E=mc2? Also see foreign policy advice in Ramayana 1.72.17 Accept China. Take her hand in yours. pratīccha caināṃ bhadraṃ te pāṇiṃ gṛhṇīṣva pāṇinā

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Why did Vivekananda ask Nikola Tesla in 1896 to find an equation connecting mass and energy? Because in Shanti Parva Section 233 of the Mahabharata, Vyasa says that matter can become energy. Check your Mbh. for details. 1/2

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the romans were so fond of lead that in India, lead had the name yavaneshta "favourite of the greeks/romans"

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#Roman #Baths : #Lead #Cato the Elder recommended the use of lead lined/coated vessels for food preparation as well adding it to wine and food as a sweetener and preservative. It leaves a sweet taste because of the formation of ‘sugar of lead’ 😱

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The original verse from Subhāṣitaratnakośa

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Would this not look smashing on a V-day card today? It's from 100 CE-- the Gāthāsaptaśatī compiled in the Satavahana age Pre-order link coming soon @AnushaSRao2

Suhas Mahesh

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3000y old, but so so fresh. 220 masterpieces from Sanskrit and Prakrit. Advice, intrigue, flirtation, quarrels, laughs, yearning and letting go. OUT ON 14 FEB @HarperCollinsIN Get a copy, gift a copy. Links soon! @AnushaSRao2

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book has reached oldest and most important reader-- my 94yo grandfather. waiting for his review @AnushaSRao2

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rainy week in toronto. remembering some sanskrit ways of describing the rain 1/n goṣ-pada-pūraṃ vṛṣṭo devaḥ it rained enough to fill the cow hoof prints

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The best bit-- no made up words here 🥹 Seems to be based on only historical attestations. Monier-Williams, Apte, Borooah filled their dictionaries with yucky neologisms.

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In the 1950s, Raghuvira compiled the granddaddy of all English-Sanskrit dictionaries on little cards. He died in a car accident in 1963; it was never printed. 60y later, it's being printed in 9 vols 🎊🎉 Should be available in march.

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Tinder pickup lines ~1200 CE How to Love in Sanskrit:

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There have been attempts to write the yuddha-kanda by later poets. The best is perhaps by Rajachudamani Dikshita, though he too falls short of Bhoja's genius.

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S.K. Belvalkar's advice to the great Prakrit scholar A.N. Upadhye

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start of bana's kadambari: chandala woman brings a genius talking parrot to king shudraka's court

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anti-national Satavahana king Hala ~100 CE

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@sentantiq My favourite epigram on teetotalers (Greek Anthology).

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this queasiness is coz folks who read religious stuff today don't read literary stuff (except glancingly) before, the same people did both

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It is blasphemous. Just because it's popular and written in past doesn't mean it's sacrosanct. In comparision Kalidasa's Kumarasambhavam, though detailed is not blasphemous. "पुराणमित्येव न साधु सर्वम्" Such works don't enjoy SishtaSammati and can safely be treated as such.

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@suhasm

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@sridatta_a If you spread nonsense, you get a Padma Shri and sit on governmental committees. If you spend a lifetime painstakingly editing manuscripts and generating primary knowledge (like KV Sarma or SR Sarma), you die in obscurity. No surprise which path people prefer.

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@suhasm

9 months

sculpture reminds of this top notch bhartrihari observation

William Dalrymple

@DalrympleWill

9 months

2. Nag nobleman stepping gingerly into the jaws of a makara. Mathura, 100CE

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@suhasm

5 years

A Scribe's Apology "Wise readers—do not swear angrily at me dropping a letter, or not dotting an i in my haste. My head bows prostrate, hovering at your lotus-feet like a bee. Bear with me."

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@suhasm

5 years

Useful tip: Add a tilde after your keyword while searching on to also include variations on the word. Eg. suhas~ will also throw up results for suhash, shuhas, suhasa.

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@suhasm

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😔✌️ happy days? long gone, fam. future's lookin' bleaker by the day. tomorrow? gonna be a real bummer. world's lost its vibe. - Vyasa to his mom Satyavati अतिक्रान्तसुखाः कालाः प्रत्युपस्थितदारुणाः । श्वः श्वः पापीयदिवसाः पृथिवी गतयौवना ॥ Mahabharata 1.119.6

Shivam Bahuguna

@JanusBlinked

3 years

Tweet like you are a random person with Twitter in the Mahabharata

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@suhasm

10 months

The ocean looked like it had been combed from side to side, with Rama's bridge as the parting of hair. अशोभत महासेतुः सीमन्त इव सागरे Ramayana 6.15.26

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@suhasm

3 years

The text of the Ramayana was the only input. It's done a pretty good job of figuring out the meter, morphology etc. The output really has a very Ramayana vibe.

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@suhasm

4 years

परीक्ष्य सत्कुलं विद्यां वयः शौर्यं सुशीलताम् । विधिर्ददाति निपुणः कन्यामिव दरिद्रताम् ॥ (Subhāṣitāvalī, 1400 CE) After carefully screening for every virtue Father Fate rewards men With his favourite daughter in marriage: Miss Penny Lessness

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@suhasm

5 months

big 3 ~ 900 CE Deccan

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@drycleandolo

5 months

Who is even the “big 3?”

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@suhasm

10 months

"Lakshmana, fetch my bow and arrows. The ocean will run dry today. The monkeys can go on foot." चापमानय सौमित्रे शरांश्चाशीविषोपमान् । सागरं शोषयिष्यामि पद्भ्यां यान्तु प्लवंगमाः ॥

देवसख

@Devasakha

10 months

Furious Sri Rama confronting the ocean.

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@suhasm

6 years

A speech once given by King Rama Varma of Cochin (1852–1932). I don't think there are people capable of speaking in this register anymore.

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@suhasm

7 years

This unremarkable house is where Schrodinger lived in Oxford when he wrote his cat paradox paper. Tolkien, incidentally, was his neighbor.

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@suhasm

3 months

nine years ago, I went on a walk with a school boy who wanted to chat about becoming a scientist. today @_chanrt_ accepted a PhD position in EvolBio at a Max Planck Institute 👏👏

Chandan Relekar

@_chanrt_

4 months

UPDATE: I sent my first PhD application on October 30th. 21 applications, and 6 stressful months later, I've decided to join @MPI_EvolBio for my PhD. I will soon graduate with a BS-MS (in Physics!) from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

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@suhasm

6 months

from many years @bibekdebroy has been a constant source of encouragement for my literary activities. Honoured that a scholar and translator of this calibre has written a blurb for our book @AnushaSRao2

Bibek Debroy

@bibekdebroy

6 months

Until you actually read the book, difficult to believe such a book can at all be written. Wonderful to receive the final product. @suhasm

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@suhasm

1 year

@AnushaSRao2 इति वैराग्यशतकं समाप्तम् ॥

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@suhasm

6 years

नगरीषु रम्यम् Oxford तत्र विद्यालयो मम । तत्रापि च तडागोऽयं तत्र हंसचतुष्टयम् ॥

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@suhasm

9 months

"Apabhramsha is a crude, degraded language" Read Svayambhu or Pushpadanta and you'll marvel at the sophistication of Apabhramsha puns and extended rhymes. Seriously heady stuff.

Amy Colleen

@sewistwrites

9 months

Tell me about a common historical myth that makes your hackles rise. I don't mean actual disinformation like Holocaust denial; I mean stuff like "Napoleon was short!" For me it's probably "corsets were torture devices for the rich" and "romantic love is a very modern concept."

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@suhasm

6 months

To another jaded soul ⬇️

Rabinarayan Swain

@KritaNishchayah

6 months

No ammount of reading can make me appriciate the beauty of using the idol of Ganapati as pillow. If more reading were to change my sensibility on this matter, I'll prefer to be an illiterate.

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@suhasm

2 years

"Damn, which ass-kisser's ravings are these?" Delightful when 21st century slang pops up in 500 year old texts (Part 2).

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@suhasm

5 years

कर्तुमिष्टमनिष्टं वा कः प्रभुर्विधिना विना? । कर्तारमन्यमारोप्य लोकस्तुष्यति कुप्य��ि ॥ (Sāyaṇa's Subhāśita-sudhā-nidhi 42.5) "Only destiny has power over things, agreeable or not. Men merely celebrate or fume after assigning agency elsewhere."

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@suhasm

5 years

This was probably the beginning of my realisation that science is not about knowing all the equations and theories. Being able to solve every problem in a textbook might not mean very much.

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@suhasm

1 year

You are only allowed to photograph 20% of the manuscript. Research requires whole thing? Too bad, you have to copy it by hand. (img: Jagaddhara's unpublished Vasavadatta commentary)

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@suhasm

3 years

Just finished reading @krishashok ‘s amazing book Masala Lab, a molecule by molecule tour of how to make great IndIan food. Is the sort of book I’d always hoped someone would write.

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