GLORIES TO BHAGAVATHI🌺

Devi in Devi Suktam says ;
I am essentially Brahman. From Me has proceeded the world comprising Prakriti and Purusha, the void and the Plenum. I am all forms of bliss and non-bliss. Knowledge and ignorance are Myself.

Redemption is possible even in this life. A most sinful person may attain mukti even in this very life.

Forgiveness means the waiving off of hell (& thereby once again placing the soul at a “level playing field” for attaining Īśvarānugraha), not the waiving off of consequences…

Redemption is possible even in this life. A most sinful person may attain mukti even in this very life.

Forgiveness means the waiving off of hell (& thereby once again placing the soul at a “level playing field” for attaining Īśvarānugraha), not the waiving off of consequences…

We had discussed how the yavana Cynic tradition intersected with the middle pAshupata tradition culminating in the imagery of lakulIsha. We've suspected this intersection persisted &influenced other more western Roman cults. Jupiter Dolichenus is the most obvious 1 to investigate

& in the 'raudra' cast with the ashvin-s as the sons of rudra. This continues in the AV-YV tradition of bhavA-sharvau &in the para-Vedic & later H tradition as skanda-vishAkhau. In addition to this image from Germania, you can see the twins in the image with vestal fire altar.

This is another widespread&important iconography of Jupiter Dolichenus& his wife. Here their twin sons Castor& Pollux are shown. Above them are the solar/lunar archons, Sol Invictus on top with Nike. But the twins on 1 side link us to the PIE religion, ashvin-s as divo napAtau&

This rudra had slain the buffalo demon hAlAhala given his flesh to these kapAlamAtR^i-s. They were worshipped at the cemetery of kurukShetra along with nIlalohita. In p5 are the kapAlarudra-s evidently the retinue of kapAlIsha-bhairava of the brahmayAmala. In p6 are the yoginI-s&

yoginI-s from the yogakanyA-s. kShemarAja tries to interpret them as human yoginI-s who have acquired siddhi-s through sAdhana and directly at birth, respectively. Notably, it is also equipped with rasAyana-s foreshadowing the rasa-bhairava tradition

In shaiva mantramArga, the rudra presiding over the 7th netherworld sauvarNa is hATakeshvara. His place is said to be inhabited by gaNa-s, rudra-s& their consoirt, the bhaginI-s (the goddesses of the vAma srotas), mAtR^i-s. Peculiarly the svachChanda account distinguishes the

In the fragmentary nishvAvsa text of saiddhAntika tradition the mAtR^i-s are said to inhabit the nethermost pAtAla. In the next pAtala are the bhaginI-s of the vAma-srotas. p3 are the pi~NgalamAtR^i-s wearing nIlotpala garlands. In p4 are the kapAlamAtR^i-s of nIlalohita rudra

You would be surprised to note that Sir PT formed an association with other people of his caste network and dominated the Corporation and worked towards using the power to protect their commercial interests 3/n

You would have heard about Dr. TM Nair, the person, one of the core members of the Justice Party. You would be surprised to know that while Sir PT and his friends were dominating Madras Corporation, he opposed PT for their corrupt means. TM Nair was not able to beat PT. 2/n

Pity that Tamil Nadu does not know some illustrious details about Sir Pitty Thyagaraja Chetty. So brace for some interesting stories. First who was he. A moneylender,
capitalist weaver, hide and skin merchant and joint-stock banker who dominated local affairs of Madras 1/n

Archaeological corroboration for the textual inference of a Aśvinau-Rudra-Gauḍadeśa connection.

āṅgīrasaśreṣṭha siMharashmi The circled figures in the famous vA~Nga bronze brought by the choLa-s to drAvidA can be interpreted as the ashvin-s, though some have claimed them to be gandharva-s

This Gnanaprakasar is an important figure in history of Jaffna. When the Portugese and their collabs after massacres, destruction of Libraries and Temples demanded Cow sacrifice as a sign of surrender, he refused and led many Noble families out of Jaffna to Chidambaram.