Sanskrit

Islam is said to have ‘interacted’ with its Indian environments in various ways. First off, South Asia, the region known as Hind, has one of the largest Muslim populations of any region in the world. According to the 2010 figure, India has a Muslim population of about 177 million, identifying as the second largest religion in India behind Hinduism. Islam began to spread through maritime trade, Arab merchants would go to south Asia and settle there, learning the local language and marrying the…

in 1970 and created a place for herself in the cluster of Indian women novelist in English. She was born in 1938 in Dharwad, Karnataka. Her father Adya Rangachar better known by lovers of literature as Sriranga, was a prominent kannada writer and Sanskrit scholar. Despande had her early education in Dharwad and later moved to Bombay where she took a degree in economics from Elphinstone College. She also acquired degrees in English and Law and a Diploma in Journalism. However it was after her…

nothing to sustain the marriage; neither the husband nor the wife has any interest in making the marriage work. Devi lives like a stranger in her in-law’s home, with a stranger whom she has married, a father-in-law who quotes for her saying from Sanskrit books and Mayamma a servant who got married when she was still a girl to a drunken husband and was abused by mother-in-law, husband as well as her own son. She advises Devi that the key to marriage is the ability to endure. But Devi decides…

Realism is a literary movement in the nineteenth century and is used in literary works to depict real life of this world that we are living in. When an author uses realism in his writing, all aspects of the works are taken into account; the characters, the setting as well as the themes should portraying the reality of this life. The protagonist in the realist works usually is from common people and is dealing with the same thing as the people at that particular era are dealing with, for instance…

done in a sitting posture. Though it works up the respiratory system some people use it for losing weight. It helps to improve blood circulation and improve the functioning of the entire body. 2. Bhramari Pranayama- The word Bhramari comes from the Sanskrit word Bharmar which means humming bee. It helps to relax the brain. If it can do regularly it has some positive effects on stress, fatigue and high blood pressure. After doing the yoga you feel stress free, the mind becomes cool and calm. It…

In Plato's view of the transmigration of the soul from body to body, however, there is a difference. Plato claimed the soul tends to become impure during these bodily inhabitations although a minimal former life knowledge remains. However, if through its transmigrations the soul continues doing good and eliminates the bodily impurities it will eventually return to its pre-existence state. But, if the soul continually deteriorates through its bodily inhabitations it will end up in Tartarus, a…

“Karma is derived from the Sanskrit for ‘deeds’ and is related to one’s behavior in preceding lives” (Van Voorst 77). Karma results from a person’s actions and can be considered good or bad. For example, if a husband were to cheat on his wife, he would have bad karma attached to…

History of Breath Practice The history of breathe practice is well known and documented and breath and breathing have been essential elements of Asian philosophies since ancient times. According to Tadashi Ogawa, a Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Kyoto University, “Ethics is essentially a way of life through breathing”. (Hackenberg, Skof, p 201). According to the Soto Zen monk and teacher Shunryu Suzuki, “What we call ’I’ is just a swinging door, which moves when we inhale and when we…

I born and raised over India. I am a third child of my family. While I was turned two years old and my uncle decided to do my file that way I can immigrant here in United State of America, so he did send my file to the immigration offices. I never know about that though. I was really friendly and outspoken person, started growing up with my awesome siblings, and my neighbor’s friends. It’s not only it; I was also very intelligent and hard working student as well. During the school times I had…

“I was alive in the forest, I was cut down by a cruel axe, in life I was silent, In death I sweetly sing" - Inscription on the face frets of an Elizabethan lute Fender, Yamaha, Gibson, and B.C. Rich; all of theses companies build guitars, what sets them apart however is how they construct them. Most of these companies pay someone in a warehouse to assemble prefabricated parts. Most people, however, would feel that the best guitar is made by hand, where every grain of wood is analyzed, to…