Lopamudra : the sage Agastya created her from the most graceful parts of different animals (the eyes of a deer etc.) & secretly introduced her into the palace of the king of Vidarbha, where she was believed to be the daughter of the king. Agastya had made this girl with the object of having a wife after his own heart. When she was marriageable, he demanded her hand, & the king was obliged to yield.
... considered the oldest teacher of ancient times. That work achieved, Agastya and Lopamudra set out to explore the south. Deeper and deeper they travelled. Everywhere people were attracted to this luminous couple. That is how the Agastya cult became widespread and popular in the South. But Agastya and Lopamudra had come on the earth to do something even more stupendous than all those exploits... exploits put together. For that they needed a 'seat.' They found it finally. By the seashore on the Coromandel coast. Our Pondicherry. It is their hut I had seen. Rishi Agastya and his consort Lopamudra were in deep meditation for the creation of a new world. A new Veda. 1 Majumdar, op. cit. Page 84 HOME ...
... to recede: "I have been digging, digging.... Many autumns have I been toiling night and day, the dawns aging me. Age is diminishing the glory of our bodies." Thus, thousands of years ago, lamented Lopamudra, wife of Rishi Agastya, who was also seeking transformation.... But Agastya doesn't lose heart, and his reply is magnificently characteristic of the conquerors the Rishis were: "Not in vain Page ...
... utility of matter and substance. The Indian tradition speaks of sixty-four sciences and arts, and it catered to the education of women in such a liberal way that we still speak of great examples of Lopamudra, Gargi and Maitreyi . In the courses of study, apart from the study of the Veda, which was in itself a great science and art of living, emphasis was laid on comprehensive training of all that could ...
... Bharadwaja. The fifth is occupied by the hymns of the house of Atri. Other Mandalas contain the hymns of several Rishis and Rishikas. The prominent names of Rishikas in the Rig Veda are: Romasha, Lopamudra, Apala, Kadru, Vishwavara. 2. The great names that we find in the Upanishads include: Uddalaka Aruni, Gargi Vachaknavi, Janaka, Narada, Pippalada, Prevahana Jairali, Mahidasa Aitareya, Maitreyi ...
... downward: "I have been digging, digging... many autumns have I been toiling night and day, the dawns aging me. Age is diminishing the glory of our bodies." Thus, thousands of years ago, lamented Lopamudra, the wife of the rishi Agastya, who was also seeking transformation: "Even the men of old who were wise of the Truth and they spoke with the gods... yea, they reached not an end." But Agastya was ...
... utilitarian colonial houses. An old Pondicherry archaeologist 101 used to say that this was the very place where the Vedic Rishi Agastya, coming from the North, like Sri Aurobindo, with his wife Lopamudra, had founded his Ashram some seven thousand years earlier. The place was then called Veda Pun, the City of the Vedas. We do not know whether the location is exactly the same, but this is the area ...
... nourishment of India —the Vedas and the Upanishads —were all but buried under a vegetation of ignorance and customs. We have a shining example of the Vedic times in Rishi Agastya and his consort Lopamudra —man and wife together and as equals, "digging" to reach the Sun hidden in the depths of Matter. Gargi, of the Upanishad times, is an example of educated woman of India. In the court of King ...
... than the pre-Christian era though Mr. Gangoly Page 580 on quite insufficient grounds puts them before Buddha. It is impossible to believe that they are the work of the Rishi, husband of Lopamudra, who composed the great body of hymns in an archaic tongue that close the first Mandala of the Rig Veda. Nor can we accept the astonishing identification of the Puranic Prajapati, Kashyapa, progenitor ...
... addressed to the Vishwadevas. Sukta 123.1 – 6 . Rishi: Kakshivan Dairgatamasa. Circa 1913. Heading in the manuscript: “Hymn of Kakshivan Dairghatamasa to Dawn— I.1 23”. Sukta 179 . Rishis: Lopamudra, Agastya Maitravaruni and a disciple of Agastya. Circa 1924. A draft of the translation was taken down by A. B. Purani at the dictation of Sri Aurobindo, who revised it in his own hand. Mandala ...
... 19 this battle-race of a hundred leadings, a complete couple. (4) Let not 20 desire come on me of the stream that stays me—desire born from here or from somewhere in those other worlds. Lopamudra goes in to her spouse; she drains deep her panting Lord, she ignorant, him the wise. (5) Now to this Soma I speak. Drunk near into our hearts, all the impurity we have done, that let its grace ...
... Part I . (i) The question of India's antiquity (ii) Mohenjodaro and Harappa Page 195 (iii) Upanishad; Ramayana and Mahabharata (iv) Vasistha, Vishwamtira, Lopamudra, Yajnavalkya, Maitreyi Part II (i) Buddha and Mahavira (ii) Buddhism and Jainism (iii) Invasion of Alexander the Great (iv) Chandragupta Maurya (v) Ashoka ...
... utility of matter and substance. The Indian tradition speaks of sixty-four sciences and arts, and it catered to the education of women in such a liberal way that we still speak of great examples of Lopamudra, Gargi, and Maitreyi. In the courses of study, apart from the study of the Veda, which was in itself a great science and art of living, emphasis was laid on comprehensive training of all that could ...
... Bharadwaja. The Fifth is occupied by the hymns of the house of Atri. Other Mandalas contain the hymns of several Rishis and Rishikas. The prominent names of Rishikas in the Rig Veda are: Romasha, Lopamudra, Apala, Kadru, Vishwavara. Page 31 literature, but also of Indian education and of the Indian tradition of teacher-pupil relationship. The most important idea governing the ancient ...
... at least in one respect. Agastya had been for years driving deep into the earth, in the abyss of the subconscient, for he nourished both .the worlds, earth and heaven; he along with his companion Lopamudra had been striving for victory here upon earth itself, In their battle and the sacrifice with its hundred fiery tongues, jayavedatra satanithamajim, yat samyañca mithunababhyajava; for the effort ...
... least in one respect. Agastya had been for years driving deep into the earth, in the abyss of the subconscient, for he nourished both the worlds, earth and heaven; he along with his companion Lopamudra had been striving for victory here upon earth itself, in their battle and the sacrifice with its hundred fiery tongues, j ayāvedatra śatanīthamājim, yat samyañcā mithunavabhyajāva; for the effort ...
... become the SEAT of their attainment. Pavitra told me that the renowned French archeologist Jouveau-Dubreuil found evidence that it was on the exact spot where the great Rishi Agastya and his spouse Lopamudra had made their arduous endeavour of digging through to the "Sun dwelling in the darkness" that Sri Aurobindo and Mother established THEIR seat. Thus the work begun in the Vedic times saw its completion ...
... blue or green crosses, more laws and still more laws to remedy the world's cancer. And we seem to hear, from far, far away in the past, six thousand years in the past, the moving little voice of Lopamudra, the wife of Rishi Agastya: “Many autumns have I toiled night and day; the dawns age me, age dims the glory of our bodies...,” 16 and that of Maitreya echoing her: “What shall I do with that ...
... written while in jail) flowed abundantly from his pen. His historical novels in particular gave life to the epic of the ancient Aryans, living on the banks of the Saraswati in Vedic times. Agastya and Lopamudra, Vasishtha and Arundati, Vishwamitra and kings and gods all became characters of flesh and blood. His novel in English, Krishnavatara, based on the life of Sri Krishna is Page 225 ...
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