Yamuna Jamouna Jamuna Jumna Kalindi Calindie : Yamunā rises in Himalayas near Jamnotri & joins the Ganga near Allahabad, she is personifies Yami.
... Jhadeshwar is near Bharooch; both are on the estuary of the Narmada. × Mother Jamuna or Yamuna—a holy river of North India. ... and asked: “Is it going on constantly this way?” At that time I was following the sadhana given by Sri Aurobindo. I replied, “I am trying.” Then he said, “ Jumna maiya 5 will fulfil your sankalpa . I can see your Guru behind your head. Jumna maiya will help you attain your goal. I may get a chance to meet you again.” He thus welcomed me very nicely and instead of abusing, blessed me. On our ...
... vivid vision at Mathura of Vasudeva, Krishna's father, crossing the Yamuna River through a storm at night, carrying the newborn child. Later Sri Ramkrishna reminisced, "The moment I came to the Dhruva Ghat [a place for bathing in the Yamuna where Vasudeva had crossed the river] at Mathura, in a flash I saw Vasudeva crossing the Jamuna with Krishna in his arms." So deep was his ecstasy then that Sri ... And water brings each day! But what is this strange light that moves so, In Jamouna today? What is it shining, heaving, glimmering, Is it a flower or face Thus shimmering with the water's shimmering And swaying as it sways ? Is it a lotus darkly blooming In Jamouna's clear stream? What else the depths opaque illuming Could with such beauty claim... from my hand is wrenched in shivers, Death stares in all his starkness. T he boat is tossed and whirled, and the great river's Far banks plunge into darkness. What can I do? Jamouna's rising, surging To take us to her clasp, And the fierce rush of waters hurries urging The rudder from my grasp. Never I knew till now, nor any word in The mouths of men ...
... March, 1930 (courtesy Abhay Nahar) 48 Abanindranath Tagore, detail of a dry-point by Mukul Dey 55 A sketch by Nandalal Bose, from Abhay's autograph book 58 Nandalal Bose (courtesy Mrs Jamuna Sen) 67 Sujata, around four 74 From Abhay's autograph book 75 'Progress' bush (courtesy Patrice Marot) 81 Vasudha, a sketch by Mother 87 Rodin in 1906 (courtesy Musee Rodin ...
... There is calm, trance or sweetness in them but no deeper conception. He is an artist but as I said his figures... but I have not fixed my opinion yet.” Sri Aurobindo's comments on the paintings: Yamuna : The river is good but the figure is self-satisfied. Krishna and Vidur : Vidur is good. Kailas : Quite good. Shiva with Cobra : Good. Shiva profile : More original; there is some ...
... Champaklal's Treasures Promode Kumar Chatterji Sri Aurobindo'S COMMENTS: His sketches are very living and very expressive. He is certainly an artist. Yamuna : the river is good but the figure is self-satisfied. Krishna and Vidur : Vidur is good. Kailas : not bad. Shiva with cobra : good. GENERAL REMARK: The artistic part is all right but he ...
... Dravidians to the same degree. No wonder that by the union of these two currents Bengal has become the holy confluence of inspiration like Prayag, the place of pilgrimage, where the Ganga and the Jamuna have met. Now, in the creation nothing can remain itself and unaltered for good. Difference and polarity are the inviolable laws of nature. Therefore it is not that we do not find glimpses of pure ...
... is sweet, sweet his dalliance, Sweet is his conquest, sweet his appeasement, of the lord of sweetness all is sweet. Page 51 Sweet are the creepers, sweet the garlands, Yamuna is sweet, sweet its surges, Sweet is the water, sweet the lotus, of the lord of sweetness all is sweet. Sweet are the Gopis, sweet the play, bondage is sweet, sweet is freedom, Sweet ...
... his head and it is her clear stream. The Guru commands, the holy spot between the eye-brows is a place of pilgrimage surpassing others – It is the fruit that the confluent Ganga and Yamuna bear together. Prasad says, 0 my mind, this much I beg of you, May I find a place near you on the bank of the confluence. Page 67 ( II ) I HAVE brooded over ...
... before. It was all spontaneous and .came naturally because of the atmosphere of peace that his very presence radiated. We soon became intimate and went together for long walks along the bank of the Jamuna which flowed sluggishly by. He narrated to me various spiritual experiences. I was not satisfied with the narrations and frankly told him that I could believe in the Divine only when some concrete ...
... their child the Mothers bellowing rush forth, heavy with milk they are. Like a warrior king you take lead in the outpouring when you drive forward all these streamings. (5) O Ganga and Yamuna and Saraswati! O Shutudri with thy companion Parushni! Cling to this hymn to you. O Marutbridha with thy companion Asikni, O Arjikiya with thy companion Vitasta and Sushoma lend your ears to me ...
... our nation is first to think about our physical motherland. Stretching from the Himalayas in the north to Kanyakumari in the south, its boundaries are formed by the seas on the east and west. Ganga, Jamuna, Narmada, Krishna, Godavari flow here unceasingly; here are ancient cities, tall and imposing temples, artistically designed palatial homes. Such is the part of this earth we call India. It is this... Education, we teach it in a different way. First we tell the children that India is our Motherland; in this way we make them aware of the gross body of the nation. We tell them about our rivers, Ganga, Jamuna, Narmada, etc., and what these rivers mean, not merely where they flow. In our national schools, when we teach the children about Maharashtra we describe the land in which Shivaji lived. Speaking about ...
... are on the stream of self-offering that flows out of my heart. Sometimes it is like the Ganges "pacing leonine to the sea". At other times the gentler Page 182 Jamuna would represent the inner movement - Jamuna with its memories of Krishna and the Gopis. Your presence can go well with either, for there is in you something delicately soft as well as something bravely strong - the former ...
... locked, yet were miraculously opened? Circumstance upon circumstance in the story was a confrontation with impossibility and yet, the law of the circumstance broke at the touch of the Spirit. The river Yamuna was in spate, and that river had to be crossed, if the infant had to be led to safety. And lo and behold! the river parted and made way for the journey of the father, Vasudeva, who carried the infant... infant in a basket on his head. However, the infant needed protection from the heavy rain if he was to survive, and Page 23 Vasudeva takes the infant Krishna across the Yamuna river, Pahari miniature according to the story, a serpent spread its hood on the top of the basket to serve as an umbrella. The river was crossed, and the father arrived at Gokul to the house of ...
... tell him; a Violent One was their Father whose impulse drives all beings that are born, and him they reveal. Seven and seven the Thought-gods came to me and seven times they gave a hundred-fold; in Yamuna I will bathe the shining herds of my thoughts which they have given, I will purify my swiftnesses in the river of my soul. Lo, they march on in their cohorts and their companies; let us follow in ...
... Jean-François, 205, 226, 228, 231, 236, 244, 255, 257, 265, 279 jatavedas , 343 Jaxartes, 270, 284, 285 Jorwe culture, 215, 216, 219 Joshi, J.P., 241 Jumna, see Yamuna Kachi plain (see also Pirak), 205, 227, 230, 236 KakŚivan, 411 Kalash Kafirs, 281, 282 Page 427 Kalibangan... Wüst, 253, 294 Xerxes, 206, 209 Yajurveda Saṁhitās, 264, 344, 371, 378 Yaksus, 356 Yamna culture (see also Pit Grave culture), 247 Yamuna, 163, 283, 290, 354, 356, 357, 358 YarimTepe, 311, 312 Yaska, 193-4, 283, 288 Yaz complex, 228 Yenisei, 323 Zarathustra, 270, 271, 402 Zarathustrianism/Zoro ...
... WORDSWORTH, 51 –Poems if the Imagination, "To a Skylark", 51n. World War II, 13 YAJNAVALKYA, RISHI, 49-56, 58-9 Yama, 138-9 Yamuna, 148, 266, 286 Page 313 ...
... Rishikesh and Haridwar are some of the important sites on the coast of this holy river during the early phase of its journey through North India. From Haridwar to Allahabad, the Ganga flows parallel to the Yamuna, another important river flowing through North India, each describing a huge arc. It flows past Garhmukteshwar, the very place where the goddess Ganga is said to have appeared to Shantanu (ancestor... religious centre of India. It is said that Allahabad is a sacred place with soul cleansing powers, particularly so because the mythical, subterranean river Saraswati is said to join the Ganga and Yamuna at this point — a speck of white sand known as the Sangam. In Vedic times, there was a settlement at this confluence, known as Prayag, where the Vedas were written. Brahma himself is said to have performed... mythological significance as being the mother and giver of peace. Legends in India have it that the mere sight of this river is enough to cleanse one's soul, as against a dip in the Ganga or seven in the Yamuna. All these rivers of the subcontinent of India are sacred to their people. Not only do they enhance and further the cultural unity, they are also strong elements in the economic unity ...
... handful of my ashes thrown into the Ganga at Allahabad has no religious significance, so far as I am concerned. I have no religious sentiment in the matter. I have been attached to the Ganga and the Jamuna rivers in Allahabad ever since my childhood and, as I have grown older, this attachment has also grown. I have watched their varying moods as the seasons changed, and have often thought of the history... tradition and song and story through the long ages. Just as he speaks of his own "attachment" he speaks of all these spiritually-charged things of the past having become "attached" to the Ganga and the Jamuna, especially the former. We may also emphasise his statement that this river, "a symbol of India's agelong culture and civilization", is through all her changing and flowing "ever the same Ganga". Are ...
... it not he once in Brindavan? Woods divine to our yearning, Memorable always! O flowers, O delight on the tree-tops burning, Grasses his herds have grazed and crushed by his feet in the dancing, Yamuna flowing with song, through the greenness always advancing, You unforgotten remind; for his flute with its sweetness ensnaring Sounds in our ears in the night and our souls of their teguments baring... Slaves of his rapture to Brindavan crowded with amorous faces, Luminous kine in the green glades seated, soft-eyed gazing, Flowers on the branches distressing us, moonbeams unearthly amazing, Yamuna flowing before us, laughing low with her voices, Brindavan arching o'er us where Shyama sports and rejoices. Inly the miracle trembles repeated; mist-walls are broken Hiding that country of God... insulting. Then shalt thou know what the dance meant, fathom the song and the singer, Hear behind thunder its rhymes, touched by lightning thrill to his finger, Brindavan's rustle shalt understand and Yamuna's laughter, Take thy place in the Ras 1 and thy share of the ecstasy after. Page 491 × The dance-round ...
... Was it not He in Brindâvun? O woods divine to our yearning, Memorable always! O flowers, O delight on the treetops burning! Grasses His kine have grazed and crushed by His feet in the dancing! Yamuna flowing with sound, through the greenness always advancing! You unforgotten remind! For His flute with its sweetness ensnaring Page 506 Sounds in our ears in the night and our souls of... Slaves of His rapture to Brindâvun crowded with amorous faces, Luminous kine in the green glades seated soft-eyed grazing, Flowers from the branches distressing us, moonbeams unearthly amazing, Yamuna flowing before us, laughing low with her voices, Brindâvun arching o'er us where Shyâma sports and rejoices. What though 'tis true that the river of Life through the Valley of Peril Flows! But the... insulting. Thou shalt know what the dance meant, fathom the song and the singer, Hear behind thunder its rhymes, touched by lightning thrill to His finger, Brindâvun's rustle shalt understand and Yamuna's laughter, Take thy place in the Râs and thy share of the ecstasy after. Page 508 ...
... every time they bathed: Page 1 Gangecha Jamunechaiva Godavari Sarasvatee Narmada Sindhu Kaveri jalesmin sannidhim kuru And it means: May the Ganges, the Yamuna, the Godavari, the Sarasvatee, the Narmada, the Sindhu and the Kaveri enter into this water. These are the great rivers of the Indian subcontinent and it is along the course of the great rivers ...
... conscious, not unconscious, vigilant. dream = unreality,' from the spiritual consciousness. Page 265 XIV Oh! the boat plies between Ganga and Yamuna. The Sea-elephant lies there plunged, he ferries easily the yogi across. Oh my mate, ply on, oh, ply on, my love, it is late on the way. ... of her own will. One who rides a chariot and knows not how to ply a boat wanders from shore to shore. NOTES Ganga and Yamuna: the upward and the downward currents of consciousness and force. The ascending current leads the being to the higher and higher levels, while the descending current brings the riches from above into... deity represented here as the sea-elephant. This is a familiar image in the orthodox Tantra. It also represents the Purusha-Prakriti play. Tantra speaks of the confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna where one is to seize by violence the divine damsel. Sri Aurobindo refers to the same dual phenomenon as "aspiration from below" and "Grace from above". Emptiness or Neutral: the original ...
... technology were objects of curiosity to the Europeans. How Indians extracted juice from sugar cane. How they built their houses ... The engineering skill of those who built the Agra bridge over the Yamuna river far surpassed a bridge built at 1 An interesting definition from the Oxford Illustrated Dictionary of the adjective "Jesuitical": (2.) Having character ascribed to Jesuits; d ...
... little or nothing if not for the divine cowherd with his entrancing flute, who had once inundated the groves of Brindavan in, to use a line from Savitri, "A violent Ecstasy, a Sweetness dire". Yamuna's flowing blue waters themselves had seemed to merge in an immense ocean of incredible rapture. Sri Aurobindo more than once gave expression to this fundamental need of the human being... thou know what the dance meant, fathom the song and the singer, Hear behind thunder its rhymes, touched by lightning thrill to his finger, Brindavan's rustle shalt understand and Yamuna's laughter, Take thy place in the Ras and thy share of the ecstasy after. No piece on Amal would be complete without reference to his wit and humour. For if he was formidably cerebral ...
... through Rajasthan and the Rann of Kutch in a course roughly parallel to the Indus, and finally into the Arabian sea. It was indeed a mighty river, six to eight kilometres in width, with the Sutlej, the Yamuna, and even at one time the Ganga as its tributaries. Detailed studies have shown that it changed course several times before drying up completely around 1900 B.C. As it happens, its location, its physical ...
... classical dramatists like Bhasa, Kalidasa and Bhavabhuti as also poets of our own time like Subramania Bharati, Tagore and Sri Aurobindo have freely taken deep draughts from this veritable Ganga-Yamuna confluence of the great Indian epic tradition. The literary epics from the days of Virgil in Europe and since the days of Kalidasa in India have carved no mean territory for themselves ...
... Aila king of north Pāñchāla... he is described as pushing his conquest westwards into the Punjāb. This is also in keeping with the view that the bulk of the Rigveda was composed in the Upper Ganges-Jumna doab and plain. The Rigveda holds the Sarasvati especially sacred, and also knows the Sarayu, the river of Oudh." 26 In justification of the last statement, which echoes the view of Keith, ...
... but primitive. × The rivers have a symbolic sense in later Indian thought; as for instance Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati and their confluence are in the Tantric imagery Yogic symbols, and they are used, though in a different way, in Yogic symbolism generally. ...
... only worshipped Him With this sole ritual he knew on earth. One day, as we were bathing little Gopal In the Yamuna, we saw the priest afar, Leaving his temple weeping in deep sorrow. My Gurudev ran fast and halted him. He said he had lost heart and so decided To drown himself in the Yamuna because The Blessed Lord had not come to him even once When He, our Gopal — who was visible Only to us and... behind a shrub; for how, alas, Could the sun hide behind clouds, or fire behind The chaff? We found out Gopal every time As, at His touch, the shrubs glowed golden! Or, else, He'd plunge into the Yamuna — when we both, Aghast, would cry out "Halt!" — But He would giggle The more and shout back "Catch me" — when Gurudev, Frantic with fear, would dive to rescue Him, Yelling: "Oh halt! — The current ...
... Kalidasian richness of imagery, or a Keatsean gusto of sensuousness: . . . . .O flowers, O delight on the tree-tops burning! Grasses his kine have grazed and crushed by his feet in the dancing! Yamuna flowing with song, through the greenness always advancing! You unforgotten remind. For his flute with its sweetness ensnaring Sounds in our ears in the night and our souls of their teguments ...
... Aila king of north Panchala... he is described as pushing his conquest westwards into the Punjab. This is also in keeping with the view that the bulk of the Rigveda was composed in the Upper Ganges-Jumna doab and plain. 26. "Cultural Interrelation between India and the Outside World before Asoka", The Cultural Heritage of India (The Ramakrishna Mission, Calcutta, 1958), I, p. 144. ...
... A Cultural History of India (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1975). The Wonder that was India (Grove Press, New York, 1961). Bhan, Suraj, Excavation at Mitathal and other explorations in the Sutlej-Yamuna Divide (Kurukshetra, 1975) Bhandarkar, D.R., Some Aspects of Ancient Indian Culture [cited by Moti Chandra]. Bhandarkar, R.G. [cited by B.C. Law; see Law]. Bharadwaj, O ...
... driving to us the cattle." What, we may fairly ask, are these shining herds, these cows who were old and become young again? Certainly, they are not physical herds, nor is it any earthly field by the Yamuna or the Jhelum that is the scene of this splendid vision of the golden-tusked warrior god and the herds of the shining cattle. They are the herds either of the physical or of the divine Dawn and the ...
... burst out laughing on hearing the gentleman’s English. The Mother, however, was quiet as She sat quite still. * On Darshan days, all sorts of programmes were put up. Two little girls, Selvi and Yamuna, would do a Bharatanatyam dance before the Mother. They danced beautifully. On one such Darshan, a French lady named Monique came to show her dance. She had made a ring of flowers and in the course ...
... blank verse in the Age of Shakespeare or heroic verse (or the couplet) in the Age of Dryden and Pope. It is said that the Adi-Kavi (the 'first' poet), Valmiki, was walking on the shores of the Yamuna one morning when he perceived a pair of kraunca birds in sportive play on the branch of a tree. Even as he was feeling engrossed in the spectacle of the birds at play, an arrow as from nowhere ...
... Mussoorie you were several hundred miles away from me. Yet I could write to you as often as I wished, and run up to you when the desire to see you became strong. But here we are on either side of the Jumna river — not far from each other, yet the high walls of Naini Prison keep us effectively apart. One letter a fortnight I may write, and one letter a fortnight I may receive, and once a fortnight I may ...
... novel powers and opened fresh paths; a few bright streams of initiation meet the eye running to form some mighty Brahmaputra or Ganges which is not yet in sight, though we get here and there a blue Yamuna or white Saraswati or some large impetuous torrent making its way through open plain or magic woodland towards the great unseen confluence. There are many widely separate attempts, some fine or powerful ...
... applied to Veda-Vyasa or Krishna Dvaipayana.He was the son of Rishi Parashara and Satyavati. From his complex- ion (dark) he received the name Krishna, and from his birthplace (an island, dvip, in the Yamuna), the name Dvaipayana. He was a Rishi himself and is traditionally cited as the author of the Mahabharata and many other works, but he is best known as the compiler of the Vedas (Veda-Vyasa means "the ...
... is heard the uproar of the opposing forces as they are slaughtered. कृष्णस्य सैषा यमुना स्रवन्ती रक्तेन नीलं विससर्ज वर्णम्। बङ्गेष्वसृक्कर्दममेव पश्य दिग्दक्षिणा भाति सुलोहितेव ॥६४॥ Yonder Jamuna, whose stream witnessed the sports of Krishna, has lost its sapphire hue, turning red with blood. Behold the soil of Bengal turned to a bloody mire, while the south-ern quarter gleams blood-red. ...
... of the method of the Vedas. The Puranas construct a system of physical images and observances each with its psychical significance. Thus the sacredness of the confluence of the three rivers, Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati, is a figure of an inner confluence and points to a crucial experience in a psychophysical process of Yoga and it has too other significances, as is common in the economy of this kind ...
... dance meant, fathom the song and the singer, Page 249 Hear behind thunder its rhymes, touched by lightning thrill to his finger, Brindavan's rustle shalt understand and Yamuna's laughter, Take thy place in the Ras and thy share of the ecstasy after. SABCL, Volume 5, page 536 * * * Sri Aurobindo on Integral Yoga of Divine Love Extract from "Letters on ...
... Rasas or the subtle essentialities of a literary creation at the beginning of the eleventh chapter. He likens them to a confluence of three streams, the streams which in the manner of the Ganges, the Jamuna and the subterranean Saraswati join at Prayag. The three rivers in the Song of the Lord are Shanta Rasa, Adbhuta Rasa and the third invisible which we may call as the Gita Rasa. By them other Rasas ...
... to use every time he went to bathe: Gangecha Jamunechaiva Godavari Sarasvatee Narmada Sindhu Kaveri jalesmin sannidhim kuru And it means: May the Ganges, the Yamuna. the Godavari, the Sarasvatee, the Narmada, the Sindhu and the Kaveri enter into this water. Page 5 These are the great rivers of the Indian sub-continent and it is along the course ...
... Act Two In her temple at Brindavan, on the full-moon night of Ras, Mira is seen singing before her beloved Image of Gopal. The windows on one side of the temple open on the rippling Yamuna. A number of pilgrims and devotees listen on, in rapture. On her left Ajit, a Brahmin pedant, frowns on her as she starts dancing. On her right sits her Gurudev, Sri Sanatan, and the temple-priest ...
... the form of the Prince of Raghus. Victory to the Lord! Victory to the Master of the World! On your white body you have put on a blue robe that matches beautifully with the blue Yamuna clinging to you for fear of being dragged by your ploughshare. Lo, the Lord has assumed the form of Haladhara (the wielder of the plough). Victory to the Lord! Victory to the ...
... " asked the Registrar. "Seven," replied my father. The next day Father took me to the newly constructed Kala Bhavan building and handed me over to Master-Mashai. He in turn took me to his daughter, Jamuna, and his son's betrothed, Nivedita, who were senior art students. I became their pet, and the three of us shared the same room from then on. But mind you, I was never asked for any admission tests... raternal greetings from France! Gaé'tan Fouquet Santiniketan 24.11.34 Page 74 After some time had elapsed, Master-Mashai came into our studio. All the three of us— Jamuna, Nivedita and I —were there. He said to me, "Rani, go to Uttarayan. Gurudev is calling you." I went out leaving the others behind me in that room, and set off at my leisurely pace. I set off.... are the age-old towns that stand dreaming of the past glory: Ayodhya of Rama of the Raghus, Mathura and Vrindaban of Krishna, Sarnath of Buddha, Allahabad where Ganga the daughter of Himavan meets Yamuna the daughter of the Sun, Agra with its Tajmahal like a teardrop on the cheeks of Time. And here lies its brightest jewel, Benares, where Shiva the Godhead reigns as Vishwanath, the Lord of the Universe ...
... splendours of the sun, the perpetual charm of the moon, Page 71 the beauty and fragrance of the rose or the beauty of the lotus, the yellow mane of the Ganges or the blue waters of the Jamuna, forests and mountains, and the leap of the waterfall, the shimmering silence of the lake, the sapphire hue and mighty roll of the ocean and all the wonder and marvel that there is on the earth and ...
... absorption in his thought. Revelation given to Akrūra (38-57) 38. O King! The Lord, with Rāma and Akrūra traveling in his chariot swift as the wind, soon reached the banks of the sacred Kalindi (Yamuna), the destroyer of the sins of those who bathe in it. 39. There, washing hands and feet, they quenched their thirst drinking the pure crystalline waters of the river green as an emerald. Then Rama... the Caitraratha forest. Page 59 Balarāma kills Dhenukāsura Vaiśampāyana said: O Janamejaya, after He had subdued the king of the serpents, Kāliya, who lived within a lake of the Yamuna, Śrī Krsna and Balarama often wandered about that area together. One day, the two sons of Vasudeva took the cows and entered a beautiful forest situated at the foot of Govardhana Hill. There ...
... Samudragupta's son married KuberaNāga who was a Nāga princess. "A Nāga named Sarvanāga was appointed vishayapati (provincial governor) and was ruling the Antarvedl district (between the Gāngā and the Yamuna and between Prayāga and Hardwar) under Skandagupta", 2 the fifth Gupta emperor. Everything geographical favours our view of Xandrames and Chandrāmśa. And, with mention of the Guptas replacing ...
... supported by stout pillars) collapses on getting old, so men fallen into the clutches of old age and death breathe their last. (18) "The night that passes away does not return in any case; the Yamuna (river) meets without fail the all-sufficient ocean, abounding in water. (19) Passing days and nights quickly end the life-span of all living beings in this world, (even) as sunbeams suck up water ...
... combined with that of the river Yamuna. Here is a mysterious combination. In fact, Yamunā itself is much of a mystery. There is a sudden switch to it from the Paruṣṇī. Griffith 383 cannot help the remark at the mention of Yamunā: "But it is not easy to see how the expedition reached so far." Hymn 10,75 to the Rivers puts in verse 5 the Sutudri between the Paruṣṇī and the Yamuna. 384 Both of the rivers concerned... kings took place on the river Paruṣṇī (7,18,8-9), which can be identified, with Yāska (Nirukta 9,26), with the river Irāvatī (= modern Ravi) in the Panjab; he also fought on the Yamunā (= the modern Jumna) (7,18,19). But Trasadasyu and Sudās do not represent the earliest phase in the fight between the Aryans and the Dāsas: Trasadasyu's father, Purukutsa, king of the Pūrus, broke the seven autumnal... Rakhigarhi, a site 190 kms east of Kalibangan, has revealed fire-altars. And about it O.P. Bharadwaj 36 , on the authority of Suraj Bhan's Excavation at Mitathal and Other Explorations in the Sutlej Yamuna Divide, 37 writes: "Rakhigarhi ... is supposed to be the most extensive of the known Harappan sites in India and deemed worthy of being considered as a possible easternmost capital of the Harappans ...
... Father who gives us his impulsions they declared, the Terrible One 2 (they who are his mights). (17) Seven by seven in their power, each seven his complete hundred gave to me; in the waters of Yamuna I cleanse my wealth and inspiration of her shining herds, I purify my glad wealth of his steeds. SUKTA 54 (1) Raise thou up this voice of the word to the self-lustrous army of the Thought-powers ...
... and commoners alike received training in the arts and sciences as well as spiritual instruction. Krishna and Balarama and Kuchela were fellow-pupils at Rishi Sandipani's Ashram on the banks of the Jamuna. It was only in later ages that Ashrams became excessively austere, a refuge for people who were fed up with the weary weight of this oppressive world. There was also the assumption that the phenomenal ...
... Saraswati, the flowing, is also the name of more than one river in modern India, but especially of the sacred stream in upper India supposed to join secretly in their confluence the waters of theGanges and Yamuna and form with them the holy Triveni or triple braid of waters in which the ceremonial ablution of the devotee is more potent than at almost any other Indian place of pilgrimage and gives the richest ...
... identified monuments in south-central Delhi which are lying in a state of abandon and neglect. As a member of the Paani Morcha, DRAG has been active on the issue of the pollution of the Yamuna and the Ganga. A Ganga-Yamuna Yatra was organized in April 1994 which collected samples from the two rivers at various points to measure pollution levels. Since then the focus has been promoting and strengthening ...
... new word that is not current creates new difficulties. In this sense sanskrita totaka 62 yamu/ nā + tata/ ma + C hyuta/ kelika/ lā + [The sportive art of Achyuta on the banks of Yamuna] has a foot division in that there are stresses on every letter marked with +. I was talking of principles and laws of Page 171 rhythm which the ear is guided by, not ...
... śikhara of about 40 feet. It stood on a raised plinth in the centre of the open terrace. It had a plain interior, but its entrance was exquisitely carved and decorated, the figures of Ganga and Yamuna being carved on the jambs, a typical Gupta feature. When complete, this was doubtless a monument of rare merit, and its sculptural panels were the most superb of their kind." Sastri's picture ...
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