- On the necessity of mantrasiddhi and its primary means(puraścaraṇa in this context)
- Śivaśatanāma stotra from Mahāliṅgeśvara tantra (with locations of some of the Śivālayas specified)
- वैष्णवमन्त्राणाम् तुलसीमालासंस्कार
- अतीशवागीश्वरकीर्त्योः तारामन्त्रस्य पुरश्चरणविशये कानिचन वाक्यानि
- Taranatha’s vignette on Amarasimha the Amarakosha’s author
- Parārthārcādhikāra (public worship in public temples) in Śaiva Siddhānta
- On the ‘gender fluid Norse’
- One of the few versions of the 7 line prayer to the Vajrayana master Padmasambhava I saw in an IA language
- A transcription of a stotra which gives the pañcabrahma mantras and tryambaka mantra in a form which everyone can recite along with the 5 syllabled(pañcākṣarī) mantra
- A brief investigation about the views and role of Raghunandana and Ānandabhaṭṭa on the existence of Kṣatriyas and Vaiśyas in the Kali Yuga
- A brief vidhi for the Saṃkaṣṭa caturthī vrata(especially Māgha,but applicable to all of them)
- Unambiguous dhyānas of Viṣṇu with Sarasvatī and Lakṣmī in the Assamese tradition
- Gaṇapati as Brahman who humbles Vāyu Agni and other Gods and shows a Viśvarūpa form
- Steps in the making of the mahāprasāda of Jagannātha
- The old location of Jālandhara Pītha
- Eranshahr’s encounter with Christiantiy
- मेधादक्षिणामूर्तिमन्त्रविधिः(कुछ बात श्री गीर्वाणेन्द्रसरस्वती विरचित प्रपञ्चसारसारसंग्रह से)
- On right view,Buddhist-coloured deities and Hindu practice
- Determination in daily mantrasādhanā
- Āvaraṇas of Jagannātha as Kṛṣṇa in the Puri Śrīmandira
- On Jagadguru Pītāmbara Siddhāntavāgīśa,the most famous exponent of the Kāmarūpa school of Dharmaśāstra
- A stotra to Gaṇeśa by Vāsudevānanda Sarasvatī (Tembe Swami) that spells out the famous ‘gaṇānātvā..’ mantra
- Homosexuality,Gender activism,and the rest
- The sixteen names of Durgā and their explanations(from the 57th adhyaya of the Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa)
- On the stotra of the eight names of Gaṇeśa by Viṣnu from the Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa
- Ramblings on @bronzeagemantis ‘ Bronze Age Mindset
- A sandhyAvandana vidhi for all
- jagannAtha as puruShottama
- A practical note on purascharaNa(cited from kulArNava tantra and muNDamAlA tantra)
- The sculptor of Ma Bhavatarini of Dakshineshwar : Nabin Bhaskar
- Book Review:Fighting Proud:The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served in Two World Wars
- On worldly usages of Krishna mantras as seen in the 3rd rAtra of the Narada Pancharatra
- brahmA,viShNu and shiva’s praise of vinAyaka in the 13th chapter of the gaNesha purANa
- Review of Samanya Dharma by Nithin Sridhar
- A rambling note on the origins of the ideology of karmayoga
- On Agneeswarar and Haradatta
- On seeing queer examples where they do not exist:Mīnākṣī in Madurai
- On sAdhanA(personal note)
- On kShetras and ecology and accessing a devatA
- A post on sAdhanA I copied(and given a slight addition by Swami Brahmananda,the disciple of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa)
- On mantra chaitanya and dIkShA by Ma Anondomoyee
- A list of Pāśupata(More specifically,Lākula) ritual texts
- A brief review of:The Rise of Mahasena:The transformation of Skanda-Karttikeya in North India
- On IshvaralAbha and tyAga by bhairavadAsa GYAna bAbA,an upAsaka of tArA
- The greatness of the name of Durga (as uttered in the rudrayAmala tantra and muNDamAlA tantra mainly)
- On the next stage of evolution of the deity of Puri : Jagannatha as Narasimha
- Skanda at Kumarakottam
- Nuances on the origin of tArA(entirely) in Tibet (in general)
- The tradition of the simian (ape-faced) appearance of nandi,His identity with shiva and His incarnation of hanumAn
- The backdrop to puruShottama:shrI nIlamAdhava [A very brief note]
- Dhyānas of the Aṣṭabhairavas as written according to the Rūpadhyānaratnāvalī(based on the Śrītattvanidhi)
- shukrAchArya’s gadyam to shiva (from the shiva purANa)
- On Adi sha~Nkara’s theism
- Things I found interesting for various reasons in the shivapurANa in my casual study of it
- On mAnasika pUjA
- On Hotee Vidyalankar and other learned brAhmaNa ladies
- Āgāmavāgiśa’s dhyānas from Bṛhat Tantrasāra that more closely match the Kālī mūrtis in Bengal than the one popularly recited
- Brahmā’s praise of Nārāyaṇa to take up Hayagrīva rūpa to kill Madhu and Kaiṭabha from the Mahābhārata(Śāntiparvan)
- For shivarAtri:arjuna with shiva kirATa,along with his hymn to him(from the Mahabharata,vana parva)
- Shiva and Cannabis/Bhang
- On Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa’s so called universalism
- ekAdashI differnces:A conversation
- On the glorification of hari and hara,arthavAda and their nAma and mantras
- A quotation from the Brahma-saṃhitā
- Rajya – a draft
- On festivities,and proper dhārmika pomp
- Architectural PN Oakism
- homa vidhAnaM for nitya homa
- The younger shatarudriya-posted
- Skanda-svāmi’s holy/favorite tree and other brief visual musings
- An involutionary scheme(which yudhiSThira underwent according to the bhAgavata purANa)
- On Shakta Agama
- The Lord of Arasavalli,a painting
- Some nāma-s that are particularly recommended for constant smarana/japa from the Padma Purāṇa
- The Purascharan entry from the Guru Girarth Kosh-1
- Sridevi and other stuff need not be pushed as normative queer icons
- A friend’s remarks on Sanskrit being taught at schools-its current state,with my remarks from personal experience at the end
- On reading gay stuff into mileus where such concepts did not exist
- Some mentalities
- On swacchata and śauca
- An Ayudha when used in Ayudha puja is a literal weapon,and not supposed to be anything else
- Aspects of Hindu atheism
- Gṛhastha life and vedānta (focusing on Advaita here)
- A Pāñcarātrika macranthrophic hymn to Viṣṇu(the hymn to the Mahāpuruṣa)
- Pramathanath Mitra -a reminiscience and a lesson needed
- Tulasi devi , as drawn by Ganapati Sthapati
- On the decline of Shaiva Siddhanta
- The tale of Satyakāma Jabala as seen by traditionalists
- Similarities between anti-brahmin propaganda and anti-semetic propaganda
- I’ll leave proposed Indian attempts and/or parallels (germinal/actually attempted) as an excercise to the reader
- The devī of the 15th śloka of the Saundaryalaharī
- Aruṇa-sarasvatī(of the 16th śloka of the Saundaryalaharī)
- Ekānaṃśā | एकानंशा
- English translation of the shiva sahasranAma (from Ganguli’s translation of the Mahabharata)
- That’s all they(human rights) ever were actually
- Roles
- Bad arguments
- Nṛsimha caturdashi vrata (a few details)
- Free will (I don’t care if I’m branded superstitious)
- Relative chronology of interpretation and usageof nāsadīya/nāsadīya related themes
- Confusing the sthūla and the sūkṣma
- Vaśiṣṭha’s stava to Sarasvatī(from the Mahābhārata)
- On the lakṣaṇa of ‘gauḥ’,setting aside pseudo-science
- Abraham and his sons(also the secularized ones and others bearing that imprint)-a skeleton of some aspects of their modus operandi
- To my future patients
- Christian hypocrisy
- A note on a line in the harivaMsha after the greats of trika
- Defending the identity of yoga, Kumarila style( with homage to Ganganath Jha )
- इन्द्रध्वजोत्सव-विधि (कालिकापुराणान्तर्गत)| indradhvajotsava-vidhi (kālikāpurāṇāntargata)
- Opportunities that we will be missing
- Notes on pedagogy of śāstra(something written by a friend)
- Unhappy
- A note on Candragomīn and his tradition
- प्रभो शम्भो! prabho shambho!
- On Kavīndrācārya
- On manu sm.rti
- Westerners and our traditions
- Worshipping Sai Baba and other Siddhas
- Ashtamurti-notes
- A stuti to viSNu from the Linga Purana by kSupa
- When Vidura tells Dhrtarashtra to leave home(Bhagavata Purana) (Sridhara’s and Sri Jiva’s commentaries)
- Ganesha stotra from Narada Pancharatra
- On Vyasatirtha’s interpretations of tattvamasi—part I (w/lakshana on ‘tat’)
- Some conlanging experiments of Hindu Sanskrit grammarians
- A very brief commentary
- Durgā stuti (durgA stuti) (from the Mahabharata)
- śrī narasiṃhapurāṇa, prathamodhyāyaḥ
- gītā karādinyāsaḥ
- Āditya hṛdaya stotra (with viniyoga,nyāsa,etc.)
- Shri Parasuramastotra by Amritavagbhavacharya in SLP1 transliteration and Devanagari
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