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When the last showers of the monsoon are beginning to fall sparsely between spells of bright sunshine, comes the month of Ashwin. In this month the festive season in India reaches a crescendo with the beginning of the nine-day Navaratri festival. For weeks, people eagerly look forward to this time of gladness and celebration. Navaratri…

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The Hitopadesha is a collection of fables in Sanskrit. This work, attributed to Narayana (11th or 12th Century A.D.), is based on the more famous Panchatantra which written by Vishnu Sharma more than a thousand years earlier.Although Narayana is indebted to Vishnu Sharma for his plots, he has introduced eighteen stories which are not found…

MantraOnNet.com: Brhadaranyaka Upanishad

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IV.I 1. Janaka of Videha sat to give audience. Yajnavalkya approached him. Janaka said to him, ‘Yajnavalkya, why have you come? Are you wanting cattle, or subtle arguments?’ ‘Both, your majesty,’ he said. 2. ‘Let us hear what someone has told you.’ ‘Jitvan Sailini told me that speech is Brahman.? ‘Sailini says what anyone would…