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BillWoodruff wrote: priestly elite (Brahmins)
One correction, if you may please allow me ...
The greatest authors of Sanskrit, Maharshi Valmiki, Sage Vedavyasa, and the later ones including Kalidasa, Bhartruhari - none of them are Brahmins. No mention gets made about many other authors - even if they were Brahmins, they choose not to mention so. Also, the greatest of Indian Gods - Lord Rama, Lord Krishna, and the great warrior Arjuna to whom Bhagavad Geeta was told, are not Brahmins. When we look at the Sanskrit literature, the plays, poems, prose and other works of more than a 1000 years ago, it is evident that Sanskrit was the language of the common man, spoken, understood and written just as we do today with our languages.
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Sri Amarnath,
I appreciate your enlightening comments: my reference to "priestly elite" is limited to the later period long after Indo-Aryan Sanskrit was no longer commonly spoken in its classical (Vedic as formalized by Panini) form, where the Brahmins, as institution, with "pure" Sanskrit as a currency for intellectual exchange, formed what Milton Singer called an "orthogenetic literati [1].
I should keep mu mouth shut, and go back and study more
[1] Milton Singer, "When a Great Tradition Modernizes" 1972 ... I no longer access to this book,
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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If there was one thing my academic fellowship for study in India (social science, 1975-1976, UC Berkeley Fellowship) taught me ... it was that Mahabharata is like Indra's Net, a web of infinite interconnections between perfect, infinitely faceted, jewels, that defies any reductive generalities. I am "haunted" by its sacredness.
cheers, Bill
p.s. I was not in India as guru-follower, "spiritual seeker," etc.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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BillWoodruff wrote: Mahabharata
Regarding Mahabharata, there is a saying - यदिहास्ति तदन्यत्र, यन्नेहास्ति न तत् क्वचित् | - "Yadihaasti tadanyatra, yannehaasti na tat kvachit", which means "Whatever is found here may be found somewhere else also, but whatever is not in this Mahabharata cannot be found anywhere else". Mahabharata is indeed an ocean. A local publisher has published its translation in Kannada, and it spans more than 40 volumes, of a regular sized book. Studying the entire set is itself a project lasting a few years.
We, a set of friends have embarked upon a study of the Bhagavad Geeta, which is a small part of the Mahabharata, and we have spent nearly 130 hours in the last 1.5 years, and have finished just around 35 percent of the Geeta; we are doing a study along with a detailed Sanskrit Commentary, and have lot of discussions in our study; so to complete it may take two more years. Three more small extracts of the Mahabharata are also in our study list - the Vidura Neeti, the Yaksha Prashna and Vishnu Sahasranama. Maybe a 10-year plan.
Another thing to note about the India is that there is an ocean of change between India of 1975/76 and of today. My own place Bengaluru, was a sleepy pensioner's paradise and garden city called Bangalore then, and now it grown beyond all bounds, with so many people making a comfortable, sometimes extravagant living here. Somehow, i feel that the Bangalore of 1975 was much better to live in, maybe I'm an old timer.
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I really respect your commitment to scholarship !
The meaning of the Gita, the revelation of the "divine form" of Krishna, the content that appears to set varna/caste in "concrete" compared to the cosmic equality of all beings (5:18).
I probably should not continue with this type of content/discussion here on CodeProject.
cheers, Bill
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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In a recent livestreamed .NET Community Standup on YouTube, Microsoft put up a slide indicating Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a "community run project," prompting an audience question about whether the tech was dead (Microsoft said no) and a subsequent Twitter uproar among some developers who insist the opposite. Not 'dead', just 'done'?
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The future is WASM.
Until it dies in 5-10 years as well.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Until it dies in 5-10 years as well.
Years? I'm expecting 5-10 months until it's "legacy" code.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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In this post, we’ll see the benefits of using WASM outside the browser and its potential as a transformative technology on the server. It's not just awesome, it's WASM!
I'm not sure if I could have come up with a more lame blurb, but that's what you get for today.
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Gen Z workers are 10 times more likely to feel ashamed about technical issues than their older colleagues, HP survey says. The kids aren't all right
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That article is a hodgepodge of non-thinking ranging from helping coworkers with tech problems to not knowing how to help themselves with tech problems to Googling for the answer to young vs. old and young being gurus (really???) to differences in pay between young and old.
What a mess. I am soooo ashamed I can't make sense of it! Oh wait, I'm not a GenZ'er!
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I'm a baby boomer and I can say with 100% certainty that the "digital generation" is clueless about how their toys work.
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Because they only had to learn how to use them, not how to build them
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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first thought was that the linked article took wrong meaning from survey,
and that also the survey created a wrong meaning.
both not helped as original question asked not provided on survey results.
New workers already gonna feel shame for being the new workers. So feels like the tech angle just a cover of that.
Older people in general have either learned don't show emotions and ask, or gotten over that shame part to be able to ask.
And the young being correctly taught its ok to say you not ok, which leads to higher survey of saying they feel shame.
plus they coming into 10/20/30 year old tech they never seen before. Why they still using outlook. how do I add signature to email. things that they wouldn't have though to do before work.
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Are physicists nearing in on the Holy Grail 'theory of everything'? It's wormholes all the way down (connecting the turtles, of course)
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When will scientists get their heads out of their collective rear ends and realize that simulations and models are NOT the real world. Yes, simulations and models are useful but unless the results match the real world they're 100% useless.
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Amazon Web Services Inc., Microsoft Corp., Meta Platforms Inc. and GPS navigator maker TomTom NV today launched a new industry group focused on making map data more accessible. That's strange - there seems to be one major mapping website missing from that list
What a coincidence?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What a coincidence? That's the waze things go!
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Stable Diffusion-powered music generator processes sound in the visual space. Play me a tune, you're the AI
Doesn't have the same vibe to it
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Incoming support for Modula-2 in GCC, and a new Gitlab repository for its descendant Oberon, shows that the Wirthian family of programming languages remains livelier than you might think. Great news for that one developer thinking of using it
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Be careful of what a person can mean[^]
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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GitHub will require all users who contribute code on the platform to enable two-factor authentication (2FA) as an additional protection measure on their accounts by the end of 2023. Coming soon: a pile of 2FA hacks
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Kent Sharkey wrote: all users who contribute code At least I am save
I hope CP doesn't come to the same thinking
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Microsoft announced today that a future Microsoft Edge update would permanently disable the Internet Explorer 11 desktop web browser on some Windows 10 systems in February. "This is the end, my only friend, the end"
And by "friend", I mean, "browser that caused me to swear more often than almost any other piece of software". But "friend" is shorter.
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