Author name: Dwaipayan Pradhan

WHAT IS HAPPINESS? By Basudeba Mishra वयमिह परितुष्टा वल्कलैस्त्वं दुकूलै:।सम इह परितोषो निर्विशेषो विशेष:।स तु भवति दरिद्रो यस्य तॄष्णा विशाला।मनसि च परितुष्टे कोऽर्थवान को दरिद्र:॥ I am happy wearing the bark of a tree. You are happy wearing a silk dress. The general “happiness content” of both are equal. Though the object that brought us […]

THE COSMOLOGY OF YUGADI (युगादि). – By Basudeba Mishra The first day of Chaitra Shukla Pratipada, which happens this year to be on the 25th of March, 2020, is celebrated as Yugadi (युगादि), which literally means, the anniversary (आदि) of the Cosmological Cycle of time (युग). For understanding its cosmological implications, let us discuss the

By Basudeba Mishra In India, Constellations, stars, planets and satellites are classified into two groups based on whether they affect earth and if so, whether the effect is continuously stable or variable. For easy comprehension, the effect is judged by the magnitude of their visibility under normal conditions, as it is determined by both their

पं० काशीनाथ पान्डेय ‘शास्त्री’ एवम् डा० गोरखनाथ चतुर्वेदी द्वारा ‘विद्योतिनी’ हिन्दी भाष्य, चौखम्भा भारती अकादमी, वाराणसी अथातस्तस्याशितीयमध्यायं व्याख्यास्यामः ॥ १ ॥ इति ह स्माह भगवानात्रेयः ॥ २ ॥चरक संहिता, सूत्रस्थानम्, अध्याय – ६, तस्याशितीयमध्यायः अब ‘मात्राशितीय’ नामक अध्याय के बाद ‘तस्याशितीय’ नामक अध्याय की व्याख्या की जायेगी। जैसा कि भगवान् आत्रेयने कहा था ।। १-२॥