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Conquer the angry one by not getting angry (i.e., by loving-kindness); conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.

          *Bhikkhu Bodhi
    The Nobility of the Truths
        *Thanissaro Bhikkhu
           A Study Guide

• BOOKS;

1. Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction by Damien Keown [2]
2. Buddhism for Beginners, Chodron [3]
3. The Heart of Buddhist Meditation: The Four Noble Truths in Practice by Nyanaponika Thera [4]
4. What Buddha Taught, Walpola Rahula [5]
5. The Buddhist Religion, R. Robinson [6]
6. A Brief History of Buddhist Studies in Europe and America , J.W. de Jong [7]
7. Buddha's Word in China, de Jong [8]
8. Indian Architecture : Buddhist and Hindu Periods , Percy Brown [9]
9. An Introduction to Buddhism: Teachings, History and Practices, Peter Harvey [10]
10. Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism, Eugène Burnouf [11]
11. Legends of Indian Buddhism, Burnouf [12]
12. Why Buddhism is True, Robert Wright [13]
13. Bones, Stones, and Buddhist Monks: Collected Papers on the Archaeology, Epigraphy, and Texts of Monastic Buddhism in India by Gregory Schopen [14]
14. The Foundations of Buddhism, R.Gethin [15]
15. A Survey of Buddhism: Sangharakshita [16]

• Also k/a Sanatana Dharma.
  • Historical Roots of this word [17]

1. The Hymns of the Rigveda V1, by Ralph T. H. Griffith [18]
2. The Rig Veda, by Wendy Doniger [19]
3. The Rigveda : The Earliest Poetry of India 3 Volume sets by Stephanie and Joel [20]
4. A Vedic reader for students by Arthur Anthony Macdonell [21]
5. Rig Veda Sanhita Vol 1 by H H Wilson [22]

1. The Satapatha-Brahmana Pt. 1 by Julius Eggeling [23]
2. Yajurveda English Translation by Satya Prakash Sarasvati [24]

1. The Hymns Of The Sama Veda by Ralph Griffith [25]
2. Translation Of The Sama Veda by Stevenson [26]

1. The Hymns of the Atharva Veda Vol.2 by Ralph Griffith [27]
2. The Atharvaveda Described : With a classified selection of hymns, explanatory notes and review by Ralph Griffith [28]
3. Atharva Veda Complete Volume 1 & 2 by Dr. Tulsi Ram Sharma[29]

1. Upanishads by Patrick Olivelle [30]
2. The Principal Upanishads by S. Radhakrishnan [31]
3. The Thirteen Principal Upanishads by Robert Ernest Hume [32]
4. The Upanishads by Eknath Easwaran [33]
5. The Principal Upanishads by Swami Nikhilananda [34]
6. Eight Upanishads, With the Commentary of Shankaracharya (2 Vol. Set) by Swami Gambhirananda [35]
7. The Philosophy of the Upanishads by Paul Deussen [36]
8. The Upanishads by D. S. Sharma [37]
9. The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga by Paul Brunton [38]
10. Source Book Of Indian Philosophy by Radhakrishnan [39]
11. The Advaita Tradition In Indian Philosophy by Chandradhar Sharma [40]

BOOKS AND COMMENTARIES ;

1. A Commentary On The Text Of The Bhagavad Gita by C. Hurrychund [41]
2. The Bhagavad Gita : Commentary Based on the Original Sources by R. C. Zaehhner[42]
3. The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation by Gavin Flood [43] [44]
4. The Bhagavad Gita: A Critical Introduction by Ithamar Theodor [45]
5. Exploring the Bhagavad Gita: Philosophy, Structure and Meaning by I. Theodor [46]

1. The Hindu Mind by Bansi Pandit [47] [48]
2. Decolonising the Hindu Mind by Koenraad Elst [49]
3. The Hindus: An Alternative History by Wendy Doniger [50]
4. The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual: Temples and the Establishment of the Gods by Michael D. Willis [51]
5. Indian Temple Sculpture by John Guy [52]
6. India : A History by John Keay [53]
7. @ The World's Religions by Huston Smith
8. Great Transformation begining of our Religions [54]
9. Ancient India: from the Origins to AD 1300 by Romila Thapar (2002) [55]
10. D N Jha books.
11. WIKI ; १) Vedic Tradition , २) view on evolution, ३) science history ...

1. Upadhyaya, K. N. (1997). Early Buddhism and the Bhagavadgītā. [56]
2. Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists by Nivedita and Ananda [57]

EKLAVYA

Myth, Memory and Identity

Story from Adi Parvan of the Mahabharata Once Drona, a Brahmana who taught archery to the Kuru princes, was approached by Ekalavya, a forest-dwelling nishada (a hunting community). When Drona, who knew the dharma, refused to have him as his pupil, Ekalavya returned to the forest, prepared an image of Drona out of clay, and treating it as his teacher, began to practise on his own. In due course, he acquired great skill in archery. One day, the Kuru princes went hunting and their dog, wandering in the woods, came upon Ekalavya. When the dog smelt the dark nishada wrapped in black deer skin, his body caked with dirt, it began to bark. Annoyed, Ekalavya shot seven arrows into its mouth. When the dog returned to the Pandavas, they were amazed at this superb display of archery. They tracked down Ekalavya, who introduced himself as a pupil of Drona. Drona had once told his favourite student Arjuna, that he would be unrivalled amongst his pupils. Arjuna now reminded Drona about this. Drona approached Ekalavya, who immediately acknowledged and honoured him as his teacher. When Drona demanded his right thumb as his fee, Ekalavya unhesitatingly cut it off and offered it. But thereafter, when he shot with his remaining fingers, he was no longer as fast as he had been before. Thus, Drona kept his word: no one was better than Arjuna. — Theme three — Kinship, Caste and Class; Early Societies (C. 600 BCE-600 CE) p.62, Themes in Indian History-I, Class–XII, NCERT[1][2], Note : राजनीति Understanding the power of the symbol of Eklavya and its use by the BSP and the SP, the BJP also tried to appropriate this myth for gaining support of the Nishads and other Dalit communities. Extensively discussed by Badri Narayan in his book Fascinating Hindutva: Saffron Politics and Dalit Mobilisation[3] Generally, the story of Eklavya has been one of the central to the political discourse of lower castes in UP and Bihar.[4]

The round earth.
A steel lever
in my hand.
But no leverage?
Oh Eklavya
you ideal disciple!
Give me
the finger you cut off;
that will be my fulcrum.

Know Truth as Truth and Untruth as Untruth

~ Buddha

कहते हैं ज्ञानी, दुनिया है फानी
पानी पे लिखी लिखाई
है सबकी देखी, है सबकी जानी
हाथ किसी के ना आनी
कुछ तेरा ना मेरा
मुसाफिर जाएगा कहाँ…

– Guide

यूँ तो मेरा इलाज क्या न हुआ
कम मरज़ ही मगर ज़रा न हुआ
मुझपे अहसाँ तबीब का न हुआ
दर्द मिन्नत-कश-ए-दवा न हुआ
मैं न अच्छा हुआ बुरा न हुआ !
— Mirza Ghalib

करा गलत वक्त से सामना
है करा शुरु जबसे भागना
कभी आँख बन्द करते ही सो जाऊ
चाहु एक दिन हसके जागना !
— (Calm - SM)

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• I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that 'the world' would decline to recognize them.

  — Colin Wilson

  
  

• Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem...

  — L. Wittgenstein

• Yea-Saying
• Conscience

Source - "Linguistic Survey of India: Bihar".

• Maithili (p.164–165): extremely low, Only 99 people in Banka district reported Maithili as either their language spoken or mother tongue out of a population of over 2 million. (2011 census)

Tilka Majhi (11 February 1750 – 13 January 1785), according to popular accounts, was an Indian tribal leader who led a rebellion against British colonial rule from 1771 until his capture and execution in 1785.^[5] In these narratives,^[6] he is described as one of the earliest freedom fighters who organised local residents against the administration of East India Company and is said to have assassinated Augustus Cleveland with an arrow, although contemporary records suggest otherwise.^[7][8]

The historical record of Tilka Manjhi is very limited. According to historian Dinesh Narayan Verma, government records up to 1965 and early post-independence writings on tribal history, make no mention of a tribal leader named 'Tilka Manjhi' or of his role in the death of Augustus Cleveland.^[9] He further noted that the first appearance of the figure 'Tilka Manjhi' came in 1970, in a book by Ramlakhan Prasad Gond, an engineer by profession,^[10] and concluded that Tilka Manjhi emerged as a historical personality without single historical evidence.^[11]

Since the 1970s, Tilka Manjhi has been featured in various literary works such as Mahasweta Devi's book Shaalgirah Ki Pukar Par. Several streets, university institutions have been named after him.

Augustus Cleveland was born in North Devon, England to John Clevland. He joined the service of the Company at the age of 17, partly because of his connection to Sir John Shore. At the young age of 25, Cleveland became the Magistrate and Collector of Bhagalpur and Rajmahal in 1779.^[12] Cleveland died on 13 January 1784 at the age of 29 after a month of fever. He died aboard the ship Atlas Indiaman near the mouth of the Hooghly River while sailing to the Cape of Good Hope, and his body was taken back to Calcutta on a pilot boat and buried in South Park Street Cemetery.^[12]

Popular accounts suggest that Tilka Manjhi's real name was Jabra Pahadia.^[13] However, Verma argues that this was an attempt to equate Tilka Manjhi with a historical figure.^[14] According to him, Jabra Pahadia^[a] was a historical figure who 'once a noted bandit' but later served in the British administration around the same period.^[14] And contemporary records do not support the identification of the two figures as the same.^[15]

• Verma, Dinesh Narayan (2022). "Making Myth a History: A Colonial Reference in Creation of Tribal Hero Tilka Manjhi (1750–1784?)". Tribe, Space and Mobilisation. Springer. pp. 441–455. doi:10.1007/978-981-19-0059-4_23. ISBN 978-981-19-0058-7.
• Aounshuman, Ashok (2022). "Resistance Against the Company Raj: With Special Reference to Bihar and Jharkhand (1757–1856)". Indian Historical Review. 49 (1_suppl): S32–S55. doi:10.1177/03769836221108361. ISSN 0376-9836.
• Mansukhani, Raju (21 July 2023). "Bhaugulpoor Tales". The Statesman. Archived from the original on 11 November 2024.
• Nath, Sanjay (2017). "Augustus Cleveland and the Making of British Tribal Policy in Santal Parganas" (PDF). Journal of Adivasi and Indigenous Studies. 7 (2): 33–53.
• Singh, K. S. (1985). Tribal Society in India: An Anthropo-historical Perspective. Manohar. ISBN 978-81-85054-05-6.