An Extract from my Historical Epic
I have a passing interest in many things. History, and especially South Asian history, is one of them. I don’t write much creative writings in other languages but have a mind...
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Conversation between Alexander and Diogenes in Sanskrit Verse
Diogenes the cynic (Διογένης ὁ Κυνικός) seems to be the Internet’s favorite philosopher. He lived around the fifth and fourth centuries BCE with a simple lifestyle, forgoing all pleasures and living, as the name given to him suggests, like a dog. No work...
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Substack Account Got Suspended
Just a couple months ago, I had written when setting up a copy of my Substack posts here. Well today (2026-02-12), my account got suspended. I don’t know why. I’ve sent...
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A Faux-Vedic Agni Hymn
This is a faux-vedic Agni hymn that I did sometimes ago. In constrast to my other pieces so far, it is somewhat more Vedic in construction and employes some actual tropes and...
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Metrical : (उपजाति) Prose: अत्राप्युदाहरन्त्येवम् । पुरा ह शर्म्मण्यदेशे त्वः कीर्ण्णोपलो नाम बालक आस । दुर्व्विनेयं च तं पिता हैवमाह - मा पुत्त्र चूषीरथ त्वमङ्गुलीरिति । मा हैनं...
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शुकविलापः
The following is a Sanskrit translation of Lekhnath Paudyal’s 1917 poem पिंजडाको सुगा (Parrot in a Cage) that I did a couple of years ago. There are, it seems to me now, both...
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च्यवनः
PDF Version यन्नामादिनामभावात्क्लिष्टत्वाच्च वाचां दुष्करमिदं पद्यं तद्वयं व्याख्यास्यामः । न पुनः कवौ सम्मानात् । दम्भी हि कविः कलावप्यात्मानमृषिवन्मन्वानः...
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