Bone grafting(?) in mid 1450s Rajasthan. A Rajput warrior received a severe sword wound leading to a bone from the back of his neck to be removed and replaced with wood of kair tree.

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Manchu larper (Li Shuo is most likely a peasant from Shandong whose ancestors migrated to Manchuria in late 19th cent) & 'Aryan' larper both bringing hilarity. Schopenhauer on situation of animals in his day in Europe
& until early 20th cent Chinese had

There were strong financial incentives for a literate education in the Roman Empire.
In Diocletian Price Edict Scribal wage to write a 100 lines well was almost equivalent to the daily wage of a simple laborer.

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And unlike this fad to please West, Korea had indigenous voices arguing for beef ban since early 1800's if not earlier

Chong Yagyong (also known as Tasan) in 'Admonitions on Governing the People Manual for All Administrators' (published in 1821) for e. g.

Why couldn’t the invaders like Mahmud of Ghazna completely destroy the Hindus, despite the much massacre (2 million killed by Mahmud)?

Answer - The dense Forests, the many Rivers, the great Ravines and Hills that geography of India is (was) blessed with!

These “Natural Forts”

In the Edo Era the literacy rate was 60% overall, much to the surprise of foreign visitors upon witnessing average Joe’s picking up books from book vendors. In Edo city the rate was closer to 70%. In 1894 the rate for men 78% / women 45% by 1900 the overall literacy rate was 100%

As the news of Napoleon's defeat at Leipzig spread and British archeologists started digging up medieval Hindu-Buddhist complexes, a Rajput officer of the EIC plotted a coup along with local Surakarta nobility to overthrow the British government in Java.

Aryāṃśa Tera Actually the relationship is surprisingly weak. Bobby Fischer touches on it a bit in the fantastic Ginzberg interview. (Not a scientific treatment of it, but good trivia)

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but Japan has few natural resources, it already has to import nearly all of it’s oil and other energy sources.  If everyone started heating their entire homes the nation’s energy needs would skyrocket
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No need for dead jew worship or enlightenment in Song empire & Tokugawa Japan

Antiquarianism in The Song
A study of archaeology and preservation & replication of antiquities carried out during the Song Dynasty
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#BREAKING : Suicide bomber blows up attacking a vehicle carrying 5 Japanese or Chinese Nationals & two Pakistanis in Karachi's Mansehra Colony. Driver & security guard of the vehicle killed. Pakistan claims all Japanese nationals are safe. Pakistan becoming unsafe for foreigners.

dharmamitra.org now provides access to our Sanskrit, Tibetan and Chinese to English, Sanskrit, Tibetan and Korean machine translation. Feel free to try this out!

Sundar Iyer didn't believe in caste. He didnt keep janeu or observed any ritual. He supported friend who was SC. And yet, he was dragged through mud by friend and Americans cos he was Brahmin. So liberal modern Brahmins, you might not believe in caste, but caste believes in you

'Reddy might be assigned to IRS, he says he would continue preparing until he becomes IAS'

Lol, UPSC should start having entirely different exams for different streams at the very least. Otherwise IRS/IPS folk will always be those who wanted IAS & failed.

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Somayājī makes it clear that just because something was authoritative 2000 years ago doesn't mean anything. If the data doesn't fit the thesis, it is wrong. Revise it or propose a new thesis. This is how science works. Accurate contemporary experiments.

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Somayājī refutes those who say science comes from 'Gods' and says this is wrong. Science comes from the power of the rational mind to carry out experiments that meet observations & prove hypothesis. This is how we arrive at correct knowledge. God may inspire, only man thinks.

He lived to a ripe age of 105. He completely destroys the idea that Hindus were 'superstitious' or 'irrational' or didn't use the scientific method. He says the very foundation of science is teaching students proper experimentation that can be carried out each generation.