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Q: Two answers using exactly the same source to answer the same question -- Does that make the answer posted later flag-able as not an answer?

RickrossLet's suppose I have posted an answer A to a question Q using some texts T as reference. Now, some hours later, another user posts another answer B to the same question Q using exactly the same texts T as reference. Does that make the answer B flag-able as not an answer? I remember reading someth...

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9:50 AM
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Q: Which scripture says the initiation by Saraswathi to Nala on Chintamani mantra?

hanugmIt is said that Saraswathi initiated the Nala on Chintamani mantra at the time of Damayanthi swayamvaram. Which scripture describes this event?

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TheLittleNaruto
TheLittleNaruto
1:14 PM
Happy Shri Krishna Janmashtami 🕉⚛✡
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On the occasion of Shri Krishna Janmashtami, sharing this wonderful mantra chanting of Lord Krishna AGAIN: youtube.com/watch?v=llMQ1kHvsAE
 
 
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2:26 PM
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Q: Is there a scriptural base, from other than the Veda and Puranas, to indicate that the Battle of the Ten Kings occurred?

srimannarayana k vThere is already a question existing - Timeline of the battle of the ten kings in the Vedas. However, there are no answers posted yet and my question is different. It was mentioned in this wikipedia article that The Battle of the Ten Kings (Sanskrit: दाशराज्ञ युद्ध, romanized: Dāśarājñá yuddhá)...

rig-veda upanishads brahmanas
 
 
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RamAbloh
RamAbloh
4:45 PM
@sv. LOL, it's funny that being a Telugu speaker, you say Sanskrit is dead, while a huge chunk of Telugu consists of Sanskrit words. And you seem to be ignorant of the fact that Sanskrit evolved into the modern languages, it's not like some unrelated separate languages came in and threw Sanskrit out. All Indian languages draw sustenance from Sanskrit. All the great Telugu poets were also Sanskrit poets and scholars.
@sv. And, Sanskrit was still a spoken language even in the 12th century, even when the vernaculars had developed. Please read archive.org/details/dli.csl.1961/page/n205/mode/2up
@sv. "I prefer to spend my energies on content/message, language is secondary to me." That is quite naive. It is universally accepted by scholars and laypeople that each language has its own native idiomatic style, and the content/message is quite often lost in translations
@sv. That's quite a strawman argument picking on Puranas. Just look at the travel accounts of foreign travellers in the Maurya, Gupta, Vijayanagara times, and you will see the praise and marvelling at the utopian societies that existed
 
sv.
sv.
@RamAbloh Again, Sanskrit has been dead as a spoken language, that Telugu imported some Sanskrit words doesn't magically make Sanskrit alive. It proves that Telugu people don't care much about Sanskrit. If Telugu imports some Urdu words doesn't mean everyone should start conversing in Urdu. Urdu is kept alive by its own loyal speakers.
 
TheLittleNaruto
TheLittleNaruto
@RamAbloh That's true. There is a famous saying in Telugu which most part is Sanskrit only. The saying goes: "swami karya svakarya"
 
RamAbloh
RamAbloh
@sv. why even be involved in Hinduism site where all the references are Sanskrit scriptures, if you have such a hostile attitude towards Sanskrit???
 
sv.
sv.
@RamAbloh Hinduism is much more than Sanskrit or English or Telugu. This is a secular site about Hinduism, not Sanskrit.
 
RamAbloh
RamAbloh
@sv. LOL, go ahead and define Hinduism without Sanskrit... you will be laughed out of even the worst universities
 
sv.
sv.
4:54 PM
I've signed up for many Sanskrit Language Proposals on Area 51. Many foreigners also do, doesn't mean they are willing to die for Sanskrit, understand the difference between liking a language, loving a language, interest in a language, willing to die for it.
 
RamAbloh
RamAbloh
@sv. Again, your perspective on Sanskrit is totally wrong. Sanskrit is much more than just a language for communication. It has defined Indian civilization since the beginning. It's not just me saying it, hundreds of scholars from all countries have said it. So it's very disturbing to find such ignorant views from a person who is a moderator of a Hindu site!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
sv.
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@RamAbloh LOL, I'm not a moderator, I'm just a regular user like you. You can see the moderators here:
 
RamAbloh
RamAbloh
@sv. Ok, well, i stand corrected... you certainly have the airs of a moderator LOL
 
sv.
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@RamAbloh From your language, tone, I can sense that you are a fan of Rajiv Malhotra.
@RamAbloh Yeah, can't blame you for that, also the other two mods have been missing from action.
 
RamAbloh
RamAbloh
@sv. I am a fan of Indian civilization and Hinduism, and whoever speaks truthfully with authentic sources I am a fan
 
sv.
sv.
5:00 PM
@RamAbloh So, the ideas of Hinduism can only be preserved in Sanskrit not in English or any of the other Indian languages?
Hinduism cannot survive without Sanskrit?
 
RamAbloh
RamAbloh
@sv. please distinguish between (Sanskrit,Indian languages) vs. English. I didn't say anything negative about Indian languages
 
TheLittleNaruto
TheLittleNaruto
@sv. what about mantras while performing Yajnas or any other rituals? :-)
 
sv.
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@TheLittleNaruto First, we need to debate whether mantras can really bring rain :P
 
TheLittleNaruto
TheLittleNaruto
Will you translate them in English and chant?
@sv. yeah there are many instances :-)
Swami Lakshman joo Maharaj did when he was in USA
 
sv.
sv.
@TheLittleNaruto Are you saying an honest prayer to God in English is going to making him angry? What kind of a God is he/she/it who only understands Sanskrit?
 
RamAbloh
RamAbloh
5:04 PM
I'm only saying that Sanskrit has been there since the beginning of Indian civilization, so it is the medium of definition of Hinduism. All Indian languages have soaked up Sanskrit to the core. @sv.
 
TheLittleNaruto
TheLittleNaruto
@RamAbloh +1 exactly what I wanted to say.
 
sv.
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@RamAbloh That's fine. Well and good. I have no problem with that.
 
RamAbloh
RamAbloh
@sv. but then why so much hostility towards Sanskrit? :)
 
sv.
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yesterday, by sv.
@RamAbloh Telugu's my mother tongue. Although I don't consider it divine, descended from Shiva and so forth as many users of this site seem to think of Sanskrit. I like all languages, but I'm not willing to die for it. I prefer to spend my energies on content/message, language is secondary to me.
"I like all languages" ... if you love Sanskrit that's fine ... but repeatedly saying that on an English site hosted in a Western country can get a bit irritating.
@RamAbloh If I'm hostile to Sanskrit, why will I sign up for Sanskrit Proposals.
 
RamAbloh
RamAbloh
@sv. Well, if you have accepted that Sanskrit is the soul of Hinduism then it needs to be preserved and propagated through usage, instead of pushing it aside saying it's a dead language. That is a very simplistic conclusion.
 
sv.
sv.
5:09 PM
"understand the difference between liking a language, loving a language, interest in a language, willing to die for it."
"if you have accepted that Sanskrit is the soul of Hinduism" - who accepted it as a the soul of Hinduism? You? I did not. Like I said, IMO, Hinduism is not limited to a language.
 
RamAbloh
RamAbloh
@sv. see, that's the helplessness of ours... that we are stuck in a western country's framework even to talk about our own culture... so I'm making the best of the situation
@sv. "That's fine. Well and good. I have no problem with that."
 
sv.
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It is hard to digest but English is the language of the future. The whole purpose of this site is to convert Sanskrit texts to easily understandable answers in English.
 
RamAbloh
RamAbloh
@sv. It's not hard to digest.. it's a self-fulfilling wish.... as I said in the beginning, other nations are totally flourishing in their own languages... China, Japan, Korea, etc are not becoming slaves to English, and they are being respected for it... English speakers are eager to learn Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, etc in order to do business with these nations
 
sv.
sv.
If some people have a problem with accepting English as a unifying language, that's their problem. This is what I meant when I said Sanskrit is dead. Not trying to ridicule or being hostile, just stating a fact. Hindus have moved to various other countries. English is the language of communication even within India where people don't speak Hindi.
 
TheLittleNaruto
TheLittleNaruto
@sv. :-(
 
RamAbloh
RamAbloh
5:18 PM
@sv. "The whole purpose of this site is to convert Sanskrit texts to easily understandable answers in English." It is one thing to explain and interpret Sanskrit texts in English, but it is another thing to presume that English translations can replace Sanskrit originals... dozens of western Indologists have been trying, and stumbled and failed because they recognize the nuances and subtleties of Sanskrit cannot be translated...
... they need to be experienced and imbibed through native experience. @sv.
 
sv.
sv.
@RamAbloh Then the problem needs to be corrected by translating correctly.
 
RamAbloh
RamAbloh
@sv. you are obviously in denial... very clearly
 
sv.
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@RamAbloh I don't blame you, because I feel the same way about you :)
English is the future, this site and Quora are proof :)
 
TheLittleNaruto
TheLittleNaruto
That's a myth bro
Now you have got translator device.
 
sv.
sv.
With Vedas, to complicate matters further, I see different schools interpreting Vedas differently. And everyone says theirs is the correct interpretation.
 
RamAbloh
RamAbloh
5:22 PM
@sv. I'm glad Israel did not have defeatist people like you, otherwise they would never have revived Hebrew and united their nation under it
 
sv.
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@TheLittleNaruto For what? and how many are using it?
 
TheLittleNaruto
TheLittleNaruto
@sv. at least my friend use it to communicate in Europian country.
 
sv.
sv.
@RamAbloh How big is Israel again? What's its population?
 
RamAbloh
RamAbloh
@sv. That's not even a point of debate... the more serious problem was that Hebrew was totally and absolutely dead, and the Jews came from all sorts of different countries... whereas in India, all the Indian languages are already based in Sanskrit... it's many orders of magnitude easier in India than Israel's situation
 
sv.
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@RamAbloh Israel solution will not work India. Some people are not ready to accept even Hindi.
 
RamAbloh
RamAbloh
5:26 PM
@sv. bro... none of this matters... if people have sold out, then logic and facts don't matter...
@sv. the erosion of native values was a purposeful project of the British... i guess they can feel happy looking at you bro
 
sv.
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@RamAbloh values and culture are always changing .. we keep the good .. leave the bad behind.
"We must mix with other nations and take from them whatever good they have to give us. It is our exclusiveness, our unwillingness to learn from foreign nations which is mainly responsible for our present degradation. We considered ourselves to be the elect of heaven, and superior to the nations of the earth in all respects. We regarded them as barbarians, their touch as pollution, their knowledge as worse than ignorance. We lived in a world of our own creation."
 
RamAbloh
RamAbloh
@sv. yeah this is exactly what the British wanted Indians to say :)
@sv. OK, I have not problem with any of that... where does it say that to mix with other nations, we must uproot our deepest roots?
 
sv.
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I mean this is better than saying Ancient Indians had Pushpaka Vimanas and stuff :)
 
RamAbloh
RamAbloh
@sv. No need to say any of that..
@sv. I love English....
@sv. I love English for the power with which I can use it to propagate Sanskrit :)
 
sv.
sv.
@RamAbloh Good to know. I love English too but not as much as Sanskrit maybe because I don't understand Sanskrit well.
 
RamAbloh
RamAbloh
5:33 PM
@sv. I love to use my command over English to show that even the best English translations still cannot capture the subtleties of the Sanskrit original
@sv. Aha! we have hit upon something :)
@sv. no worries buddy... I also started from zero... we all need to start somewhere... maybe you can take Sanskrit courses?
 
sv.
sv.
@RamAbloh :) Anyway, Nice chatting with you. Catch up with you later.
 
RamAbloh
RamAbloh
@sv. Haha... ok :)
 
sv.
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@RamAbloh Not sure if I'd be interested. The only reason I may want to learn Sanskrit is to understand untranslated works. As a practical need. I believe all scriptures/stories are stories meant to bring out the goodness in humans. When the message becomes secondary and the language becomes primary, it becomes worrying.
 
RamAbloh
RamAbloh
@sv. No I get that... the message is most important... but again, the message is only as good as the medium of expression... if the core fundamental concepts in the message have been developed in a specific medium, and the cultural framework of the message is so unique and far removed from other media, then there is so much that is lost if we rely only on messages translated in media other than the original
 
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Q: Are Vaishnavism, Shaivism, etc, which encouraged sectarian attitude, contrary to Rig Vedic principles, anti- Hindu or anti-sanatana Dharma?

srimannarayana k vRig Veda states that there is only ONE BRAHMAN (RV II.1), though attributed different epithets like Indra, Vishnu, Rudra,etc, to denote different actions of the same Almighty. The same was reiterated in RV I.164.46 as एकं सद विप्रा बहुधा वदन्त्यग्निं - Though it is One, inspired poets speak of i...

vaishnavism rig-veda shaivism anti-sanatana-dharma anti-hindu
 

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