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... THE CURSE OF KALI Historical Drama set in India By Audrey Blankenhagen ... ...a By Audrey Blankenhagen ‘GOD IS LOVE, IS THIS THE FINAL MESSAGE OF INDIA’ E.M. Forster, 1924 This bo... ... By Audrey Blankenhagen ‘GOD IS LOVE, IS THIS THE FINAL MESSAGE OF INDIA’ E.M. Forster, 1924 This book ... ...r dead, is coincidental. © 2002 by Audrey Blankenhagen. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retriev... ...stigations, 1835 Major General Sir William Henry (‘Thuggee’) Sleeman Sleeman: ‘Are you afraid of the spirits you murder?’ Thuggee: ‘Never, th... ...itual murders and primeval sexuality, had long evaded the law, because the loss of a traveller in India could be attributed to a wild animal or some ... ...URSE OF KALI 15 ‘The Trust is administered by a legal firm in India, who refuses to divulge the names of Chandra Lal’s heirs. However, whatever the... ...for the guests to wash and dry their fingers. Gavin guided Helen through the menu and the exotic names of the delicious dishes. Helen was glad that... ...ore, the bungalows dotted about the Audrey Blankenhagen 278 hills belonging to the British had names like “Rose Cottage”, “Beech Croft”, and “The...

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...THE period covered by the inception, the publication, and the completion of the Sacred Books of the East exactly coincides with the thirty-four years that I have spent in Oxford. When I matriculated, Professor Max Muller, the editor of the series, was about to begin work on the first volume, whic...

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...Habeltt sua lata libelli-not only after they have been published, but sometimes even before they are printed. It was in the spring of 1894 that the late Professor Max Muller first suggested to me that I should compile a General Index of the names and subject-matter for the complete series of the Sacred Books of the East. Such an Index, he thought, would...

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...r, 15. THE UPANI~ADS, in 2 vols. : F. Max Miiller. 2, 14. THE SACRED LAWS OF THE ARYAS, in 2 vols.: Georg Biihler. 3, 16, 27, 2S, 39, 40. THE SACRED... ...RYAS, in 2 vols.: Georg Biihler. 3, 16, 27, 2S, 39, 40. THE SACRED BOO;KS OF CHINA, in 6 vols. : J ames Legge. 4, 23,3 1 . THE ZEND-AVESTA, in 3 vo... ... W. West. 6, g. THE QUR'AN, in 2 vols. : E. H. Palmer. 7. THE INSTITUTES OF VI~~U : Julius J olly. S. THE BHAGAVADGiTA with the Sanatsujatiya and t... ...ller & J. Takakusu. 50. INDEX : M. Winternitz. A GENERAL INDEX TO THE NAMES AND SUBJECT-MATTER OF THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST COMPILED BY M ... ...F THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST COMPILED BY M . WINTERNITZ PROFESSOR OF INDIAN PHILOLOGY AND OF ETHNOLOGY IN THE GERMAN UNIVERSITY OF PRAGUE WITH... ...a profound influence on the civilization of the continent of Asia. Of the Indian religions the Vedic-Brah­ manic system here claims twenty-one volume... ...as been most successfully accom­ plished by the compiler, now Professor of Indian Philology and of Ethnology in the German University of Prague. The... ...uller first suggested to me that I should compile a General Index of the names and subject-matter for the complete series of the Sacred Books of th... ...if the Index was to be of any use it would have to be, not a bare list of names and important words, with strings of references which no one would h...

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...Fuzzy theory is one of the best tools to analyze data, when the data under study is an unsupervised one, involving uncertainty coupled with imprecision. However, fuzzy theory cannot cater to analyzing the data involved with indeterminacy. The o...

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... FUZZY AND NEUTROSOPHIC ANALYSIS OF WOMEN WITH HIV/AIDS With Specific Reference To Rural Tamil Na... ...S OF WOMEN WITH HIV/AIDS With Specific Reference To Rural Tamil Nadu in India W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy Department of Mathematic... ... Rural Tamil Nadu in India W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Chennai – 60003... ...ment of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Chennai – 600036, India e-mail: vasantha@iitm.ac.in web: http://mat.iitm.ac.in/~wbv ... ...c.in web: http://mat.iitm.ac.in/~wbv Florentin Smarandache Department of Mathematics University of New Mexico Gallup, NM 87301, USA e-mail... ...t neglected in our male dominated society. Further, after the Aryans entered India, for their comfortable living they introduced and enforced on th... ...er husband’s family. But she gave us her photo and further she gave the real names of her parents. She says to prevent the spread of this disease o... ...as married at the age of 15. Her husband was uneducated. She did not give the names of her parents or of her parents-in-law. Her marriage was an arr... ...ing. She is 35 years old and her husband is 40 years old. She did not say the names of her parents or parents-in-law. Both she and her husband are ...

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This book contains a collection of Haiku poems compiled by Florentin Smarandache.

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... Stefan Benea, and refined by the author) THE SPRING Time opens the window of the moment and watches me. I am young like a beginning under the bell ... ...ind cranes bring warmth on the wing. Acacias are bursting into laughters of buds. The breeze blows from the Eastern side of my heart. Maggots are b... ...e lines a voice throws me flowers. Do you see that bird? Spring rises out of its song. Torpid under the sky, the sun has frozen and stares. Are the ... ... has collaborated in literary reviews in Romania, France, Belgium, Turkey, India, Japan, Germany, Canada, Australia, Morocco, and the United States. ... ...ernational Eminent Poet by the International Academy of Poets from Madras (India, 1991), and obtained the "Honorary Diploma in Fanciful Poetry" at the... ...ed Europe at the end of the last century and it was adopted by prestigious names in the world of literature: Ghiorghios Seferis (The Nobel Prize in 1... ...ion ­ Haiku Constellation, we discovered in Romanian literary reviews, new names from the period 1970­1989, a new wave of authors who signed haiku, ma... ...place him among Ion Pillat's worthy sucessors for this type of poem. Among names like Lucian Blaga, Virgil Teodorescu, Bazil Gruia, Ion Brad, Grigore ...

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...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...XI. The Author XXII. About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1... ...r later, the first Strowger exchange was installed with great fanfare at La Porte, Indiana. It had less than 80 subscribers. Strowger died in 1902... ...ook in the world. According to the Concordance - a compilation of the words and names in the Bible - cats are not mentioned at all. Christians a... ...r homeland and has won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. Her mother was ambassador to India in the 1960s. She is cherished by all her countrymen. ... ...ete world census was carried out in 1801. The results - China (295 million people), India (131 million), Russia (33 million), France (27 million), ... ...bloodstream. Other manic raves - such as "St. Vitus' or St. John's Dance", the names given to episodes of rheumatoid chorea - were common in la... ...with his own reflection in a pond. Presumably, this amply sums up the nature of his namesakes: narcissists. The mythological Narcissus was rejected ...

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...A compilation of quotes by U.G. Krishnamurti that can alter your life. Someone once said to his daughter who had met U.G., "Damned be the day you met this man; your life will never be the same." Whether we feel cursed or blessed, our comin...

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...The Natural State In the Words of U.G. Krishnamurti Peter Maverick Introduction 1972-... ...G. Krishnamurti Peter Maverick Introduction 1972-1980—India and Switzerland 1982—India, Switzerland and California 1983-198... ...1982—India, Switzerland and California 1983-1984—Amsterdam 1985-1990—India, Switzerland, Australia, Netherlands and U.K. 1990—Various Places ... ...1990—Various Places Publisher's Note When I read the manuscript of Peter's book, it was as though U.G. was talking through the pages. It w... ... It was wonderful to hear him without all the questions and interjections of the people who normally surround him. It felt very personal. Coming ... ... to the readers minus the peel and pips. Sunita Pant Bansal New Delhi, India 2005 Introduction Here is the end of seeking, ... ...piritual knowledge, sensual knowledge—what is the difference? We give the names to them. Fantasies about God are acceptable but fantasies about sex ... ... need for it. This absence of the movement of thought which recognizes and names things is the state of moksha. You imagine that it's something he go...

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...The Kabbalah Experience is one of the most fascinating books ever published in Kabbalah. It is a journey in time from the past to the future, in situations we might all experience at some point. Anyone who wants to learn how to make the most of every momen...

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...ALL that I have to say to thee, my venerable friend Christophilus, reduces itself to the serious and formal examination of one single point; which, in the present constitution or system of the church and the world, appears to me of the highest importance; viz. Whether the ideas which we entertain concerning the coming of Messiah, that essentia...

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...T, LONDON MDCCCXXVII THIS EDITION PUBLISHED BY J G TILLIN ENGLAND © MM Coming of Messiah Vol. 1 -ii- CONTENTS DEDICATION. ............ ............................................................................129 A CRITIQUE OF THE WORK .................................................... ............................................................................143 THE COMING OF MESSIAH...................................................... ... conclude, as well as from the emblematical character of the whole book, that if Jewish names do occur in it, as in the sealing of the tribes, and in... ...ter day, and in their flesh shall see God, the general assembly of the first born whose names are written in heaven, the church of the living God, th... ...tions of his life, his death and resurrection, but also by his appropriation of all the names and designations which had been given of him, and his ... ...bdued also Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, the Arabias, and a considerable part of India. The third beast had the appearance of a leopard or ti...

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...ughly mismatched couple find comfort and vindication in each other's arms? More importantly, can Kane and Therese's love survive the ancient vendetta of one unforgiving and powerful demon djinni? Find out that anything is possible when a devout mystical being from the old world joins forces with an urban-reared spitfire from the new? (http://www.graciecmckeever.com)...

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...Astrological aspects (conjunctions, oppositions, trines, squares, sextiles) between dates of two historical events explain their similar or opposite character. This is illustrated by the example of the Munich Conference (1938) and the birth dates of its participants. Historical repetitions connected with the 60 ye...

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...onunciation. This might raise the question whether the letters « s » and « ç » should be distinguished or not. But let's illustrate first the notions of correlation and resemblance by some examples. The resemblance between the names of (Aimé-Joseph) Darnand, head of the French Militia during the German occupation in World War II, and of the admiral (Jean Louis Xavier Fran...

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...In the history of thought and creation, the decisive events, the great and significant moments, the strongly affirmative stages - then the imposition of the optimizing novelties - have depended on the name and prestige of a personality. R...

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...In aesthetics, the paradox means the apparent resolution of an enigmatic situation (the result of such a process is the satisfaction of a distention), the emotional moving force being the unforeseen, the unexpected (which generates and also perturbs a new tension). Therefore, the...

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...TITU POPESCU THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2... ...) American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2 Titu Popescu THE AESTHETICS OF PARADOXISM (second edition) Translated from Romanian by P. Georgelin, ... ... ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microfilm International) 300 N. Zeeb Road P.O. Box 1346, Ann Arb... ...ncluded in the person’s space, keeping its content. The consecrated proper names evolve through quickly imposed habits, a large range of increments t... ... list that is, of course, always kept up to date, in order not to omit the names appeared on all the continents. We can draw the conclusion that, f... ...ream and the recollections, from a lorcian shooting script (“Spain has an Indian skin/ and the blood like a tinn- tinn”) to the melancholic animation... ...the intellectual and soul experience out of which it was born and whom it names, even if not exhaustively.) And, in fact, a soul richness able to exp... ...he Class of Paradox”, in <Bulletin of pure and applied sciences>, Bombay, India, 1995, and in <Tempus>, Editor Geo Stroe, Bucharest, No.2 1994, and ... ...thors from: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, England, India, Israel, Eire, Italy, Romania, Russia, Spain, USA (a partial synthes...

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...Dharma as Man is an ancient story read each evening by an old man to his young son as they sit on a veranda in rural India. They read of a wise man, of the myths that grew up about him according to customs of storytellers of that era. They trace his attempts to relate his journey of personal development to live within the rhythm of the cosm...

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... Page Acknowledgements vi One Great Story 2 Our Hero Enters Our World 8 Growing in Spirit 17 Symbols of Transcendence 23 Explaining Old Stories 30 Living the Truth 41 The Great Therapist 57 Fellow-Wayfarers 66 Mara in Our Midst 74 Returning Home 87 ...

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... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...

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...In 1854 Lorrin Andrews published his Hawaiian Grammar, a standard work for many years, and even today interesting to all students of the Hawaiian language. It is now out of print, howíever, and hence difficult to secure. In 1891 Prof. William D. Alexander published his “Short Synopsis of the Hawaiian Grammar,” an excellent work for all students of t...

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...Hawaiian is one branch of the Polynesian language. It may well be regarded as a dialect of the Polynesian, others being the Samoan, Tahitian, Marquesan, Tuamotuan, and Maori dialects chiefly. There is an affinity between these dialects, some bein...

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...This third series of the Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Folklore, in its varied character, presents valuable features for antiquarian and ethnic students of Polynesia in general and Hawaii in particular. The papers included in Part I, mostl...

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...at the time, without appetite for food, they (the attendants) sought to ascertain her cravings. Then certain women came to her and asked, “What sort of illness have you that you hide yourself?” She said to them, “I do not know; (I am) simply languid. ” The women then said to her, “Let’s see; we will examine you. ” She took off her garment and they examined her body whil...

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...Preface -- 1 -- Concerning Ancient Religious Ceremonies -- 2 -- Various Heathen Prayers -- 46 -- Concerning the Construction of the Heiau -- 52 -- History of the Hawaiian Priesthood Called the Order of Sorcery -- 56 -- History of the Hawaiian Priesthood in Olden Time Called Hoomanamana -- 66 -- Explanatory Remarks—History of the Sorcery Priesthood—...