Neo Buddhism is the same as early Roman Christianity and Mormonism.
Ambedkar is no different than Joseph Smith LARPING as prophet of Yahweh,
Subversive movement, same disruption.
H'tva is not an intellectual project. Its only concern is H-M coexistence, a problem its followers think can be solved by embracing modernity & its socio-political institutions. It employs all manner of tactics, from confrontation to reconciliation, without caring for intellectual consistency or coherence. Its grouse with M is that they aren't modern enough.
@KoKooffcial@Yaduvam Sponsored Bauddhas, sponsored Jainas, made an Orthodox Brahmin his Chief Minister and put him in charge of his 16 year long conquest of Vaishali.
A shrewd statesman with no particular Sampradayic allegiance, any claims beyond this cannot be substantiated
It will never stop being funny to me the way 25 year old Karna decided that the thing he wanted to dedicate his life to was his beef with a 14 year old
Karna chose the wrong side primarily out of envy toward Arjuna. He was personally offered a chance to switch sides by God Himself(Krishna), who offered him the throne of hastinapura & kingship as the elder brother of pandavas but karna was so blind in his envy of arjuna & personal grudges that he refused. As for "muh kavach kundal", it wasn't some caste conspiracy trick. Karna knowingly gave his armor to Indra(disguised as a brahman) out of his virtue of dana, not some victimhood & in return received Indra's powerful Vasavi Shakti weapon. Forget academic scrutiny, your claim won't even stand up to the scrutiny of ordinary people. So keep selling your snake oil, no one is buying it
@Jayasimha108 The easiest explanation is that his understanding of the concept of religion is still based on Protestantism and all his exposure to Buddhism, Hinduism and Paganism (heathenry?) hasn’t changed that
@chubbybirbster Decipherment of Brahmi aside, all Puranas contain Mauryan genealogies, including Ashoka. Literally no one forget him, it’s just that until Prinsep he was viewed by Indologists as another Hindoo delusion
@agnimaan Independence is not a question of ownership, but whether the body applying them has vested interest in the conclusions
Horrific epistemic standards btw⬇️
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One of the worst things to happen to Dharma is the death of Purva Mimamsa and the exegesis mechanisms it developed
The loss of Hetu in particular has been particularly disastrous, not a coincidence the ballooning of texts and zealotry only comes after it ceases to be standalone