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3000y old, but so so fresh. 220 masterpieces from Sanskrit and Prakrit. Advice, intrigue, flirtation, quarrels, laughs, yearning and letting go.
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Suhas Mahesh
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Suhas Mahesh
@suhasm
I play with photons & electrons @SchmidtFellows @UofT
Prev: @OxfordPhysics @rhodes_trust
Married to science. Affair with literature. Flings with philosophy
Toronto
Joined November 2008
- King Bhoja hears news of war as he's composing his champu-ramayana. He decides to finish the yuddha-kanda after taking inspiration from battle. He never returns. (champu-ramayana is still incomplete)
- these guys think hardware means building a juicer, friend. early in my PhD, I did 500 nm UV lithography to study photon recycling in semiconductors; experiments would only work in winter because of weird thermal expansion/humidity effects. this is hard stuff.so asml makes 25 machines a year at like $300M each, every good fab is completely dependent on them, and you're telling me no one in the startup world is crazy enough to try to compete? this is one of the main ai supply chain bottlenecks
- In the 1950s, Raghuvira compiled the granddaddy of all English-Sanskrit dictionaries on little cards. He died in a car accident in 1963; it was never printed. 60y later, it's being printed in 9 vols 🎊🎉 Should be available in march.
- Kashmiri poet Bilhana cries bitterly at the gates of Dhara nagara after realizing king Bhoja passed away before he could meet him (~1000 CE)
- "This idea came out of his ass" Delightful when 21st century slang pops up in 1000 year old texts.
- our only window into how the streets of ancient india sounded: bazaar scene in prakrit novel kuvalayamala (800 CE) some 20 langs are featured, including tajika (=arabic)
- My interview in Sanskrit on DD News todayमिलिए ऑक्सफोर्ड के युवा भौतिक विज्ञानी सुहास महेश से जो संस्कृत में रचते हैं रसपूर्ण कविताएं #Sanskrit ▶️youtu.be/tvB_ZM1WAic
- When Nazi prisoners outsmarted the guards with letters in Sanskrit 📜🔥
- Think yourself a Zen person? Visit one of these manuscript libraries to unlock unknown levels of blinding rage 🧵from experience.
thehindu.com/news/national/… Government plans law on protection of Indian manuscripts - "Prakrit was the language of the common people, while Sanskrit was the language of the elites." Both were the language of elites for most of history.
