Hindu The Alternative History Excerpts (by Wendy Doniger)

 Hello Everyone !!!

This book was published in 2009 by Wendy Doniger. Here are some of the excerpts from that book.

The 3 Most Important Animals in Scriptures :

  1. Cow--   Purity, Brahmins
  2. Horse-- Power, foreign Kshatriya rulers
  3. Dog--    Pollution, lower class.

The 12 Types of Alcohol popular in Ancient India :

  1. Sura
  2. Panasa
  3. Draksha
  4. Madhuka
  5. Khajur
  6. Tala
  7. Sikhshiva
  8. Madhvika
  9. Saira
  10. Arishta
  11. Narikelaja
  12. Maireya

The 10 Vices : (by Manu)  

  1. Hunting
  2. Gambling
  3. Sleeping by day
  4. Malicious gossip
  5. Women
  6. Drunkenness
  7. Music
  8. Singing
  9. Dancing
  10. Aimless wandering

The 3 Debts every Man Owes :

  1. Study to the sages
  2. Funeral offerings to the ancestors
  3. Sacrifice to the gods.

The 5 Solutions to the 4th Addition to the 3 Aims : 

  1. The goals of sacrifice and renunciation were to be followed one at a time in sequence.
  2. The argument from plenitude holds that need  each other, to compose society as a whole, the householder to feed the renouncer, the renouncer to bless the householder. There are 2 forms of immortality, one achieved through own children and other through renunciation. 
  3. Compromise 
  4. Identification
  5. Mutual hierarchy 

The 5 Nectar in Tantra :   

  1. Male seed
  2. Urine
  3. Feces
  4. Blood
  5. Marrow

The Sanitized Interpretations of 5-M :

  1. Madya      (meditation nectar)
  2. Mamsa     (tongue of practitioner)
  3. Matsya     (breath)
  4. Mudra      (inner knowledge)
  5. Maithuna (Supreme essence) 

 

Thanks for Reading !!!


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