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Meghadūta One
Meghadūta One I’m taking a class with Antonia Ruppel reading Meghadūtam in Sanskrit, using Kale’s text. In parallel, I’m reading The Cloud of Longing: A New Translation and Eco-Aesthetic Study of Kālidāsa’s...![Oṃ In A Dictionary](https://dirk-johnson.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Om-the-sound-of-universe-wisdom-1080x675.webp)
Oṃ In A Dictionary
Oṃ (ॐ) is well known in the English speaking world, even outside of India. But all most of us know about it is that it’s an ancient sacred syllable with some sort of spiritual significance that some people chant either on it’s own or as part of...![Scansion of Mañjuśrīnāmasaṃgīti](https://dirk-johnson.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/screenshot-of-Manjusrinamasaṃgiti-Scansion-1080x616.png)
Scansion of Mañjuśrīnāmasaṃgīti
This is a scansion of the Mañjuśrīnāmasaṃgīti as initially found at http://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil.html#RLBuddh. The text is under periodic revision and is being synchronized with Alex Wayman’s Chanting the Names of Manjushri and will include further emendations from other source.
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Hades
What then did you project
upon Persephone when you
saw her simply dressed in
flowing cloth that made her
seem more naked