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President, Vice President and Prime Minister Greet the Nation
May, 2013 Vol. No. 153 Ahimsa Foundation in World Over + 1 Lakh The Only Jain E-Magazine Community Service for 13th Continuous Years Readership PRESIDENT, VICE PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER GREET THE NATION Delivering the message to the nation on the eve of Mahavir Jayanti, President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Vice President Hamid Ansari greeted the nation. In his address to the nation, President Pranab Mukherjee expressed his heartiest greetings and good wishes to the people of India and to the Jain community in particular. Recalling the noble teachings of Lord Mahavira, Pranab Mukherjee appealed to people to give up violence in thought, word and deed and to always stick to the path of non-violence. Vice president Hamid Ansari in his message to the country said that Mahavir’s teachings of following the right belief and right conduct for the sake of human salvation is considered the most significant teaching forever. Requesting the people to follow the footsteps of Lord Mahavir, Ansari said that people should take the determination to follow his message in order to create a peaceful, non-violent and compassionate society. In his message to the people on the occasion, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, that, the noble philosophy of Mahavir is as relevant today with increasing incidents of crime and violence against vulnerable sections. The Prime Minister appealed to bring peace, prosperity and happiness to all countrymen. MAHAVIR JAYANTI GREETING FROM POPE BENEDICT'S OFFICE, VATICAN CITY Dear Jain Friends, 1. The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue extends warm greetings and felicitations as you devoutly commemorate, on 23rd April this year, the Birth Anniversary of „Tirthankar’ Vardhaman Mahavir. -
Constructing the Seventh Century
COLLÈGE DE FRANCE – CNRS CENTRE DE RECHERCHE D’HISTOIRE ET CIVILISATION DE BYZANCE TRAVAUX ET MÉMOIRES 17 constructing the seventh century edited by Constantin Zuckerman Ouvrage publié avec le concours de la fondation Ebersolt du Collège de France et de l’université Paris-Sorbonne Association des Amis du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance 52, rue du Cardinal-Lemoine – 75005 Paris 2013 PREFACE by Constantin Zuckerman The title of this volume could be misleading. “Constructing the 7th century” by no means implies an intellectual construction. It should rather recall the image of a construction site with its scaffolding and piles of bricks, and with its plentiful uncovered pits. As on the building site of a medieval cathedral, every worker lays his pavement or polishes up his column knowing that one day a majestic edifice will rise and that it will be as accomplished and solid as is the least element of its structure. The reader can imagine the edifice as he reads through the articles collected under this cover, but in this age when syntheses abound it was not the editor’s aim to develop another one. The contributions to the volume are regrouped in five sections, some more united than the others. The first section is the most tightly knit presenting the results of a collaborative project coordinated by Vincent Déroche. It explores the different versions of a “many shaped” polemical treatise (Dialogica polymorpha antiiudaica) preserved—and edited here—in Greek and Slavonic. Anti-Jewish polemics flourished in the seventh century for a reason. In the centuries-long debate opposing the “New” and the “Old” Israel, the latter’s rejection by God was grounded in an irrefutable empirical proof: God had expelled the “Old” Israel from its promised land and given it to the “New.” In the first half of the seventh century, however, this reasoning was shattered, first by the Persian conquest of the Holy Land, which could be viewed as a passing trial, and then by the Arab conquest, which appeared to last. -
How Could Phenological Records from the Chinese Poems of the Tang and Song Dynasties
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2020-122 Preprint. Discussion started: 28 September 2020 c Author(s) 2020. CC BY 4.0 License. How could phenological records from the Chinese poems of the Tang and Song Dynasties (618-1260 AD) be reliable evidence of past climate changes? Yachen Liu1, Xiuqi Fang2, Junhu Dai3, Huanjiong Wang3, Zexing Tao3 5 1School of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Xi’an University, Xi’an, 710065, China 2Faculty of Geographical Science, Key Laboratory of Environment Change and Natural Disaster MOE, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China 3Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), Beijing, 100101, China 10 Correspondence to: Zexing Tao ([email protected]) Abstract. Phenological records in historical documents have been proved to be of unique value for reconstructing past climate changes. As a literary genre, poetry reached its peak period in the Tang and Song Dynasties (618-1260 AD) in China, which could provide abundant phenological records in this period when lacking phenological observations. However, the reliability of phenological records from 15 poems as well as their processing methods remains to be comprehensively summarized and discussed. In this paper, after introducing the certainties and uncertainties of phenological information in poems, the key processing steps and methods for deriving phenological records from poems and using them in past climate change studies were discussed: -
MEDIEVAL DAMASCUS Arabic Book Culture, Library Culture and Reading Culture Is Significantly Enriched.’ Li Guo, University of Notre Dame and MEDIEVAL
PLURALITY KONRAD HIRSCHLER ‘This is a tour de force of ferocious codex dissection, relentless bibliographical probing and imaginative reconstructive storytelling. Our knowledge of medieval MEDIEVAL DAMASCUS DAMASCUS MEDIEVAL Arabic book culture, library culture and reading culture is significantly enriched.’ Li Guo, University of Notre Dame AND MEDIEVAL The first documented insight into the content and DIVERSITY structure of a large-scale medieval Arabic library The written text was a pervasive feature of cultural practices in the medieval Middle East. At the heart of book circulation stood libraries that experienced a rapid expansion from the DAMASCUS twelfth century onwards. While the existence of these libraries is well known, our knowledge of their content and structure has been very limited as hardly any medieval Arabic catalogues have been preserved. This book discusses the largest and earliest medieval library of the PLURALITY AND Middle East for which we have documentation – the Ashrafiya library in the very centre of IN AN Damascus – and edits its catalogue. The catalogue shows that even book collections attached to Sunni religious institutions could hold very diverse titles, including Muʿtazilite theology, DIVERSITY IN AN Shiʿite prayers, medical handbooks, manuals for traders, stories from the 1001 Nights and texts extolling wine consumption. ARABIC LIBRARY ARABIC LIBRARY Listing over two thousand books the Ashrafiya catalogue is essential reading for anybody interested in the cultural and intellectual history of Arabic societies. -
Module 1A: Uttar Pradesh History
Module 1a: Uttar Pradesh History Uttar Pradesh State Information India.. The Gangetic Plain occupies three quarters of the state. The entire Capital : Lucknow state, except for the northern region, has a tropical monsoon climate. In the Districts :70 plains, January temperatures range from 12.5°C-17.5°C and May records Languages: Hindi, Urdu, English 27.5°-32.5°C, with a maximum of 45°C. Rainfall varies from 1,000-2,000 mm in Introduction to Uttar Pradesh the east to 600-1,000 mm in the west. Uttar Pradesh has multicultural, multiracial, fabulous wealth of nature- Brief History of Uttar Pradesh hills, valleys, rivers, forests, and vast plains. Viewed as the largest tourist The epics of Hinduism, the Ramayana destination in India, Uttar Pradesh and the Mahabharata, were written in boasts of 35 million domestic tourists. Uttar Pradesh. Uttar Pradesh also had More than half of the foreign tourists, the glory of being home to Lord Buddha. who visit India every year, make it a It has now been established that point to visit this state of Taj and Ganga. Gautama Buddha spent most of his life Agra itself receives around one million in eastern Uttar Pradesh, wandering foreign tourists a year coupled with from place to place preaching his around twenty million domestic tourists. sermons. The empire of Chandra Gupta Uttar Pradesh is studded with places of Maurya extended nearly over the whole tourist attractions across a wide of Uttar Pradesh. Edicts of this period spectrum of interest to people of diverse have been found at Allahabad and interests. -
Your Reputation Deserves Typar Landscape Fabric
YOUR REPUTATION DESERVES TYPAR LANDSCAPE FABRIC. Your reputation can be jeopardized by little to block weeds under decks and in planters, to prevent things. Like weeds. heaving of bricks in patios and walkways, and to mini- Fight back with Typar landscape Fabric, the key to mize erosion. maintenance-free landscaping for your clients. Ask for Typar landscape Fabric for Professionals. Typar is made from rugged polypropylene fabric. It You deserve it. blocks weeds, but is porous enough to let water, air and fertilizer pass through. The result? Healthier soil and plants. Typar leaves all your landscaping projects—and your reputation—looking beautiful longer. There are plenty of other professional uses for Typar: o member of The InterTech Group FOR PROFESSIONALS The Ryan Touch. RYAN Quality equipment for lets you do the job as effectively tings and routine maintenance. So, outstanding results. with less maintenance for as many you'll reduce your downtime while Combine your turf care exper- years as the new Greensaire 24. saving service time between the tise with Ryan turf care equipment, Only with its crank and cam action greens — getting golfers back on and it's a little like working magic do tines go vertically in and out to the course quickly. on your course. Our complete line virtually eliminate side compaction comes with a long history of low- and a ridge around each hole. The Ryan tackles the big jobs, too. maintenance and high performance. result is a smoother putting surface The Ryan Renovaire® is the In fact, the only one who works and better root development. -
Scientific Analysis of 7Th- to 9Th-Century Pottery from Lundenwic
London in the Not-so-Dark Ages Lyn Blackmore Londinium Lundenwic 5th century urn: St Martin-in-the- Fields London Early and Middle Saxon London - coming out of the Dark Ages? 1. Background - Rural settlement c AD 400-650 - City and Lundenwic, early finds 2. The development of Lundenwic - Roman to Saxon London - Burials - Growth and organisation of Lundenwic - Trade and industry - Decline 3. Summing up Late 4th-/5th-century finds Roman riverside wall strengthened AD 388-402 St Bride’s Billingsgate bathhouse Museum of London B538 (M) Eastern cemetery Silver ingot found Western near Tower of London cemetery Early Saxon rural settlement and cemeteries Fish trap , Early Saxon finds St John Clerkenwell Roman western cemetery St Bride’s Billingsgate bathhouse St Martin-in- the-Fields Glass cone beaker and pottery pedestal beaker from the Mitcham cemetery (Clark 1989) 5th- to 6th-century pottery Chaff- and sandstone-tempered wares Emerging kingdoms, changing faith • AD 597 Augustinian mission • AD 604 St Paul’s founded • AD 616-653 East Saxon reversion to paganism • AD 653 Christianity re-established Britain c AD 600 City, near St Paul’s? Saxon finds from outside the City (pre-1983) 7th-century palm cup, The Garrick St Martin-in-the-Fields, Street ring, late found 1722 in a 7th-/early 8th- The Fetter Lane sword sarcophagus burial century pommel, 8th-century © British Museum © British Museum © British Museum Early excavations in Westminster The Savoy, Strand, 1930s From Clark 1989 The Treasury, 1960s Arundel House, Strand, 1970s Lundenwic as understood 1984 From The London Archaeologist From Popular Archaeology Middle Saxon London, as understood c 1990 Vince 1990 Map from Clark 1989 2003 2012 2004 2013 Lundenwic ‘discovered’ 1984 First excavation at Jubilee Hall, 1985 Royal Opera House Since then over 80 excavations and watching briefs carried out Early and Middle Saxon London - coming out of the Dark Ages? 1. -
Newsletter of the Centre of Jaina Studies
Jaina Studies NEWSLETTER OF THE CENTRE OF JAINA STUDIES March 2008 Issue 3 CoJS Newsletter • March 2008 • Issue 3 Centre for Jaina Studies' Members _____________________________________________________________________ SOAS MEMBERS EXTERNAL MEMBERS Honorary President Paul Dundas Professor J Clifford Wright (University of Edinburgh) Vedic, Classical Sanskrit, Pali, and Prakrit Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit language and literature; comparative philology Dr William Johnson (University of Cardiff) Chair/Director of the Centre Jainism; Indian religion; Sanskrit Indian Dr Peter Flügel Epic; Classical Indian religions; Sanskrit drama. Jainism; Religion and society in South Asia; Anthropology of religion; Religion and law; South Asian diaspora. ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Professor Lawrence A. Babb John Guy Dr Daud Ali (Amherst College) (Metropolitan Mueum of Art) History of medieval South India; Chola courtly culture in early medieval India Professor Nalini Balbir Professor Phyllis Granoff (Sorbonne Nouvelle) (Yale University) Professor Ian Brown The modern economic and political Dr Piotr Balcerowicz Dr Julia Hegewald history of South East Asia; the economic (University of Warsaw) (University of Heidelberg) impact of the inter-war depression in South East Asia Nick Barnard Professor Rishabh Chandra Jain (Victoria and Albert Museum) (Muzaffarpur University) Dr Whitney Cox Sanskrit literature and literary theory, Professor Satya Ranjan Banerjee Professor Padmanabh S. Jaini Tamil literature, intellectual (University of Kolkata) (UC Berkeley) and cultural history of South India, History of Saivism Dr Rohit Barot Dr Whitney M. Kelting (University of Bristol) (Northeastern University Boston) Professor Rachel Dwyer Indian film; Indian popular culture; Professor Bhansidar Bhatt Dr Kornelius Krümpelmann Gujarati language and literature; Gujarati (University of Münster) (University of Münster) Vaishnavism; Gujarati diaspora; compara- tive Indian literature. -
(Died 704) Ælfric, Abbot of Eynsham
People ADALBERO, BISHOP OF LAON (FRANCE; 977-1030) Adalbero was very involved in the politics of the end of Carolingian dynasty in Western Frankia and its replacement by the Capetians, with the accession of Hugh Capet as king in 987. He was one of the writers who expressed the concept of society divided between the three orders. ADOMNÁN , ABBOT OF IONA (DIED 704) Adomnán was the ninth abbot of the monastery of Iona, founded on the island of that name in the Hebrides by Columba. He is particularly noted by Bede in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People for having promoted the Roman dating of Easter. His best-known work is his Life of St Columba. ÆLFRIC, ABBOT OF EYNSHAM (1005-C. 1010) Ælfric joined the monastery of Cerne Abbas (Dorset) around 987. He may have been in charge of the school there, and he certainly produced a series of writings, including works in Old English, principally homilies for reading and preaching and lives of saints, and a grammar of Latin written in Old English. In 1005, he became the first abbot of the reformed abbey of Eynsham near Oxford, where he died around 1010. ÆTHELEBERHT I, KING OF KENT (DIED 616) Ætheleberht, who had married the Christian, Frankish princess, Bertha, some while before, welcomed the mission of St Augustine when it arrived in Kent in 597. He permitted the conversion of his subjects, and was himself converted, perhaps soon after Augustine's arrival. Bede identified him as one of the seven overlords of southern England (Bede, Eccl. History, II.15) and attributed to him a code of laws 'in the manner of the Romans', which is extant. -
Lives of the British Saints
LIVES OF THE BRITISH SAINTS Vladimir Moss Copyright: Vladimir Moss, 2009 1. SAINTS ACCA AND ALCMUND, BISHOPS OF HEXHAM ......................5 2. SAINT ADRIAN, ABBOT OF CANTERBURY...............................................8 3. SAINT ADRIAN, HIEROMARTYR BISHOP OF MAY and those with him ....................................................................................................................................9 4. SAINT AIDAN, BISHOP OF LINDISFARNE...............................................11 5. SAINT ALBAN, PROTOMARTYR OF BRITAIN.........................................16 6. SAINT ALCMUND, MARTYR-KING OF NORTHUMBRIA ....................20 7. SAINT ALDHELM, BISHOP OF SHERBORNE...........................................21 8. SAINT ALFRED, MARTYR-PRINCE OF ENGLAND ................................27 9. SAINT ALPHEGE, HIEROMARTYR ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ..................................................................................................................................30 10. SAINT ALPHEGE “THE BALD”, BISHOP OF WINCHESTER...............41 11. SAINT ASAPH, BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH’S ................................................42 12. SAINTS AUGUSTINE, LAURENCE, MELLITUS, JUSTUS, HONORIUS AND DEUSDEDIT, ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY ..............................43 13. SAINTS BALDRED AND BALDRED, MONKS OF BASS ROCK ...........54 14. SAINT BATHILD, QUEEN OF FRANCE....................................................55 15. SAINT BEDE “THE VENERABLE” OF JARROW .....................................57 16. SAINT BENIGNUS (BEONNA) -
'Abd Al-Rahman Ibn Khalid's Invasion, Saporio
Appendix three: Arab Grand Strategy, 663-669 439 APPENDIX THREE ARAB GRAND STRatEGY, 663-669: ‘ABD AL-RaHMAN IBN KHALID’S INVASION, SaPORIOS’ REVOLT, AND THE BattLE FOR ANatOLIA Arab and Byzantine activities between the end of the first Arab civil war in 661 and the “first” Arab naval expedition against *Constantinople in the 670s have received little attention and lie in relative obscurity. According to older works on events in Anatolia, the raids reported those years were little out of the ordinary— rapid Arab advances across the Taurus range to take and destroy one or two urban settlements, a slightly unusual attempt to hold Amorion over winter, and a rather obscure Byzantine counterattack. The emphasis is on slow attrition, typical of Arab-Byzantine warfare during the Umayyad period, which inexorably resulted in the decline of urban civilization in central Anatolia. Lilie in contrast recognizes the ultimate Arab goal of capturing Constantinople, but following Greek and Ara- bic sources, his reconstruction of Arab strategy appears somewhat diffuse. Only Treadgold links Arab raids to political developments in Byzantium, most notably the revolt, traditionally dated to 668, of the stratēgos Saporios, general of the newly created Armeniac military command, later strategis. Following this dating, and placing an earlier Arab raid against Pontic Koloneia trather than Cappadocian Koloneia, Treadgold constructs an image of an exasperated stratēgos who turned to his tormenters for support.1 These reconstructions are based on the sources traditionally -
Jainism in Medieval India (1300-1800) Prologue
JAINISM IN MEDIEVAL INDIA (1300-1800) PROLOGUE - English Translation by S.M. Pahedia It is essential to weigh the contemporary social and political background while considering the conditions and thriving of Jainism in mediaeval India. During this period, Indian society was traditionally divided into Hindu and Jain religion. Buddhism had well-nigh disappeared from Indian scenario. The Indian socio-cultural infrastructure faced sufficient change owing to the influence of Islam that infiltrated into India through the medium of the Arab, the Turk, the Mughal and the Afghan attacks. Though the new entrants too were by and large divided into Sunni, Shiya and Sufi sects, they were all bound firmly to Islam. Ofcourse, Islam brought in new life-values and life-styles in Indian life owing to which the inevitability for reconsidering the shape of social structure and traditional-philosophico facets was felt, perhaps very badly. And this very condition caused rise of some new sects like Bhakti, Saint and Sikh invigorated primarily by the Vedantist, Ramanuja, Madhav, Nimbark, Ramanand Chaitanya, Vallabha etc. With this cultural background, centuries old Digambara and Shavetambara amnay (tradition) was telling its own separate tale. Fore more than one reason, these branches were further divided into sects, sub-sects, ganas , gachchas , anvayas , sanghas & C. as time rolled by. Same way, Bhattaraka, Chaityavasi, Taranpanth, Sthanakvasi practices came into view introducing their own religious formalities, life-fashions, code of conduct, and to some extent the philosophical views. Such being the condition, Jainism of medioeval India witnessed its wide extension. At the same time, it met with certain difficulty also.