SAMUDRA GUPTA The Gupta Age began with the founding of the Gupta dynasty by Chandra Gupta I. He was not the first of the family to rule, but the first to assume the title Maharajadhiraja (Supreme King of Great Kings) and make it stick. This was around in 320 A. D. when he formed a…
KANISHKA The life of Kanishka, one of the great kings of ancient India, is documented by Chinese sources, inscriptions and coins. The date of Kanishka was the subject of a two-day seminar in 1913 which fixed it at 58 A. D. The genesis of a debate among historians may never cease. The traditional date of…
ASHOKA THE GREAT The date of Asoka’s birth is not known, and not many historians are brave enough to hazard a guess. What is known is that he was the grandson of Chandragupta who founded the Maurya dynasty in approximately 324 B. C. (not long after Alexander left India) and the son of Bindusara, the…
CHANAKYA The story of Chanakya (or Kautilya or Visnugupta), the author of the Arthashastra might more appropriately belong in the Part which contains sketches of illustrious writers, both ancient and modern. However, his life and work is so closely identified with that of Chandragupta Maurya that it may fit better here. His origin, like that…
CHANDRAGUPTA MAURYA The origin of Chandragupta is obscure, and documentation on it comes from varied sources: Greek and Roman historians, the Puranas, Pali chronicles from Sri Lanka, and Jain and Buddhist tradition. Even the Sanskrit play Mudrarakshasa contains reference to him as being vrishala (of low birth, a sudra); however, this term can also mean…
ALEXANDER THE GREAT 356-323 B. C. Alexander III, king of Macedonia, was born in 356 B. C. at Pella in Macedonia. He died thirty-three years later (13 June 323) in Persia and is known to history as Alexander the Great. As a teenager his tutor was Aristotle who imbued him with a love of Greek…
॥ श्रीहनुमद्रक्षास्तोत्रम् ॥ HANUMAN RAKSHA STOTRAM वामे करे वैरिभिदं वहन्तं शैलं परे शृङ्खलहारटङ्कम् । ददानमच्छाच्छसुवर्णवर्णं भजे ज्वलत्कुण्डलमाञ्जनेयम् ॥ १ ॥ पद्मरागमणिकुण्डलत्विषा पाटलीकृतकपोलमस्तकम् । दिव्यहेमकदलीवनान्तरे भावयामि पवमाननन्दनम् ॥ २ ॥ उद्यदादित्यसङ्काशमुदारभुजविक्रमम् । कन्दर्पकोटिलावण्यं सर्वविद्याविशारदम् ॥ ३ ॥ श्रीरामहृदयानन्दं भक्तकल्पमहीरुहम् । अभयं वरदं दोर्भ्यां कलये मारुतात्मजम् ॥ ४ ॥ वामहस्ते महाकृच्छ्रदशास्यकरमर्दनम् । उद्यद्वीक्षणकोदण्डं हनूमन्तं विचिन्तयेत् ॥ ५…
॥ श्रीहनुमद्वन्दनम् ॥ अञ्जनानन्दनं वीरं जानकीशोकनाशनम् । कपीशमक्षहन्तारं वन्दे लङ्काभयङ्करम् ॥ १ ॥ अञ्जनीगर्भसम्भूत कपीन्द्रसचिवोत्तम । रामप्रिय नमस्तुभ्यं हनूमन् रक्ष सर्वदा ॥ २ ॥ अतुलितबलधामं स्वर्णशैलाभदेहं दनुजवनकृशानुं ज्ञानिनामग्रगण्यम् । सकलगुणनिधानं वानराणामधीशं रघुपतिप्रियभक्तं वातजातं नमामि ॥ ३ ॥ अपराजित पिङ्गाक्ष नमस्ते राजपूजित । दीने मयि दयां कृत्वा मम दुःखं विनाशय ॥ ४ ॥ अशेषलङ्कापतिसैन्यहन्ता श्रीरामसेवाचरणैककर्ता ।…
॥ श्री हनुमद्वाडवानलस्तोत्रम् ॥ श्रीगणेशाय नमः । ॐ अस्य श्रीहनुमद्वाडवानलस्तोत्रमन्त्रस्य श्रीरामचन्द्र ऋषिः, श्रीवडवानलहनुमान् देवता, मम समस्तरोगप्रशमनार्थं, आयुरारोग्यैश्वर्याभिवृद्ध्यर्थं, समस्तपापक्षयार्थं, सीतारामचन्द्रप्रीत्यर्थं च हनुमद्वाडवानलस्तोत्रजपमहं करिष्ये ॥ ॐ ह्रां ह्रीं ॐ नमो भगवते श्री महाहनुमते प्रकटपराक्रम सकलदिङ्मण्डलयशोवितानधवलीकृतजगत्त्रितय वज्रदेह रुद्रावतार लङ्कापुरीदहन उमाअमलमन्त्र उदधिबन्धन दशशिरःकृतान्तक सीताश्वसन वायुपुत्र अञ्जनीगर्भसम्भूत श्रीरामलक्ष्मणानन्दकर कपिसैन्यप्राकार सुग्रीवसाह्य रणपर्वतोत्पाटन कुमारब्रह्मचारिन् गभीरनाद सर्वपापग्रहवारण सर्वज्वरोच्चाटन डाकिनीविध्वंसन ॐ ह्रां ह्रीं ॐ…
[ad name=”HTML”] .. हनुमान चालीसा – अर्थ .. Doha With the dust of Guru’s lotus feet, I fiirst clean the mirror of my heart and then narrrate the sacred glory of Sri Ramachandra, the supreme among the Raghu dynasty, the giver of four fold attainments of life. (The fourfold attainments are Kama, Artha, Dharma, Moksha…
