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Yajurveda 13.42

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Someone asked me to refer to Yajurveda 13.42. It meant 42nd Mantra in 13th Adhyay / chapter. I tried searching for the same. I found the verse as this: Vatasya jutim varunasya nabhimashwam jagyanam sarirasya madhye. shishum nadinaam harim-adribudhnam agne ma hinsih parame vyoman. (Sorry if some spelling is wrong; I copied this from Sanskrit) While searching on the net, I found one site where someone had written that Yajurveda 13.42 says this: "Do not kill the horse." And hence the person claimed that this verse proves that Hindus used to kill horses in the Yajurveda period! But the actual meaning of this verse is this: He (Agne) Tejaswin vidwan! Aap (parme vyomen) sarva vyapt uttam akash me (vatasya) vayu ke (madhye) madhya me (jutim) veg roop (ashwam) ashwa ko (Sarirasya) jalmay (varunasya) uttam samudra ke (nabhim) bandhan ko aur (nadinam) nadiyon ke prabhav se (jagyanam) prakat hue (shishum) balak ke tulya vartmaan (rahim) neel varn yukt (adribuddhnam) sukshm megh ko (ma) ...
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Touching Paras

He knew something was wrong. Or at least something had changed. It showed in the way Paras behaved. But he was not sure what could be done to correct the way things were going on For some months now, whenever he returned to home, Paras ran towards him. Not that he never ran to him before, but now he felt Paras was doing so because he felt lonely. And he feared it would be terribly tough for a kid of four to feel lonely Seema was always a bit more mod and advanced than him. Was it that had attracted him towards her? Anyways, this was not relevant now. What mattered now was the wellbeing of their 'family'. And he would do anything for his. Even now, it was time to act. But most difficult was to decide: where and how On Sunday, they had gone to the waterfall after about two months. While they enjoyed every moment in and out of water, something happened on the returned journey. The engine of their car started getting overheated. At one point, he had to stop the car and they just wa...
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MF Hussain Issue

A very interesting Open Letter written by Dr Mrs Hilda Raja, addressed to our Press: An Open Letter to N Ram, Editor in Chief, ‘The Hindu’ 03/03/2010 http://hildaraja.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/leter-to-the-editor-in-chief-of-the-hindu/
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