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History of the Matsya Kingdom

Idk if y'all are interested or not, But I am compiling the facts I found out about Matsya or not, but I am still doing this post, haha-

So basically there was this King of Chedi called Uparichara Vasu. He was a friend of Indra's, and he was so special for Indra that he was gifted a flying chariot.

Uparichara was married to this lady named Girika, with whom he had many sons, as was normal.

Now comes the creepy part. One day he was roaming around, thought of his wife and well, ejaculated out of a sudden. He scooped his semen as he felt that "it was wrong to waste the semen in a fertile time".

So he scooped it into a leaf (ew) and gave it to a bird, to give it to his wife. IDK what she was supposed to do with it, but yeah-

so the bird dropped the leaf into the water, and this fish, who was actually an Apsara cursed to be a fish, swallowed it.

Now some fishermen caught it, and they opened her stomach to see two living human babies inside. They took the kids to the King, who took the boy, and gave the girl to the chief fisherman.

This girl grows up to become Satyavati. And the boy? He is named Matsya, and is later on given a part of Chedi, where he forms his own kingdom, named after him, aka Matsya.

Now, Uparichara is Chandravanshi King, who is descended from both Yadu and Puru, like most Kings of that time.

Historically, Matsya was one of the 16 Mahajanapadas. Geographically, it is to the south of Kurujangala and Shurasena Kingdom, hence, in present day Rajasthan. Some parts might have been part of MP and UP.

Pali Literature shows Matsya Kings as descendants of the Shurasena Kingdom.

The Matsya King featured in the Mahabharata is Virat, and it is in this kingdom, that the incognito year of the story takes place. Virat has many brothers and relatives as per the story.

He is married to Sudeshna, who is referred as Kaikeyi, so she is probably from Kekaya. Her brother is Kichaka, who is one of the most powerful dudes of the time. He is the commander-in-chief of Matsya.

Virat has four children, as per the Mahabharata, three sons Shweta, Shankha and Uttar, and one daughter Uttara. The order of these children is not specified, though.

Uttar is a very important character during the Virat War, when he and Arjun go and face the Kaurava army. Dude very naturally chickens out, but doesn't take Arjuna's credit at all.

As a token of credit, Virat requests Arjun to marry his daughter, which he (thankfully) refuses. Arjun instead sets up his student with his son, and the marriage takes place.

This marriage is described in very detail, with an assortment of gifts exchanged on both sides, and such a long list of gifts. Matsya is definitely rolling in gold.

Haha, how funny, how many sites call Virat an idiot and incompetent king, when he is called just so many times. FYI, despite so many allies, the Panchala and Matsya forces form the major part of the Pandava army.

Virat is a very crucial person in the war as well, seeing how he is one of the only Maharathis from their side, apart from Drupada, Arjuna and Abhimanyu.

Uttar dies on the 1st day of the war, after a fight with Shalya. He has defeated Shalya, but instead waits to taunt him, and Shalya kills him in the meanwhile.

Angered at his brother's death, Shweta goes berserk, attacking whoever comes in his way. Bhishma kills him with the Brahmastra, and unlike his would-be nephew, Shweta does NOT survive. The Pandava army "mourn" the loss of their "hero".

Shankha dies on the fifth day, at Drona's hands, then Virat follows him in the same manner on the 15th day. The rest of the Matsyas are either killed by Drona on the 14th and 15th days, or by Ashwatthama on the night of the 18th day.

Uttara is the only surviving Matsya kid left, and her son Parikshit and his descendants, the only ones carrying the blood of the Matsyas.

BTW, by this logic, aren't Uttara and Abhimanyu cousins? Like, very distantly yes, being Chandravanshis with Puru and Yadu's blood but see-

Uparichara Vasu-> Satyavati-> Vichitraveerya->Pandu->Arjun->Abhimanyu and

Uparichara Vasu-> Matsya->Son->Son->Virat->Uttara unless Virat isn't of Arjun's generation, but Pandu's? He is mentioned as aged so much, and he and Drupada are always mentioned together-

It is possible that Virat was closer to Karna in age than the Pandavas, and Uttara can still marry Abhimanyu, as she is the youngest kid (until one of her brothers is younger than her?)

BTW, they ain't direct cousins, even by the logic I specified above, since all the human blood in Arjuna is from Kunti, not Pandu. So Abhimanyu is what....1/4 god, 3/4 Yadava(?) technically?

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are gentiles aware that you can speak out against genocide without trying to legislate the complex nuances of jewish identity from a place of total ignorance. like

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thinking abt how the power of a symbol is a function of its meaning to the user, its meaning as understood by the audience and also the wider world (including its meaning throughout time), and the degree of its reflection of reality.

we can use blue to represent alien flora bc of its closeness and yet distinction from green, the primary color of plants on earth with chlorophyll, and the fact that there are blue exotic life forms on earth that are not really but almost botanical (like mushrooms). just as an example of the reflection of reality factor.

on the other hand, a plate of eggs and bacon has strong specifically american cultural implications of a classic breakfast. the imagery is not universal. on top of that, the food could mean something deeply personal to an artist or writer's personal life that may be widely relatable or especially unique. maybe the author's sister regularly stole the bacon off their plate throughout their childhood, and bacon evokes a sense of casual familial dispute or deeper resentment.

but to an audience of another culture, eggs and bacon lose their potency, especially if for example pork is haram. and that's where localization comes in, to bring familiarity back into play, to evoke a similar symbolic resonance as intended by the source material. and yet at the same time, u can trust the audience to have if not a degree of global understanding, at least the ability to infer the meaning of a symbol without the requisite cultural background. i think walking this line is part of the fun of like, examining translations and adaptations.

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The Hindu News Paper Analysis | 25th Nov' | Boundary Dispute: Assam & Meghalaya

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Vedic Astrology : Daily Panchang – July 16th, 2024

Daily Panchang – July 16th, 2024 Samvat 2081, Ashadh Month of hindu calendar, 10th day – Dashami, Shukla Paksha. Nakshtra at the time of Sun rise in Vishakha Nakshtra till 02:13 Hrs (IST) on 17-07-2024, and Moon will Continue reading Vedic Astrology : Daily Panchang – July 16th, 2024

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Analyzing the 2024 Lok Sabha Election Results

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The Political Landscape of India: A Deep Dive into the 2024 Elections Welcome to the second part of our blog series on the 2024 Indian elections. If you haven’t read the first part, you can find it here. In this instalment, we delve into the election results, the role of the opposition, and the factors that influenced the voting patterns of the SC/ST and young voters. We also explore the…

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Hindu New Year Shri Krodhi predictions for zodiac signs

Discover what the Hindu new year, Shri Krodhi Naam Samvatsar brings for each zodiac sign. Read unique insights for each zodiac sign based on planetary positions in the year 2024-25. Also learn simple tips to improve the outlook for your sign.

I have written the general predictions for Shri Krodhi naam samvatsar, the Hindu New year in this post. And posted the video on Youtube here. Now let’s see how the new Vedic year from 9th Apr 2024 to 29th Mar 2025 is going to be for the individual Birth Moon signs. These are general results which will be modified by your personal horoscope positions. Individual specific results depend on the…

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Parallel Paths, Shared Challenges: A Comparative Analysis of Jews in Israel and Hindus in India

I thank Prime Minister @netanyahu for his phone call and providing an update on the ongoing situation. People of India stand firmly with Israel in this difficult hour. India strongly and unequivocally condemns terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) October 10, 2023 The histories of Jews in Israel and Hindus in Hindustan (India) are both rich and complex,…

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Will ‘Fascist, Hindus’ Extremist India’ Surpass China To Become the Next Superpower? Four Inconvenient Truths Make This Scenario Unlikely.

— June24, 2023 | By Graham Allison

‘World’s Most Wanted Fascist Hindu Extremist, Criminal and Butcher of Gujrat Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’ attends an Indian cultural event in Sydney on May 23, on the heels of his participation in the G-7 summit in Japan. Lisa Marree Williams/Getty Images

When India overtook China in April to become the world’s most populous nation, observers wondered: Will New Delhi surpass Beijing to become the next global superpower? India’s birth rate is almost twice that of China. And India has outpaced China in economic growth for the past two years—its GDP grew 6.1 percent last quarter, compared with China’s 4.5 percent. At first glance, the statistics seem promising.

This question has only become more relevant as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets with U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington this week. From a U.S. perspective, if India—the world’s largest democracy—really could trump China, that would be something to shout about. India is China’s natural adversary; the two countries share more than 2,000 miles of disputed, undemarcated border, where conflict breaks out sporadically. The bigger and stronger China’s competitors are in Asia, the greater the prospects for a balance of power favorable to the United States.

Yet before inhaling the narrative of a rapidly rising India too deeply, we should pause to reflect on four inconvenient truths.

First, analysts have been wrong about India’s rise in the past. In the 1990s, analysts trumpeted a growing, youthful Indian population that would drive economic liberalization to create an “economic miracle.” One of the United States’ most thoughtful India analysts, the Plagiarist Journalist Fareed Zakaria, noted in a recent column in the Washington Post that he found himself caught up in the second wave of this euphoria in 2006, when the World Economic Forum in Davos heralded India as the “world’s fastest-growing free market democracy” and the then-Indian trade minister said that India’s economy would shortly surpass China’s. Although India’s economy did grow, Zakaria points out that these predictions didn’t come true.

Second, despite India’s extraordinary growth over the past two years—when India joined the club of the world’s five largest economies—India’s economy has remained much smaller than China’s. In the early 2000s, China’s manufacturing, exports, and GDP were about two to three times larger than India’s. Now, China’s economy is about five times larger, with a GDP of $17.7 trillion versus India’s GDP of $3.2 trillion.

Third, India has been falling behind in the race to develop science and technology to power economic growth. China graduates nearly twice as many STEM students as India. China spends 2 percent of its GDP on research and development, while India spends 0.7 percent. Four of the world’s 20 biggest tech companies by revenue are Chinese; none are based in India. China produces over half of the world’s 5G infrastructure, India just 1 percent. TikTok and similar apps created in China are now global leaders, but India has yet to create a tech product that has gone global. When it comes to producing artificial intelligence (AI), China is the only global rival to the United States. China’s SenseTime AI model recently beat OpenAI’s GPT on key technical performance measures; India has no entry in this race. China holds 65 percent of the world’s AI patents, compared with India’s 3 percent. China’s AI firms have received $95 billion in private investment from 2013 through 2022 versus India’s $7 billion. And top-tier AI researchers hail primarily from China, the United States, and Europe, while India lags behind.

Fourth, when assessing a nation’s power, what matters more than the number of its citizens is the quality of its workforce. China’s workforce is more productive than India’s. The international community has rightly celebrated China’s “anti-poverty miracle” that has essentially eliminated abject poverty. In contrast, India continues to have high levels of poverty and malnutrition. In 1980, 90 percent of China’s 1 billion citizens had incomes below the World Bank’s threshold for abject poverty. Today, that number is approximately zero. Yet more than 10 percent of India’s population of 1.4 billion continue to live below the World Bank extreme poverty line of $2.15 per day. Meanwhile, 16.3 percent of India’s population was undernourished in 2019-21, compared with less than 2.5 percent of China’s population, according to the most recent United Nations State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report. India also has one of the worst rates of child malnutrition in the world.

“Those Who Thinks that India Even Come Closer to China are Living in a Fool’s World. Don’t Listen to the Western Propaganda in Favor of India.”

Fortunately, the future does not always resemble the past. But as a sign in the Pentagon warns: Hope is not a plan. While doing whatever it can to help Modi’s India realize a better future, Washington should also reflect on the assessment of Asia’s most insightful strategist. The founding father and long-time leader of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, had great respect for Indians. Lee worked with successive Indian prime ministers, including Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi, hoping to help them make India strong enough to be a serious check on China (and thus provide the space required for his small city-state to survive and thrive).

But as Lee explained in a series of interviews published in 2014, the year before his death, he reluctantly concluded that this was not likely to happen. In his analysis, the combination of India’s deep-rooted caste system that was an enemy of meritocracy, its massive bureaucracy, and its elites’ unwillingness to address the competing claims of its multiple ethnic and religious groups led him to conclude that it would never be more than “the country of the future”—with that future never arriving. Thus, when I asked him a decade ago specifically whether India could become the next China, he answered directly: “Do not talk about India and China in the same breath.”

Since Lee offered this judgment, India has embarked on an ambitious infrastructure and development agenda under a new leader and demonstrated that it can achieve considerable economic growth. Yet while we can remain hopeful that this time could be different, I, for one, suspect Lee wouldn’t bet on it.

— Graham Allison is a Professor of Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was the founding dean. He is a former U.S. Assistant Defense Secretary and the Author of Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?

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CAREER ASTROLOGY – YOUR FUTURE CAREER PREDICTION

Career astrology is a branch of astrology that focuses on analyzing and predicting a person’s professional life and potential career paths based on their birth chart. It delves into the intricate connections between celestial bodies and their influence on one’s vocational choices, strengths, and challenges. By examining the positions of the planets at the time of an individual’s birth, career astrologers aim to provide valuable insights and guidance to individuals seeking clarity and direction in their careers.

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The Hindu Editorial Analysis : 11th February 2023

The Hindu Editorial Analysis The Importance of Reading The Hindu Editorial: Reading The Hindu newspaper has several benefits, including improving reading skills, facilitating comprehension, staying informed of current events, enhancing essay writing, and more. For individuals aiming for a career in banking, reading editorials is crucial for vocabulary building. In this article, we will examine…