Bharatiya Bharatashastra

 History of Non-Sanskrit Names in Sanskrit Most Indians have a Sanskrit based name and therefore don't have to worry about a Sanskrit name. If they don't then they would probably adopt an official Sanskrit name, atleast this is what rulers of Ancient India would do. The way Sanskrtizing a name, be it a oersonal name of a place name, is interesting. So let us explore non-Sanskritic names rendered into Sanskrit. This article will be a bit informal.  Swap the Endings, a note on Greek names If you are familiar with Ancient Greek, you would know that they tend ti end in "-os", like Alexandros  or Kratos . When the Greeks ( yavana ) established their presence in the subcontinent, they sometimes adopted the local Indian culture, which included Sanskritizing their name, Other times, the Greeks were acknowledged through inscriptions.  One example of a Greek adopting local culture is the abassador Heliodorus, who converted to the Bhagavata relgion. He is recorded in the famour...

                                            Falconry in Medieval India https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/syainika-sastra-sanskrit/d/doc1220976.html Most people have heard of falconry, which is the sport of training raptors like hawks or falcons to catch birds. Europe, Egypt, Central Asia and such cultures have falconry, but what about India? Some may know that falconry was popular amongst the Mughals, but surely falconry was in India prior to the Mughals rule? It is, we have two Hindu texts on falconry: the first is Shyainika Sashtra by the a 10th Century AD Deccan king named Rudradeva , a.k.a Candradeva , and the other is from a small chapter in the Manasollasa written in the 12th Century AD by teh kalyani Calukhya king Someshvara .  Here, I will show the Shyanika Shastra , a treatise on falconry. It is voluminous and covers topics from the ethi...