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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)<p>Sorry if this should be obvious, but is this shloka from the Rig Veda venerating <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Indra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indra</span></a>? Or <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Vishnu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vishnu</span></a>? (I've seen it cited as a Vishnu mantra.)</p><p>Rig Veda 4.32.20</p><p>भूरि॑दा॒ भूरि॑ देहि नो॒ मा द॒भ्रं भूर्या भ॑र । भूरि॒ घेदि॑न्द्र दित्ससि ॥<br>भूरिदा भूरि देहि नो मा दभ्रं भूर्या भर । भूरि घेदिन्द्र दित्ससि ॥</p><p>English translation:</p><p>“A bountiful giver are you, Indra; give bountifully to us; (give) not little; bring much; for verily you desire to give much.”</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/rig-veda-english-translation/d/doc832621.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/ri</span><span class="invisible">g-veda-english-translation/d/doc832621.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Sanskrit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sanskrit</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/RigVeda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RigVeda</span></a></p>
Infrapink (he/his/him)<p>In <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a>, New Year's Day falls in spring, but the exact date is determined by when the new moon falls in relation to <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Dongzhi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dongzhi</span></a>, the winter solstice festival.</p><p>The <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/RigVeda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RigVeda</span></a> also implies that the winter solstice marked New Year's Day in the <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IndusValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndusValley</span></a> civilisation, but is unfortunately too vague to say much with certainty.</p><p>I am now going to talk in a somewhat more abstract and philosophical way about time, drawing on <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Jyotisha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jyotisha</span></a></p><p>6/11</p>
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