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Think or sink!

renuka said:
I was just wondering today when I was reading Kumarasambhava of Kalidasa 2nd Canto.

There is a stanza where Brahma tells the Devas that "only the son of Shiva and Parvati can kill Tarakasura"
So it is up to the Devas now to make Shiva get attracted to the beauty of Uma.

I was wondering why Kalidasa used the name Uma in the 2nd Canto itself as words spoken by Brahma.

Becos Parvati actually got the name Uma when she undertook severe penance to get Shiva and her mother Menadevi got worried of her daughter's severe penances and told her U Ma( O' Don't)..that's how she got the name Uma.

So going by that...at the time when the Devas approached Brahma to get help to slay Tarakasura...Parvati was technically not yet known as Uma so I wonder why Kalidasa decided to use the word Uma in the 2nd Canto itself and so soon???
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Dear Renu,
Similar thing happens in Narayaneeyam also.
Even before the Govinda pattabhishekham takes place and Kamadhenu does abhishekham to Krishna with her milk, the name Govinda appears in the earlier chapters!
Uma must have said "Oh! Ma!" when her mother told her "U ma!"
 
Raji Ram said:

Dear Renu,

I am afraid that this may turn out to be one more idea for the money making doctors! They may advise all

the ladies to have the BRCA1 test done!

A few years back, many women in late 30s were opting for hysterectomy because of the fear of uterine cancer

+ monthly sufferings. The side effects were: increase in weight, knee pain due to over weight, frequent hot flushes

and so on. Only now the trend has changed. But, the replacement of knee joint has taken over! :nod:
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Hysterectomy leads to removal of ovaries quite often (due to cysts etc)

This leads to hormone imbalance and also depression in many women.

This leads to uncontrollable slow and steady weight gain over the years.

This leads to elevated blood pressure and obesity over the years.

This leads to diabetes and worn out knees.

This leads to total knee replacement costing a fortune

and a dubious recovery in many cases for different reasons!!!

My friend got her right knee replaced on July 18th 2012 and till now she

is suffering from recurring infection in the knee joint which looks

like fruit ....ripe, red and angry!

I have gone through the series stated above and have just stopped short

of the total knee replacement!

Dr. Renu says she weighs 2 K.G LESS now than when she got married!

I weigh a staggering 20 K.G more than my weight before marriage. :scared:

Often I wonder how do I manage to do all the chores??? :confused:

And the combo pack of hypothyroidism, hypertension, and diabetes is

more challenging to set right than the riddles posed by Betal to king

Vikramaathithya.
 
How do we catch a crane by keeping butter on it head???

I have never tried this but I can give an example

more hilarious than this traditional saying. :pound:

Mrs. P wants an information to be used after 6 months.

She asks Mr. Q to find out the info for her.

Mr. Q takes the help of Mrs. R to get the info.

NOW Mrs. R has the info and Mrs. P needs it.

Any of us will think the way crow flies and say that

Mrs. R must send by post the info to Mrs. P since

even snail mail will not take that long to reach her. :rolleyes:

But the brilliant Mrs. R will not post it to either Mrs. P or Mr. Q

but to another Mr.S (who need not be in the picture at all)

So Mr. Q will go to the house of Mr. S and collect the post

spending 1 hour and traveling 10 K.m. by scooter.

Now Mr. Q can simply post it to Mrs. P and be done with the job.

NO! NO! Then how can he try the crane-catching-by-butter-method???

So he will tell Mr. T a busy friend abroad to scan it for him

Mr. Q has a scanner but does not know how to use it.

In fact he does not even know how to place the paper inside the scanner.

It will be always be the wrong end up!

So the scanning will be done by Mr. T through remote assistance with

many hurdles and delays, due to power cuts and internet problems.

Then the pages have to be rotated to get the right side up.

(No one can read a long post standing on his head!!! Right???)

Mr. T has to set it in a format ready to be sent just by a click of the

mouse by the cyber wizard Mr. Q.

After all these dramas are over Mr. Q would proudly click the mouse and send it to Mrs. P .

But the story does not end there. Mr. Q calls Mrs. P on the phone and tells her about the

scanned copy.

Mr. Q will call Mrs. P again after some time to make sure that the scanned copy is readable.

AFTER all these Mr. Q would put the paper in a cover, go to the post office, stick a 5 Re stamp

and post it to Mrs. P.

Can anything be MORE confusing and anyone be more clouded in thinking??? :rolleyes:
 
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Oh what a weird combination of colors!!!

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The combination of seven colors looks good ONLY in rainbows!!!
 
Visalakshi Ramani said:
Oh what a weird combination of colors!!!

The combination of seven colors looks good ONLY in rainbows!!!
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May be she could not get red bangles and footwear and had granite stone bangles + grey slippers to match!! :cool:

P.S: But red and grey are supposed to be a good combination. I find even silk sarees in that combination! :D
 
Oh No!! I just checked..she did wear this to Cannes festival!

OMG someone need to teach her how to dress...its a disaster especially that nose ring!

That way no one comes close to Aishwarya Rai..she is a total class of her own...whether fat or thin she dresses up like a total Miss World!
 

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