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| | Panchkanya by Pradip Bhattacharya |
 | | For Indra, Ahalya is the anima personified because she is creation’s loveliest mortal woman. | | | The sole beautiful woman in creation, she is the eternal feminine responding characteristically to the ardent, urgent, direct sexual advances of the ruler of heaven who presents such a dazzling contrast to her ascetic, aged, forest-dwelling husband. | | | Although prior to this encounter Ahalya has already had a son, Shatananda, by Gautama yet her womanhood remained unfulfilled. |
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http://www.boloji.com/hinduism/panchkanya/pk02.htm
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| | Hindu Mythology |
| | Ahalya was created by Brahma as the most beautiful woman. | | | One meaning of ‘hal’ is deformity and Ahalya therefore means one who has no deformity or one of perfect beauty. | | | For many years Gautama was practicing abstinence in order to increase his divine powers and hence Ahalya too was forced to live a life of abstinence. |
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http://www.suite101.com/lesson.cfm/18770/2182/3
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| | Ahalya |
| | Ahalya was married to the celestial sage Gautam, who too was a creation of Brahma's divine powers. | | | Ahalya's beauty attracted the roving eye of Indra, the King of Gods. | | | In fact each of the Krittika sisters was married to a celestial sage, but that's another story. |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/mythology_from_india/62617
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| | Ahalya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Rama and Lakshmana entered the hermitage and saw Ahalya meditating. | | | "Ahalya" The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. | | | The stone changed into the beautiful Ahalya who had become pure and understood her sins. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahalya
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| | Valmiki Ramayana - Bala Kanda |
| | Ahalya is indeed indiscernible to all the three worlds by the very word of Gautama until the manifestation of Rama. | | | When the mythology is touched upon, it says that Ahalya is lying there as a stone and by the touch of Rama’s foot she regained her divinely human form. | | | Vishvamitra while continuing the narration of the legend of Ahalya asks Rama to enter her hermitage where Ahalya is living unseen by anybody. |
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http://www.valmikiramayan.net/bala/sarga49/balasans49.htm
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| | Salabhanjika - Pallavi Krishnan, Leading exponent of Mohiniyattam |
| | Salabhanjika yearns for togetherness, while Ahalya, the cursed spirit, longs for salvation......a contrast of the bondage of worldly desire with the pining for moksha, of earthly love and spiritual divinity. | | | She is set in place as a sacred guard to the deity. | | | He cursed her that she would stand petrified and be invisible to everyone until Lord Rama touched the stone with his feet. |
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http://www.pallavikrishnan.com/salabhanjika.htm
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| | Indra |
| | Indra was a parallel of the Greek sky god Zeus. | | | To seduce Gautama's wife, Indra dressed himself as the sage and went to Ahalya's house to have intercourse with her. | | | When Gautama found out about the adultery, he cursed his wife and the king of he gods. |
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http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/mythology/indra_sky.html&edu=high
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| | TeluguPeople.com - Articles |
| | During seven days, Ahalya sat near main entrance and was in deep meditation. | | | In Treta yuga dharma was on tree legs.to become a god one has to do lot of tapas several thousands of years.by tapas one will control senses.there will be no kama, krodha etc for the gods. | | | As she was in meditation she could not reply. |
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http://www.telugupeople.com/discussion/article.asp?id=8327
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| | Teens Who Live At Yogaville Say They're Not So Different |
| | Ahalya, whose given Sanskrit name means ''Beauty Personified,'' moved to Yogaville from Nigeria. | | | Growing up, she has lived with families in the Yogaville community, changing homes about once a year. | | | ''If they say rumors about us, then they should come to (Yogaville) and see what it really is,'' Ahalya says. |
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http://www.rickross.com/reference/yogaville/yogaville2.html
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| | Dramatis Personae |
| | Ahalya is the daughter of a neighbouring king. | | | Ahalya, whose name means “unploughed” in Sanskrit, is taken from a story found in the Indian Epic poem, the Ramayana. | | | In it, she is made invisible and trapped in her home by her husband Gautama for sleeping with Indra, king of the gods. |
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http://www.people.virginia.edu/~gji3p/nod/ahalya.htm
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| | MAHESHWAR - LoveToKnow Article on MAHESHWAR |
| | rhough of great antiquity and also of religious sanctity, it is chiefly noted as the residence of Ahalya Bai, the reigning queen of the Holkar dynasty during the last half of the 18th century, whose ability and munificence are famous throughout India. | | | Close by her cenotaph stands the family temple of the Holkars. |
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http://www.1911ency.org/M/MA/MAHESHWAR.htm
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| | Gautama - Indra's Sin and Punishment - Indian Mythology |
| | His wife was the beautiful Ahalya, who had been much wooed as a maiden, but who had chosen the sage over all her other suitors. | | | So Gautama amended his curse by saying, "You will be a stone for many millenia, at last, you will regain your womanly form, when you are touched by the feet of Rama, the son of Dasharatha, who will be an incarnation of Vishnu." (This incident is narrated in Ramayana.) | | | Ahalya repented her sins and beseeched him to reduce the intensity of his curse. |
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http://members.cox.net/apamnapat/entities/Gautama.html
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| | Viswamitra - Ahalya's absolution from curse |
| | Once, when the sage had gone to the river for bathing, Lord Indra came to the ashram disguised as the sage, desiring Ahalya. | | | He cursed her that she would stand petrified and will be invisible to everyone, till Rama comes to see her. | | | On entering, Rama saw the beautiful form of Ahalya. |
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http://www.chennaionline.com/columns/Lifehistory/history23.asp
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| | Kanyakumari city of Tamil Nadu - India |
| | The Sthalapurana has it that Indra suffered a curse from sage Gowthama, when he stealthily cast amorous glances at Ahalya the wife of Gowthama. | | | Not able to suffer the mortification brought about by the curse. |
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http://www.bharatheritage.in/tamil-nadu/kanyakumari.htm
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| | SriPedia Padhuka Sahasram |
| | Swamy Desikan composed thirty verses in this section to celebrate the mystery and the holiness of the specks of dusts associated with the Lord's Paadhukais. | | | Her curse was removed by the power of the holy dust assoicated with the Raama PaadhukAs. | | | That very same dust speck, when it fell on the hard stone form of AhalyA transformed her back into that of soft-limbed wife of Sage GautamA. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia/ebooks/vdesikan/rps/36.html
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| | Indra |
| | The defeat of Indra, in Hindu mythology, at the hands of the demon Ravana, the Rakshasa king of Sri Lanka, and his release from captivity at the behest of Brahma was attributed to the seduction of Ahalya. | | | Indra's decisive thunderbolt split the stomach of Ahi, releasing the waters, generating life, and liberating the dawn. | | | But the tale of this humiliating punishment, as recounted in the Ramayana, may have been no more than the recognition of the decline of India's celestial status, lowered perhaps by the Brahmins as a way of decreasing the influence of the divine patron of the warrior caste. |
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http://www.themystica.com/mythical-folk/articles/indra.html
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| | Stories |
| | Those were the days he could never forget in his life--how he wished Ahalya was with him, not in the mental realm but in the true physical realm. | | | The ways of Destiny are mysterious--once it separated them and again decided to bring them together! | | | Was she the same Ahalya Patil who was his girl-friend in the schooldays? |
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http://www.meghdutam.com/storiestemp.php?name=story20.htm&&printer=0
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| | Redemption of Ahalya |
| | As soon as Rama stepped over the stone, which was once Ahalya, she regained her old form and beauty. | | | For a sin she committed, the sage cursed her to "become a stone and be in dust for thousands of years," and left the hermitage for performing penance | | | narrated the story to Rama and said, "Rama, now you redeem Ahalya." They entered the empty hermitage. |
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http://www.freeindia.org/biographies/sages/vishwamitra/page16.htm
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| | Beneath the clouds and coconut leaves, new english book, novel on Indian culture. |
| | Arjunan is the ideal fighter in the eternal battle between right and wrong; Ahalya stands for the curse-befallen society that needs a stone-like persistence for its final liberation. | | | Moncy Pothen’s novel, ‘Beneath the Clouds and Coconut Leaves’ gives a panoramic view of the socio-economic life in Kerala in a realistic manner, threading along the warp and weft of the Kerala community. | | | He tries to expiate for his past, which devastated the Brahmin Mana, the once rich and pompous Brahmin family where Ahalya, the Assassinated Ramabhadran Nambuthiri's daughter, her bed-bound mother and younger brother live pathetically. |
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http://freesignup.bizland.com
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| | Search results for 'Ahalya' |
| | The Hindu Epic of Ramayana Ramayana More Like This: Rama Shoots an Arrow Through Seven Trees Lord Rama Conquers Varuna Lord Rama Liberates Ahalya You are here Sacrifices Yield Boon Giving Pudding The Killing of Tataka Bharata Gets Ramas Padukas The Killing of Viradha Rama Fights the Demons Kidnapping | | | The Hindu Epic of Ramayana Ramayana More Like This: Rama Shoots an Arrow Through Seven Trees Lord Rama Conquers Varuna Lord Rama Liberates Ahalya Seduction of Rishyashringa Sacrifices Yield Boon Giving Pudding The Killing of Tataka Bharata Gets Ramas Padukas The Killing of Viradha Rama Fights the | | | Kamat The Hindu Epic of Ramayana Ramayana More Like This: Rama Shoots an Arrow Through Seven Trees Lord Rama Conquers Varuna Lord Rama Liberates Ahalya Seduction of Rishyashringa Sacrifices Yield Boon Giving Pudding The Killing of Tataka Bharata Gets Ramas Padukas The Killing of Viradha Rama Fights |
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| | Proud to be Hindu ! - B Shah web blogs, B Shah blogger in India |
| | No amounts of proofs, given by the very Gods, could remove the doubts, as doubt fractures the very foundation of faith and once faith is gone, all the rest is useless. | | | She lived so ignored by the community, that she might as well as have been a stone ! | | | Only his macho manliness required him to punish the culprits and in his rage, he cursed the innocent aswell as the guilty. |
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http://www.sulekha.com/blogs/blogdisplay.aspx?cid=40859
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| | Books By Rajaji - Ramayana - Ahalya (Page1) |
| | Sage Gautama lived here with his wife Ahalya, spending his days in peace and holy meditation. | | | Why does such a beautiful abode stand deserted?" | | | She was not deceived by the impersonation, but vain of her beauty and proud that it had won her the love of the lord of the celestials, she lost her judgment and yielded to his desire. |
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http://www.hindubooks.org/books_by_rajaji/ramayana/ahalya/page1.htm
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| | Six Monumental Witnesses for God: Prahlad,Vibhishana,Gajendra,Draupadi,Ahalya,Dhruva |
| | In the entire universe, it is Sri hari (VishNu) that is to be worshipped as the Ultimate Resort. | | | They are the blessed ones who have received, respectively, superlative affection, supreme refuge, undisputable protection, infinite compassion, total absolution and apex of benefaction, from the Lord. | | | was given a punishment by the sage in the form of a curse, another curse was also thrown at ahalya by the sage, the curse being that she would become immobile as a stone for a long long period. |
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http://www.geocities.com/profvk/gohitvip/42.html
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| | THE CURSE OF AHALYA |
| | We women are Ahalyas cursed by men to live lives of stones. | | | But then, when you, Maryada Purshottam Ram couldn’t do justice to your own wife, what can I expect in your male-dominated world? | | | I, Ahalya, with all the power of womanhood at my command, curse you and your tribe to seek love and not find it anywhere except in the arms of a woman- the same woman you seek to subjugate, vilify and deny justice. |
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http://o3.indiatimes.com/anant_rulz/archive/2005/11/16/335877.aspx
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| | Ahalya - The Wife of Gautama - Indian Mythology |
| | Ahalya - The Wife of Gautama - Indian Mythology | | | Thinking that it was time for his morning ablutions, Gautama went to the river. | | | He sent her to the hermitage of sage Gautama to learn the scriptures. |
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http://members.cox.net/apamnapat/entities/Ahalya.html
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| | BHAJANS ON RAMA |
| | You are the saviour of Ahalya, You are the son of Raghu dynasty.) | | | Victory to ever-blissful and beautiful Lord Rama - Lord of Janaki (Seetha), the Saviour of Ahalya (Saint devotee). | | | Chant the name of Lord of Parthipuri, Lord Sai Ram.) |
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http://www.eaisai.com/baba/docs/rama.html
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| | Shock over deaths of Thirumurthy, family in accident- The Times of India |
| | Ahalya is doing her first B.Com, while Urmila had passed PU and was scheduled to join BBM, both in Mount Carmel College. | | | Vasanthi Venugopal, lecturer, Mount Carmel College, said: "I taught Ahalya for two semesters. | | | Thirumurthy, his wife Suchitra and daughters Ahalya and Urmila were on a vacation in New Zealand. |
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1116254.cms
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| | Active Repertoire - Shilarupini - Synopsis |
| | Ahalya is a forgotten character who receives a passing mention in the Ramayana written thousands of years ago. | | | The narrative is at different levels, music, words and movement, each of which may not be directly related to the others. | | | This twentieth century use of Ahalya as a metaphor for patriachy, exploitation and society's double standards carries the story to a surprising climax. |
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http://www.arangham.com/repertor/shila/syn.html
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| | Sita, Tara, Mandodari, Ahalya and Draupadi, prayer to any one of them spells prosperity - particularly to the girls, wish to get married. | | | Rama redeems Ahalya,gets her united with her husband, Sage Gouthama, before he gets united in wedlock with Sita Ahalya is one of the Pancha Kanyas - Viz. |
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http://www.ramayan.com/pictorial/ahalya.htm
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| | Panchkanya of Indian Epics: A Critique by Saroj Thakur |
| | I myself find the interpretation of Ahalya as the “uncultivated land” on which Indra rains and makes her fertile and fructified, quite convincing. | | | Ahalya has been depicted as a dignified Vedic woman who could not indulge in such a sin as the mere touching of Indra would bring her to, except when she had some reasons behind such an act. | | | Although, the last two do not seem to have much to call them kanyas from this point of view but as they are there in the shloka, there would have been a very genuine reason for their being there. |
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http://www.boloji.com/hinduism/059m.htm
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| | Ahalya - definition of Ahalya in Encyclopedia |
| | In Hinduism, Ahalya is a married woman whose husband Gautam was a devout and educated sage. | | | She was tricked into infidelity by the demi-god Indra and as a result her husband turned her to stone. | | | Embed a dictionary search in your own web page |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Ahalya
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| | The Picturebook Ramayana: Preface |
| | Moments later she was reunited with the sage who was her faithful husband. | | | A beautiful lady saint named Ahalya had been separated from her husband by a curse. | | | As soon as he entered the place where Ahalya stayed unseen, unmoving, the curse was lifted. |
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http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/southasiacenter/ramayana/storybook/synopsis.asp?p=11
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| | Media Trails : Film Making |
| | It tries to give an image and a word to what has remained unsaid. | | | Ahalya zeroes in on the over-all development of individuals in their conscious and un-conscious search for fulfilment and meaning in life. | | | Ahalya is about the woman who has gone beyond the confines of her gender. |
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http://www.mediatrails.com/filmcase2.html
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| | Real Life Cases |
| | The elder daughter was very supportive but since she lived in another city she was not available on an everyday basis. | | | Ahalya lives peacefully in her flat and visits her daughter frequently. | | | Ambalika Kumar called to say that she's facing harassment from her daughter-in-law, Ramani. |
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http://www.dignityfoundation.com/reallifecases.html
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| | Tryambakeshwar Jyotirlinga Shrine |
| | Other shrines: Kolhambika is a temple dedicated to Parvati, where she is believed to have slain the demon Kolhasura who had swallowed the Ganga river. | | | Other thirthas here are the Gangasagar the Gautamalaya, Bilva thirtha, Indra thirtha, Vishwanath thirtha, Mukund thirtha, Prayag thirtha,Rama Kund, Lakshmana Kund etc. The confluence of the rivers Ahalya and Godavari is also held in reverence. | | | The structure around this thirtha was constructed by Raoji Abaji Parnekar (of the Holkars of Indore) in late 18th century. |
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http://www.templenet.com/Maharashtra/tryambak.html
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| | The Little Magazine - The Rite Stuff |
| | Where have the Ahalyas of the world disappeared to? | | | Ahalyas who wrap a simple cotton saree around their thin figures and exude the smell of mother in their skin and their hair? | | | Ratna had often heard her grandmother, her father’s mother, tell Ahalya in her presence: "Now look here, if you don’t have a male child, then your life will be unfulfilled, empty of meaning. |
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http://www.littlemag.com/rite/kannan3.html
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| | FAMILY TIES - Deccan Herald |
| | We hope some day our children or grandchildren will build a house and live there,” said Ajit. | | | Ahalya, 59, lived with her parents in Basavangudi and remembers going to her school Mahila Seva Samaj past tree-lined avenues. | | | Ahalya has kept the tradition of trees alive by telling stories of trees and wild flowers to her grand daughter Zui. |
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http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/jan032004/metro4.asp
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| | Success For Sneha - She Is In To Telugu/Tamil |
| | Settled now in Chennai Sneha was a part of ‘Aptha Mithra’ cast that has completed silver jubilee recently. | | | While ‘Ahalya’ has completed 230 episodes ‘Kolangal’ is nearing 270 episodes. | | | She is playing two lead roles in Tamil television serials ‘Ahalya’ and ‘Kolangal’. |
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http://www.chitraloka.com/sections/encounter/sneha.html
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| | Story |
| | Ahalya was a child when she came here, | | | Please contact us at worldofnod@virginia.edu with questions and comments | | | She shared child's games with the Princes of NOD, |
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http://www.people.virginia.edu/~gji3p/nod/story.htm
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| | Valmiki Ramayana - Bala Kanda |
| | "She felt fulfilled in her heart of hearts and then she said this to that best god Indra, 'I am gratified in complying with your wish, oh, best of gods, get going oh, lord, from here quickly, oh, ruler of gods, always safeguard yourself and me from Sage Gautama.' Thus, Ahalya said to Indra. | | | You may listen as I narrate, Raghava, whose hermitage is this factually, and which great soul has resentfully cursed this. | | | Indra is infatuated with Ahalya desires a union with her, for which she complies. |
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http://www.valmikiramayan.net/bala/sarga48/balasans48.htm
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| | December 1998 Chattrack Messages |
| | Keep the faith Ahalya, I believe the vast majority of immorts | | | There are a couple of points that Ahalya forgot to mention in | | | In first place - Ahalya - 9 kills, 2 defeats and ONE death (coo! |
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http://games.world.co.uk/shades/inshades/chattrck/1998dec.htm
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| | The first portal of Orissa |
| | She saved my family, “ says a tribal lady of Khasbahal. | | | Ahalya, for them is an angel in disguise as for her initiatives, the village has been freed of liquor menace. | | | The women have not only voiced their feelings in Ahalya’s arrest case, they have also given a tough time to the police. |
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http://www.orissa.net/News?NewsID=17480
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| | Western Ghats @ CES : Scientific Publications of the CES, IISc for the Year 2002 |
| | Borges, R. The anatomy of ignorance or Ecology in a fragmented landscape: do we know what really counts? | | | Ahalya, N. and Ramachandra, T.V. Restoration of wetlands — Feasibility aspects of biological restoration. | | | Prasad, S.N., Ramachandra, T.V., Ahalya, N., Sengupta, T., Kumar, A., Tiwari, A.K., Vijayan V.S. and Lalitha Vijayan. |
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http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/biodiversity/pub2002.htm
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| | Ahalya |
| | The god Indra once made love with Ahalya. | | | In Hindu myth, Ahalya is the wife of a devout sage. | | | As a punishment, Ahalya’s husband turned her into stone. |
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| | Gautama expelled Ahalya from his hermitage, and deprived her of her prerogative of being the most beautiful woman in the world, or, according to another statement, he rendered her invisible. | | | This roused Gautama to his morning's devotions, when Indra went in and took his place. | | | She was restored to her natural state by Rama and reconciled to.her husband. |
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| | E N C Y C L O P E D I A |
| | Brahma then told the humiliated god that his defeat was a punishment for the seduction of Ahalya. | | | The Taittiriya Brahmana states that the chose Indrani to be his wife in preference to other goddesses because of her voluptuous attractions, and later authorities say that he ravished her, and slew her father, the Daitya Puloman, to escape his curse. | | | Many instances are recorded of his incontinence and adultery, and his example is frequently referred to as an excuse in cases of gallantry, as by King Nahusha when he tried to obtain Indra’s wife while the latter was hiding in Vritra. |
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| | Mahari Repertoire |
| | Through divination, Gautama finds out about the relationship, and angered, he curses Ahalya into stone. | | | Remember the virtues of the five great women, Ahalya, Draupadi, Kunti, Tara, and Mandodari (fallen women according to patriarchal society), and you also will be redeemed. | | | Sage Visvamitra asks Rama to place his foot on Ahalya. |
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http://www.olywa.net/ratna-david/urvasi/mahariRepertoire.htm
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Holkar |
| | She also built temples at sacred sites outside her kingdom, from Dwarka in Gujarat east to the Kashi Vishweswar temple at Varanasi on the Ganges. | | | Rani Ahalya Bai was a great builder and patron of many Hindu temples which embellished Maheshwar and Indore. | | | She moved the capital to Maheshwar south of Indore on the Narmada River. |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/H/HO/HOL/Holkar
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| | One finds both possible answers in classical texts: that she was truly fooled by Indra and hence “innocent,” though punished nevertheless; or that she recognized the god in his disguise, but was flattered…. | | | Though his body is an illusion, his love is real, and so true that, having learned the terms of Kishenlal’s five-year absence and assumed his form, and having successfully re-entered the family mansion through a ruse, he cannot bear to deceive the one he loves. | | | But besides being beautiful, Ahalya was also smart, and a special fascination of storytellers has always been with the pregnant question: Did she know what she was doing? |
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http://www.uiowa.edu/~incinema/Paheli.htm
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