From: uds@wsu-eng.eng.wayne.edu (Seetamraju Udaybhaskar)
Subject: ........Seetamraju Digest # 119....
Reply-To: uds@wsu-eng.eng.wayne.edu (Seetamraju Udaybhaskar)
Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 21:45:44 GMT


*] life in ancient india.	If life existed, it existed sarayu-theerae
   =====================	 (on the banks of saraswati).  Here is a literal
				translation of the yayati story in english, as
given in smt. kamala subramanyam's bhaagavatam.  (it is a correct translation of
original samskritam version).

....with tears in his eyes, yayati said: "you havent heard my version of the
incident my lord.  This young woman beseeched me to TAKE her since she was in
her youth and her life was threatened to go WASTE.  In the rules of conduct
which have been taught to me, it is said: "when a woman on her own asks a man to
take her, he will have to satisfy her or else he will be burdened by the sin of
infanticide (comment: guys! of all sins existing, its infanticide that
has been considered `appropriate' here!!!).  If a man behaves differently in
such a situation he is doing so by force of circumstance: not on his own. (Now!
they tell me this!  Who was the scoundrel who censored such pearls of wordly-
wisdom, when I listened to puranas all through my childhood? My childhood
and youth has gone ``WASTE''.) ......

<in another place in the same book> ... She had yayati's love and he was
capable of satisfying her in a thousand ways.  <<A 1000 ways!! Hang on guys, let
me count. ............................ Hey! I ended up with just 992.  What
are the missing 8 possible ways.  I gotta email yayati an' find out.>>.......

*] Avoid Hanuman chalisa
   =====================

# 38 of Hanuman chalisa :-

jo sat baar paaTh kar koi,
cHooTahi bandhi  maha sukh hoi.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

my translation : If you want your bandhi (babe) to cHooTO (slip away) from you
		 then read hanuman chalisa 100 times (preferably daily)...
		 Then you will be blesses with ``sukh'' (My doubt :> what
				kind of ``sukh'' will I have without bandhi?) 
		I am dead serious, when I ask this.                       ;-)

*] The ultimate AD (selling SEX)
   =============================

I was watching the telugu movie `allari mogudu' (actually was watching meena),
When suddenly...

A 20-sec clip that had me shocked at the brazen display of SEX not even found
on DAY TV here in US of A.  I mean, the female displayed orgasams thrice!
I replayed sufficient number of times to confirm this.  You wont believe WHO
the GUY in that AD is.  (A hint, he is a famous model, and has been featured
in the latest star-dust magazine).  BTW, this female is just -- ah well,
-- I forgot to look at her face.  Anyway, she is NOT PB.  And she got legs boy!
She got skin!  She got stuff.  Move over PB (Not you, prabhu).

Details of AD (If anyone is interested in such `fringe' information):-

Its for a bottle of tablets called `` YOGI SPY - herbal power tablets''
PB (patel brothers) do not stock them.  Please find out if your nearby
india shop stocks these unbelievable stuff (I mean tablets)... and whether
they accept mail orders...

*] SCUD missiles and INDIAN CEMENT
   ===============================

I always get distracted by the advertisements that invade half the TV screen.
One such GEM is an ad for ORIENT cement.  One building(in the cartoon format)
is marked so that everyone knows its made up of orient cement.  THe other
buildings in the cartoon, are not marked so.  A scud missile comes and destroys
the `non-marked' buildings.  A second scud aimed on the orient building leaves
the orient bldg unscathed.

SADDAM HUSSEIN should start watching videos of Indian movies (especially telugu
and malayALam).  It should give him life-sustaining tips during war with SAM.
This time he should build his communications bldg with orient cement.  And so
should the SAUDIs.

*] SEX and Gulab-Jamun
   ===================

While watching the same telugu movie `allari mogudu'....
when (as usual) an advertizement pops up.  Here it is (in telugu and english)...

... nootana dampatala jeevitamu lo, jAmoon JAR Amae pAkamu lo voliganu
Amae Ayina karamuna_pai vAlaenu, nootana yavvana madHuram (a sexy clip of love
							and kichi-kichi)...
AA ruci_karamaina gulAb jAmoon, inta tvaragA aela tayAru caeyya_galigindi ?
... + a sexy duet (though short)...

(translation)
on a certain day of the freshly married husb-wife 's  lives, SHE puts (?) the
contents of the jamoon jar into the pan (containing sugar-oil(??)).
Then she sleeps on the arm of his; fresh youth is so tasty/lovely(a sexy clip..)
(Then suddenly, in that sexy scene, the husband suddenly wonders how his wife
could make such beautiful gulab jamuns!).... a duet (short).

*** This made me wonder.  If indian advertizing agencies are put incharge of
	a hypertext database project, then just as they linked SEX and G.J.,
	they would LINK every SINGLE topic with every OTHER topic.  WOnder
	what the utility of such a hypertext will be.
Or would one find a link from SEX to every other topic (Or is it the other
way around?)...

*] This is NOT a humourous item...

I recently bought a CD labelled `a rare jugalbandi of Ustad vilAyat khan and
ustad bismillAh khan'.  I liked the sound quality, given that it was a real
old original.  But what intrigued me was the label `DP', which was to mean
digitally processed.  There was no AAD, ADD, and DDD type of labels on it.
Have I bought something worthless ?

A more important question is this.  If the label is AAD, which instrument's
sound is most likely to be affected ?  Since I do not play any instrument
I cannot tell whether the sound of teh instrument is correctly being
repreoduced (if NOT, then one can adjust the graphic equalizer to make
up for bad reproduction -- but I cant do even this!)

Any experts on this?  If I get used to the `wrong' swara by listening to
these CDs, then it might become hard for me later to learn the correct
srutis & swaras when I decide to learn an instrument.  SO please help...
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