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# Hastin

Hastin (हस्तिन्) is a term for 'elephant' used in Vedic texts. Other terms for 'elephant' include Ibha (इभ) and Vārana (वारण).
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## P

* By separating the meaning of the Vedic varana from the classical one, Roth allowed himself to be led to believe that the elephant was still foreign to the songs of the Rigveda. If this statement were correct, the Vedic Indians would not have been Indians at all, for the elephant is inseparable from India. But as shown, it is erroneous.
** Richard Pischel, Karl F. Geldner - Vedische Studien Vol. 1 -Verlag von W. Kohlhammer (1889) pp. xv-xvi

## From Hindu-Buddhist texts

* Child of a double birth he grasps at triple food; in the year's course what he hath swallowed grows anew. He, by another's mouth and tongue a noble Bull, with other, as an elephant, consumes the trees.
** Rigveda, I, 140, 2, as translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1889)
* Mighty, with wondrous power and marvellously bright, selfstrong like mountains, ye glide swiftly on your way. Like the wild elephants ye eat the forests up when ye assume your strength among the bright red flames.
** Rigveda, I, 64, 7, as translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith (1889)
* The people deck him like a docile king of elephants.
** Rigveda 9:57:3, as translated by Ralph Griffith (1889), quoted in Elst, Koenraad (1999). Update on the Aryan invasion debate New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan.
* Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
** Indian proverb, The Little Red Book of Horse Wisdom (2012), p. 71
* 群盲評象
** 涅槃経 (Nirvana Sutra)
** Translation: A crowd of blind people evaluate an elephant.
** A metaphor of unenlighted people and their relation to the right knowledge.
# M. Athar Ali

M. Athar Ali (18 January 1925 – 7 July 1998) was an Indian historian of Medieval Indian History. Throughout his career Ali was known to hold a strong stance against Hindu and Islamic extremism. He was a professor at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Medieval History at his Alma mater, Aligarh Muslim University.

## Quotes about Ali

* “But the unfortunate aspect is that he examined Waqai reports from one angle – that is he only saw the problem of succession of Ajit Singh and totally ignored the high-handedness of the Mughal officials in the form of bricking the doors of the temples, demolition of temples, confiscation of the property relating to the trusts of those temples which were demolished during the period 1679-80.” (p. 148)
** Prof. S.M. Azizuddin Husain, ‘Structure of Politics under Aurangzeb 1658–1707’ , quoted in Kishore, Kunal (2016). Ayodhyā revisited. ch 15.
* Prof. M. Athar Ali was a great historian. Very few people could match him in his profound knowledge of Persian historical texts and students of history will remain grateful to him for his innovative writings. But it is a tragedy that even such great historians propound theories and pronounce decisions on the basis of a single source of unsubstantiated information which is in contradiction to other available informations... When Prof. Ali knows that these valiant Rajputs had sacrificed all these assignments and were ready to die, then such calumny against a valiant race is a gross injustice to them and a daunting distortion of historical facts.... Thus, University students are being taught false history to defend an indefensible policy of a ruler who was a religious bigot in toto. Please have some mercy on glorious history!
** Kishore, Kunal (2016). Ayodhyā revisited. ch 15.
# M. J. Akbar

Mobashar Jawed "M.J." Akbar (born 11 January 1951) is an Indian politician. He is also a veteran Indian journalist and author of several books.

## Quotes

* The true test of a democracy is the justice that the minority gets in the system. The majority will always get its share whatever the system.
** Illustrated Weekly of India, 22/12/1990. Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (1991). Ayodhya and after: Issues before Hindu society.
* It is extremely symbolic that Advani is the heir of Nathuram Godse who, in pursuit of what he was convinced was his duty to India, shot dead the man who had chanted the name of Ram all his life till his last breath.
** Illustrated Weekly of India, 22/12/1990. Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (1991). Ayodhya and after: Issues before Hindu society.
* Just as Hitler had given a frustrated Germany a target and that target was the Jew, so through the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, a frustrated country was given a target and that target was the Muslim.
** Illustrated Weekly of India, 22/12/1990. Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (1991). Ayodhya and after: Issues before Hindu society.
* Jihad is the signature tune of Islamic history. If today’s Muslim rulers are reluctant to sound that note, it is often because they are concerned about the consequences of failure.
** Akbar, M. J - The shade of swords_ Jihad and the conflict between Islam and christianity-Routledge (2008)
* There is no pain in life, they say in Granada, so cruel as to be blind in Alhambra. When the Arabs of the desert conquered Spain, they said that they had reached heaven. From the ramparts of the Alhambra, sitting on a spur of the Sierra Nevada, look out and you see a paradise created by nature; look in and you see a paradise created by man.
** Akbar, M. J - The shade of swords_ Jihad and the conflict between Islam and christianity-Routledge (2008)
* Narrated Abdullah bin Abi Aufa: Allah’s Messenger (May Peace Be Upon Him) said, ‘Know that Paradise is under the shade of swords’.
** From the Book of Jihad in Sahih al Bukhari, quoted in ** Akbar, M. J - The shade of swords_ Jihad and the conflict between Islam and christianity-Routledge (2008)
* While the landlords and capitalists allowed the clergy to make Pakistan a religious state, the clergy allowed the landlords guaranteed property rights and the capitalists unbridled control over the economy. Theocracy and landlordism/capitalism are the two pillars of Pakistan and Bangladesh.
** Akbar, M. J. India: The Siege Within. London, 1985 p 31, quoted in Ibn Warraq, Why I am not a Muslim, 1995. p 322
# M. John Harrison

Michael John Harrison (born 26 July 1945), known primarily by his pen name M. John Harrison, is an English author and critic. He is widely considered one of the leading stylists in modern fantasy and science fiction.

## Sourced
### Light (2002)

All page numbers from the mass market paperback edition published by Bantam Spectra
* Generally, it was impossible to understand the motives of aliens.
** Chapter 2 “Gold Diggers of 2400 AD” (p. 16)
* People think it’s a failure to live alone. But it isn’t. The failure is to live with someone because you can’t face anything else.
** Chapter 4 “Operations of the Heart” (p. 29)
* Anna accumulated things as a way of insulating herself against her own thoughts.
** Chapter 16 “The Venture Capital” (p. 150)
* They were arrant newcomers, driven by the nouveau enthusiasms of a cowboy economy. They had no idea what they had come for, or how to get it: they only knew they would. They had no idea how to comport themselves. They sensed there was money to be made. They dived right in. They started wars. They stunned into passivity five of the alien races they found in possession of the galaxy and fought the sixth—which they called “the Nastic” out of a mistranslation of the Nastic’s word for “space”—to a wary truce. After that they fought one another.
** Chapter 17 “The Lost Entradas” (p. 181)
* She had impressed him as capable of behaviour even more meaningless than most human beings. He had watched her kill her own people with a ferocity that betrayed real grief. But she was someone, he had decided early, who struggled harder with life than she needed to: this he respected, even admired.
** Chapter 29 “Surgery” (p. 361)
* Then he heard a voice say: “It was amazing to them to discover they had always been in the garden without understanding it,” and knew for certain that the inside and the outside of everything are always a single, continuous medium. In that moment he believed he could go anywhere. With a shout of elation he attempted to fall forward in all possible directions at once; only to find to his dismay that in the very exercise of this privilege he had selected one of them.
** Chapter 31 “I’ve Been Here” (pp. 383-384)
* “Everywhere you look it unpacks to infinity. What you look for, you find. And you people can have it. All of it.” The comfortable generosity of this offer puzzled Kearney, so he decided to ignore it. It seemed meaningless anyway.
** Chapter 31 “I’ve Been Here” (p. 390)

## Quotes about

* A stunning writer, who expresses the alienation of the modern everyday with terrible force.
** China Mieville 50 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Works Every Socialist Should Read
# M. E. Grant Duff

Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff GCSI CIE PC FRS (21 February 1829 – 12 January 1906), known as M. E. Grant Duff before 1887 and as Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff thereafter, was a Scottish politician, administrator and author. He served as the Under-Secretary of State for India from 1868 to 1874, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1880 to 1881 and the Governor of Madras from 1881 to 1886.

## Quotes

* For example, in his 1886 address to graduates of the University of Madras, Governor Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant-Duff made a reference to Ramayana as follows: The constant putting forward of Sanskrit literature as if it were preeminently Indian should stir the national pride of some of you Tamil, Telugu, Cannarese. You have less to do with Sanskrit that we English have. Ruffianly Europeans have sometimes been known to speak of natives of India as 'Niggers', but they did not, like the proud speakers or writers of Sanskrit, speak of the people of the South as legions of monkeys. 48
** Quoted from Malhotra, R., Nīlakantan, A. (2011). Breaking India: Western interventions in Dravidian and Dalit faultlines
# John Maxson Stillman

John Maxson Stillman (1852-1923) was a pioneer of the history of science in the United States. He was also the first head of the chemistry department at Stanford University, as well as its first Chemistry Professor. His most enduring work was the posthumously published book The Story of Early Chemistry, decades later republished as The Story of Alchemy and Early Chemistry.

## Quotes

* Boyle entertains the hypothesis of a universal matter, the concept of atoms of different shapes and sizes, and the possibility of existence of substances that might properly be called elements... The atomic theory as originally conceived by Democritus and Epicurus, developed by Lucretius, and resurrected by Gassendi from about 1647 on, was doubtless the source from which Boyle derived his ideas, ...as he cites both Epicurus and Gassendi. Boyle, however... avoids any dogmatic assertion of these hypotheses. It is plain, however, that these atoms or "corpuscles" as he calls them are a constant element of his thought.
** John Maxson Stillman, The Story of Alchemy and Early Chemistry (1924)
# John Mason Good

John Mason Good (25 May 1764 – 2 January 1827) was an English writer on medical, religious and classical subjects.

## Quotes

* Not worlds on worlds in phalanx deep, Need we to prove a God is here; The Daisy, fresh from Winter's sleep, Tells of his hand in lines as clear.
** "The Daisy" (c1813), in Olinthus Gregory, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Character, Literary, Professional, and Religious, of the Late John Mason Good, M.D. (London: Henry Fisher, Son, and Co., 1828), p. 381

### The Book of Nature (1826)

    The Book of Nature (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1834)
* The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result.
** Series I, Lecture IX, p. 93
* While the language of the lips is fleeting as the breath itself, and confined to a single spot as well as to a single moment, the language of the pen enjoys, in many instances, an adamantine existence, and will only perish amid the ruins of the globe. Before its mighty touch time and space become annihilated; it joins epoch to epoch, and pole to pole.[…] But for this, everything would be doubt, and darkness, and death-shade; all knowledge would be traditionary and all experience local; civilized life would relapse into barbarism, and man would have to run through his little, and comparatively insignificant round of existence, the perpetual sport of ignorance and error, uninstructed by science, unregulated by laws, and unconsoled by Revelation.
** Series II, Lecture X, pp. 288–289
* Now, happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature: it is a running stream and not a stagnant pool.
** Series III, Lecture VII, p. 392
** Sometimes cited in shortened form as "Happiness consists in activity; it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool."
* Taste is that faculty which selects and relishes such combinations of ideas as produce genuine beauty, and rejects the contrary.
** Series III, Lecture XV, p. 460
# John Mason Neale

John Mason Neale (24 January 1818 – 6 August 1866) was an English Anglican priest, scholar, and hymnwriter.

## Quotes

* Good King Wenceslas look'd out On the Feast of Stephen, When the snow lay round about, Deep, and crisp, and even.
** "Good King Wenceslas", st. 1, in Carols for Christmas-Tide (Novello & Co., 1853)
* Bring me flesh, and bring me wine, Bring me pine-logs hither.
** "Good King Wenceslas", st. 3
* In his master’s steps he trod, Where the snow lay dinted; Heat was in the very sod Which the Saint had printed.
** "Good King Wenceslas", st. 5
# John Masterman

Sir John Cecil Masterman OBE (12 January 1891 – 6 June 1977) was a noted academic, sportsman and author. However, he was best known as chairman of the Twenty Committee, which during World War II ran the Double Cross System, the scheme that controlled double agents in Britain.

## Quotes

* It was a great game, and exciting and dramatic and even at times tragic - but funny it emphatically was not.
** Fate Cannot Harm Me (1935), ASIN: B00088F3VU
# John Maxwell Edmonds

John Maxwell Edmonds (21 January 1875 – 18 March 1958) was an English classicist, poet and dramatist and the author of several celebrated martial epitaphs.

## Quotes

* Went the day well? We died and never knew; But well or ill, England, we died for you.
** "On Some who died early in the Day of Battle", in The Times (6 February 1918)
** Variants: "Freedom" for "England"
** See also: Went the Day Well? (1942)
* When you go home, tell them of us, and say ‘For your to-morrows these gave their to-day.’
** "For a British Graveyard in France", in The Times Literary Supplement (4 July 1918)
** Variants: "For your to-morrow we gave our to-day"
** See also: Yesterday's Enemy (1959)
# Ibycus

Ibycus (Greek: Ἴβυκος; fl. 6th century BC) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet, a citizen of Rhegium in Magna Graecia, probably active at Samos during the reign of the tyrant Polycrates and numbered by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria in the canonical list of nine lyric poets.

## Quotes

* Ἦρι μὲν αἵ τε Κυδώνιαι μηλίδες ἀρδόμεναι ῥοᾶν ἐκ ποταμῶν, ἵνα Παρθένων κῆπος ἀκήρατος, αἵ τ᾿ οἰνανθίδες αὐξόμεναι σκιεροῖσιν ὑφ᾿ ἕρνεσιν οἰναρέοις θαλέθοισιν· ἐμοὶ δ᾿ ἔρος οὐδεμίαν κατάκοιτος ὥραν· ἀλλ᾿ ἅθ᾿ ὑπὸ στεροπᾶς φλέγων Θρηίκιος Βορέας ἀίσσων παρὰ Κύπριδος ἀζαλέαις μανίαισιν ἐρεμνὸς ἀθαμβὴς ἐγκρατέως πεδόθεν φυλάσσει ἡμετέρας φρένας.
** ’Tis but in Spring the quince-trees of the Maids’ holy garden grow green with the watering rills from the river, and the vine-blossoms wax ’neath the mantling sprays of the vines; but for me Love’s awake the year round, and like the Northwind from Thrace aflame with the lightning, comes with a rush from the Cyprian, with shrivelling frenzies baleful and bold, and with masterful power shakes me to the bottom of my heart.
** Quoted by Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, XIII, 601b (tr. J. M. Edmonds)
* Ἔρος αὖτέ με κυανέοισιν ὑπὸ βλεφάροις τακέρ᾿ ὄμμασι δερκόμενος κηλήμασι παντοδαποῖς ἐς ἀπειρα δίκτυα Κύπριδος βάλει. ἦ μὰν τρομέω νιν ἐπερχόμενον, ὥστε φερέζυγος ἵππος ἀεθλοφόρος ποτὶ γήρᾳ ἀέκων σὺν ὄχεσφι θοοῖς ἐς ἅμιλλαν ἔβα.
** Yet again will Love eye me tenderly from beneath dark brows and cast me with manifold magic into the hopeless net of the Love-Goddess. I swear his approach makes me tremble like an old champion-horse of the chariot-race when he draws the swift car all unwillingly to the contest.
** Quoted by the Scholiast on Plato, Parmenides, 136e (tr. J. M. Edmonds)
* Εὐρύαλε Γλαυκέων Χαρίτων θάλος, Ὡρᾶν καλλικόμων μελέδημα, σὲ μὲν Κύπρις ἅ τ' ἀγανοβλέφαρος Πει- θὼ ῥοδέοισιν ἐν θρέψαν.
** Euryalus, offshoot of the blue-eyed Graces, darling of the lovely-haired Seasons, the Cyprian and soft-lidded Persuasion nursed you among rose-blossoms.
** Quoted by Athenaeus, XIII, 564f (tr. David A. Campbell)

## Bibliography

* J. A. Symonds, Studies of the Greek Poets: First Series, 2nd ed. (1877), p. 155
* Walter Headlam, A Book of Greek Verse (Cambridge, 1908), p. 27
* J. M. Edmonds, Lyra Graeca, Vol. 2 (LCL, 1924), pp. 78–119
* David A. Campbell, Greek Lyric, Vol. 3 (LCL, 1991), pp. 209–305
* Constantine A. Trypanis, The Penguin Book of Greek Verse (1971), nos. 68–9
* Andrew M. Miller, Greek Lyric: An Anthology in Translation (1996), pp. 95–98
# Ibrahim ibn Adham

Ibrahim ibn Adham (c. 718 – c. 782) is one of the most prominent of the early ascetic Sufi saints.

## Quotes
### The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

* If you like to be saint of God, then desire not the things of this world or the next. Empty yourself for God. Turn your face to Him so that He may turn to you and make you His saint.
** p. 26
* Three veils must be removed from the traveler's heart so that the door of happiness is opened to him. First, should the dominion of both worlds is offered to him as eternal gift, he should not rejoice. The second veil is that if he possesses the dominion of both worlds, and should it be taken from him, he should not feel sorry for his poverty. The third is that he should not be misguided by any praise or favour, for one who is misguided like this, is a low person and the low person is veiled.
* p. 26
* O God, thou knowest that is my eyes the eight Paradises have a little worth when they are compared with that honour which thou hast shown me in giving Thy love or that familiarity which Thou hast given me by he commemoration (dhikr) of Thy Name or that freedom from all else which Thou hast granted me when I meditate on the greatness of Thy Glory.
** p. 27
* You do not so act as to avoid Hell and enter Heaven.
** p. 27
* You know the Devil is your enemy but you do not deal with him as such.
** p. 28
* You know death must overtake you but you make no preparation for it.
** p. 28

## External links

* Muhammad Riaz Qadiri: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam, Gujranwala, Pakistan, 2004
# Ice-T

Tracy Lauren Marrow (born February 16, 1958), better known by his stage name Ice-T, is an American rapper, actor, songwriter, and producer.

## Quotes

* Don't mess with my Phil.
** In response to a music journalist who teased him for having Phil Collins records; as quoted by David Cheal and Jan Dalley (2017) The Life of a Song: The fascinating stories behind 50 of the world's best-loved songs; Ch. 11, "In the Air Tonight", Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 9781473668188
* It's easy to make people think you’re a gangster. It’s hard to convince the feds you’re not.
** Twitter, (20 September 2019)
* When you’re not fed with a silver spoon you learn to lick it off a knife.
** Twitter, (30 March 2020)
* Don’t listen to the people on the sidelines. Pay attention to the actual players.
** Twitter, (16 June 2020)
* I had an aunt that used to say, “You keep using the same recipe, You’re gonna keep baking the same cake. “You’ve gotta change the ingredients if you want a different outcome."
** Twitter, (1 January 2021)

## Song lyrics
### Bloodlust (2017)

* It's unfortunate that we even have to say 'Black Lives Matter', I mean, if you go through history nobody ever gave a fuck. I mean, you can kill black people in the street, nobody goes to jail, nobody goes to prison. But when I say 'Black Lives Matter' and you say 'All Lives Matter', that's like if I was to say 'Gay Lives Matter' and you say 'All Lives Matter'. If I said, 'Women's Lives Matter' and you say 'All Lives Matter', you're diluting what I'm saying. You're diluting the issue. The issue isn't about everybody. It's about black lives, at the moment But the truth of the matter is, they don't really give a fuck about anybody, if you break this shit all the way down to the low fucking dirty-ass truth.
* We say that 'Black Lives Matter’ Well truthfully they really never have. No one ever really gave a fuck. Just read your bullshit history books. But honestly it ain't just black. It's yellow, it's brown, it's red. It's anyone who ain't got cash. Poor whites that they call trash.
** No Lives Matter

## External links

* Ice-T on IMDb
* Ice-T on Twitter
* Ice-T on Instagram
# Ibrahim of Ghazna

Ibrahim of Ghazna (1033–1099), was sultan of the Ghaznavid empire from April 1059 until his death in 1099.

## Quotes

* “As power and the strength of a lion was bestowed upon Ibrahim by the Almighty, he made over to him the well-populated country of Hindustan and gave him 40,000 valiant horsemen to take the country, in which there were more than 1000 rais… Its length extends from Lahore to the Euphrates, and its breadth from Kashmir to the borders of Sistan… The army of the king destroyed at one time a thousand temples of idols, which had each been built for more than a thousand years. How can I describe the victories of the king…”
** Khwaja Mas'ud bin Sa'd bin Salman:Diwan-i-Salman in Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own Historians, Vol. IV, pp. 518 ff.
* “The narrative of thy battles eclipses the stories of Rustam and Isfandiyar. Thou didst bring an army in one night from Dhangan to Jalandhar… Thou didst direct but one assault and by that alone brought destruction upon the country. By the morning meal not one soldier, not one Brahman, remained unkilled or uncaptured. Their beads were severed by the carriers of swords. Their houses were levelled with the ground with flaming fire… Thou has secured victory to the country and to religion, for amongst the Hindus this achievement will be remembered till the day of resurrection.”
** Jalandhar (Punjab). Khwaja Mas'ud bin Sa'd bin Salman:Diwan-i-Salman in Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own Historians, Vol. IV, pp. 518 ff.
* “Thou didst depart with a thousand joyful anticipations on a holy expedition, and didst return having achieved a thousand victories… On this journey the army destroyed a thousand idol-temples and thy elephants trampled over more than a hundred strongholds. Thou didst march thy arm to Ujjain; Malwa trembled and fled from thee… On the way to Kalinjar thy pomp obscured the light of day. The lip of infidelity became dry through fear of thee, the eye of plural-worship became blind…”
** Malwa (Madhya Pradesh) . Khwaja Mas'ud bin Sa'd bin Salman:Diwan-i-Salman in Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own Historians, Vol. IV, pp. 518 ff.
* But even when the Muslim position was not that strong, say, during Mahmud’s son Ibrahim’s campaign in Hindustan when “a fierce struggle ensued, but Ibrahim at length gained victory, and slew many of them. Those who escaped fled into the jungles. Nearly 100,000 of their women and children were taken prisoners…”
** Lal, K. S. (1994). Muslim slave system in medieval India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 3 quoting Maulana Ahmad, Tarikh-i-Alfi, E.D., V, 163; Farishtah, I, 49.