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backup/knowledge-preservation.md

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 - [YT](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAsr4-MT4zc)
 
+Files can be stored on paper - **PaperBack** - 
+
+> If you have a good laser printer with the 600 dpi resolution, you can save up to 500,000 bytes of uncompressed data on the single A4/Letter sheet. Integrated packer allows for much better data density - up to 3,000,000+ (three megabytes) of C code per page. Source: [TW](https://www.ollydbg.de/Paperbak/)
+
+
 #### Pigment Ink
 \~ 50 yrs before beginning to fade.
 

sapiens/branches/Aryan/satem/indo-iranian/indo-aryan/india/4_post-brit/politics/id/AryAvarta.md

@@ -12,14 +12,23 @@ Nationalist/ pro-hindu-cultural sentiment and awareness of the mlechCha (includi
 
 
 ## Other descriptions
-- As SR Goel says [here](http://www.voiceofdharma.org/books/siii/ch9.htm): "This vast land which Islam has dismembered in due course into the separate states of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Hindustan, and Bangladesh had been a single indivisible whole since times immemorial. Bharatavarsha had been termed by the ancients as the cradle of varNãshrama-dharma, witness to the wheel of the caturyugas, and the kShetra for chakravãrtya, spiritual as well as political. This historical memory and cultural tradition was alive as late as the imperial Guptas. Kalidasa had clothed it in immortal poetry in his far-famed RaghuvaMsa."
-- Pilgrimage routes: "Everyone knows about the dvādaśa jyotirliṅga-s for the śaiva-s, the divyadeśa-s of the śrī vaiṣṇavas or the śaktipīṭha-s of the śākta-s, covering the whole of bhārata or even what we call, akhaṇḍabhārata." \[[GA](https://aryanthought.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/of-invisible-threads-the-veda-and-the-strangest-harikatha-experience/)\]
+- As SR Goel says [here](http://www.voiceofdharma.org/books/siii/ch9.htm): 
+
+> "This vast land which Islam has dismembered in due course into the separate states of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Hindustan, and Bangladesh had been a single indivisible whole since times immemorial. Bharatavarsha had been termed by the ancients as the cradle of varNãshrama-dharma, witness to the wheel of the caturyugas, and the kShetra for chakravãrtya, spiritual as well as political. This historical memory and cultural tradition was alive as late as the imperial Guptas. Kalidasa had clothed it in immortal poetry in his far-famed RaghuvaMsa."
+
+Pilgrimage routes: 
+
+> "Everyone knows about the dvādaśa jyotirliṅga-s for the śaiva-s, the divyadeśa-s of the śrī vaiṣṇavas or the śaktipīṭha-s of the śākta-s, covering the whole of bhārata or even what we call, akhaṇḍabhārata." \[[GA](https://aryanthought.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/of-invisible-threads-the-veda-and-the-strangest-harikatha-experience/)\]
+
 - The work of story-tellers:
-    - "It is no coincidence that the mahābhārata is framed as janamejaya listening to vaiśampāyana at the sarpa-killing sattra or that the uttarakāṇḍa states how vālmīki has the sons of rāma go around the city singing the rāmāyaṇa on the occasion of the aśvamedha held by rāma or that ugraśrava sauti recites purāṇa-s to the sages at the sattra held by śaunaka. Indeed, when one traces the origin of this, one realizes the roots of a formalized public discourse lie in the hoary pāriplava rite of the aśvamedha where various branches of knowledge are recited to different groups, with the itihāsa-s and purāṇa-s being narrated to fishermen and bird-catchers." \[[GA](https://aryanthought.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/of-invisible-threads-the-veda-and-the-strangest-harikatha-experience/)\]
+
+> "It is no coincidence that the mahābhārata is framed as janamejaya listening to vaiśampāyana at the sarpa-killing sattra or that the uttarakāṇḍa states how vālmīki has the sons of rāma go around the city singing the rāmāyaṇa on the occasion of the aśvamedha held by rāma or that ugraśrava sauti recites purāṇa-s to the sages at the sattra held by śaunaka. Indeed, when one traces the origin of this, one realizes the roots of a formalized public discourse lie in the hoary pāriplava rite of the aśvamedha where various branches of knowledge are recited to different groups, with the itihāsa-s and purāṇa-s being narrated to fishermen and bird-catchers." \[[GA](https://aryanthought.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/of-invisible-threads-the-veda-and-the-strangest-harikatha-experience/)\]
+
 - The cultural unity of India is apparent in Indian and foreign literary works, epigraphs which describe various regions and customs of India (take Kalidasa’s Raghuvamsha or the Mahabharata as prominent examples). This was apparent to Indians across time. Examples:
     - Govindrao Kale to Nana Fadnis 2nd July 1792 \[[TW16](https://twitter.com/ColonelGerard/status/769052097711054848/photo/1)\]
     - bhAskarAchArya-makhIndra's [note](http://manasataramgini.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/the-domain-of-india-according-to-bhaskararaya-makhindra/#like-6828).
     - To add to this, there was a clear (though not static) notion of what constituted the “Āryāvarta” or the land of the cultured people. All this points to a sense of pan-Indic cultural unity. Please see “Nationalism: Its Theory and Principles in India” by Parmanand Parashar for further details and references.
+
 - Ability to clearly identify brAhmaNa-s fittest in the function of conserving pristine Arya vaidika ideals.
     - AchAra-tests  \[mRti-tattvAnusmaraNa of kAshmIra-s - [IMG](../../../../images/snippets/mRti-tattvAnusmaraNa-AchAra-test-kAshmIra.jpg)\].
     - Barring readers of barbarian scripts from shrAddha-s \[mRti-tattvAnusmaraNa of kAshmIra-s - [IMG](../../../../images/snippets/mRti-tattvAnusmaraNa-AchAra-test-kAshmIra.jpg)\].

sapiens/branches/Aryan/satem/indo-iranian/indo-aryan/india/4_post-brit/politics/id/hindu_vs_mlechCha.md

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Emperors of vijayanagara called themselves 'hindu-rāya-suratrāṇa'.
 भविष्य पुराणम् - प्रतिसर्गपर्व - चतुर्थखण्डम् - २८ अध्याय 
 
 > *न वदेद्यावनीं भाषां*  
-> प्राणै: कण्ठगतैरपि ।  
+> प्राणैः कण्ठगतैरपि ।  
 > गजैरापीडयमानोऽपि  
 > न गच्छेज्जैनमन्दिरम् \|\|५३\|\|
 

sapiens/branches/afro-asiatic/semitic/akkadian/articles/_index.md

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sapiens/branches/afro-asiatic/semitic/akkadian/articles/shamsIyaH.md

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+title = "ShamsIyaH"
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+Source: [TW](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shams%C4%AByah)
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+The Shamsīyah were a tribe or sect of sun-worshippers in northern Mesopotamia, concentrated in the city of Mardin (in modern south-eastern Turkey) and the surrounding Tur Abdin region.
+
+The name derives from the Arabic word Al-Shams (الشمس, "the sun").  The Arabic word Al-Shams (or šams) is a cognate of the ancient Akkadian word for sun, šamšu, which is also the origin of the name Shamash.
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+Though the Shamsīyah, or adherents of similar beliefs, had previously been numerous in the northern lands around the Tigris river,[2] they were by the 17th century mainly confined to Mardin.
+
+## Decline
+Forced to convert to Christianity for protection from Sultan Murad IV (r.1623–1640). Actually adapted Christianity in 1763 under pressure from the Syriac Orthodox officcials.
+
+British priest and scholar Adrian Fortescue claimed in 1913 that there were still about a hundred families who identified as Shamsīyah in Mardin. According to Yazidi records, there were still Shamsīyah living in the region in the 1950s and 1960s who were persuaded by Tahseen Said, the Mîr of the Yazidis, to convert to Yazidism.