diff --git a/sapiens/branches/Trans-eurasian/hunnic/turks/articles/conversion-utility.md b/sapiens/branches/Trans-eurasian/hunnic/turks/articles/conversion-utility.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..4ede51acf3fd2 --- /dev/null +++ b/sapiens/branches/Trans-eurasian/hunnic/turks/articles/conversion-utility.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ ++++ +title = "Conversion utility" ++++ + +historians have explained the conversion of Inner Asian nomads as closely related to the process of state formation. When advanced tribal unions were in the process of transforming themselves into a polity, a new religion could function as a unifying force, a means of ideological distancing, and a sign of independence, all of which aided the process of state formation. 12 + +In the case of conversion to Islam, DeWeese and Khazanov have stressed the role of the new religion in giving the Islamized group a more cohesive communal identity, differentiating between us, Muslims, and them, infidels. This new identity was often consolidated by means of war (jihād) against a common non-Muslim enemy, often a former rival faction.13 + +Thus, when Saljuq embraced Islam, one of his first actions was to turn against his former overlord, an infidel, and the first action of Satuq Bughra Khan, the first Muslim Qarakhanid ruler, was to gain a legal opinion (fatwa) that allowed him to kill his infidel father. He performed this act without delay, thereby eliminating the most severe threat to his leadership. + + diff --git a/sapiens/branches/Trans-eurasian/japan/india-ties.md b/sapiens/branches/Trans-eurasian/japan/india-ties.md index 1eeceb4fa5f8c..d06e05eed22c6 100644 --- a/sapiens/branches/Trans-eurasian/japan/india-ties.md +++ b/sapiens/branches/Trans-eurasian/japan/india-ties.md @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ title: India ties - bauddha-s carried several hindu memes and deva-s to japan. - video of several prominent deities - [YT](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WaenzbSJwk). - Prominent sAmurai swearing by Indra and vaishravaNa \[[RJ15](https://twitter.com/Rjrasva/status/630344370999459840)\]. - - Example: Homa to vaishravaNa, in front of an image of marIchi, by kAgeTora/ Uesugi Kenshin a daimyo of the Sengoku [YT](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4AV_Gv_59k&feature=youtu.be), [YT2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrriW9gFXsk) (identification by [MT](https://twitter.com/yenkak/status/630249442613051392)), also a devotee of vaishravaNa. + - Example: Homa to vaishravaNa, in front of an image of marIchi, by kAgeTora/ Uesugi Kenshin a daimyo of the Sengoku [YT2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrriW9gFXsk) (identification by [MT](https://twitter.com/yenkak/status/630249442613051392)), also a devotee of vaishravaNa. - Sanskrit influence on japanese alphabet arrangement [pdf](http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED043872.pdf). ## Help towards Indian liberation diff --git a/sapiens/phenes/health/food/nutrients/vitamins_misc.md b/sapiens/phenes/health/food/nutrients/vitamins_misc.md index 41860d65efe5e..d21c58991316f 100644 --- a/sapiens/phenes/health/food/nutrients/vitamins_misc.md +++ b/sapiens/phenes/health/food/nutrients/vitamins_misc.md @@ -54,6 +54,13 @@ Malabsorption > Fermented products such as tempeh and miso (obtained from fermented soya beans), shiitake mushrooms and algae (spirulina and nori) contain substances which are similar chemically to vitamin B12. However, they do not work in the body in the same way as the active vitamin so these foods cannot be relied upon as sources of vitamin B12. +On cobalt shortfall - + +> The bacteria Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium are among those that are capable of producing vitamin B12. Propionibacterium shermanii in cheese and some species of Streptomyces are found in soil and fermented foods as well. My experience of growing organic stuff for the last 50 yr shows that Streptomyces in soil with organic carbon above 5% produce B12 which has been tested in bottle gaurd too. +> +> These days the fodder that cow eats and the food we eat doesn't contain enough Cobalt as a mineral in available form hence the curd and the gut bacteria can't produce much of B12. +> +> - Rajesh Gupta #### Supplements - Vegan/ vegetarian 120-250 mg/day. Double in case of high demand (eg. pregnancy) diff --git a/skills/education/home_school/india/case-snapshots/Sup.md b/skills/education/home_school/india/case-snapshots/Sup.md index c83dbbe6ac654..6106dd19b2cbd 100644 --- a/skills/education/home_school/india/case-snapshots/Sup.md +++ b/skills/education/home_school/india/case-snapshots/Sup.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ title = "Supr" ## Current classes - Math, history, misc topics (विश्वसः) -- Science (shruti) +- Science, programming (श्रुतिः) - tamiL - shrIvaiShNava texts and mags (बालकृष्णः) - Telugu rAmAyaNa (श्रीदेवी) - Taekwondo (**Iban-Jhop**) @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ title = "Supr" ## Past - swimming (rAhul) -- kannaDa, english reading +- kannaDa, english reading (श्रुतिः) - Goodreads [here](https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/184092601?shelf=read) ## Routine