Kaveri River - drainage areas in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu

This video shows how I computed sub-basin areas for the Kaveri river in the Indian states of Karnataka (KA) and Tamil Nadu (TN). Data for drainage areas came from AQUASTAT and was processed in QGIS open source software. I then created this video using Flashback Express 5 screen recording software.



Process:

• Intersect layers for administrative boundaries and sub-basin areas to obtain sub-basin areas by state
• Extract sub-basin areas by state layers into two separate layers (KA and TN) 
• Dissolve the two layers to get total area by state

The values I computed for drainage areas: 35462 sq km (KA) and 44422 sq km (TN) India Water Resource Information System (India-WRIS) provides these values for drainage areas: 36240 sq km (KA) and 48730 km2 (TN)

The largest spiritual gathering of women in the world

Once a year, millions of women from all over India travel to Thiruvananthapuram to participate in what is considered the largest spiritual gathering of women in the world. The event centers around the offering of Pongala to goddess Bhadrakali, the fierce form of the Devi.

Worship during Attukal Pongala at Tippu Street, South Fort, Thiruvananthapuram

Sources:

Gingrich, J. (2018, September 05). The Festival Where Millions of Women Prepare a Feast for a Goddess. Retrieved September 9, 2018, from https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/indian-festival-all-women

Srinivas, R. (2007, April 08). Worship during Attukal Pongala at Tippu Street, South Fort, Thiruvananthapuram [Digital image]. Retrieved September 9, 2018, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pongale1.jpg CC-BY-SA-3.0

Vedas and Upanishads

Here is a short video that I made that aligns the principal Upanishads with the Vedas.

Note that the alphabetization of English and Devanagari are different.

OCR tool for Sanskrit

Hi all,

This update from the Sanskrit at SOAS Facebook group showed up in my Facebook feed:

Sources:

SanskritCR. (n.d.). Retrieved August 10, 2018, from http://ocr.sanskritdictionary.com/ 

Wojtczak, L. (2018, August 10).  A new OCR tool for devanagari! Retrieved August 10, 2018, from https://www.facebook.com/groups/705791296265189/permalink/1069377789906536/

Buddhism: A Diagram

Have you ever gotten confused about the 3 jewels, 4 noble truths, the 8-fold path, and other enumerations in Buddhism?  Sabio Lantz has created this diagram that illustrates the relationships among these elements of Buddhism:

Sabio Lantz writes:

I created this diagram to assist my future posts on Buddhist themes.  Below are links and texts to help explain the outline.  It is my hope that this diagram aids the reader in visually organizing the dharma (the Buddha’s teachings) in a way that makes it easier to remember, question and discuss.

Sources:

Lantz, Sabio. “Buddhism: a Diagram.” Triangulations, 10 Aug. 2010, triangulations.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/buddhism-a-diagram/.

Lantz, Sabio. [Buddhism]. Triangulations, 10 Aug. 2010, triangulations.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/buddhism101b.jpg.