{"id":24082,"date":"2016-02-04T12:28:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T11:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/138662815596"},"modified":"2017-01-27T10:50:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T09:50:54","slug":"kk-bindu-368-the-ornament-of-equivocal-phrase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=24082","title":{"rendered":"KK Bindu #368, \u201cThe Ornament of Equivocal Phrase\u201d,&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40959\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_o20t6skwSX1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o20t6skwSX1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o20t6skwSX1sbj0vuo1_500-280x179.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KK Bindu #368, \u201cThe Ornament of Equivocal Phrase\u201d, plus more.  The latest issue of Sri Krishna-kathamrita Bindu e-magazine was just released.  This issue includes:  * PREACHING IN INDIA \u2013 In this letter from 1968, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada speaks about the only solution for the problems of India.  * THE ORNAMENT OF EQUIVOCAL PHRASES \u2013 A collection of first-time translations done especially for this issue of Bindu on the subject of vakrokti, or crooked talks that have indirect or unintended meanings.  An excerpt:  Radha: Who are you, dark fellow?  Krishna: I am Hari!  Radha (interpreting \u201chari\u201d as \u201clion\u201d): But this Vrindavan forest has become devoid of such ferocious animals. How can a lion be present here?  Krishna: O Radhika! I am Madhava!  Radha (interpreting \u201cmadhava\u201d as the month of Madhava, also known as Vaishakh): How has the Vaishakh month arrived untimely?  Krishna: O charming lady! I am Janardan!  Radha (interpreting \u201cjanardana\u201d as \u201che who gives all people trouble\u201d): Oh! It\u2019s nice that a troublesome person like you is staying here in the forest, away from the city and people in general.  It can be downloaded here:  <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/bindu368\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/bindu368<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/68.media.tumblr.com\/1f2b8031b9e3b2a7dfdbedf105ffdeba\/tumblr_o20t6skwSX1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>KK Bindu #368, &ldquo;The Ornament of Equivocal Phrase&rdquo;, plus more.  The latest issue of Sri Krishna-kathamrita Bindu e-magazine was just released.  This issue includes:  * PREACHING IN INDIA &ndash; In this letter from 1968, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada speaks about the only solution for the problems of India.  * THE ORNAMENT OF EQUIVOCAL PHRASES &ndash; A collection of first-time translations done especially for this issue of Bindu on the subject of vakrokti, or crooked talks that have indirect or unintended meanings.  An excerpt:  Radha: Who are you, dark fellow?  Krishna: I am Hari!  Radha (interpreting &ldquo;hari&rdquo; as &ldquo;lion&rdquo;): But this Vrindavan forest has become devoid of such ferocious animals. How can a lion be present here?  Krishna: O Radhika! I am Madhava!  Radha (interpreting &ldquo;madhava&rdquo; as the month of Madhava, also known as Vaishakh): How has the Vaishakh month arrived untimely?  Krishna: O charming lady! I am Janardan!  Radha (interpreting &ldquo;janardana&rdquo; as &ldquo;he who gives all people trouble&rdquo;): Oh! It&rsquo;s nice that a troublesome person like you is staying here in the forest, away from the city and people in general.  It can be downloaded here:  <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/bindu368\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/bindu368<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40960,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24082\/revisions\/40960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}