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THE HOLY ROSE AND THE HOLY LOTUS 3. Chess, Cupid, Kamadeva, Jagannatha and other curiosities

     At the same time that courtly love, Venus and Cupid were making their influences felt in minds upon European and Middle Eastern soils, in the Orient we find Purusottama Vishnu (seen by Vaishnavas as being an aspect of Vishnu, one of Vishnu’s many qualities, names and forms, associated with love) was worshiped in […]

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THE HOLY ROSE AND THE HOLY LOTUS 2. Chess, Cupid, Kamadeva, Jagannatha and other curiosities

   Lets get some related wider context at this point. It is a tradition within India to have its scriptures containing verses with exactly 32 syllables each. These are called catuh-slokas, fourfold slokas (verse), consisting of four lines each with eight in. Four rows of eight. In chess each player has two rows of 8

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THE HOLY ROSE AND THE HOLY LOTUS 1. Chess, Cupid, Kamadeva, Jagannatha and other curiosities

   In chess, there are 8 major pieces, 8 pawns for each player making 16 pieces each and 32 pieces in all. It is played on an 8×8 square, which makes a board of 64 squares. Therefore the number structure of chess is 8, 16, 32 and 64.    In chess history the game has

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