gifts for Sanskrit teachers

[Axel Michaels]

In Nepal, brahmin priests, pandits and acharyas have a great collection of
umbrellas. More suitable presents you find in any daana-portion of
Dharmashastra-texts. My pandit in Benares always wanted to know how meat
tastes and asked me - jokingly - to bring vegetarian "meat" as gurudakshina.

Axel Michaels

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Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels             e-mail:
axel.michaels at urz.uni-heidelberg.de
Dept. of Classical Indology        phone:  ++49-6221-548817
South Asia Institute                    fax:       ++49-6221-546338
University of Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 330
69120 Heidelberg
Germany
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