Maybe but no one is claiming that there was genocide in Lebanon. Reckless violence maybe -- the pagers and bombs did hurt and kill a lot of innocents -- but not genocide. "Hands off Lebanon" was part of the chant -- as though bombs were not raining down from Hezbollah.

But I would be very interested in other construals.

It means "don't defend yourself" in the context of a fight with Hamas which made very clear that it would repeat Oct 7 if and when it can. Whether that is still Hamas's position isn't clear.

I was wondering if anyone else made the connection and this guy in fact did. He thinks that Modi and Trump are both playing the same game, in regard to tariffs. pranavpatel.co/trumps-tarif... And he thinks it's a good game to play. Frightening times.

en.wikisource.org/wiki/Arthash... and so forth. Kautilya though is not totally amoral as is Trump -- there is rectitude and care for the citizenry -- within the nation. But outside the nation the king must follow the sheer logic of threats and violence.

Whoever is inferior to another shall make peace with him; whoever is superior in power shall wage war; whoever thinks "no enemy can hurt me, nor am I strong enough to destroy my enemy," shall observe neutrality; whoever is possessed of necessary means shall march against his enemy; . . . .

"otherwise (i.e., when he is provided with some help), he deserves to be harassed or reduced. Such are the aspects of an enemy." en.wikisource.org/wiki/Arthash...

"A neighbouring foe of considerable power is styled an enemy; and when he is involved in calamities or has taken himself to evil ways, he becomes assailable; and when he has little or no help, he becomes destructible;

Really helps to have a partner, to keep one honest and on schedule. I'm learning with @freeandclear1.bsky.social

A prime directive of grad classes -- you have to be able to work with the original texts. So I'm back at it. Last time, Coulson. I am using Egenes this time. Must easier to learn from.

Coulson makes devangari optional. A mistake I think.

Like any language, you just have to stick with it.

I have an interest in Indian philosophy. I learned it years ago and could read Sankara but it all went away. The way to learn is to teach, and with deaths and retirements I finally have the chance to teach Asian philosophy. But for bureaucratic reasons it has to be a grad class.

Just a tool. But not looking forward to dealing with undergrad papers this fall.

But I must say that it has been a wonderful help in my study of Sanskrit, when text exercises stump me. gpt-4 got it right about half the time, gpt-5 almost aways.

gpt-4 would often hallucinate texts when prompted with a question like "Where does Iamblichus say X?" gpt-5 gets it.

Last I heard the Ancient Commentators Series www.ancientcommentators.org.uk was looking for someone to do the NE Commentary, with which, I take it, Buridan was working. I have an unfinished paper on sophia in that commentary I should get back to.

That solution makes some sense! I am doing the Posterior Analytics not the NE commentary, so your solution I suppose would have all the pronouns be masculine.

It still strikes me as weird, when translating ancient or medieval texts. But the language is changing.

Coulson's big plus is to say -- never mind about memorizing sandhi rules -- just use the charts

Once I get through vol 2 of Egenes I am interested in finding other intermediate students with whom to work through some Sanskrit philosophical texts.

My first teacher, Stephen Beall, of Marquette University, has a pdf of good distillation of the Coulson, which serves well as a simplified textbook. He would very likely be ok with my sharing it

Egenes takes things at just the right pace. The main alternative seems to be Coulson, Teach Yourself Sanskrit, which I take it, is being revised. Coulson is a good supplement but gives the student too much too fast.