Guest guest Posted January 2, 2003 Report Share Posted January 2, 2003 At 11:56 2003-01-02, you wrote: >Dear members of the list! > >The article below from the Times of India may interest some of you. It >demonstrates a highly unexpected future for cowdung. > >http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?art_id=33105\ 252 > >Happy new year! > >Lars Martin Fosse > >Dr.art. Lars Martin Fosse >Haugerudvn. 76, Leil. 114, >0674 Oslo >Norway >Phone: +47 22 32 12 19 >Fax: +47 22 32 12 19 >E-mail: lmfosse Dear Lars, Thank you for the link. A completely new business niche. To be explored also in Europe? Considering the amounts of cowdung uselessly strewn on the most scenic meadows and along the tourist tracks? There would be problems, of course, but not unsurmountable. The really tough ones would be the UE/ISO quality norm and the production quotas... Regards Artur Karp Poland ---------- --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.434 / Virus Database: 243 - Release 2002-12-25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 3, 2003 Report Share Posted January 3, 2003 Lars & Artur & all, > highly unexpected future for cowdung. >http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?art_i >d=33105252 I am afraid, this is all OLD NEWS! I remember a book, hence given to a friend, but found again in LoC (below), that details many efficient usages of cow dung already in 1982. (I gave a talk about it in 1985). A footnote reveals that (quoting from memory): "a recent delegation of Soviet scientists has stated that smearing dow dung on walls of houses will protect them from atomic radiation" I have always connected the downfall of the Soviet empire with such scientists:-) But, on second thought, they may only have retreated a little eastwards from Moscow, to .... Bashkiria. Parkhe, M. S. Agnihotra : the Vedic solution for present day problems / by M.S. Parkhe. Poona : Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Vaidika Sam´sodhana Mandala, 1982. iv, 139 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. The book has many other important recipes to offer, from personal health to social unrest: Perform an Agnihotra (by which P. means a small homa in a square, powerful "pyramid shaped" metal container), and the smoke, sound of mantras, etc. etc., will kill bacteria (an idea going back to Dayanand's, founder of Arya Samaj, "The Light of Truth"!), and it will put labor strikes to an end. All unused technology in the rest of the world! And, it has been *scientifically tested* e.g., at a Technology Institute in U.P, already in Kangresi times: According to Parkhe, they plowed two fields, put sacrificial Agnihotra ash into one of them, sowed both fields with wheat, and --indeed-- the one with Agnihotra ash produced much more than the field not treated with Agnihotra ash. "Science", like ritual, always works. Just another proof, if still needed, of the high quality of the work of some natural scientists ... and of the Agnihotra. Incidentally, the Bashkirs beat NASA with their Lanka bridge by a mere 118 million years... Keep searching! MW ============================================================ Michael Witzel Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies, Harvard University 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138, USA ph. 1- 617-496 2990 (also messages) home page: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwpage.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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