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Hommage
“Earth. I tread lightly upon you so that my step does not hurt. I sing to celebrate the air with which you nourish most creatures. I dance with abandon to invoke the fire within my soul that lights up the spirit of humanity and keeps it warm in your embrace. I rise with the night to welcome the moon on your behalf. Earth ( Read more... ) -
Raksha Bandhan
Raksha Bandhan. It is a very sacred Hindu festival. Celebrating the relationship between brothers and sisters, it is birthed when the moon has a full round belly on the month of Shraavana. Sisters tie a rakhi, or holy thread, on their brother's wrists and in return, the sister receives a gift from her brother after he vows to look after her, to ( Read more... ) -
Other uses of the word Dakini (thanks Wiki)
A dakini (Sanskrit: डाकिनी ḍākinī; Tibetan: མཁའ་འགྲོ་མ་ khandroma, Wylie: mkha' 'gro ma, TP: kandroma; Chinese: 空行女) is a tantric deity described as a female embodiment of enlightened energy. In the Tibetan language, dakini is rendered khandroma which means 'she who traverses the sky' or 'she who moves in space'. Sometimes the term is translated ( Read more... ) -
Allah Maar Daala (God, it killed me...)
Bairii piya bada bedardii bairii piya bada bedardi dil ka dard na jaane
saudaa'ii harjaa'ii zulmii raam duhaa'ii
kaise kahuu. N kaa n se kahuu. N haa'e raam
dil ka dard na jaane
na jaane...
Beloved enemy, how very cold-hearted!
Beloved enemy, so unfeeling; you can't know my heartache!
Cold-blooded exactor of debts, I appeal to God above!
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Amatrra
Name: Amatrra
Fandom: V:tM
Owned By: Chandrika Kampala
Open to all: Yes
Store Hours: 9am-11pm (Officially, but more often than not, the 'open' sign is still on the door well past midnight)
Amatrra is a Aryvedic (आयुर्वेद) remedy, spice and herb shop, and Aryvedic treatment "clinic" in Artesia, Los Angeles, a modest expatriate Indian community. ( Please, come in. ) -
In a nutshell
Chandrika Kampala is of a little know clan from the east called the Dakini, whom many Kindred allude to being not Kindred at all. Once a fervent warrior on the path of Nataraja, Chandrika gained the ire of her clan when she failed to kill a Buddhist monk that she had marked, a grievance amongst her kind. Much later, a further so-called ( Read more... ) -
Asceticism
Raktayana: Hindu magicians believe in a subtle magical energy called prana ("breath") that permeates all existence. Magicians accumulate prana through special breathing exercises called pranayama. Vampires, however, have no prana of their own. They take prana from the living, as blood. Since the Kindred do not breathe, they cannot use pranayama to ( Read more... ) -
Fan-fiction purpose (alternative plot 1)
While in her Kali personification (a rage that closely mirrors Frenzy), Chandrika accidentally killed her consort, a man that she deeply loved. Centuries later, in Los Angeles, she will come across a man whose reincarnated soul will be that of her fallen lover. Sworn not to interfere in his life, she will fight her beliefs when faced with the ( Read more... ) -
Bloodline: Dakini
The Indian subcontinent is the borderland between the West and the East in many ways. It is a many-layered mixture of cultures, traditions, races, and religions, and it is the home of many strange and exotic creatures--including a group of Kindred who might be a clan, or might be one of the oldest bloodlines in the world.
The Dakini are perhaps an ( Read more... )