Colonel William A. Phillips

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The term navaratna can be split into nava-ratna, with nava meaning nine and ratna meaning gem. Thus it just means nine gems rather than 'Having nine gems'. When it is used along with another word ie: navaratna mala, the meaning is nine gem(ed) garland. The 'having' is implied because of the context and is not present in the original word.

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Most of the original sourcing for this article consisted of a mass of cited books without any page numbers, so there was no way to verify the references. I have begun editing content, replacing the mass book cites with verifiable references. I've also removed some information that was definitely unverifiable using reliable sources, and somewhat dubious in my opinion. I'm willing to be corrected, by verifiable and reliable sources. See WP:VERIFY for general information on sourcing, and Wikipedia:Citing sources on how to properly use inline citations in such a way that it "allows a reader to find the source and verify that it supports material in Wikipedia". Priyanath ^talk 21:06, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well over two years ago I had created this page and graphics, then it was vandalized by some kook named Priyanath who removed my material and captions, and replaced with a narrow Hindu only version quoting unproved opinions as fact. Also removing my reference to direct quotes (while retaining the quotes). I don't know your backgroud, Mr Priyanath, but my first book on Navaratna was published in 1975, and since then I have 13 big books published on the subject. If you want to compare expertise you better get your own army! So here is a perfect version. A broad view of Navaratna covering all SE Asia - that also includes Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, and many others. And does NOT quote unprovable opinions as hard FACTS. This whole subject is unprovable, except in cultural sense. Navaratna is much MORE important in Thailand with Buddhists than in India where they use junk, and Navaratna has nothing to do with Indian government or science. If you delete this I'll replace it again, and I'll fight for my right. And have the page locked if necessary! DON'T VANDALIZE!! --Rickbrown9 (talk) 18:08, 24 July 2009 (UTC) - Richard Shaw Brown[reply]

Mr. Brown, if this is your idea of an acceptable submission of a Wikipedia article, I think you would profit from familiarizing yourself with our project fundamentals. A good place to start would be WP:5P, but WP:MOS is also helpful. --dab (𒁳) 16:36, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Since when does superstition become FACT in Wikipedia. Navaratna is more Thai than Indian. In fact, the only provable reality of Navaratna is it's position in Thai Buddhist Culture. It is not mentioned even once in any actual Vedic literature. The only evidence given is recent and is taken word-for-word from my own translations of my own published books which I can prove. I have been researching this since 1974 and have 13 published books on the subject. I also wrote the original article. In the vandalized version they broke Thai law by removing the name "Queen Sirikit Navaratna" from her own so-named necklace and calling a pendant. They also use word-for-word text from my books without reference to my books which is copyright violation. If you want to improve then work with this. But don't replace fact with fantasy and replace a good article that IS scientific and provable with non-NPOV vandalism trying to make a broad-based subject as (only) "Hindu", which is hardly provable without quoting me and my copyrighted material which I have allowed Wikipedia to use - in either version). All graphics shown are also my own creations as published and copyrighted and provable. If you try and reinstate the Vandalism I will remove all my copyrighted material from that, which leaves basically nothing but make believe, and I will ask Wikipedia to make a ruling if necessary. --Rickbrown9 (talk) 16:48, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know how long you've been around but you better check my user page to see many years of my contributions before giving advice unsolicited.--Rickbrown9 (talk) 18:01, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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