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30 October 1883 marks the death anniversary of #SwamiDayanandSaraswati. This is a thread on the links between the #AryaSamaj & the #HinduMahasabha & the #RSS. It will also explain how the Samaj contributed to the growth of the #Sangh

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The #AryaSamaj was founded on 10 April 1875 at Bombay (#Mumbai) by Swami #DayanandSaraswati. This monotheistic order laid stress on the values laid down in the #Vedas & was against idol worship.
As a counter to the proselytizing Abrahamic faiths like Christianity and Islam, the #AryaSamaj launched a reconversion campaign called #shuddhi. As the #HinduMahasabha grew in the 1920s, many #AryaSamaj leaders joined it. Shuddhi became one of the Mahasabha's driving forces
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Architectural marvels of Odisha in 24 tweets through early 19th Century pics...👇

1. Nata Mandap, Lingaraj temple, Bhubaneswar
2. Entrance, Lingaraj temple. Bhubaneswar
3. Bhaskareswara temple, Bhubaneswar where a large broken Ashokan pillar is worshipped as a Shiva linga.
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आटले डोळ्यातले पाणी पुर तुझा ओसरेना,
असा कसा रे तू कठोर तुझे मन हेलावेना...

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#Flood #Ratnagiri #Chiplun #Maharashtra
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कसा गेला बघ वाहून उभ्या आयुष्याचा संसार,
मनी पाहिली होती स्वप्ने झाला त्याचा चुराडा पार...

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पूजा गुरव
#kavya #poetry #poem #creative #India #marathi #PoetsTwitter #music
#Flood #Ratnagiri #Chiplun #Maharashtra
cc @kavyaoftheday
होती दावणीला बांधलेली माझी जीवाची सोबतीन तानी,
गेली बघ वाहून कशी घुमतो हंबरडा अजूनही कानी..

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#kavya #poetry #poem #creative #India #marathi #PoetsTwitter #music
#Flood #Ratnagiri #Chiplun #Maharashtra
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#BombayHC bench of Justices Sambhaji Shinde and Nizamoodin Jamadar will shortly hear plea filed by Vikram Bhave, an accused in the #NarendraDabholkar murder case seeking to perform last rites of his father, who died of #Covid19. He seeks to visit #Ratnagiri, his hometown.
Bhave is accused of performing recee of the site, where #NarendraDabholkar was shot down in August 2013. The bench led by Justice Shinde had in May granted him bail. One of the conditions is he shouldn't go out of #Pune where the trial in the case is going on.
Advocates Virendra Ichalkaranjikar and Madhur Rai for Bhave.
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#Thread: #VeerSavarkar - From the eyes of #MahatmaGandhi, #NetajiBose #IndiraGandhi & #Communists.

#Swantantryaveer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, popularly known as Veer Savarkar was an Indian patriot, independence activist, poet, writer and a social revolutionary.

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Post 2014, several allegations were made to malign the image of #VeerSavarkar.

Despite the availability of several documents in the public domain, some people chose to believe the blatant lies spread about him by #Communists/#Islamists and vicious politicians.

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In this thread, let us try to understand #Savarkar through the eyes of some eminent and revered personalities throughout India.

🔸#MahatmaGandhi: Contrary to popular perceptions, #Gandhi was not at loggerheads with Savarkar.

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Around the entrance were a number of large relief panels of standing figures, several now removed elsewhere. 

📷Colossal Buddha head, in Monastery 1.

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On the outside wall the only one left in place is the female figure (illustrated) holding a flowering branch and making the varadamudra with her proper righthand.

📷Asokakanta-Marici Figure by entrance.

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📷Finely crafted sculpture of Pancika (Kubera), to the side of the main entrance of Monastery 1 and his consort Hariti, representing material and spiritual wealth at more than one level.
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The buildings are mainly in brick but the doorways, pillars and sculpture are mostly in two types of stone, which contrast attractively. These are a "blue-green chlorite & local khondalite, a garniferous gneiss with plum-coloured overtones"

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📷:The main shrine image is a colossal seated Buddha, 12 feet high including the base, flanked by smaller standing figures of Padmapani and Vajrapani holding chamaras.

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Monastery 1 is largest with an overall size of 55 sq m, including 21 sq m for the paved central courtyard. There are 24 surviving cells on ground floor, relatively large & probably occupied by more than one monk. One was used as the monastery treasury.

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