India bleeds of creativity! From dance.music,movies,to Art ,our country is rich in cultural heritage and home to numerous forms of art. On #WorldArtDay presenting 64 art forms of India
The mastery of as many of the 64 traditional arts. believed that Krishna possesses these #arts
1. Geet vidya: art of singing. 2. Vadya vidya: art of playing on musical instruments. 3. Nritya vidya: art of dancing. 4. Natya vidya: art of theatricals. 5. Alekhya vidya: art of painting. 6. Viseshakacchedya vidya: art of painting the face and body with color
7. Tandulakusumabalivikara: art of preparing offerings from rice and flowers. 8. Pushpastarana: art of making a covering of flowers for a bed. 9. Dasanavasanangaraga: art of applying preparations for cleansing the teeth, cloths and painting the body.
wish u all Happy #Gangaur/Gauri Tritiya.
this festival celebrated mainly in North Indian states especially in Rajasthan and some parts of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and Gujarat.
The festival commences on the first day of Chaitra and continues for 18 days.
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Women and girls observe fast during this festive time and eat only once in a day. Images of Gauri and Isar (Lord Shiva) are made with the clay and decorated very beautifully. On the other hand, in some of the Rajput families, images are made of wood every year before the festival
they are painted by the famous painters who are called as ‘Matherans’. The images which are made during this time do not have canopies. Women and girls, during the festival, wear new dresses, adorn themselves with jewellery and make designs on their palms and feet by applying
Meerut,U.P, India based Artist Mamta Goel is Creatively carving the leaf 🍂 and showing the Glimpse of India
Here I'm posting her all creation on this thread please take a look .
There is enough historical evidence by now that Indians since the days of the Indus Valley have indulged in dishes made with meat and poultry: zebu cattle (humped cattle), gaur(Indian bison), sheep, goat, turtle, ghariyal (a crocodile-like reptile), fish fowl and game.
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The Vedas refer to more than250 animals of whom about50 were deemed fit to be sacrificed and,by inference,for eating.The marketplace had various stalls for vendors of different kinds of meat: gogataka(cattle),arabika(sheep), shookarika (swine),nagarika(deer)& shakuntika (fowl).
There were even separate vends for selling alligator and tortoise meat (giddabuddaka). The Rigveda describes horses, buffaloes, rams and goats as sacrificial animals. The 162nd hymn of the Rigveda describes the elaborate horse sacrifice performed by emperors.
Mokshapath -Snakes and Ladders
The object of Moksha path was to teach children the intricacies’ of the path to liberation. Salvation or Moksha being at the top of the board. Bad deeds lead one into the snakes mouth.
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and a slippery slidey road back down the path and a ladder will reward one’s virtuous deeds with a short cut to the top.
Bad deeds are represented by snakes and good deeds are represented by ladders, each ladder and snake is a moral lesson.
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The British stole the concept of the ancient Indian game in the late 1800’s and marketed it in Europe as snakes and ladders and I believe as a game called Kismet which appears to be a little closed to the original. It reaches the United States in the 1940’s and was marketed as
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one simple photograph can tell u much more about historical figures or events than any book you might read or any charter you might analyze.
These 30 Intriguing Pictures Are Some of the Rarest Photographs Ever Captured in India 1. Rabindranath Tagore with Albert Einstein in 1920s
2. Indira Gandhi, Charlie Chaplin And Jawaharlal Nehru in Bürgenstock, Switzerland, 1953