गढवा is a #Fort near to प्रयागराज. Ancient name of this place was भट्टग्राम.
Some 6-7 Inscriptions are found from here in #Sanskrit language. Most of them are badly damaged and so incomplete but still giving useful information. 2/n
From this Temples, Inscriptions related to अन्नदान (सत्र) are found. They reveal that wealthy people of पाटलिपुत्र (Capital of Gupta Empire) donated a lot for sustaining this सत्र tradition. 3/n
Among donors are noble ladies and sons of wealthy people of Pataliputra. Few others are unidentified due to the damaged condition of these Inscriptions.
Scholars believe there was a grand temple at गढवा where these activities were happening on a large scale.
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Two Inscriptions related to Chandragupta Gupta are listed below with Sanskrit text, Hindi translation and references.
6/n Inscription during rule of Kumaragupta (कुमारगुप्त) denotes two people named गोविन्द and लक्ष्मा (लक्ष्मी ?) of पाटलिपुत्र, have donated for sustenance of सदासत्र (24×7 अन्नदान) here.
7/n In another Inscription, from era of कुमारगुप्त, along with coins (दीनार), donation of सुवर्ण (Gold) are also mentioned.
These donations were aimed to provide and keeping tradition of सदासत्र alive.
To sustain this tradition, even भूमि was also donated.
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Following 2 imp. take aways from these Inscriptions -
• Presence of a big #Temple at गढवा even before Gupta era (~ 320 CE)
• Arrangement of अन्नदान and सदासत्र in the temple by wealthy people of पाटलिपुत्र
This Thread is a compilation of threads/tweets pertaining to refutation of propaganda/misleading statements and related explanation based on #नीतिशास्त्रम्.
This thread is a compilation of writing/threads/tweets on Kautilya's #अर्थशास्त्रम् (Arthashastra).
Thread also includes refutation of propagandas against Kautilya/Arthashastra and topics which are refuted/supported based on Arthashastra.
(1) The very first article I wrote on Kautilya's Arthashastra, also published on @/indictoday
It traces origin-tradition-veneration of Arthashastra as a शास्त्र and later on guiding force for Empires/Kings. It also lists tradition before & after कौटिल्य. vyasonmukh.in/2021/01/12/art…
(2) Here I refuted one propaganda which says slave (slavery) is found in Arthashastra.
During time of पतंजलि, writing was already in vogue in #India. Kautilya in #अर्थशास्त्रम् (~350 BCE) has mentioned keeping written records in administration.
It proves oral practice was already ended by that time. It means, Jain sources came later on.