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Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु

@MumukshuSavitri

21 Apr

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Bhagwan Ram’s life is primarily known to us from references in texts such as the Ramayana & Vasistha’s Yoga. We know him as a king, hero & divine Avatar, but did you know that Shree Rama was a scientist & one of ancient India’s foremost experts on chemistry & metallurgy?

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Bhudeb Mookerjee, principal of Bengal College of Ayurveda was an Ayurvedic doctor & Sanskrit scholar. In 1938, he published “Rasa Jala Nidhi, Vol. 5” on Hindu chemistry. In Part 8, he directly names Shree Ramachandra as one of the greatest experts of ancient Hindu chemistry.

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He tells us that King Ramachandra of Ayodhya, learnt chemistry from two great Yogis & Siddhas (Chemists) named Kalanatha & Lakshmisvara in the Dandaka forest. Having gained expertise in the field of chemistry & metallurgy, he was named “Dandakanatha” by the sages.

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Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु

@MumukshuSavitri

18 Apr

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In 2014, a group of 9 Indus copper plates ( 2600 BCE), discovered in a private collection in Pakistan, revealed an incredible secret. The plates proved that printing was first invented in India more than 1500 years before the first known printing, in China around 700 BCE.

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Authors Vasant Shinde & Rick J Willis wrote a detailed scientific paper discussing the discovery & its implications. The plates are larger and stronger than known copper plates or tablets, but the most significant detail is that they are inscribed with mirrored characters.

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One of the plates bears 34 characters, which is the longest known single Indus script inscription. A thorough examination revealed the copper plates were not used as seal but as templates for copper plate printing. This makes them the earliest known printing devices, by far.

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Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु

@MumukshuSavitri

15 Apr

As a living force Devi is called Jiva. As this creation is her manifestation, she is known as Prakriti. She who is the cause of all seen & experienced, is known as Kriya or Action.Since she manifests great anger towards evil, she is known as Chandika.

Colored like a blue-lotus, she is Utpala. Ever victorious she is called Jaya. She is known as Siddha because perfection rests in her. She is known as Durga as her real form of nature is beyond our grasp. She is known as Uma as the very essence of sacred mantra OM.

She is Gayatri because her names are sung by all & Savitri as she is the creatrix of all. She is the expansion of one's vision of all things to manifest and hence known as Sarasvati. Her nectarine form is like a ray of calming light, so she is known as Indukala (ray of the moon).

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Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु

@MumukshuSavitri

12 Apr

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Pandit Madho Sarup Vats was an Indian archaeologist & Sanskrit scholar who served as Director of ASI from 1950 - 54. In 1925, Vats supervised excavations at Harappa till 1934-35. In 1928 he discovered a rare red jasper sculpture of a man’s torso, south of the Great Granary.

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What was shocking and exciting about the discovery is that its realism & advanced modeling techniques could only be compared to the best of Greek sculpture which developed thousands of years later. Vats dated the the statue to the Mature Harappan period.

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It was excavated at the same level where several famous Harappan artifacts were found and dated to 2300 BCE. Moreover, it was nowhere near the area where more recent artifacts were found, so there was no chance of the site being contaminated by objects from a later date.

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@MumukshuSavitri

3 Apr

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Pakistan’s genocide of Hindus in Bangladesh over 10 months resulted in slaughter of over 2.5 million Hindus, besides 1000s raped & 10 million Hindus forced to flee. Does this qualify as a Holocaust ? Let’s look at some evidence proving this was a planned genocide of Hindus.

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In 1971 Senator Ed Kennedy wrote in his official report to the US govt. that Hindus were marked like prey and slaughtered. Their homes were marked with big yellow “H”s to differentiate between them & Muslims so that Hindus could be specifically targeted for murder & torture.

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In 1972, Sydney Schanberg, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist from NYT who witnessed the war, wrote in his column describing the atrocities that it was observed that Muslim soldiers painted Yellow “H”s on Hindu homes to ensure they were specifically targeted for execution.

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Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु

@MumukshuSavitri

1 Apr

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In 2000, a Coiled copper-alloy wire necklace & steatite beads with traces of silk fibers inside were discovered at Harappa & Chanhi-Daro. These artifacts dated to 2600 BCE proved that Indians were producing silk at least a 100 years before China.

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Silk was considered the exclusive cultural heritage of China, since 1600 BC. Archaeologists puzzled over presence of silk in prehistoric sites in Europe, Mediterranean, Egypt & Central Asia. These findings were considered evidence of early contact between China & the West.

3/n But now we know it was probably India which was the source of that silk. In 2009, an Oxford University study found silk from 2 types of silk moth was utilized in these artifacts. Based on SEM image analysis they are from Antheraea sp. & Philosamia spp. (Eri silk).

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