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Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु

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13 May

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Veer Savarkar has been reviled and demonized to the extreme but a reading of his ideas reveal him as a modernist, rationalist & strong supporter of social reform. His opinion on movies in national life is particularly interesting. Movies can build the character of a nation.

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“Films can be used to educate our youth. We see life reflected very well on screen. It is better to borrow a good thing rather than have nothing at all. But one should neither blindly copy the work of others."

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“As in all other fields, it is essential that our people are nationalists in the field of cinema as well. Everything else comes after that. The film industry too should believe that it will do everything possible for the progress of the entire nation."

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Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु

@MumukshuSavitri

30 Apr

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Dholavira, Gujarat (3000 BCE) is one of the most advanced sites of Saraswati Sindhu civilization. Finely carved polished pillars of banded limestone found here prove Indians were masters at architecture, as well as city planning & water management over 5000 years ago.

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The pillars had a basal slab supporting a set of square blocks followed by a beautifully carved circular member with concave profile and flattened bottom and top surface. Some had a convex profile as well as tenon hole provision on either flat surface of each.

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Amazingly, rectangular basal slabs with locking mechanisms that could support such pillars were also found. Entire pillars rested on such superstructures. They were used as a mounting point for side walls of chambers and to provide support to the roof structure.

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Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु

@MumukshuSavitri

29 Apr

1/n Kishori Saran Lal (1920–2002), better known as K. S. Lal, was an incredibly meticulous researcher & historian who was an expert on the impact of Islam on the history of India. He estimates 80 million Hindus were killed during the centuries of Islamic rule.

2/n He illustrates this by describing the increasing proportion of Muslims in India’s population.

“In 1000 CE, Muslim numbers in India were microscopic. In 1200 they were about 3 to 4 hundred thousand. By 1400 their number had risen to 3.2 million”

3/n “They formed about 1.85 percent of the total population. In 1600 they were probably 15 million.”And from the 1:9 to 1:10 Muslim-Hindu ratio in 1600 the proportion of Muslims to Hindus had gone up to about 1:7 by the year 1800...

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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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