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Description of suitable lands for various crops from Mauryan period (321 to 185 BCE) -

Excerpts from "Food and the Diet in the Mauryan Empire" written by "Krishivala", published by "Madras Chamber of Agriculture Publication" in 1946

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"Lands that are beaten by foam (phenaghatah, i.e., banks of rivers, etc.) are suitable for growing "valliphala" (pumpkins, gourd and the like)

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"Lands that are frequently overflown by water (parivahanta) for long pepper, grapes (Mridvika) and sugarcane"

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"the vicinity of wells for vegetables and roots; low grounds (hariniprayantah) for green crops; and marginal furrows between any two rows of crops are suitable for the plantation of fragrant plants, medicinal herbs, cascus roots..."

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The book, "Food and the Diet in the Mauryan Empire", is a rare treatise on the food and agriculture of the ancient times, and it is available for reading on borilib.com

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4 Jun
Perhaps, one of the earliest cases of gaslighting comes from an incidence in the Mahabharata.

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We all know the story of how Duryodhana was embarrassed in the “Mayasabha”, where he confused a pool for the floor & vice versa.

The story goes that Draupadi insulted him with a jibe, “A blind man’s son is ought to be blind”.

This insult was an inflection point in some ways.
But the Critical Edition of Mahabharata doesn’t mention this incidence (which by extension means most ancient manuscripts as well).

What it does however mention is that Duryodhana went to Dhritarashtra, and complained that he was insulted by Draupadi and even Krishna.
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3 Jun
Mahabharata and Hastinapur excavation, Painted Grey Culture (PGW) Culture (1100-800 BCE).

A thread of excerpts from the book “Socio-Economic Archaeology of India” by Dr. M.K. Dhavalikar

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“Another key issue in Indology for which the solution appears to have been found in archaeology is the great epic of Mahabharata. The crucial testimony comes from Hastinapur which has been identified as the capital of Kauravas.”
“B.B. Lal (1954/55), a leading Indian archaeologist, carried out explorations of sites mentioned in the Mahabharata, where interestingly enough he found a pottery Gray in colour, bearing designs in black.”
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2 Jun
The story of Lake Sudarshan -

A lake Emperor Chandragupta Maurya constructed > 2300 years ago, and which irrigated Junagadh (Gujarat) region for more than 777 years

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The great Emperor, Chandragupta Maurya (324-297 BCE) once ordered his minister Pushyagupta to construct an irrigation lake in the present day Junagadh.

Thus at the foothills of Mount Girnar & the confluence of rivers "Suvarna Sikata" &"Palashini", lake Sudarshan was constructed.
Decades later, Emperor Ashok ordered his Greek governor, Tushaspha to design and construct irrigation canals on the lake Sudarshan.
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1 Jun
48 years (1919-1966)
3 generations of scholars
A critical synthesis of 1259 Manuscripts
&
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The making of the Critical Edition of Mahabharata - A long thread Image
Mahabharata is often deemed the fifth Veda, meaning it is equally venerable as the four Vedas.

The critical edition calls it "an inexhaustible mine for the investigation of religion, mythology, philosophy, law, customs, political and social institutions of the ancient India"
A.K. Ramanujan once said that no Indian reads Mahabharata for the "first time". For many centuries common Indians have grown up with the stories and morals of Mahabharata.

But the variations in recensions of the Mahabharata matched the diversity of India equally maddeningly.
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26 May
Today a total lunar eclipse is occurring on Vaishakh Purnima.

1402 years ago in 619 CE, a lunar eclipse occurred on Vaishakh Purnima as well.

On that day, Chalukya king Pulkeshin commissioned a copperplate inscription that eulogized his victory over Emperor Harshwardhan

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The exact timeline of the event was long uncertain, and was thought to have occurred somewhere between 610 CE - 634 CE.

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However it was the discovery and the study of this inscription, and the mention of a lunar eclipse on Vaishakh purnima in it, which helped ascertain the exact year of the battle i.e., 619 CE.

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16 May
Let us tell you a story of how we digitised 7,000,000 pages of almost 16,000 rare books at to create borilib.com: one of the first world-class Indian digital library of rare books.

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Established in 1917, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute is home to more than 153,000 rare books (& 28,000 manuscripts). It includes collections on topics such as Vedas, Ayurveda, Buddhism, Jainism, Sanskrit & its Grammar, and Ancient Indian Philosophies to name a few.
As the institute approached its centenary year (2017), we recognised the need to evolve in a new direction. We recognised the need to protect the treasure in our care, and also the significance of making it accessible.

Hence started the mission to digitise our library.
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