Completed Chardham Yatra today. Fortunate to have Darshan at all four places but witnessed a complete failure of law & order.
Devotees were harassed by police & state machinery on the road & at Mandir places.
Mismanagement and chaos were deliberately created to stop devotees.
Local police was ordered to stop vehicles for indefinite time forgetting that there may be senior citizens and children inside it.
No support of food/water by state for these vehicles and no information passed down to them about traffic regulations.
Devotees were on their own.
Devotees were forced to reach at the destination (Dham) during night time forcing them to either abandon the Yatra or search for night stay at high cost.
Many like us had to do Yatra in chilling night time with children w/o any support from govt.
Known as the "First Archaeologist of #India", Bhagwanlal Indraji (19th Century) from #Gujarat, discovered & deciphered many inscriptions, Coins, Sites etc. of ancient India.
His works were in Gujarati so remained unacknowledged for a long time and credit was taken by others.
During his excavation at Junagadh (1866-68), he did find two well carved sculptures probably ~2200 yrs old - 1) Life size female figure 2) Pair of Elephants
These sculptures are now lost. Probably smuggled out of the country. Bhagwanlal captured detail in his 1883 report.
From 1865-73, Bhagwanlal explored many sites in North and East India.
Mathura, Varanasi, Prayagraj, Gadhwa, Devaliya, Bhitari, Caves of Barabar & Nagarjuni, Gaya etc.
His experience of excavating Lion Pillar of #Mathura in hisbown words -
This Thread is a compilation of threads/tweets pertaining to refutation of propaganda/misleading statements and related explanation based on #नीतिशास्त्रम्.