BEFORE DEPARTING FOR HIS SUPREME ABODE FROM THIS WORLD PRABHU RAM instructed Hanumān to stay in the world for the ultimate good of the world. As per Vālmīki Rāmāyana.
Śrī Rāma while departing for his Supreme abode tells Hanuman;
Do you know, how did the term 'Tree Hugger' originate? Who inspired the Chipko Movement and who was Amrita Devi Bishnoi?
The first tree huggers were 294 men and 69 women belonging to the Bishnois branch of Hinduism,who,in 1730,died while trying to protect the trees in their...
..village from being turned into the raw material for building a palace. They literally clung to the trees, while being slaughtered by the foresters. But their action led to a royal decree prohibiting the cutting of trees in any Bishnoi village. And now those villages are...
...virtual wooded oases amidst an otherwise desert landscape. The Bishnoi community is often called the protector of wildlife and environment in Western Rajasthan, at times going to lengths for their cause. One of the more well-known cases that catapulted them to fame was when...
Warli Painting is a Tribal Art form that dates back to 2500 BCE, and it was practiced by the Warli tribes belonging from Thane and Nasik in Maharashtra. These paintings mostly illustrate the nature and social rituals of the tribe.
Warli painting uses geometric designs such as triangle, circle, dots, squares and lines to depict the human figure, house and daily work like hunting, dancing, sowing, harvesting, etc. Marriage is the regular theme of the Warli paintings.
The marriage theme Palghat, the marriage god in which one can find a horse, the bride and the groom. Man and Women dancing in circles (tribe tarpa dance), during the various celebrations, is another theme of Warli paintings.
0n 30th October 2020, a stone murti of Surya Dev, dated back to 10th century, was found in the farmland of Harijan Vannurappa at Kalagodu village in Gummagatta mandal of Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh.
While Vannurappa’s son Nagendra was tilling the land, his plough hit the two-foot granite stone murti with two lotus flowers in both hands. Situated on the banks of the Vedavathi river,..
..the iconography is similar to some other sculptures found in this region and the locals said there could be some more such sculptures in the vicinity.
He immediately informed Rayadurg Heritage Association secretary Gudekota Siva Kumar,..
Bajiprabhu Deshpande was a great Maratha warrior who lead an Army of just 300 maratha warriors against an army of 10,000 plus Adil Shahi forces in the narrow Ghod Kind pass which was later renamed as Paavan Kind by Shivaji Maharaj.
This is his story.
Bajiprabhu Deshpande, born in a Marathi Chandrasainya Kayastha Prabhu family on 1615 CE.The Great Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was deeply impressed by him and appointed him as the military commander of south Maharashtra around the Kohlapur region.
Maratha infantry soldiers were trained to fight with their traditional sword known as Dandpatta, also know as Gauntlet sword in English. The patta has a long straight blade ranging in length from 10 to 44 inches with the gauntlet integrated in the sword as the hand gun.
VEDIC COSMOLOGY, also known as Hindu Cosmology, and cosmography are both interesting and inspiring. Today’s “modern” Vedic texts originated around 3,000 B.C.E. This is the oldest scientific and the oldest religious doctrine known to the human race.
Our current astronomy of the solar system and universe has its roots in Vedic knowledge. It only shows that man had advanced knowledge of astronomy way before our current civilization came into existence.
We are here to talk about the Vedic version of the planetary system,
starting at the top from the eternal planets to the temporary planetary system within innumerable universes in the material world.
Talking about “cosmic manifestation,” we need to incorporate both spiritual and material existence.
THE GREATEST BATTLE OF THE ANCIENT WORLD WAS 'THE DASHARAJNYA YUDDH' OR 'BATTLE OF THE 10 KINGS' - 47000 BCE!
It is the World's first recorded Battle and was won by King Sudas - the ancestor of the Ikshvaku dynasty and the ancestor of Prabhu Shri Ram of Ayodhya.
The evidence is chronologically recorded in various Puranas with reference to Suryavanshi + Chandravanshi Kings. This war itself presupposes a lineage of kings before Sudas going back thousands of years to Manu Vaivasvata.
Bharatas are cited as an eminent ruling family in the Rig Veda, the world's ancient most written book. Different hymns of Rig Veda say, King Sudas belonged to the Bharata clan and he was the winner of a popular war 'Dasharajnya War' or 'War of 10 Kings'.