2/n Jadunath Sarkar taking cue from primary sources, tells the whole narrative of what exactly had happened.
Shivaji called on Krishnaji Kulkarni that being a Brahmin he should tell former if Afzal has bad intentions. Krishna ji told that Afzal indeed was up to mischief.
3/n That’s when Shivaji sent his agent Gopinath along with Krishna ji and former returned with information around mischievous plans of Afzal.
Had Krishnaji Kulkarni (whom @sandeep_PT wrongly claims to attack Shivaji) was main person who gives clues to Shivaji.
4/n Shivaji had two bodyguards that day & they were Jiv Mahala & Sambhuji Kavji.
His Muslim guard, Siddi Ibrahim had not accompanied for this meeting @sandeep_PT . You should stop lying or showing that you no nothing of history.
5/n And @sandeep_PT , you claim that Krishnaji attacked Shivaji. That’s not true. It is not recorded in any primary sources and not even in secondary source like work of Jadunath Sarkar. Here is snippet of the pages taking of interview between Afzal Khan & Shivaji.
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2/n “In his khutba, Nizamuddin Auliya condemned the infidels as wicked, saying:
‘He (Allah) has created Paradise and Hell for believers and the infidels (respectively) in order to repay the wicked for what they have done.’”
3/n “Auliya’s thought on Jihad against non-Muslims can be gleaned from his statement that Surah Fatihah, first chapter of the Quran, did not contain two of the ten cardinal articles of Islam, which were ‘warring with the unbelievers and observing the divine statutes...’
1/n Although I have been tired of debunking the works of DN Jha, I’ll do it again. This time for allegations against Raja Shashank to have persecuted Buddhists & bringing down Bodhi tree.
2/n Here the sayings of Hsuen Tsang is used to make a claim that Shashank persecuted Buddhists and brought down Bodhi tree. But this claim is simply mythical in nature.
Let me explain how.
3/n Tsang claims that a sapling of the Bodhi tree was replanted & this is one which actually grew into the big nature one when he visited. It was brought down by Shashank as he says.
2/n Eaton refers the work of Davis and Willis (Trophies of War) wherein he explains how Hindu Rajas were used to be looting Murtis (considered powerful), & then they installed them in custom-built Mandirs within their own domains.
3/n This is nowhere close to the ugly iconoclasm I was referring to done by Portuguese & Islamic invaders.
Though Eaton uses this source but builds a case exactly opposite.
2/n But court outrightly rejected the argument of encroaches that the encroached area is nazul land by virtue of their respective leases, through its 176-page order.
The honourable court observed following:
3/n A) It wasn’t a Govt Order & it didn’t grant any right to the encroachers, given that the document was executed only for the need of property’s management as per the Nazul Rules.
The Hindu tradition is indeed one of the most nuanced thought process in whole cosmos.
The idea to look at the world from Shunya to Shunya following with envisioning Bhagwan as Nirgun & Sagun is most unique idea among all.
The only tradition where people have zoomed down mighty nirgun into sagun. This is something that world outside seldom understands when it looks to divide world into polytheists & monotheist, atheist & theist, believer & non-believer.
Hindus perceived Indriyas as Devatas & hence Indra became the chief of all.
The process of Yagya & Puja Samskara involved(s) essential practice of invoking Indriyas, also with the vision to keep them balanced in line with Rta (the cosmic order).