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An old book in Dundlod Fort based on the 4300 year old ''Shalihotra Samhita". The Shalihotra Samhita is a large treatise on the care and management of horses with some 12,000 shlokas in Sanskrit.
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@TrueIndology @vajrayudha11 @ReclaimTemples @PraveenMohanET 2. It is the principal work of Shalihotra (c. 2350 BCE) who was the son of a Brahmin sage.
Raghuvendra Singh Dundlod is co-owner of the Marwari Bloodlines stud farm in Dundlod, dedicated to the preservation of the indigenous horses of India.
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Raghuvendra Singh Dundlod is co-owner of the Marwari Bloodlines stud farm in Dundlod, dedicated to the preservation of the indigenous horses of India.
#History #india
@TrueIndology @vajrayudha11 @ReclaimTemples @PraveenMohanET 3 Of these horses the Mawari is considered the most regal. Its defining characteristics are the unique lyre shaped ears which can rotate 180 degrees individually or together; they are one of the most ancient and purest breeding lines; they have endurance considered to be on a par
@TrueIndology @vajrayudha11 @ReclaimTemples @PraveenMohanET 4with Arabian horses; they were bred in India by the 12th century Marwar rulers for battle in which they excelled; known for particularly for its loyalty, speed and stamina.
@TrueIndology @vajrayudha11 @ReclaimTemples @PraveenMohanET 5. The breed came to the point extinction during the Raj as a result of British persecution and numbers remained critically low until the formation of the Indigenous Horse Society of India in 1996. The breed remains threatened to this day.
