Fire worship in Indo-European cultures

"Egni" the living fire a European counterpart of vedic Agni Greek cognate of Yajna (Iranian 'Yasna') is "hagnós" (Holy) is based on *yaǵ (to worship)

Early Buddhists had a good knowledge of Ramayana and Mahabharata

In the Bhuridatta-Jataka the brothers of Naga king Bhuridatta , 'Arittha and Subhaga' discuss about the Kings of Ramayana and Mahabharata who used to perform 'Yajnas'

1] Arittha gives example of Suryavanshi king 'Saraga' (सगर) who conquered the land upto sea shore
सागरान्त सागरो विजित्वा

He established a Golden Yupa in Yajna
युपं सुभं सोण्णमयं

Yupa is a sacrificial pillar of 'Pashuyaga' to which sacrificial animal was tied

See the carving
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Understanding the chronology of ideas

Some neo-scholars claim that Hinduism is a copy of Mahayana Buddhism

The people who make such claims are full of ignorance about architecture, Scriptures, inscriptions and scripts

1] But the fact is that even before the birth of Mahayana, the Hinayanis had a good knowledge of the ancient Hindus

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Trayastimsa Heaven and the Ladder of Sankisa
(तांवतिंसलोक/त्रायस्त्रिंशा/तैतिस कोटी)

Trayastimsa Heaven is an important celestial realm in Buddhism, Buddhist literature is full of references to it
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1] According to scriptures,Buddha ascends a celestial ladder to visit the Devalok to preach the assembly of 33 Gods in Trayastimsa-bhavana in the presence of lord Indra & Brahma

After giving sermon, Buddha descends to Sankisa on earth with the help of this ladder
[देवोरोहणवत्थु]
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Collection of Some inscriptions which mention Hindu varnas

Firstly the girnar rock edict of Ashoka mentioning 'Brahmana'

ब्राम्हणस्रमणानं

Ashoka has used different words for Brahmins like बम्हण, बाभन etc. But Girnar edicts contain pure sanskrit words like this Secondly a Satavahana era Prakrit inscription from Kanheri caves mentions Two Kshatriya brothers 'Gajasena' and 'Gajamitra' who were Traders by profession

वाणिजकेहि..
खतियेहि भतुहि...
गजसेनेन गजमितेन...

Buddhists of Gandhara included Chanakya's Arthasastra in their studies

The Bajaur collection of Manuscripts includes the Rules of Chanakya

We have Kharoshthi fragments of Arthasastra section of this Manuscript

1st rule was taken from the प्रकृतिसम्पदः section

https://twitter.com/Aatma_the_soul4/status/1562417621558956034

Chanakya describes the seven limbs (प्राकृति) which are the integral part of the state (6.1.1)

'स्त्रीराज्य' अर्थात स्त्रीयों द्वारा शासित राज्य।
ये वे राज्य थे जिनका शासन, प्रशासन, संरक्षण, सैन्य जैसे सभी क्षेत्रों का संचलन स्त्रीयां करती थी।

प्राचीन भारतीय ऐतिहासिक व साहित्यिक ग्रंथों मे 'स्त्रीराज्यों' का उल्लेख बहुतायत मे मिलता है।
१] स्त्रीराज्यों की उपस्थिती को जानने के लिऐ कुछ उदाहरण उल्लेखनीय है।

वात्स्यायन के कामसूत्र मे स्त्रीराज्य को वज्रवन्तदेश के पश्चिम मे होने का उल्लेख मिलता है। अर्थात वात्स्यायन के समय मे स्त्रीराज्य अस्तित्व मे था।

"वज्रवन्तदेशतः पश्चिमेन स्त्रीराज्यम"

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Maharashtra's Moolnivasi lobby left no stone unturned to turn the 3rd Anglo-Maratha conflict into a caste conflict

According to them, the Maratha Empire did not exist at that time, when the British were noting records of the Maratha Empire till the time of Bajirao II
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And it is also claimed that the battle of Koregaon was actually a revenge for the murder of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj.

But the reality is that the then Chhatrapati Pratap Singh Maharaj himself was wishing for the victory of the Peshwa
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There was a tradition of Giving curse by inscriptions

In order to declare the grant or implement rules, it was said in the inscriptions that, whoever violate this grant or rules his mother will copulate with an animal

This type of inscriptions r called Gadhegal, Hattigal etc
+ Marathi language has been used in the curse stones of Shilahara age

Let's see some examples

Aparaditya Shilahara's inscription from 1187 AD has a portion of curse in Marathi

अथतु जो कोणुहुवि एशासन लोपी तेच्या वेद्यनाथदेवाची भाल सकुटुंबी आपडें || तेहाची माय गाढवें झविजे।।
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