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One of the earliest physical evidence of chess having been played in India more than 5000 years ago, comes from Dholavira, a Sindhu Sarasvati civilization city then and an archaeological site today. Dholavira is located in the present day state of Gujarat. 
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But Vasco da Gama, had written in his logs, how, he had travelled down in the Atlantic Ocean from Cape Verde to Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.
But, if we look at the food habit of India, chilli has been cultivated and consumed all across India, for centuries. There are a wide variety of species, with different colors, shapes, flavours, and spiciness. 
3 eclipses occurring back to back, in 2 successive fortnights, in a 30 day span, is a bit rare indeed. 
1. The excavations give ample traces that there was a mammoth structure beneath this site.
The term Vanara when analyzed, can give us vital suggestive clues, some of them being:
The infected portion of the tree trunk becomes darker in colour and it is these portions which give out the most exotic smell in the world, when burnt.
Performing #Homa createed good smoke which carried both neutralizing / purifying molecules as well as sound vibrations / electromagnetic waves that could then pervade through the air & cleanse it of both particulate matter & harmful radiation energies.
As legends tell, inorder to satisfy His mother Devaki’s desire to relive the moments of His childhood, #Krishna had an idol sculpted out of Saligrama stone by Vishwakarma, the architect. This idol was later given to Rukmini.
Literary scholars studying the Veda have identified that in the older verses of the Veda, the word”Asura” was used in the context of “lording” or “lordship”, i.e. “master of ”. Even the Deva such as Indra, Varuna & others were referred to be Asuratva, lordly or having control of.
This meridian passing through Ujjain, starting from North Pole & passing all the way down to the South Pole, has been repeatedly mentioned by many of the ancient geographers of India and the world. Notable among them are Aryabhatta, Varahamihira, Bhaskaracharya etc.
Dr.John Zephaniah Holwell, Fellow of the Royal Society, was a surgeon and an employee of the English East India Company serving as a temporary Governor of Bengal. He was also one among the first few Europeans to study Indian antiquities.
With Indra as their chief deity, called Indr & with idol, temple & Nature form of worship, these ppl live a Vedic way of life.
While there seems to be no connection linguistically between the word Shunya and Zero, this travel chart of Zero, shows not only the geographical route taken but also the linguistic route it morphed through. 
2. Veeryavan - possessing the capacity to subdue others with divine weapons
Dara Shikoh, in 1657, translated 50 Upanishads from #Samskrt into Persian as Sirr-e-Akbar, “The Greatest Mysteries” which the French orientalist, Anquetil Du Perron, who visited India between 1755 & 1761, translated from Persian into French & Latin, under the title “Oupnek’hat.” 
The populace as per the Indian system of classification was divided into various groups, based on various aspects, such as their character, physical traits, their skills, the region they inhabited & so on.
• God Brahma and Bonten in Japan.