Vedic significance of Makara Sankranti

This day also has a reference in the Hindu epic of Mahabharata, according to which Bhishma had declared his intention to leave his body today. He kept lying on a bed of arrows till this day and then left his body on Makar Sankranti. In the Holy Scriptures it is believed that Surya Bhagwan visits the house of his son Shani on this day. Despite some differences between each other, lord Surya makes it a point to meet his son on sankaranti. Thus, symbolising a special bond between a father and his son.

#FirstIndianwomen Tag the women who inspired you.

Mother Teresa:

She became the first Indian woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation, giving her life to social work. Kalpana Chawla:

She became the first Indian woman in space. The first time Kalpana Chawla went into space on a space shuttle was in 1997 as a mission specialist and a primary robotic arm operator.

One of the oldest living language written on the Brihadisvara Temple. The language written is #Tamil.

This temple is also called as Raja Rajesvaram temple or Brihadeeswarar Temple or Gangaikonda Cholapuram Temple.
There are around 107 paragraphs written here. The king himself gave instructions on how to carve the inscriptions.

I am sure, you know about Mangal pandey, Bhagat singh and their great heroic sacrifice. But most of us doesn't even have heard about the Maruthu Pandiyar brothers, the rulers of Sivaganga kingdom.
On Oct 24,1801,they were publicly hanged to death at Tirupputhur fort by British. On October 24, 1801, along with maruthu brothers, their sons, their young grandsons, fellow rebels, commanders and servants, were publicly hanged to death at the Tirupputhur fort of southern #TamilNadu. supposedly from palmyra trees around the fort.

Everyone knows about "The Rani of Jhansi, Lakshmibai". But only few of us know about the Kittur Chennamma, the Queen of Kittur.
She was one of the first Indian rulers to lead an armed rebellion against the British in 1824, for implementing the Doctrine of Lapse. She was born in 1778, 56 years before the 1857 revolt led by Rani Lakshmi Bai, thus becoming, one of the first women freedom fighters to have fought against the British rule in India.

This large rectangular, water-filled structure may look like a small reservoir, but in fact, it is an ancient dock which is the oldest in the world. Yes, the World’s Oldest Dock is at #Lothal #Gujarat

Lothal is 85km from Ahmedabad. It is one of the Indus valley civilization site Lothal is believed to be at least 5,000 yrs old & was the only port-town of the Indus Valley Civilization. Lothal’s dock connected the city to the Sabarmati river which was an important trade route between Harappan cities in Sindh (now in Pakistan) & the peninsula of Saurashtra..

Back in the 19th cent, British separated Eastern India from the westn India by an impenetrable belt of trees mostly made up of thorny plants. British formed a man-made barrier, all the way from Layyah in Punjab (now in Pakistan) to Burhanpur, on the banks of Narmada, 1000km long. Why do you think #British had planted these trees accross 1000's of kms. ??

The sun rises as a star in Lepakshi temple. In the typical style of Vijayanagara architecture, the temple features many exquisite sculptures of god, goddesses, dancers and musicians, and hundreds of paintings all over the walls, columns and ceiling depicting stories from the epics of the Mahabharata, the Ramayana.

Situated in the heart of #Bengaluru
city, Basavanagudi is an unusual temple in a number of respects. It is one of the few temples where the vahana (Nandhi) is given precedence over the master, the name for this residential and commercial area of the city is from this temple. Many centuries ago this area was known as Sunkenahalli, and was fertile farmland dedicated to the cultivation of groundnuts. One day, a wild bull roamed into the area and started to devour and destroy the groundnut crops, wrecking the livelyhoods of the farmers.

#IndianInvention
365 days to orbit the sun. It's a rare known fact that the time to orbit the Sun was first calculated by Bhaskaracharya 100's of years ago before the European astronomers. As per Bhaskaracharya, the time taken to orbit the Sun was 365.258756484 days.
PC:firstip His renowned mathematical works called “Lilavati” and “Bijaganita” are considered to be unparalled and a memorial to his profound intelligence.