Talk about a nasty bag full of distortions and outright lies. That Shree Rama existed centuries before Buddha was even born is attested directly by authentic Buddhist sources themselves. I will methodically dissect and disprove every deceptive claim by fact checking it against authoritative and authentic sources. Please read all parts of the entire thread to the end including the screenshots which provide crucial evidence. 🧵

Claim # 1:
Ram is a mythological character, whereas Buddha was a real historical figure—there’s simply no comparison.

Fact: False. This claim is disproven by the oldest & most authoritative Buddhist biography of Buddha’s life itself - Aśvaghoṣa’s (2nd c.) Buddhacharita. The Buddhacharita documents that Buddha belonged to the same Suryavanshi Ikshvaku dynasty as Rama; it pays homage to Valmiki as the Adikavi and mentions Janaka too. After he renounces his family, Buddha’s father sends a wise advisor to the forest to try & convince him to return back home. The advisor tries to persuade him to return by mentioning Rama as an example - as someone from older times, who returned after penance in forests to protect his kingdom against evil. In response Buddha himself says he cannot do what Rama did & refuses to return. This clearly proves that Rama was already revered as an ancient historical personality to be emulated in Buddha’s times.

Claim # 2: Buddha was not a descendant of Ram because Ram never existed in reality.

Fact: False. Disproved by the very first chapter on Buddha’s Birth in the authoritative biography Buddhacharita which records that Buddha was a descendant of the Suryavanshi Ikshvaku dynasty - from the same lineage to which Rama belonged millennia before him. An even older account of Buddha’s ancestral family tree is found in the Buddhist text Mahāvastu, a composite multi-life hagiography of the Buddha (2nd c. BCE) which details how the sons of Ikshvaku built Kapilavastu and were the forefathers of the Shakyas - the clan of the Buddha.

Kamal Khan explaining Mughal history is like a chihuahua barking - ear-splittingly irritating, wildly off-key, but you can’t help but watch the spectacle.
Of course the Mughals didn't "harm any community", they just built Minars out of Kafir skulls to show how much they cared for all communities and considered all Indians equal.

These "loving community building" exercises started with Timur's first entry into Hindustan, when he attacked the Hindu kingdom of Kator extending from Kashmir to Kabul. In his autobiography “Tuzak-I-Timuri” Timur describes building tall towers of skulls of “obstinate unbelievers” after raping & enslaving women & kids & plundering towns to dust (May, 1398 CE). The Zafarnama of Sharafuddin Ali Yazdi (Iran, 1425 CE) has a painting which shows how Timur took tribute from soldiers, while an Islamic Minar built out of dead Kafir’s heads looms behind him.

His Mughal descendants like Babur, Akbar, Shah Jahan kept up this grand tradition and built their own towers of Kafir skulls to show their caring loving hearts.

Read the full thread to know more.🧵

The next Mughal, Babur, practically salivated with delight at the prospect of killing Hindus & scattering them like “teased wool & broken bubbles on wine”. He built several Minars out of Hindu heads, during battles in the Doab, near Agra & Chanderi to name a few. So overjoyed was Babur with his bloody crimes that he waxed eloquent poetry about killing Kafirs in praise of God. After creating Minars out of their heads, he proudly declared himself a “Ghazi” as his official imperial title - a term which means “Victorious over the enemies of Islam”

Monument of Love - my foot!

Niccolao Manucci an Italian doctor who worked in Shah Jahan's Mughal court described his "lovin'" ways in his memoirs. He revealed that lover boy Shah Jahan shared his bed with 1000s of women besides Mumtaz, many of whom were his own courtier's wives!

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Shah Jahan's courtiers Ja'far Khan & Khalil Khan's wives were his favorites. Ja'far Khan's wife was called Shah Jahan's "breakfast" & Khalil Khan's wife his "lunch". Ja'far's wife was Shah Jahan's sister-in-law & Khali's wife was his niece through marriage to Mumtaz. Ja'far's wife had to beg for her husband's life

As requested by some of you, I have compiled all the 9 + 1 digital images of Devi Ma which I created for Navaratri along with their descriptions for easy reference. You may use the images as you wish, provided you retain my watermark, treat Devi's image with respect and don't distort the images. Enjoy. 🙏

#Navratri #Dusshera2024 #VijayaDasami वन्दे वाञ्छितलाभाय चन्द्रार्ध कृतशेखराम् ।
वृषारूढाम् शूलधराम् शैलपुत्रीम् यशस्विनीम् ॥
Day 1 of Sharadiya Navaratri is ruled by Devi Shailaputri, daughter of the Mountain lord, the pure, serene one who blesses devotees with self-restraint, patience, victory over difficulties & peace of mind.

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Hidden deep inside the recesses of the Chhota Sona mosque located in Chapai Nawabganj district of Bangladesh, lie four walled up ancient Murtis of our Hindu divinities Varaha, Bhawani, Brahmani and Shivani. No one knows how ancient they are - likely more than a thousand years old. They are silent witnesses to the desecration of a grand ancient Hindu temple razed over and brutally reused to “build” the mosque. The location is in what used to be the Bengali kingdom of Gaur invaded by Bakhtiyar Khalji in the 13th ce. The advent of Islam after Khalji marked the beginning of a cultural holocaust of Bihar & Bengal where innumerable temples were razed, their broken portions brutally usurped to create incongruous “mosques” as markers of conquering Islamic fanaticism.

In 1786, a British amateur explorer Henry Creighton visited the ruins of Gaur & made drawings to document them. In 1817, his description & drawings were published in a short book “The ruins of Gour described and represented in eighteen views”. He described the Chhoti Sona mosque as one of the most beautiful monuments in the area & ascribed its construction in the 15th c. to Wali Muhammad under the reign of Allauddin Husain Shah. It is within the walls of the interior mosque that Creighton discovered these grand Murtis carved on large blocks of stone. Islamic decorations were deliberately carved on the reverse side of the Murti stones. The stones were purposely placed with the Murti facing inwards, blocked forever into the walls, never to be seen again.

Creighton’s drawings show a grand Varaha carving which closely resembles an awe inspiring Varaha Murti from Pala dynasty in 9th century CE., excavated from Nadiya, West Bengal - now on display at National Museum New Delhi. The stylistic rendering of the Varaha sculpture indicates that the temple destroyed to build the Chhota Sona mosque was likely from the same era of 9th c. CE.


Two other drawings of hidden Murtis embedded within the walls of the chhota sona mosque are labelled as that of the Devi consorts of the gods, Brahmani & Bhawani. Creighton's drawing of Brahmani also closely resembles another 9th c. Pala era sculpture of Brahmani. He also describes the image as Shiva in the form of Bhawani. It is an unusual & interesting depiction showing the deity riding atop a lion which is crushing a demon that is supported by an elephant. Creighton observed that the Murtis still had traces of being gilded with gold just like the roof of the structure, which is what gave the mosque the name of chhota sona mosque. The gilded golden roof must have made the temple an extremely attractive target for destruction to the Islamic attackers.

As promised here is my graphic novel for inspiring Hindu readers of all ages. I dedicate my first creation to the fearless unnamed Hindu hero who avenged Somnath & taught Mahmud Ghazni a lesson he would never forget. This story is based on actual historical events. References from Islamic texts are provided at end of thread. Please read entire thread for whole story. Future comics will be available for purchase at a website to be announced soon.

All images & text for this graphic novel were created by me @mumukshusavitri & should not be reproduced without permission.

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This LIE that Brahmanas burnt down Nalanda will be put to rest once & for all with this 🧵of undeniable evidence

The book that is being cited to support this horrific lie is Taranatha’s “History of Buddhism in India”. First this book is not considered a histiography because it cites many supernatural miracles to glorify Buddhism. However even if we ignore all that, Taranatha himself provides the unexpected clues that leftists deliberatrly leave out to distort history.

The first clue is that Taranatha describes the history of Sri Nalendra (Nalanda) in elaborate detail as a monastery where “more than a 1000 Brahmans & an EQUAL number of Tirthikas took up ordination”
This CLEARLY proves that in Taranatha’s context Tirthikas & Hindu Brahmanas were NOT the same otherwise why would he mention them as SEPARATE categories in the same sentence?

In another reference Taranatha clearly refers to Buddhists converting BOTH Brahmanas & Tirthikas to Buddhism in Gujarat. Why would he say this if they were one & the same? Yet another reference refers to Buddhists separately defeating a Nirgrantha, a Brahmana & a Tirthika in a debate.

Clearly Brahmana & Tirthika were separate categories.


Now that Taranatha’s own passages have established that Brahmanas & Tirthikas were NOT the same, let’s see what the real role of Brahmanas was as described by Taranatha himself.

In chapter 20, Taranatha describes the famous episode of the king’s minister holding an inaugral feast at a temple in Nalanda, where Buddhist Sramanas bullied two Tirthika beggars & unleashed dogs on them. This angered them so much that they practiced austerities to gain Siddhis & take revenge

After 12 years the Tirthika attained Siddhis, & performed a fire worship whose ashes produced fire which burnt down Nalanda & its libraries. But the most CRUCIAL part that Leftists like DN Jha cleverly leave out of Taranatha’s account is at the end of the story where Taranatha says that the Nalanda “temples damaged by the fire were reconstructed by King Buddhapaksa, the BRAHMANA Śanku, the BRAHMANA Brihaspati & many householders.”

In the next chapter, Tarantha further describes how this same Brahmana Śanku knew esoteric magic about Nagas & was a devout Hindu who built a Vaisnavite Garuda Stambha for protection against snakebites. Thus there is no question that Śanku clearly was a Hindu Brahmana.

This is conclusive proof that Brahmanas were not involved in the burning of Nalanda & its libraries, but they actively reconstructed & rebuilt the structures at Nalanda after the fire. This decisively busts leftist lies about Brahminical fanatics persecuting Buddhists.

Is this some kind of joke? Can you deny the evidence provided by Tipu Sultan himself in his OWN words in letters & his manifesto describing his desire to wipe out Hinduism & mass convert Hindus by his sword, for the "Glory of I-slum"?

In his own letters "Ghazi" Tipu Sultan gloats about forcibly converting 50,000 Hindu prisoners from Coorg into the "Ahmedy" class of new Mohammadan converts. During the attack on Coorg he specifically instructed his soldiers to mass circumcise not just the living but even DEAD corpses of Hindu prisoners from Coorg!


2000 Hindu Nāyars at Kuttippuram, Kerala were forcibly converted to Mohammadism by circumcision & compelled to eat beef by Tipu. Similarly 1000s of Hindus of Kittoor were forcibly circumcised leading to 2000 Brahmin suicides. Every Hindu house in Palghat was forcibly converted.

The article by @AKanisetti is pure ahistorical trash. Desecrating Hindu temples to build a mosque at Qutub complex was NOT architectural reuse but Islamic BARBARISM. "Human figures" (aka Murtis) were not just defaced but excised brutally. Kirtimukhs & elephants were mutilated. 🧵

https://twitter.com/AKanisetti/status/1600852763692642304

Everywhere in the "mosque", broken ruins of Hindu & Jain temples lie scattered like garbage. Muslims deliberately wanted to show contempt for Hindu symbols this way. The name "Quwwat ul Islam" itself means "Might of Islam" - clearly indicating it was built to trample over Hindus

Anpadh imbecile KRK - this is what happens when you learn history from Tawaifs of Bollywood.
Actual evidence shows that every Mughal king sent MILLIONS in looted money to Mecca/Medina while draining India's wealth & ensuring horrific famines starved Lakhs of Hindus in India.
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https://twitter.com/kamaalrkhan/status/1792205950058991775

A record of exact statistics on Mughal money sent to Mecca begins with Akbar in 1576 who sent Rs. 600,000 with costly gifts like 12,000 dresses of honor & extra cash for constructing a Khanqah. The average salary for a normal Indian at this time was just 3 rupees per month!

In Feb. 1824, Ram Mohan Roy wrote a letter "Prospects of Christianity" to Harvard's Henry Ware where he recommended bribing "outcast" Hindus to convert & of his offer to send "as many" Hindus as possible to a Christian neighbor, to convert Hindus with a salary of Rs. 8 per month.

The letter titled "A Letter on the Prospects of Christianity & the means of promoting its reception in India" was a reply to Unitarian Christian preacher Rev. Henry Ware of Harvard who sent him a list of questions to work out a strategy on how Hindus of India could be converted.

One of the biggest myths is that Mughals invented the miniature school of painting in India. But Akbar under whose rule miniature "Mughal" painting supposedly developed had 17 eminent court artists - out of which a whopping 13 were Hindu, due to their superior artistic skills.
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Artists like Baswan, Lal, Daswanth, Kesu, Mukund, Haribans, Jagannath, etc. from castes like Kahar, Kayastha, Chitera, Silavat & Khati, show Hindus from all castes were the creators of the best "Mughal" miniature paintings, but the credit was given to Persians in Mughal courts.

Siraj ud-Daulah impregnated Madhavi, his own Hindu official Mohanlal's pretty sister. Terrified that his grandfather Alivardi Khan would find out, Siraj tied his newborn baby to a horse’s back & shot an arrow at its leg to ensure the horse would bolt wildly & kill the baby.
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A panicky Madhavi begged her brother Mohanlal to save her baby. Mohanlal immediately rode off, somehow managing to stop the horse & rescue the infant. Mohanlal, a Kashmiri Pandit, was shocked by Siraj’s action & left Murshidabad with his sister Madhavi & her baby for good.

Chaitra Shukla Pratipada is NOT just regional.
Ugadi - Yug (era) + Adi (new start) or Samvatsarādi is the 1st day of Hindu lunisolar New Year & the day when Sri Brahma created the universe
Gudi (flag) + Padwa (Pratipada) refers to ancient Vedic Indradhvaja festival on this day
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https://twitter.com/devduttmyth/status/1777531447118598164

Also called Samvatsārambha-utsava it was when rituals of eating Neem, offering cool drinks, offering oil to Brahmans & women, reading omens, presenting gifts to scholars, listening to the almanac were all specified in Sanskrit texts Sāmrājyalakshmīpițhika & Jayasimhakalpadruma

Imagine if Be****liity, pedo, necro, sexual slavery, marital r@p3 - were NOT punishable by legal code. Such legal code from the authoritative Islamic Hanafi lawbook Al-Hedaya STILL guides Sharia in courts & is taught to scholars in Madrasas in India TODAY.
🧵 Over 90% of Muslims in India, Pakistan & Bangladesh follow the Hanafi school of Islamic law. Their most authoritative text is Al-Hidaya by Al-Marghinani (12th c.). Hidaya is the primary guide for Hanafi law in Sharia courts & several years of study are devoted to it in Madrasas.

Time to bust your pathetic LIES portraying barbaric Mughals as syncretic saints celebrating Holi. Your own source Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri itself proves Eid-e-Gulabi/Aab-e-Pashi is NOT Holi but a Persian festival called Ab-i-Pashan held in in Persian months Khordad/Tir (June-July) 🧵

https://twitter.com/WIONews/status/1772216866196602976

Mughals who never identified as Indians but identified with Islamic Persian culture used the Gulab Pash - an elongated rose water vase with a perforated sprinkler. Akbar introduced the festival Ab-i-Pashan in Tir/July to his court, where Gulab Pash is used to sprinkle rose-water.

To say Vedic women were not educated is a blatant LIE.

Both Panini (>6th c. BCE & Patanjali attest to women studying in Vedic schools (Charanas) proven by specific terms. A female student of Kaṭha school was called Kaṭhī, one of Bahvṛicha school was called Bahvṛichī, etc.

https://twitter.com/devduttmyth/status/1767863704274547172

Kātyāyana & Patanjali refer to women studying grammatical system of Āpiśali as Āpiśalā Brāhmanī or a female student studying Panian grammar as Pāninīyā Brāhmanī. Women students studying Mímāmsā works of Kāśakritsni were referred to as Kāśakritsnī.

Can you name the Hindu temple where this Shiva-Parvati pandal is located?
Well - this is not a temple in India at all but a recreation of the reception area of a 7th c. mansion in Penjikent,Tajikistan with paintings of Weshparkar & Nana - the Sogdian versions of Shiva-Parvati.
🧵 Almost 80 houses from 720-30 CE were excavated in Pendjikent, Tajikistan with exterior pillared porches & outdoor paintings depicting Weshparkar (Shiva) with Trishula & Nana (Durga) with sun & moon in her hands along with Panchatantra stories & Hindu gods like Surya on chariot.

4000+ years ago, brick houses in SSC site Kalibangan had courtyards, 6/7 rooms, & staircases to upper floor. Ritual brick fire altars were found in many houses, which were not for cooking as they had a long, thin raised column in the middle.

Midjourney AI walkthrough by me. 🧵



Each house faced 2 to 3 streets & was part of a grid layout in the township. The main doorway opened onto the street. There were covered drains in the street made from kiln fired bricks so that they were waterproof. Terracotta pipes along walls drained extra water from roofs.

1) Vijayanagar kings used temple taxes to build, serve & protect 100s of temples while Aurangzeb DESTROYED 1000s of temples after taxing Hindus.

2) Aurangzeb's Jizya tax on Hindus was RANSOM just to be able to live in an Islamic state. But Muslims under his rule paid NO taxes.

https://twitter.com/Shehzad_Ind/status/1760961798176469346

100% of Jizya collected by torturing Hindus went to Muslim charities & stipends. The stipends went to the Ulama or Muslim theologians - the same virulent fanatics hell-bent on humiliating Hindus & doing Jihad on them. Even Aurangzeb's sister & son begged him to remove Jizya.

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Those who threaten that ASI should excavate Hindu temples for Jain ruins conveniently IGNORE 100s of Islamic mosques built on top of mutilated remains of Jain & Hindu temples, like the Jami Masjid of Ahmedabad where a black marble Murti of Pārasnātha lies desecrated.
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In 1411, Ahmed Shah 1 ravaged Karnavati, decimating 100s of Jain & Hindu temples. Every desecrated deity, pillar, niche & stone was savagely broken & used to "build" the Jami Masjid as a trophy over Kafirs, glorifying Islamic fanaticism & iconoclasm just like Gyanvapi.