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Dec 6, 2020 • 25 tweets • 30 min read
Yet one more reason to reject those anti Hindu/anti Sanatani/anti Vedic so called (trad/tradcells/pseudo trad) Pandits & guardian of Dharma, who believe women don’t have right to study Vedas 👇:- #Vedas#RigVeda#Hinduism#Hindu#SanatanDharma#Women
Rig Veda 1.164.41 (1st Mandal, 164th Sukta, 41st Mantra) says :-
Mini-#Thread on some comparisons between #Indians and #Chinese according to the travel memoirs of one of the earliest Arab merchants, Sulaiman, in Akhbar Al-Sin wa’l Hind dated 851 CE :- #History#India#Bharat#China#Medieval#science#astronomy#medicine
On Dharma (religion), science, medicine, transmigration of soul after death, philosophy and astronomy:-
Dec 3, 2020 • 25 tweets • 36 min read
#Thread (3/3) on what Francois Bernier (1620-1688 CE), French physician, in service of Dara Shikoh & Aurangzeb, writes abt the bountiful produce of Kashmir and its intricate handicrafts & other products :- #History#KashyapkaKashmir#India#Bharat#Kashmir#pasmeena #handicraft
Francois Bernier writes the following about the different produces of Kashmir :-
Dec 1, 2020 • 46 tweets • 52 min read
#Thread (2/3) on what Francois Bernier (1620-1688 CE), French physician, who was in service of Dara Shikoh & Aurangzeb, writes about the foundation of Kashmir as per Nilamat Purana, about its enchanting beauty & his visit to a temple dedicated to Sun God in Kashmir :- #History#KashyapkaKashmir#India#Bharat#Kashmir#Kaseer#Kashyap
Nov 30, 2020 • 38 tweets • 36 min read
#Thread (1/2) on what different foreign travelers, monks, missionaries etc recorded about Kashmir, the paradise on Earth since ancient times. #History#KashyapkaKashmir#India#Bharat#Kashmir#Kaseer#Kashyap
1a)Hieun Tsiang (Yuan Chwang), (602-664 CE), the Chinese traveller, says the following about the natural produces from Kashmir :-
Nov 28, 2020 • 15 tweets • 19 min read
Mini-#Thread on the austere lifestyle & spiritual capabilities of Wise Brahmins of India as recorded by Apollonius of Tyana (15-100 CE), the legendary Greek philosopher & famous anti-Christ whose works have reached us thru Romans like Philostratus & his Greek disciple like Damis.
As per Apollonius, based on his visits to India in beginning of CE, 👇#Hindu#sanatandharma#brahmin#brahman#sage#Dharma#History
Nov 27, 2020 • 15 tweets • 21 min read
Mini-#Thread on what Marco Polo, the celebrated Venetian traveler, observed regarding Indian veneration and appreciation of ‘#Black colour’, during his travel in several parts of India during 12th-13th CE:- #colour#color#history#India#Bharat#travelers#medieval
“Black colour sign of beauty In this province the natives, although black, are not born of so deep a dye as they afterwards attain by artificial means, esteeming blackness the perfection of beauty...
Nov 24, 2020 • 17 tweets • 21 min read
#Thread on how Alberuni (970-1039 CE), the Iranian scholar has paid his tribute to Charaka, ancient genius researcher & practitioner in Ayurveda & Indic medicine system, & Nagarjuna, our legendary Indian chemist from past. #history#india#medicines#ayurveda#science#medieval
Alberuni in his book, has recorded the following about Charaka, the ancient genius in Ayurveda :-
Nov 23, 2020 • 22 tweets • 22 min read
Mini-#Thread on how medieval times Islamic invaders/rulers looked down upon Brahmins, especially, to further their primary objective of converting our motherland to one of their own. #History#Brahmin#india#bharat#medieval#hindus#SanatanDharma
In Page 68 of Muslim Slave System in Medieval India By Prof K S Lal, the historian makes the following remark :-
Nov 13, 2020 • 30 tweets • 27 min read
#Thread on how Atharveda advises a couple to strengthen their conjugal relationship and strive together for fulfilling the ultimate objective of being a householder. #husband#wife#vedas#Hinduism#SanatanDharma#family#atharveda#hindu#conjugal#couple#love#house#domestic
In 8th & 9th Suktas of the 6th Kand (Book) of Atharveda, there is advise to couples as to how to experience conjugal bliss and strengthen their life long relationship such as that their domestic life progresses with utmost happiness and contentment.
Nov 12, 2020 • 30 tweets • 25 min read
A Mini-#Thread on what Rig Veda says about the roles and responsibilities of a husband and wife in a householder. #husband#wife#vedas#Hinduism#SanatanDharma#family#rigveda#hindu
Sanatan Dharma has always been a wrongful victim of being allegedly patriarchal, especially when it comes to assignment of roles and responsibilities of husband and wife in managing their households.
Nov 10, 2020 • 20 tweets • 21 min read
Mini-#Thread on ‘distinctive humane traits’ of Indian warriors in early 9th century CE. #History#Bharat#India#Medieval#warriors#war#battle#humanity#Hindus
Sulaiman, one of the first Arab merchants, who had undertaken multiple voyages to India and China during the first half of the ninth century, in his travel diary, ‘Akhbar Al-Sin wa’l Hind’ dated 851 AD, writes repeatedly about the following distinct..
Nov 6, 2020 • 28 tweets • 22 min read
#Thread on #Polyandry and rule of succession to thrones in some regions of South #India (Malabar, Calicut etc.), in #medieval ages, as observed by Persian ambassadors, Venetian merchants , Genoese explorer, Chinese travelers and French monks etc. #women#history#bharat
A) Abdur Razzak (ambassador of Timur’s son, Mirza Shah Rukh, to the Vijayanagar court in 1442) recorded the following practise of Polyandry in Calicut :-
Nov 5, 2020 • 30 tweets • 25 min read
#Thread on some intriguing, politically incorrect, yet historically correct facts from the annals of Medieval Indian #History under #Islamic rule, which hopefully will contribute in awakening the ‘hyper secular’ Hindus from decades of slumber. #India#Lovejihad#Slavery#Hindu
Fact No. 1:
Relentless business of capturing Hindus, enslaving then and forcefully converting them to Islam, in every inhuman possible way, was a favourite sport of every ‘pious’ Islamic ruler or noble in Medieval India, starting from rule of Ghaznis,..
Nov 4, 2020 • 26 tweets • 22 min read
#Thread detailing suffering of our Hindu ancestors who were captured, humiliated and enslaved during atrocious Islamic rule in Medieval India, mostly as war booty. #History#India#Islamicrule#MedievalIndia#Bharat#Slave#Hindus
As observed by Prof KS Lal in his well researched book, ‘Muslim Slave System in Medieval India’, while Muslim chronicles have adequately and proudly recorded the strength of Hindus (or infidels as mentioned by them) killed and enslaved after every campaign and raid,..
Nov 3, 2020 • 25 tweets • 21 min read
#Thread on ‘nakedness in native clothing’ in certain regions of South India as recorded by European travellers,merchants & Persian ambassador in 1200-1500 CE before advent of Islamic/Christian/Victorian morality in societies :- #History#India#Bharat#Naked#Culture#SouthIndia
A)John of Monte Corvino, one of the first Christian Monks who spent considerable time in South India preaching, observed dressing style of men and women in certain regions of Indian peninsula during 12-13th century CE:-
Nov 2, 2020 • 33 tweets • 21 min read
#Thread to counter this (pseudo) logic making rounds in the trads circle to justify their imaginary restriction of women to study and chant Vedas. #vedas#SanatanDharma#women#dharma#chanting
This one is concerned to the anatomy of females which according to them are not suitable for chanting of Vedic hymns. Trads/tradcells (inspired by their Gurus) claim chanting of Vedic mantra affects the reproductive organs of women,..
Oct 29, 2020 • 19 tweets • 20 min read
#Thread on how Arab traveller, Al-Jahiz of Basra (present day Iraq) [?-864 CE] wrote ‘highly’ of Indians labelling them being ‘meritorious’ based on his journey in India in mid-9th CE.👇#History#India#Bharat#Medieval#Medicine#Astronomy#Arab
“The inhabitants of India are highly meritorious in astrology and medicine. They have a peculiar script. In medicine too they have a supreme insight...
Oct 25, 2020 • 14 tweets • 16 min read
This is what Arab Geographer and traveller, Abu Zaidu-l Hasan, of Siraf (916 CE-?) [who based on his travel to India in 10th century CE and reading and questioning Persian and Arab travellers and merchants to India like Sulaiman and Al Masudi,...
.. compiled and supplemented the travelogues] has recorded about royal women and veils👇 in Medieval India m, before Islamic rule firmly established in India :- #veil#History#India#Medieval#woman#royal#princess#thread
Oct 21, 2020 • 33 tweets • 21 min read
#Thread on whether we had Dowry system (the way it is prevalent in present society) in Medieval India ? #History#Marriage#Dowry#Stridhan#Hindu#SanatanDharma#Women#Medieval#Bharat#India
We will be analysing the following travel records of medieval time Arab and Chinese travelers, traders and scholars like Alberuni (970-1039 CE) [who came to India with Mahmud Ghazni and stayed here for a substantial time chiefly in Punjab],..