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Wednesday, 13 May 2020

Takshashila University :: The Worlds's Oldest University

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The first university education was also encouraged from the ancient days. Takshashila, the first university of the world was set up in India is about 700 BC in the kingdom of Gandhar. Takshashila , the place where this university existed, is currently in Pakistan and gets its name from Taksha, who was the son of Bharatha (the brother of Rama). Taksha ruled over the kingdom of Taksha Khanda which even extended beyond modern-day Uzbekistan, and Tashkent -the present day Uzbek capital also gets its name from Taksha/Takshashila. The University of Nalanda was also established in India during 4th century in India. More than 10,000 students studied over 60 subjects from all over the world. Panini, the famous Sanskrit grammarian, Kautilya (Chanakya) and Charaka, the famous physician of ancient India, and Chandragupta were the precious products of this university. The famous treatise Arthashastra (Sanskrit for The knowledge of Economics) by Chanakya, is said to have been composed in Takshashila itself.
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Sunday, 12 April 2020

HISTORY OF BIKRAM SAMBAT NEPALI CALENDAR

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It’s said that this calendar derives its name from king Bikramaditya of Rajasthan,the then an independent country in the Indian sub continent. But after the rise of the Rana oligarchs in Nepal, Bikram Sambat was discontinued for a long time along with the official Shaka Sambat. They discontinued Shaka Sambat in its 1823rd year but later replaced it with Bikram Sambat for functionary use since then; Bikram Sambat came into official use in 1958 as Nepali calendar.

Significance of Nepali calendar has different aspects the more important one being that the Nepalese people use more than one calendar and celebrate their new year days accordingly. Nepal has a unique lunar calendar by its own name, called Nepal Sambat . Almost all festivals rituals are observed according to this calendar. This calendar originated in Nepal and bears strict resemblance to Nepalese culture and tradition. The different months in the Nepali calendar are named accordingly as beginning with Baisakh and ending with Chait. There are many events in the Nepali calendar with each month having a special religious ritual assigned to it, the most important being the festival of Mata Tirtha Puja, Buddha Jayanti , Dashain , Tihar so on. Thus, the Nepali Calendar presents an accurate measuring of different religious celebrations of the Nepalese.

Wishing you a very very HAPPY NEW YEAR 2077.
मेरो सबै मित्रगण लाइ विक्रम समवाद २०७७ साल को धेरै धेरै शुभकामना छ
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Saturday, 4 April 2020

Prisoner father Survive after Daughter’s breastfeeding in Prison- An Emotional European Story

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After observing the above photograph you might be creating lots of Negative or Positive thought in mind, but the reality of the photograph might get tears in your eyes.Earlier, In one of the European country, an old man was sentenced to hunger death, he was put in prison. The punishment was like that he would be put on hunger until his death.His daughter pleaded with the government to meet her father daily until his death. She was granted permission, she used to get checked by prison officers. So that she couldn’t bring any eatable items.She can’t see the condition of her father like this. She looked at her father with the eyes of a caring mother. So, in order to make him alive, she used to feed him breast milk on daily basis.When after so many days, the man was not dead. The security guards got suspicious and caught the girl breastfeeding her father. A case was registered against her, but her selflessness nature wins the heart of jailor and she wins the freedom of her father.The painting is one of the Europe costliest painting. This photograph was made by European painter “Hans Sebald Beham” which is available with roman charity. This painting is made to depict a relationship and caring nature of daughter towards his father. It is story of Daughter (Pero) and Father (simon). In the picture a woman is full of love and sacrifice, whatever the role she is playing in one’s life sometimes she can be mother, sister, wife etc. which is a universal truth.This is the Memmelocke Statue at Botermarkt 17 in Ghent, Belgium. A classical sculpture on the top of a building which was once the entrance to the city prison and also the wardens house. This building is located between the Belfry and the Lakenhelle. In the crypt of the Lakenhelle the city jail was housed for almost 150 years from 1742 to 1902.

  his sculpture depicts a scene from a Roman legend that tells how a prisoner was condemned to death by starvation and thirst. The man was thrown into a dungeon by the Roman prefect in Ghent. Only his daughter was allowed to visit her. But she was not allowed to take any food or drink to her father. Daughter was an adult. The father remained alive still after six months. Apparently the daughter had just become a mother. In attempt to save her father’s life she breastfed him daily with her milk. It is said that prefect was so moved by the incident that he released the man free. The story became a legend. This statue was built in 1741, an year before the city prison was shifted here. Statue was designed by David’t KIndt.Interestingly there are many similar legends. Roman charity is the story of a woman Pero who secretly breastfeeds her father Cimon after he is incarcerated and sentenced to death by starvation. This story is recorded in Nine Books of Memorable Acts and Sayings of the Ancient Romans, by ancient Roman historian Valerius Maximus, Among the Romans the theme had mythological echoes in Juno’s breastfeeding of the adult Hercules. This story of Cimon is predated by another similar story of a jailed plebeian woman who was nursed by her daughter. This particular legend has been a subject of many known painters and sculptors for past five centuries or more. Still the whole world is remembering his for his worthless panting. 
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Tuesday, 31 March 2020

The Live Burning Monk :: Captured by Malcolm Browne, in 1963

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In 11 June 1963, most of the country along with Americans couldn’t find Vietnam on a map due to lake of the communication. But there was no forgetting that war-torn Southeast Asian nation after Associated Press photographer Malcolm Browne captured the image of Thich Quang Duc immolating himself on a Saigon street. Thich Quang Duc was protesting the persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnamese government led Ngo Dinh Diem ( 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam). Photographer Browne had been given a heads-up with sock that something was going to happen to protest the treatment of Buddhists by the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem. On that spot he watched as two monks was doused the seated elderly man with gasoline. At that moment exactly what will happen that was realized by him, and began to take pictures a few seconds later. For that horrible live picture Malcolm Browne won Pulitzer Prize. Quang Duc’s act of martyrdom became a sign of the volatility of his nation, and President Kennedy later commented, “No news picture in history has generated so much emotion around the world as that one.” Browne’s photo forced people to question the U.S.’s association with ­Diem’s government, and soon resulted in the Administration’s decision not to interfere with a coup that November.
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Wednesday, 29 January 2020

AHOM DYNASTY

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The Ahom Dynasty (1228–1826) ruled the Ahom Kingdom in present-day Assam, India for nearly 598 years. The dynasty was established by Chaolung Sui-Ka-Phaa, a Shan prince of Mong Mao who came to Assam after crossing the Patkai mountains. The rule of this dynasty ended with the Burmese invasion of Assam and the subsequent annexation by the British East India Company following the Treaty of Yandabo in 1826.
In external medieval chronicles the kings of this dynasty were called Asam Raja, whereas the subjects of the kingdom called them Chaopha (Chao-ruler, Pha-heaven), or Swargadeo (the equivalent in Assamese).

Chaolung Sukaphaa

Chaolung Sukaphaa (1228–1268), also known as a Siu-Ka-Pha, the first Ahom king in medieval Assam, was the founder of the Ahom kingdom. A Tai prince originally from Mong Mao, the kingdom he established in 1228 existed for nearly six hundred years and in the process unified the various indigenous ethnic groups of the region that left a deep impact on the region. In reverence to his position in Assam's history the honorific Chaolung is generally associated with his name (Chao: lord; Lung: great).
He was a great adventurer, brave warrior and a diplomat whose invasion to this place with a force of eight nobles, nine thousand men is an important chapter of Ahom History.In 1253 Siu-Ka-Pha laid the foundation of permanent capital of Ahom at Charaideo. After subjugating the aboriginal tribles, Sui-Ka-Pha built up one nation and social- cultutal fabric of Assam tended to become pro-mongoloid.
Now a day every 2nd December (from 1996), Assam is observing Sukaphaa Day or Assam Day (Axom Divawkh ), to commemorate the advent of the first king of the Ahom kingdom in Assam after his journey over the Patkai Hills.

SHIVA DOUL


Shiva Doul is located on the banks of the Sivasagar ("the ocean of the god Shiva") tank, also known as the Borpukhuri tank, in the heart of Sivasagar, in the Indian state of Assam. The tank was constructed between 1731 and 1738 and the temples were built in 1734 by Bar Raja Ambika, queen of Ahom king Swargadeo Siba Singha (1714–1744). It is the biggest and tallest temple in Assam and perhaps in India. It is capped by an Eight Feet high golden dome. The Shive tamples is 120 feets high and 130 feet in diameter. The daily ritual in the temple is the main attraction of the devotees and also become a holy tourist hub of upper Assam.
The Sivadol or Shiva temple, built in the Shikhara architecture. has a central tower which is said to be the tallest Shiva temple tower in India at a height of 120 feet. The base of the temple measures 130 ft in circumference. The temple is built with stone and bricks.

TALATAL GHAR




Talatal Ghar was built in the days of Ahom King Rudra Singha. The seven floors building was three floors underground and four floors above the ground. This is made of brick and an indigenous type of cement (a mixture of Bora Chaul - a sticky variety of rice grain - eggs of swan, etc.).  There were two underground tunnels under Talatal Ghar. Three floors below ground level (Swargadeo Rajeswar Singha, fourth son Rudra Singha added) which were used as exit routes during the Ahom wars and it was stretched up to river Dekhow and the another one was stretched up to 10 k.m. apart royal palace of Garhgaon, and was used as an escape route in case of an enemy attack. There is Garh( boundary) made of brick and garh-Khawoi( deep cannel) around the Talatal Ghar. Click on the Link for enjoy the video of TALATAL-GHAR https://youtu.be/SiMUrvaJHx8

KARENG GHAR



The main capital of Ahom kings was set up at Hemenabari by shifting from Saraguwa by the 16th Ahom King Siuklengmung in the year 1539. Later the capital was known as Gargaon, where the palace was first made of wood and stones. The present surviving brick palace of seven storied was rebuilt by king Rajeswar Singha in 1752. The palace was made by the mason Ghanashyam Khanikar, and it bears some beautiful sculptureal images. Presently this palace remains as the main site for tourist attraction.

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