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Pandit Hardeo Sahai, my great great grandfather, mahajan of Meerut. He owned one of the earliest lithographic printing press in Meerut, named Gyan Sagar press. He also wrote several pieces of literature in earliest known Hindi and also translated several sanskrit works to Hindi.
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Today's Yama Dwitiyai, the day Pitrus return to Pitru Loka. Pitrus come during Mahalaya Paksham and stay for Navaratri and Deepawali.
To show them the way home, sticks wrapped in cloth & soaked in oil were lit in ancient times. The concept of Deepawali rockets is linked to this.
In the oldest texts that have the term Arya/Ariya there is no hymn which alludes to them being a legal identity - noble, freeman, or ANY individual honorific. That happens relatively later. Primarily, it is used as a distinguisher of communal custom or individual membership.
Ofcourse all possible because there are Akadian language seals in burials around ~2300 BCE and also a long running hypothesis that South Central Asian areas spoke languages like Hurrian etc which are close to Akkadian. Maybe areas as far as Sarasm did similar languages..
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Chamba brass bracelet
Two UK 🇬🇧 detectorists (Alan Daniels, 48, and Andy Crammond, 34) struck #gold at a rally near Carlisle -- three pristine Bronze Age gold torcs, around 1100 BC, weighing 518 g and worth over £300,000.
Buried for 3,000 years and still shining. A proper treasure. #metaldetecting
📸 BNPS
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Her PhD was funded by IIT Delhi. Basically tax payers funded her stipend to defend Hijab for women. Defund humanities immediately in IITs.
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Interesting!
This is the best folk devotional I have EVER heard in a crude North Indian Khadi boli language. It talks about monsoons and the coming of King Indra .. Raja Inderrr. Very Haryanvi. Extremely rustic and of a time passed by us..
youtube.com/watch?v=Xq8SG3qH…
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Krittika/Pleiades..was the first nakstara before Ashwini as year started with vernal equinox.. so now we know the system we have now is at least 4000-4200 years old.
Because of the precession of the equinoxes, the position of the sun on the first day of spring shifts backward through the stars over time. The mathematical period during which the vernal equinox occurred exactly when the sun rose with the Krittika asterism (Pleiades) maps directly to circa 2700–1800 BCE. This places the formulation of the system squarely into the 4,000+ years ago bracket.
[..] In the earliest Sumerian records, the Pleiades cluster was designated by the ultimate astronomical honor: MUL.MUL. Because the cuneiform sign MUL (𒀯) means "star" or "heavenly body," repeating it as MUL.MUL literally translates to "The Star of Stars" or "The Constellation par excellence." This name highlights that to the Mesopotamians, the Pleiades were the defining focal point of the night sky.[..]
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The Viṣṇu Purāṇa says that whenever Viṣṇu takes an avatāra, so does Shrī (Lakṣmī). When he became the dwarf, she became lotus born (Kīrti). When he became Paraśurāma, she became Dharaṇī. When he became Rāghava, she became Sītā. When he became Kṛṣṇa, she became Rukmiṇī.
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Hey Jack, military historian here. India raised the largest all volunteer army in human history for the Second World, over 2.5m by 1945, defeating the Japanese in two of their greatest defeats. 78% of Allied armies in the Far East were Indian. Don’t believe me? Try reading a book. a.co/d/07vu6tCW
Cool. Europeans did 95% of the fighting and dying. I’ve watched 50 documentaries on it.
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WWII deaths totaled 60-85 million with the Soviet Union (~27 million) and China (~15-20 million) suffering the largest shares; the Indian Army of 2.5 million fought across theaters with ~87,000 military deaths.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualtie…
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This is the best folk devotional I have EVER heard in a crude North Indian Khadi boli language. It talks about monsoons and the coming of King Indra .. Raja Inderrr. Very Haryanvi. Extremely rustic and of a time passed by us..
youtube.com/watch?v=Xq8SG3qH…
May the Lord bless us maxxx
VIDEO | Kedarnath Dham: The chief priest of Kedarnath Dham, Gangadhar Ling, says, "Baba Kedar’s Panchmukhi Doli (five-faced palanquin) was decorated, following which an aarti will be performed. The palanquin was taken around the temple in a ceremonial procession before being brought inside. In the evening, the Shayan Aarti will be performed after offering bhog to the deity. Devotees will be allowed to have darshan from 1 am to 3 am. Thereafter, the sanctum sanctorum will be cleaned, and a havan will be performed. The deity will then be given a ceremonial bath (Abhishek), adorned with ornaments and offered bhog. This will be followed by the Samadhi Puja rituals. The doors of the sanctum sanctorum will be closed at 6 am. At 8:30 am, the Panchmukhi Doli will be brought out of the temple, following which the portals of Kedarnath Dham will be closed."
(Full video available on PTI Videos - ptivideos.com)
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🔱 केदारनाथ धाम में संध्याकालीन आरती दर्शनों के उपरान्त भारतीय सेना का बैंड मुख्य पुजारी जी के साथ।
🛕 पुजारी जी द्वारा उपस्थित श्रद्धालुओं के माथे पर आरती की भस्म लगाई गई। 🚩🎺 – at Kedarnath, India
