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• 01:43, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Ancient Chakravartins (Created page with " In the Puranas and the Mahabharata, there are sixteen legendary emperors known as Chakravartins or Shodasha Chakravartins. A Chakravartin is an ideal universal ruler who wields the Chakra (disc) of Lord Vishnu, symbolizing absolute power and dharma. These rulers are said to have governed vast territories with justice and righteousness. This article explores each of the sixteen Chakravartins and their lives as depicted in various Hindu texts. ==== Bharata ==== Bharata,...") Tag: Visual edit
• 01:40, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page A Primer to the Vedic Corpus (Created page with " The Vedic corpus is the foundation of ancient Indian spiritual, philosophical, and cultural traditions. These texts, written in Sanskrit, form the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and are considered sacred by Hindus. Vedic literature is traditionally divided into four main categories: Samhitas, Brahmanas, Aranyakas, and Upanishads. Each category serves a specific purpose and together they encapsulate the spiritual and intellectual ethos of Vedic civilization. ====...") Tag: Visual edit
• 01:36, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Ātman in Hinduism: Part 4 (Created page with "==== Religion & Philosophy: The Hindu Trinity ==== We have derived the following three underlying unities: * Ātman <= the underlying impersonal persisting self in the microcosm * Brahman <= the underlying impersonal persisting divine in the theocosm * Sat <= the underlying uncategorical persisting being in the macrocosm But if at the deepest level, we cannot distinguish between categories of various individuals, gods and materials, what makes us think that we can dist...") Tag: Visual edit
• 01:35, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Ātman in Hinduism: Part 3 (Created page with "==== Brahman and Divine-Identity: The Theocosm ==== Like most other ancient civilizations of the world (Greece, Rome, Egypt etc..), ancient Indian civilization too was a polytheistic religion where prayers and sacrificial rituals to many divine gods and goddesses formed an integral part of ritual and cultural life. Different cultures of the world did eventually make a transition from polytheism to monotheism eventually. But they did it differently. One simple way to ma...") Tag: Visual edit
• 01:33, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Atman in Hinduism - Part 2 (Created page with "==== Ātman and Self-Identity: The Microcosm ==== But instead of that, let us take your identity as a person. If your name is X, then you believe that you are the same person X now as you were, when you were a child right? Imagine the staggering amount of changes that have taken place from your childhood. None of the cells in your body are the same as the cells that were there in your childhood (like the parts of the ship hundred years later were completely different). A...") Tag: Visual edit
• 01:31, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Atman in Hinduism - Part 1 (Created page with "==== Identities: Conventional vs Actual ==== The famous ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus said “You do not step into the same river twice”. What he meant of course is that since the water is at constant flux in the river, the set of water that is in the river at some time is not the same as the set of water that is in the river after that time. Why then would we call such different waters at different times by the same river - what makes the river Ganga at one mom...") Tag: Visual edit
• 01:29, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Makar Sankranti - The Worship of Bhagavan Surya (Created page with " Often, owing to a loss of cultural meaning-making mechanisms, we are unable to understand the deeper significance of our festivals. We celebrate them superficially and fail to understand the traditions in their entirety. What makes most of the utsavas of Bharat beautiful is that they have different manifestations in various parts of the country. Some of them are also celebrated in far-away lands, signifying the spread of Hindu culture. Makar Sankrant possesses immense i...") Tag: Visual edit
• 01:28, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Vasant Panchami - Celebrating Knowledge and Wisdom (Created page with " Often, owing to a loss of cultural meaning-making mechanisms, we are unable to understand the deeper significance of our festivals. We celebrate them superficially and fail to understand the traditions in their entirety. What makes most of the utsavas of Bharat beautiful is that they have different manifestations in various parts of the country. Some of them are also celebrated in far-away lands, signifying the spread of Hindu culture. Vasant Panchami, is one such. Alth...") Tag: Visual edit
• 01:27, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Months of The Hindu Calendar - Significance and Festivals Part 2 (Created page with "==== Asvina & Karthika ==== According to the Amanta tradition, Deepavali begins with Govatsa Dwadashi or Vasu Baaras in Asvina, continuing with Dhana Trayodashi, Lakshmi Puja and Naraka Chaturdashi and culminates with Govardhana Puja and Bhai Dooja or Yama Dwitiya in the month of Karthika. Karwa Chauth and Ahoi Ashtami are two other festivals that fall in Asvina according to the Amanta tradition. Women observe a strict fast for the well-being of their children in Northe...") Tag: Visual edit
• 01:25, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Months of The Hindu Calendar - Significance and Festivals Part 1 (Created page with "==== Introduction - The Hindu Panchanga ==== Based on the motion of the moon, the Hindu Lunar Calendar has 354 days and 12 months. It is traditionally known as the panchanga. Interestingly, there are different yet equally intricate versions of this calendar as per the geographic region of the country. For example, we also have the Tamil and Malayalam panchanga where the festivals and months differ slightly. The two commonly used calendars are Shaka Samvata and Vikrama...") Tag: Visual edit
• 01:22, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Cultural Representation in Media - An Analysis & Way Forward (Created page with "<blockquote>Indian architecture, painting, sculpture are not only intimately one in inspiration with the central things in Indian philosophy, religion, Yoga, culture, but a specially intense expression of their significance. Indian art in fact is identical in its spiritual aim and principle with the rest of Indian culture. Śrī Aurobindo</blockquote> ==== Culture and Representations of Cultural Ideas ==== The elegant cave paintings of Ajanta and Ellora; The great sc...") Tag: Visual edit
• 01:14, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Veer Savarkar: Inside Enemy Camp Part 2 (Created page with "==== Madan Lal Dhingra ==== Born on February 18, 1883, in Amritsar, Punjab, into a prosperous family, Dhingra completed his early education in India before moving to England to study engineering at University College London. Initially leading a life marked by ease and epicurean pursuits, Dhingra underwent a profound transformation upon encountering Savarkar4. Under Savarkar’s influence, Dhingra developed a fiery revolutionary fervor. He embraced the belief that the lib...") Tag: Visual edit
• 01:10, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Veer Savarkar: Inside Enemy Camp Part 1 (Created page with "<blockquote>In the name of God, In the name of Bharat Mata, In the name of all the Martyrs that have shed their blood for Bharat Mata, By the Love, innate in all men and women, that I bear to the land of my birth, wherein lie the sacred ashes of my forefathers, and which is the cradle of my children, by the tears of Hindi Mothers for their children whom the Foreigner has enslaved, imprisoned, tortured, and killed, I, … convinced that without Absolute Political Indep...") Tag: Visual edit
• 01:05, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Codification of Law in India, Part 2 (Created page with "==== Codification of Criminal Law ==== Four Indian Law Commissions worked intermittently on the Anglo-Indian Codes from 1834 to 1879. One of the most important contributions of the first Law Commission was the Indian Penal Code, submitted by Macaulay in 1837 and passed into law in 1860. Codification of the criminal law did not stem from an ongoing reform process but from prevalent legal ideas about “native feelings and prejudices.” Colonial lawmakers such as Macaulay...") Tag: Visual edit
• 01:04, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Codification of Law in India, Part 1 (Created page with "<blockquote>The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign. * Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Southern Pacific Co v Jenson 1916: 222.</blockquote>This article is part of a series on the codification of law in India which explores the colonial-imperial project of the codification of law, and its effect and continuing relevance, especially in light of the recent decolonisation narrative surrounding the recent enactment...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:58, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Hindu Matha: A Introduction (Created page with " In the 21st century, India is touted as the land of ‘spiritual tourism’. One cannot go a few kilometres without finding a temple or other dharmic structure. Indians have been called as relentless temple builders by medieval tourists. A temple is not just a brick and stone structure. It functions on various other planes than the formal religious one. When a social institution develops around the sacred precincts of a temple, it becomes a ‘Matha’ or an ‘ashram...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:55, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Mandapika Shrines of Morena (Created page with " The ancient Hindu temples of Morena do not date back to any one era. One can find temples from the earliest period of Hindu temple architecture in Morena till the 14th century—that is a period spanning around seven centuries. It shows that Morena had a deep seated tradition of temple building which sustained over centuries, despite many odds. The seventh century mandapika shrines of Paroli and Indra ki Khiravali show that even in the earliest times, Morena was a gre...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:53, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Morena: The Architectural Workshop of the Gurjara-Pratiharas (Created page with " If there is one dynasty in north India which has left a lasting imprint on the architectural style of the region than any other, it is the Gurjara-Pratiharas. Morena was no exception. More than half of the great temples of Morena were built by the Gurjara-Pratiharas, or inspired by their architectural style. ==== The Great Laboratory of Naresar ==== There is a group of around 22 temples in the Naresar village in Morena district. These temples were built in the 8th c...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:50, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Kachhapaghata Wonders of Morena (Created page with " Morena witnessed the last great bout of temple-building activity in the Kachhapaghata Era, lasting from late 10th century to late 12th century C.E. The tradition of building great temples in Morena under the Gurjara-Pratiharas was preserved when the region came to be ruled by the Kachhapaghatas. They were a regional dynasty who had accepted the vassalage of the Gurjara-Pratiharas. However, the Pratiharas were weakening in the 10th century C.E. Many regional vassals f...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:48, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Indic Vs Western Art: The Painter In The Painting - Part 2 (Created page with "==== ART RECEDES INTO THE EGO OF THE ARTIST ==== By the time of the Impressionists most of the creative ideas to tweak a painting had been exhausted. However, the Impressionists hit upon an amazing technique. They argued that from a distance, the vision is not clear and the objects blur into each other, giving an ‘impression’ of various objects. They argued that the artist has to create a scene as it ‘appears to the eye from a distance’ and not as it is. The Imp...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:46, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Indic Vs Western Art: The Painter In The Painting - Part 1 (Created page with " Painting is perhaps the oldest form of art that has been with us since the Cro-Magnon man started making rock paintings. Some of the oldest are to be found in India too at Bhimbetka. In the classical era, we find rock murals in China, in Central Asia and paintings on pottery in ancient Greece. In India, there are rock paintings in many places in the south. The era matures with the illustrious age of the Thanjavur wall paintings which were done on walls of the Great Temp...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:40, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Artist In The Art (Created page with "==== The Mystery of the Nameless Art ==== One of the most enduring questions about ancient Indian art is: why is the art nameless? Where is the signature on the sculpture? The name of the architect on the temple? Where is the Artist in the Art? The mystery of the nameless artist is not confined to India. Almost every traditional society before the Renaissance did not care about the individual artist. Most of the exquisite Greek sculpture is nameless. It begs the questio...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:37, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Author in Literature Part 2 (Created page with "==== There is No New Story ==== While other disciplines of ancient art like sculpture, architecture, or painting seldom bore the name of the artist, literature is a discipline in which the creator’s name has been relatively more present. In Greece, the three greatest of the ancient playwrights – Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles – were all known by their names. The same was true about poets like Homer or Ovid. In India the playwrights were famous by their names...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:36, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Author in Literature Part 1 (Created page with "==== Deconstructing the Novel ==== One of the greatest ‘agents of change’, the foremost of avante garde writers of the early 20th century was James Joyce. He was undoubtedly one of the greatest literary minds ever born. Dubliners, one of his early works, is one of the most beautiful odes to a place. It is the story of a place, more than its people. It is something authors wanting to write about a place dream to achieve. But it was James Joyce who, because of his tal...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:32, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Return of Aesthetics (Created page with " In the previous five articles, we saw how the introduction of the artist in the art led to its ultimate degeneration leading to modernist and postmodernist art. This happened due to the destruction of meaning and purpose in the post-Enlightenment world. The divine inspiration had already been eliminated after the Judeo-Christian conquest of Europe two centuries ago. In this concluding article of this series, we will observe a curious phenomenon of the 21st century. Th...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:28, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Musician in the Music Part 2 (Created page with "==== Ideology and Politics Overcome Musical Tradition ==== The trend to violate the most classical rules of music had started. Composers started creating music based on dissonance, ambiguity and atonality. All of these new ‘techniques’ were actually considered faults in classical music. But modern composers turned them into bedrocks of their musical ‘innovations’. The results were more often than not were unpleasant and not pleasing to the ear but ‘judging mus...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:27, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Musician in the Music Part 1 (Created page with "==== The Traditional Artist ==== Music is most universally popular of all arts and yet one of the most difficult to master. In music too, the ideas that have been discussed in ‘The Artist in the Art’ series have led to a general degradation. Before we go into the trends that took western music to its present situation let us discuss just one brief situation with Indian music. Music is an art form in India in which the entire tradition continues even today, though in...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:23, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Chef In The Food Part 2 (Created page with "==== Revisiting the Ancient Dilemma: What to Eat? ==== For millennia, ever since the onset of culture, man has had no problem in thinking of what to eat for dinner. The menu was pretty fixed given the things available in a certain season and region. It was considered a mark of culture not having to think about what to eat for dinner. It signaled prosperity. For only, the very poor or the very deficient had to think about what to eat. The prosperous always had the familia...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:21, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Chef In The Food Part 1 (Created page with " While all else has been ‘deconstructed’ in the ‘post-modernist era’, food is one of the two things that have survived modernist deconstruction, the other being sex. Consequently, one would think that food escaped the ‘Artist in the Art’ trajectory. But this is not so. Food suffered from the same introduction of the artist and the destruction of food culture. ==== The Dharma of Food ==== The goal of a cook in a traditional culture, where cooking has not bee...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:14, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Aesthetics Vs. Meaning Part V: The Architect in Architecture (Created page with "==== Global Movements in Architecture ==== With the arrival of the colonial age, global movements also started arising. Many claim Baroque to be a first truly global movement, but its transplantation on other continents like South and North America was merely the work of the colonial masters. It was the Eclecticism of the 19th century that truly declared the directionless character of modern architecture. Proud proclamation of the incorporation of whatever elements that...") Tag: Visual edit
• 00:12, 20 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Aesthetics Vs. Meaning Part III: The Architect in Architecture (Created page with " In the last article, we saw how the Hindu temple is pulsating with meaning and speaks the language of spiritual symbolism through every structural part of its architecture. We also saw how Islamic architecture in India, despite being aesthetically exquisite, failed to convey higher truths of life and existence to its visitors. We studied how Christianity destroyed the spiritual foundation of sacred architecture in Europe. In the second part, we will see how the loss o...") Tag: Visual edit
• 18:57, 19 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Aesthetics Vs. Meaning Part II: The Importance of Hindu Architecture (Created page with "==== The Aedicule in the Hindu Temple ==== In order to understand that we need to first understand the meaning of the term aedicule, this is frequently used about the Hindu temple. In the context of the Hindu temple, the term aedicule refers to the miniature shrine or a mini replica of the entire temple, temple shikhara or vimana, which is to be found most prominently on its shikhara and outer walls of the garbha-griha. It is found in all three major varieties of Nagara...") Tag: Visual edit
• 18:52, 19 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Aesthetics Vs. Meaning Part I: The Importance of Hindu Architecture (Created page with "==== The Perspective Heaven ==== Any student of architecture with reasonable skills in photography knows by instinct upon entering the precincts of an Islamic monument like the Taj Mahal, Agra, or the Bibi Ka Maqbara, Aurangabad that he has landed into perspective heaven. The perspective here is easily coaxed out of almost any angle. Point the camera in the right direction and the perspective lines are ready-made. The beautiful gardens with many layers of fountains, wat...") Tag: Visual edit
• 18:23, 19 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Temple and the Teertha (Created page with " What remains after an Islamic invader destroys a temple? What remains after the vigraha of the primary devata is destroyed or taken away and the temple is also destroyed? Does the sanctity of the place disappear with one such attack? Or is there something greater to a teertha than a temple? A large part of our country no longer boasts of ancient temples. Starting from the plains of the Punjab and Haryana and continuing through Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Bengal,...") Tag: Visual edit
• 18:21, 19 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page The Water that Became Ghee (Created page with " One of the most common legends about the sacred centers of India that we all grew up listening to is the legend of the water that turned into ghee. The sacred pulse of India is never out of sight. A great temple, a sacred centre is never far away. This is as true about north India where there is hardly any ancient temple left, as it is about south India. Almost every district and region in India have at least one such great centre. In north India, it is often called a...") Tag: Visual edit
• 18:14, 19 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Symbolism of Temples Part I: Do Hindus Understand their Sacred Symbols? (Created page with "==== Do Hindus understand the symbolism of temple sculpture and architecture? ==== Many will argue that today this is largely not so. The symbols lie unrecognized by many devotees. The rituals continue without connecting meaning to symbols. In general, the appreciation of both sculpture and architecture is going down because the faculties of appreciating them are disappearing. The reasons are too well known. The cultural disconnect that modern education and socio-poli...") Tag: Visual edit
• 18:10, 19 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Symbolism Of Temples Part II: The Shared Vocabulary Of Indian Arts (Created page with "==== The Universal Metaphors ==== Indian arts are not isolated disciplines. They are connected to each other with a shared vocabulary and universal metaphors which pervade all of these disciplines. It is the all-pervasiveness of these metaphors which connects Indian art with the connoisseur; which connects the sculpture and the architect with the devotee. One such metaphor is bija, or the cosmic seed coupled with the symbolism of hiranyagarbha, or the cosmic womb. These...") Tag: Visual edit
• 18:06, 19 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Symbolism of Temples Part III – Pradakshina and Kshetram (Created page with "==== Pradakshina and Kshetram – The Sacred Sense of Space ==== The most potent means of imparting meaning to rituals and symbols is pradakshina or the ritual of circumambulation. The Agamas which dictate how a temple should be built, how worship should be offered in the temple, how a priest shall behave and conduct affairs, also speak upon the conduct of the devotee. There are very clear instructions on how to visit a temple and what to do upon visiting a temple. Every...") Tag: Visual edit
• 18:04, 19 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Yayati Prashna: Why there can be no Technological Solutions to Cultural Problems (Created page with " A few hundred years ago, during the Industrial Revolution, a pipedream was sold to humanity: that unlimited economic progress is possible for humankind, with limited resources, on one planet. A fifth standard student can easily understand that this is theoretically impossible, let alone practically possible. And yet the dream was sold to a certain section of humanity: what became known later as the West, or Western Europe and the USA. Initially it led to economic, milit...") Tag: Visual edit
• 18:02, 19 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Did Brahmins Monopolize Knowledge in Ancient India? Part 2 (Created page with "==== The Fluid Category of the Pancham Veda ==== The Ayurveda is also called the fifth Veda. It is an entire science, an entire discipline. And yet it is called the fifth Veda for it is a life science and instructs not just on medicine or food, but on the entire lifestyle and thus qualifies to be a text akin to the Vedas in its orientation towards pure knowledge. It also shows that the very idea of Pancham Veda was kept fluid, to convey the sense that though the Vedas we...") Tag: Visual edit
• 18:00, 19 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Did Brahmins Monopolize Knowledge in Ancient India? Part 1 (Created page with " One of the most common charges against the Hindu society is that the Brahmins monopolized knowledge and hence powered themselves in ancient India. They claim that only the Brahmins and Kshatriyas were allowed to perform Vedic Yajna while the Shudras and in most cases the Vaishyas were prevented from gaining any knowledge or power. Anyone who is not addled with colonial, racist and anti-Hindu propaganda will realize that this is not true in most ways, but a case of a l...") Tag: Visual edit
• 17:55, 19 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Dharmic Circuits: The Temple, The Grove And The Lake Part 2 (Created page with "==== The Destruction of the Sacred Groves ==== These sacred groves started disappearing as soon as the cultural ecosystem embedded in dharma necessary to sustain it became outlawed by the Indian State. In fact the destruction of these sacred kshetras had started much earlier. First there were the Islamic invaders and then came the British with various laws freezing temple lands. And the most damage was done post-independence with the Tenants Act which made the temple dep...") Tag: Visual edit
• 17:53, 19 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Dharmic Circuits: The Temple, The Grove And The Lake Part 1 (Created page with "==== The Wonder that is Sringeri ==== Shri Sringeri Sharada Peetham, located in the foothills of the Western Ghats in the Chikamagaluru district of Karnataka, seems to be straight out of a fairy tale. It is like a portal to another world; a world of flowing rivers, great temples, running deer, roaming elephants, students in white studying Vedic disciplines, teachers taking classes under the shade of a grove, right beside the sinuous watercourse. One of the greatest seat...") Tag: Visual edit
• 17:42, 19 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Dharmic Circuits: The Tale of Many Kailashas (Created page with " For the Armenians, the greatest collective pain is to stand in their national capital Yerevan and look at their most sacred symbol, Mount Ararat. It is indeed sad because Armenia is a Christian country and Mount Ararat lies just across its national border in Turkey, a Muslim country which is guilty of committing a number of genocides of Armenians over the centuries. Mount Ararat, the sacred center – the very core of their religious, national and cultural consciousness...") Tag: Visual edit
• 17:39, 19 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Dharmic Circuits: Sacred Pathways – Part 2 (Created page with "==== Chandrashekhar Temple and the Largest Shiva Linga of Himachal ==== In a remote village Saho, nesting in the secluded valley of the Sal River, in the hills of Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh, lies the Chandrashekhar Temple. The present structure is attributed by Laxman Thakur to be one thousand years old, but the core and the Shiva Linga is older. (Thakur 66) The village is 18 kilometers from the Chamba town and is completely surrounded by high hills. The village...") Tag: Visual edit
• 17:36, 19 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Dharmic Circuits: Sacred Pathways – Part 1 (Created page with "==== Kshetra, Desha and Yatra ==== The Hindu sense of space is sacred. It has a center and a periphery.  The centre has multiple locations. They are the Teertha Kshetras of India. The periphery coincides with the boundaries of the cultural space of Bharatvarsha and the phenomenon which connects these multiple centers to Bharata’s peripheries is the process of Teertha Yatra. Teertha Yatra is literally the sutra which binds Bharatvarsha together. It is the underlying t...") Tag: Visual edit
• 17:30, 19 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page How Old Is The Hindu Temple Part 2 (Created page with "==== Evidence from the Inscriptions ==== Though not many Hindu temples exist which date back earlier than 3rd or 4th century CE, there are inscriptions which testify to the existence of temple and temple worship before Christ. Gopinatha Rao while writing about a 2nd century BCE inscription found in Brahmi script, on a Garuda Stambha, in Besnagar, Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, says:<blockquote>“This is about the earliest known inscription mentioning Vishnu as Vasudeva; and f...") Tag: Visual edit
• 17:28, 19 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page How Old Is The Hindu Temple Part 1 (Created page with " India has the largest number of monuments in the world. Even after large-scale destruction of its temples during the Islamic invasions of India, still thousands upon thousands of the Hindu temples survive. Though most are in ruins, they give an idea about the Hindu architecture and sculpture. After at least six centuries of Islamic destruction and two centuries of British neglect, it is only in the 21st century that the Hindu temple is getting its due fame in the age...") Tag: Visual edit
• 17:11, 19 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page What Is A Hindu Temple? (Created page with " In an interview last year, of Dr. R. Nagaswamy, the great scholar of temple architecture in India, I dared to put up a rather naïve question to his formidable intellect: “How old is the Hindu temple?” The questions about the antiquity of the Hindu temple constantly occupied my mind. Most of the western scholars credit the emergence of the Hindu temple in India to Buddhism, alleging that the Hindu temple is a development of the Buddhist temple which in turn is ins...") Tag: Visual edit
• 17:08, 19 July 2024 Akshayjha talk contribs created page Many Meaning of the Hindu Temple Part 2 (Created page with " ==== '''The Temple as the Divine Tree''' ==== The symbolism of the seed is taken further. This seed is believed to have sprouted upwards in the form of the temple ''vimana'' and branching out in various shoots, leaves and branches, it again coalesces at the top in one ''kalash'', bearing fruit which again contains the seed from which it came, and thus directly above this, outside the temple, over the ''vimana'', another ''kalash'' is installed which has the same ‘see...") Tag: Visual edit