Namaskar everyone
In continuation of an earlier discussion
Examples of Jain Buddhist Hindu kings revering images they had taken from a rival kingdom

We must know this to refute falsehood

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Delighted to receive Ram Raz's classic on Hindu temple architecture
With scholary introduction by Sri BM Pandey

Raz traced titles of 64 treatises, many forgotten
Among them were prescribed rules for Jain and Buddhist images

Religious dissensions?

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Namaskar everyone
Since Lord Jagannath is in the news today
I felt tempted to post this.

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A tirade that goes on

Hindus Buddhists Jains always fought each other and destroyed each others Murtis and temples

The hard facts?

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Namaskar everyone
Do you know what has been described as the first national (civilizational) song of the world?

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My full conversation with Dr Rinkoo
Wadhera 🙏🙏

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We must ponder why a section of historians erased any discussion of iconoclasm from history textbooks and public discourse
If you did dare to tred on forbidden territory you were dubbed communal

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Visualize a time when every temple in north India was flattened

Yet we remained image worshippers and temple goers

Tenacity to our foundational ethos

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Namaskar everyone
A snippet of my conversation with
Dr. Rinkoo Wadhera 🙏🙏

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राम धामदा पुरी सुहावनि।
लोक समस्त बिदित अति पावनि॥
चारि खानि जग जीव अपारा।
अवध तजें तनु नहिं संसारा।।
गाइअ रामहि सुमिरिअ रामहि।
संतत सुनिहि राम गुन ग्रामहि।।
जा पर कृपा राम कै होई।
ता पर कृपा करै सबु कोई।।
जय श्रीराम...

Namaskar
Some wanted reference
A brief mention
TP Mahadevan
Three Rails of the Mahabharata text tradition '
In
Journal of Vaishnava Studies 2011 (2) pp 23-69
BB Lal
Historicity of the Mahabharata

Also by him
Rama, his hustoricity, mandir and setu.🙏🙏

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Warp and weft of India

When Prof Sukthankar began working on the Critical Edition of the Mahabharata
His team collected versions from everywhere
They reasoned the shortest versions would be closest to the original
In the South it was from Kerala ! 👇

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Namaskar
Hindu adoration, love of this land, was so apparent.
Al Beruni
Who came with Mahmud Ghaznavi
And wrote the insightful
Al Hind
Said 👇

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Namaskar everyone
Have you wondered why detractors of Indian civilization decry the study of ancient India?
An explanation in a snippet😊

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A place where Pallava Narasimha and his general Paranjothi stood many centuries ago. A place where they recorded their extraordinary campaign. Probably a place where Paranjothi reflected his life and became one of the celebrated Shaiva saints.

On the eve of the Guru Pooja of

Teach them when young !!

They will spread our Culture ❤

In a riveting episode of #Likhawat , Dr. Meenakshi Jain took us through the history and legends of Kashi, in ways only she could. Here's the link to our conversation on SansadTV. Meenakshi Jain
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My presentation at a recent book release function 😊

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Namaskar everyone
My discussion with Dr Chouby on Sansad TV.
I hope you like it
Gautam Choubey
SansadTV

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Tonight on Sansad TV