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The battle of Kurukshetra - Mahabharath The Kurukshetra War was a war between two families - the Kauravas, led by Duryodhana and their cousins, the Pandavas, led by Yudhisthira as the result of a succession struggle for the kingdom of Hastinapura. The decisive, final battle occurred at Kurukshetra, in the modern state of Haryana, northeast India.

The Stupa at Sarnath outside Beneres marks the site of Buddha’s first sermon Image from

‘In earlier times’, wrote the Greek historian Polybius (2nd century BC), ‘the world’s history consisted of series of unrelated episodes, in widely separated localities, but from this point history becomes an organic whole:the affairs of Europe andA Africa are connected with those of Asia and Greece, and all events bear a relationship and contribute to a single end,”

Krishna and Balarama from an 18th century manuscript. Krishna’s advice to the warrior Arjuna on duty before the final battle became a key text of the ‘right way’ in Indian society. Even the secularist Nehru had a well-thumbed copy by his bedside

enrouteindianhistory.com/rivers-and-rituals-the-idea-of-snanam The Nadi-stuti Sukta (praise of rivers) of the Ṛig Veda identifies 7 sacred rivers of India, namely Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswati, Sidhu (now, Indus), Narmada, Kaveri, Godavari, Krishna, Tapti and Brahmaputra. The Hindu mythology aggrandizes water as “the elixir of immortality.” In Vedic texts, water is referred to as ‘apah’, and is considered to be purifying in a spiritual context. Water bodies, the rivers, in particular, are regarded as the source of life in tangible and mythical senses and particularly manifested as a source of feminine energy or Sakti. These places of manifestation of life, power, and piety are known as tirthas (sacred places), and thus we have places of worship (temples, or religious fairs) alongside these tirthas. These act as the “gateway to the unknown” realm of spirituality, according to Chris C. Park (1994), and are mostly linked to water attributes.

The miraculous birth of the Buddha from an 18th-century manuscript. The transformation of the Buddha's tale with fairytale elements really began under Kushans in the 1st and 2nd centuried AD when the story expanded along the Silk Road to China and east Asia.

ॐ भूर् भुवः स्वः। तत् सवितुर्वरेण्यं। भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि। धियो यो नः प्रचोदयात् ॥ O, Divine mother, our hearts are loaded up with darkness. Kindly make this darkness distant from us and advance brightening inside us.

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