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Symbol of Love: Flute Playing Krishna

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Flute playing Krishna is pictured as a joyous situation of Krishna's life which represents love chastity, entertainment and romance.Every 'Arts form' in India served the need of masses and is very much about emotional equation, so in almost every art work, this act (flute playing) abundantly represents Krishna as God of the masses romance. The Vaishnava revival of the 11th and 12th centuries brought about by Ramanuja and saint poets like Jayadeva of Bengal gradually established Krishna as the supreme deity, the approachable hglorious Vishnu. Jayadeva's Gita Govindam, the song of the divine cowherd echoed the poet's deep spirituality with Krishna as the human soul attached to earthly pleasures and Radha , the wise divine. In 15th century and more particularly in the 16th and 17th centuries, there was a prolific popularity of paintings (specially miniature) based on the Bhagwata Purana and Gita Govinda . Later, the poetry of Surdas , Keshavadasa , Bihari a...

History of India- A Saga Part-3

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Neolithic Age: The Exterme Development      Neolithic age or the New Stone Age context worldwide around 9000 B.C. IN this age technology remarkably progress, people developed the art of cultivation, domestication of animals, pot-making, weaving, house building, writing. But the process start in India tardily than western Asia. It has began in India around 5000 B.C. However, the era consist between 9000 B.C. to 3000 B.C. Mehrgarh in Pakistan is the only settlement in Indian Subcontinent . [ Indian Subcontinent includes seven countries- Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka ] The people of this age particularly used stone axes and 'Polished ' stone tools. Based on axes used researchers divided the neolithic sites of India in three types- north-western, north-eastern and southern.The north-western sites represents rectangular axes with curved cutting edge. The north-eastern sites shows polished stone axes with rectangular butt and ...

History of India- A Saga Part-2

The Mesolithic Age, Prehistoric Arts     The Upper Paleolithic or the Ice Age comes to an end around 9000 B.C. And began a new stage in Stone Age culture, which is called Mesolithic Age. In this age climate become warm and dry which brought change about in Fauna and Flora ( Fauna is the animal life and Flora  is the plant life ), change in climate also made it possible for human to move new areas. Living occupation of human of this age is similar with Paleolithic Age which are hunting, fishing and food gathering, but at a later stage they also domesticate animals, which interrelated with Neolithic culture.     The tools used by human of the Mesolithic Age are Microlithic ( Microlith is a small stone tool usually made of flint or chert and typically a centimeter or so in length and half a centimeter wide. ). In India Mesolithic Sites found in Bagor in Rajasthan; Sarai Nahar Rai, Chopani Mando, Mahdaha,  and  Damdama in Uttar Pradesh; Bhimbetk...

History of India - A Saga Part-1

The Stone Age   India , the nation of colours, the nation of brotherhood, the nation of spirituality, the nation of gods. India the subcontinent of the great landmass of South Asia, also considered as a giant of two of South Asia and also a part of ancient great 'Gondwanaland '.    The past of India brings with a timeline of evolution, the evolution of human civilization. One of the oldest civilization of the world exists in India. But studying History of India is a little complicated. From the Paleolithic to modern age the land has play role as a spectator. Researchers and scholars have chronologically divided the history of India into three parts- Ancient History, Medieval History and Modern History. In my blog, I have made an effort to simplify the beautiful and rich history of India in this compilation. Here I will start from the earliest period.     The Palaeolithic Age:     The Palaeolithic Age in India is divided into three phases; Ea...

অসম বুৰঞ্জী: গোলাঘাটৰ দেওপাহাৰ আৰু ইয়াৰ ইতিহাস।।

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ভাৰতৰ আন ৰাজ্যৰ দৰাই অসমৰ বুৰঞ্জীও গভীৰ আৰু ৰহস্যময় । তথ্য-প্ৰযুক্তি আৰু যোগাযোগৰ ফালৰপৰা মূল প্ৰদেশখনৰ তুলনাত অলপ পিছ পৰা হেতুকে ভাৰতৰ আন ৰাজ্যৰ লোকে অসম আৰু অসমৰ কাষৰীয়া ৰাজ্য কেইখনৰ ইতিহাসৰ বিষয়ে বৰবেছি জ্ঞাত নহয়। অসমৰো বহু সংখ্যক লোকেই ৰাজ্য খনৰ ইতিহাসৰ বহুত কথা নজানে । কিন্তু অসম বুৰঞ্জী তৎক্ষণাত কৈ শেষ কৰিব পৰা বিধৰও নহয়। সৌভাগ্য ক্ৰমে মোৰো অসমৰ বিভিন্ন ঠাইত ভ্ৰমণ কৰাৰ সুযোগ হৈছে আৰু মই বিদ্যালয়ত ভৰি নিদিওঁতেই দেউতাই দাদাক আনিদিয়া অকণিহঁতৰ ৰামায়ণৰ সাধু বোৰ দাদাই পঢ়ি শুনাইছিল আৰু তেতিয়াৰ পৰাই পুৰাণ- বুৰঞ্জীতে নিজক বিচাৰি পোৱা যেন অনুভৱ হয়।  বিভিন্ন পৌৰাণিক কথা আৰু বুৰঞ্জীৰ বিষয়ে অধ্যয়ন আৰু Internet ত অনুসন্ধান কৰি পোৱা কিছুমান তথ্যই মোক বাৰুকৈয়ে আচৰিত কৰি তোলে। এনে এক ৰহস্যময় ঐতিহাসিক ক্ষেত্ৰ- গোলাঘাটৰ দেও পাহাৰ। নুমলীগড় তিনিআলিত ৩৭ নং ৰাষ্ট্ৰীয় ঘাইপথৰ সৈতে সংযোগ হোৱা ৩৯ নং ৰাষ্ট্ৰীয় ঘাইপথেদি ডিমাপুৰ দিশে ২ কিলোমিটাৰ মান দূৰ পাথত দেও পাহাৰ পোৱা যায়। ৩৯ নং ৰাষ্ট্ৰীয় ঘাইপথৰ পৰা ২৫০ মিটাৰ মান উচ্চতাৰ পাহাৰ তোৰ ওপৰত ভগ্ন প্ৰায় অৱস্থাত বহুটো শিলৰ মূৰ্ত্তি সিচঁৰতি হৈ ...