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Exploring varied aspects of Indian temples, ancient yet living architectural treasures, & its significance in modern times.🙏
Bharatham
01.01.2016

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Sandhya Arti live darshan 🙏🙏#ragnyamata #matarani #tulmulmata #tulmuldiaries #kashmiripandits

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This Ravana story felt a little too familiar.

Because that’s us on a bad day. A forward lands. It’s about something that genuinely matters: someone’s education, someone’s job, something unfair.

We’re angry before we’ve read past the headline. By the tenth share, a rumour sounds like a fact. By the hundredth, someone’s already been found guilty.

Anger at injustice is right. We should keep it, ask the right questions, demand answers, protest.

Don’t trust a claim just because a government, a party or a crowd says it,
Yet don’t dismiss it for that reason either.

A burnt shop and misplaced anger on people who were just doing their job answers nothing.

So this Dussehra, here’s what I’m throwing in the fire:
🔥 The forward I didn’t check
🔥 The prejudice I’d been calling “judgment”
🔥 The voice that says “my side can’t be wrong”
Are you ready to do the same?

Before we add fuel to any fire, let’s at least know what we’re helping burn.
Do you agree?

📖 Source: Valmiki Ramayana, Aranya, Uttara & Yuddha Kanda

#Dussehra #Ramayana #AncientIndia #protest #post

Dussehra, Vijayadashami, Ravana, Ramayana, Valmiki Ramayana, epics, Ram Ravana war, pride, devotion, prejudice, awareness, introspection, wisdom, self reflection, History with Context

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Darshan kr lo MATA RAGNYA KA sab par kripa karne wali mata apki jai ho ❤️🙏#ragnyamata #matarani #happynavratri❤️ #tulmulmata #matakheerbhawani

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MAA CHANDRAGHANTA KI JAI 🙏🙏#ragnyamata #matarani #machandraghanta #navratri2026 #happynavratri❤️

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When Maa is with you, every battle becomes possible...
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Navratri 2026..
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#temple #festival #photography #nature #telugu

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A woman with a parrot, another looking into a mirror and a mysterious woman surrounded by snakes, wearing what first looked to me like platform heels! 👠

At Hosaholalu’s Sri Lakshminarayana Swamy Temple, every sculpture made me stop and look closer.

Indra rides a magnificently adorned Airavata, with Shachi seated behind him. The object that I first thought was a telescope in his hand is actually his vajra—the thunderbolt!

A little further, Durga confronts Mahishasura. Multiple arms, weapons, the buffalo and the demon’s human form—a whole battle unfolding within a single panel.

Then comes Lakshmi–Narayana, seated together - the epitome of beauty!

The parrot-bearing Shukasarika and mirror-holding Darpana Sundari look like ancient India fashion influencers!

But the snake-adorned woman remains an enigma: scholars still debate her identity, and those “heels” are better described as thick-soled sandals.

I visited this three-shrine Hoysala temple in Mandya, Karnataka during my March 2026 tour. Generally dated to around 1250 CE, during Vira Someshwara’s reign, it preserves an extraordinary world of stories carved in stone.

Nearly eight centuries later, I’m still flabbergasted by the detail. The jewellery, the gestures, even the elephant’s ornaments—how much observation, patience and skill went into every inch?

The stones won’t stop talking, and I don’t want to stop reading them.

Swipe back and look closer—which detail did you miss the first time? Tell me in the comments. 👇

#ancientindia #OurCultureOurPride #india #temple #BharatThroughmyLens

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Sandhya Arti live darshan #ragnyamata #matakheerbhawani #tulmulmata #matarani #matadyakar

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This was an extremely complex topic — one that started with a question and, quite fittingly, ended with another.

Because really… no one knows exactly what happens after death. At least no one at the living stage does. 😊

So this reel is not an attempt to give the answer. It is my understanding of how different layers of Indian thought tried to make sense of death, ancestry and what we owe the people who came before us.

A few things I could not fit into the video:

Rigveda, Gruhyasutra, Dharmashastra, Garuda Purana or even the Upanishadic thought are not necessarily parts of one perfectly neat theory. They are layers of thought developed across centuries with everyone trying to find the same answer of what happens after death.

Another idea I found particularly interesting is pitṛ-ṛṇa — the debt to our ancestors. Not necessarily “debt” in a transactional sense, but an acknowledgement that none of us is entirely self-made. We inherit language, family memory, social identity, professions, resources, habits — and sometimes unresolved baggage too.

And perhaps that is where Pitṛ Pakṣa can still make sense even for someone who does not literally believe that a food offering reaches an ancestor.

Believe me, I have probably not even researched 1% of this subject yet. There is a lot more to this - a lot to be researched and understood.

What do you think about Pitr Paksa — ritual, philosophy, grief management, ancestral memory… or somehow all of them together?

#pitrupaksha #ancientindia #india #reelindia #history

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Can you believe this temple is almost 1000 years old!!!
Chennakesava = “handsome Kesava”, dedicated to Lord Vishnu. The Belur temple complex was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2023 as part of the Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas.
#fyp #templesofindia #ancientcity #instadaily #viral

Pictures are from various temples in the region.

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The line didn’t vanish in 1884. It just went quiet.

When the British set IST - Indian Standard Time - in 1906, they pinned it to 82.5°E near Mirzapur.

Bombay refused and kept its own clock until 1955. That’s the same year Saha’s report mentioned “latitude of Ujjain”, after which it was standardised in all parts of India.

Romanticising India’s Firsts, one forgotten line at a time.

Which “India’s first “ you would like me to pick next? Tell me in the comments.

And share this with a friend who is more obsessed with Greenwich than Ujjain 😅!

Surya Siddhanta · Ujjain · Mahakal · Indian astronomy · prime meridian

#HistoryWithContext #IndiasFirst #AncientIndia #History #Reel

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“Where faith meets beauty, and silence feels divine. 🙏✨

@team.sasya Ganesh Chaturthi 2026

#temple #telugu #photography #lordganesh #harharmahadev

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✨History carved into every corner✨

The masterpiece is Kailasa Temple (Cave 16) — carved from a single rock and celebrated as one of the world’s most remarkable rock-cut monuments. 🛕✨

#ellora #maharashtra #indianhistory #incredibleindia #acientindia

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