Dwaraka, the ancient Indian city

                                     

Capital of historical Thailand Dwarabati is not the subject of this article. Subject is Dwaraka of Mahabharata which also called Dwarabati. Both name used in Sanskrit language .Its space time and characters existence was in reality .Till some evidence, somewhere ruins found. Somewhere reconstructions, somewhere archeological discovery found .With the existence of Dwaraka it is to be agreed that dwarakadhish existed.

       It is also to be agreed with the existence of dwaraka that the king politician, expert defense strategist, sociologist, kin chariot driver, fighter, lion hearted dwarakadhish, the great Jadav Krishna also existed in reality. Jadav Krishna is equally relevant till to-day. This chapter will be discussed later on. Now back to Dwaraka .Indian Federal structure putting Delhi in centre the position of states was recorded in Indian constitution in 1957 and subsequent times. This also found centering Dwaraka position of other states .That is, long ago prior to 1957 there was federal structure in ancient India. In the light of Dwaraka it is to see what other states were. Dwaraka was ruled by Jadaves .Anarta was a Capital/state in ancient India subsequently submerged in the sea. Due to aggression of Jarasandha the king of Magadha, Jadavas escaping from Surasen Mathura established their rule here.

                                    

       In Mahabharata age  the states/capitals  formed federal state under Dwaraka was as follows: 1.Cadi (Jhansi district of Uttar Pradesh}2.Surasena(Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh which is also called as Brajadham) 3.Darsana(In the south of Cadiz)4.Karasa(East of  Darsana  )5.Kunti(East of  Abanti state)6.Abanti(  Ujjaini  district of Madhya Pradesh)7.Malab(West of Abanti)8.Gujrat(south of Rajasthan) 9. Hea/ Haihya (Normada vally Madhya Pradesh) 10.Sourastra (South Gujrat) 11.Dwaraka (sea coast of Gujrat}.  Rebaki wife of KrishnaBalaram was a daughter of Dwaraka.  Srimati Radha   was a daughter of Darsana 12.Vidarbha (North West Maharastra).Additional some other Island states were under Dwaraka Federal State.

       Civilization blossomed in the Ice age at the sea coastal areas. Prior to 8000 years B. C. Dwaraka City existed, due to a great Tsunami it was submerged in the sea. Dwaraka was one of the seven cities of the ancient India. This Dwaraka was the capital of king Krishna, here he lived. Dwaraka is mentioned in Mahabharata Haribansa Puran, Bhagvat Puran, Scondha Puran and Bisnu Puran.It is said that this Dwaraka City was located near the present Dwaraka City which submerged in the sea. This city was constructed by the great Engineer Viswakarma according to the order of Krishna. Land of the City was begged from Sea (in other wards land made available by filling the sea).Planning and construction made at Western sea coast of present Surat. It is a planned city located by the river side Gomoti. This city was known as Dwaramati, Dwarabati or Kusasthali. It had seven well organized sectors .Residential  and Commercial sectors had broad road ,plaza, many palaces  and  public places ,a public meeting hall was constructed naming  Sudham  Sabha .A  harbor also constructed .There was  seven lakh. Palaces made of gold, silver and other valuable stones. So many   beautiful flower gardens blossomed throughout the year.

       Sri Krishna started for Baikuntha leaving this earth after thirty six years of Mahabharata War. Three thousand one hundred thirty eight years B.C. and after the death of other Jadaves due to fight among themselves. To restore security for grandson of SriKrishna and Jadav women to take them to Hastinapur Arjun arrived at Dwaraka. After Arjun left Dwaraka it went under the sea. In Mahabharata Arjun Said “The sea rushed towards the city, tides in high speed entered through the roads, sea flooded the entire city. I saw beautiful houses one by one submerging .In reality within a few minutes all is over. The sea became calm and quiet like pond and there is no sign of the city, Dwaraka a name only.”

       The incident of submerging Dwaraka under the sea is also mentioned in the Vishnu Puran. The day Sri Krishna left earth was the starting of Kali Yug. Sea rose vigorously and Dwaraka city submerged under the sea.

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Around Bangalore: Part 2

A few days passed, we are becoming familiar with neighbors and other people. A south Indian family from top floor of the apartment came to meet us with a bowl of mango prickly we offered them sweets, the famous Berhampore Chanabara. They spend about half an hour with us and gossiped friendly a lot but unfortunately we could not intake head and tail of their language. They departed with a lot of promises to come again and again. The Land Lord, a Kennedy came with his family to introduce with us. A very good gentle family living in the 1st floor of the apartment with his two daughters, elder daughter a  student of 1st year B.B.A. and younger daughter a student of class IV  in English medium school.                                                                                                                                                                     

 The next door neighbor a noble lady from Bihar, living with her younger son a student of first year B.B.A. She offered bread chops and many eatables from time to time. Her recipes are delicious.

Hardworking Lady's House

Mango Prickly                                

Bread Chop                                 

The hardworking  lady inside the above house from Don Valley reside with her civil engineer husband with two kids,  a daughter of Class VII and a son of class IV in English medium School.
Days are passing in the world famous climate of Bangalore and its surroundings. In the meantime visited a few hills of the west ghat mountain range which has been mentioned in separate articles elsewhere .Also visited some place of interests of the silicon city, The Bangalore Palace, Tipu sultan’s summer palace, Kuban Park. Karnataka High Court, Museum, Neheru Planetarium, Lalbag.

Bangalore Palace

Cubbon Park

Lake ,Hebbel lake and other lakes, gardens, Bridged Road ,M. G.Road , Belor Road, Sanjoy Nagar, R.T.Nagar, K.R . Puram Old Madras Road  and  Ring roads. Further to mention  Dollars Colony, The Pables Bay and  Whispering Medows, multi storied buildings with Hali Pad in the Top.

Pebble Bay

The grocery shop owner Sasi a Kannad hard working young man is very simple with amiable manners, managing  the shop with the help of his partner. A lady managing the Nandini Milk shop  is efficient enough to do so. The Bakery man is very gentle. Above all  Kannad people are very  laborious and their honesty deserved to be mentioned specially.

The Beauty Parlor owner Manju Natha advised to cut hairs in short. He asked Ulla Ulla ? Reply was yes. He finished his job, and it is seen that the head is about to hair less. One day when the author  waiting for his M.R.I. report in Ramiya Hospital, it is seen that  a doctor after investigating  a patient asking him for some information’s but the patient remained silent.dr.Third again and again but failed. At last dr. called a Tamil Hospital staff and solved. The patient was a telaga. Sympathetic behavior of doctors entire the south Indian hospitals, especially in   C.M.C .Vellore and Colombia Asia Hospital in Bangalore are remarkable.    

Camp office of political parties outside the Election Booth of Parliament Election 2014 at Bangalore North Parliamentary election constituency

                           

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Around Bangalore : Part 1

                         

On 26 the March 2014 along with Aparna, partner of the author, quit Berhampore Rly. Station at 7 am by Dhana Dhannya express on AC chair car. Seat no. 43, 44 was allotted .Author’s nephew Debasis Boral (babu) of Laldeghi present to see off. Arrival Calcutta Rly. Station at about 2330 hours, after taking lunch at rly canteen run to Netaji Subhas Ch. Bose International Air Port by city cab to pic up flight for Bangalore. 

At AirPort obtained boarding pass from the spice jet counter on production of E Ticket and ID card .Done tagging of luggage’s and proceed to gate 20 .Frisking of person and checking of baggage is mandatory. The flight of the Spice jet Boarding Time scheduled at 1615 of the day. In Flight 529 allotted seat number 27 A, 27B for the journey, through escalator reach the lounge. A long four hours break in the Air Port lounge absorbed smoothly observing surroundings, gossiping, reading books and looking landing and treading of international flights on the runways and in the sky. The word boring was absent throughout the time. Before half an hour of departure the spice jet placed at tarmac. Passengers entered into it through stairs by side of the pilot cabin .At entrance smiling face air hostess welcomed all. After searching seats, putting the bag in the bin, seat by window side. A most pleasant relaxing atmosphere.   The spice Jet take off at the scheduled time. Bonding of seat belt is mandatory. By and by visibility of Kolkata with all its glory and brightness became invisible. After departure , the  air hostess ,demonstrated  through  silent- acting ,audio coming via speaker ,what to do in case of emergency, how to bond seat belt, use of oxygen mask in case of shortfall of oxygen inside, use of parasite  kept under the seat of each passenger to jump from a burning vassal etc. etc. Time to time announcements coming from pilot cabin in regard to flight information like seat belt bonding, weather, height, change of height, speed of air craft etc. The sky was cloudy, wind blowing in high speed lightning vigorously, the plain fall in an air pocket, it was jerking, and the jerking felt by the passengers. The pilot took more high altitude. After a  few minutes all became normal .At 1910 spice jet laundered at Bangalore International Airport .After collecting luggage’s from conveyor belt proceeded to  exit gate, there found Mr. Rain ,Orinda Dye a Bangalorian, an IBM loriat,Visva Bharati University and EIILM university scholar, loyal son of the author waiting. Started for the residence by city cab. Arrival at Bangalore chapter ended.

              Next day, during morning walk the first and foremost thing noticed, Rongoli. The author hosted in an apartment, its anexture, even the total locality covered by South Indian people.Rangoli drawn in front of almost all houses.Rongali also known as Kolam or Muggu, is an Indian folk art in which patterns are created in living rooms or courtyards. Colam is a form of painting  that is drawn by using  rice powder/chalk /chalk powder/white rock powder/ often use naturally/synthetically colored powders in Tamil Nadu , Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh Kerala and some parts of Goa, Maharashtra, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and a few other Asian countries. A Colam is a geometrical line drawing composed of curved loops, drawn around a grid pattern of dots. In south India it is widely practiced by female Hindu family members and colures are often added during holiday occasional events like Denali, on am, pongol and barolakshmi puja. Kolams are regionally known by different  names in India.Roongolee in Maharastra,Hase and  Roongoli in Kannda  in Karnataka ,Muggulu in Andhra,Golam in Kerala  mandana, in Rajasthan, chaookpurna in Chattisgarh ,Alpana in  West Bengal  Aripana  in Bihar,chowk  pujan  in Uttar Pradesh etc.More complex colams are drawn in front of their houses in special occations.

Rangoli in Andhra Pradesh is called as Muggu. A muggu being created at an entrance to a home. Like most part of the countries, every morning before sun rise, the women folk clean the entrance to a home and/or the courtyard with water, considered the universal purifier, and the muddy floor is swept well to prepare an even surface.

Cow dung is then mixed with water and this slurry is expertly spread on the requisite area and spread evenly    with a broom .This is done on a regular basis in rural areas and of festive occasion’s income urban areas where there is availability of sufficient cow dung and space to draw the muggu. This procedure is performed as it is believed that cow dung has antiseptic properties and hence provides a literal threshold of protection for a home. The muggu is then drawn on this prepared surface .The dark color of the cow dung slurry also provides a good contrast for the white powder of the muggu.

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Mahisasura to Mysore

Mahisasura to Mysore

Mahisasura  mardini  Goddess Durga(Parvati) daughter of Projapati Dakshya,killed the deman ruller Mahisasura. Mysore gets its name from the buffalo headed demon ruler Mahisasura.Mysore situated 770 meters above sea level and embraced by hill ranges  from north to south. Mysore is also called as a Garden City.According to puranic story in Devi Bhagavata,Mysore was ruled by Mahisasura who created havoc to the Gods. Hearing this plea to save them from the Monster, Goddess Parvati wife of Shiva took birth as Chamundaswari and killed the demon king. After killing Mahisasura  the Gods resided atop Chamundi hill where she is worshipped by devotees with reverence even to-day.

       The earliest mention of Mysore  as Mahisarastra is found in the Buddha Depavamsha.In 245 B.C. Ashoke is said to have dispatched a monk to Mahisrastra to spread Buddhism.References about Mysore is also to be find in the great Epic Mahabharata,although there is not much more evidence to support their mention

        Mysore was ruled by Cholas and Chalukyas  for over a Century.  Hoysalas drive out Cholas and establish their rule in the land. They excelled   in the Temple architecture and left so exquisitely carved temple as evidence of their successful  regin.The Mysore dynasty was an among many feudatories of the Vijoynagar Empire.In the 16 th Century Bettda  Chamaraja III built a fort in Mysore. It was once again made  the Capital in 1799 after the fall of Tipu Sultan, and transformation of Mysore from a small fort town to handsome city began during the reign of Krishna raja Wodeyar III.