A TO Z INDIA - AUGUST 2022
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK: SHRI KRISHNA JANMASHTAMI FESTIVAL CELEBRATIONS 2022 - Observed on the eighth day (Ashtami) of the dark half of the month of Shraavana, this festival is widely celebrated across India since Shri Krishna is one of the most well recognized and worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon of Gods; THANJAVUR BIG TEMPLE: THE ARCHITECTURAL WONDER - Rajaraja-I named this temple as Rajarajesvaram and the deity Shiva in Linga form as Peruvudaiyar.
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK: SHRI KRISHNA JANMASHTAMI FESTIVAL CELEBRATIONS 2022 - Observed on the eighth day (Ashtami) of the dark half of the month of Shraavana, this festival is widely celebrated across India since Shri Krishna is one of the most well recognized and worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon of Gods; THANJAVUR BIG TEMPLE: THE ARCHITECTURAL WONDER - Rajaraja-I named this temple as Rajarajesvaram and the deity Shiva in Linga form as Peruvudaiyar.
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Takshashila, north-western region of Bharat:
Takshashila: The World’s oldest University
Srinivasan
their destructive marks on
this institution. The final
blow, however, came from
the Huns.
They destroyed the whole
city, University, which
never again recovers.
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During the 7th century CE.
it was gradually
abandoned by its
inhabitants.
When the Chinese Buddhist
monk, scholar, traveler
Huen T’sang (A.D. 603-64)
visited Takshashila, the
town had lost all its former
grandeur & international
character.
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