InFacts about India-06 October 2022

🇮🇳 FACTS ABOUT INDIA🇮🇳
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Belgaum is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka located in its northern part along the Western Ghats

The city original name was Venugrama, a Sanskrit word which means “village of bamboo”. Alternatively, it is referred to as Venupura in early Indian texts, which means “city of bamboo”. … In 1474, the Bahmani Sultanate conquered Belgaum with an army led by Mahamood Gawan. They use to pronounce Venugram as Belgaum.

VEDIK GYAN:

Tukaram was a Marathi Bhakti poet and a devotee of Lord Krishna born in 1608* . His complete name was Tukaram Bolhoba Ambiye. His parents were devotees of Vithoba, an avatar of Hindu deity Vishnu (Vaishnavas). Both his parents died when Tukaram was a teenager. Sant Tukaram’s first wife was Rakhama Bai, and they had a son named Santu. However, both his son and wife starved to death in the famine of 1630–1632.

Tukaram married again, and his second wife was Avalai Jija Bai.[3][9] He spent most of his later years in devotional worship, community kirtans (group prayers with singing) and composing Abhanga poetry.

Sant Tukaram composed Abhanga poetry, a Marathi genre of literature which is metrical (traditionally the ovi meter), Tukaram disappeared (not died) in 1649 or 1650.

LEARN Sanskrit
अवश्यकरणीय च मा त्वां कालोऽत्यागदयम।

avaśyakaraṇīya ca mā tvāṃ kālo’tyāgadayama।

Do whatever you have to do, don’t waste time

जो कर्म अवश्य करना है, उसे कर डालो, समय बीत ना जाये।