Education- Interesting facts 11-September-2023

🇮🇳 FACTS ABOUT INDIA 🇮🇳

Meerut is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The city may have derived its name from ‘Mayarashtra’ ( मयराष्ट्र), the capital of the kingdom of Mayasura, Mandodari’s father and Ravana’s father-in-law. This name may have mutated to Mairashtra, Mai-dant-ka-khera, Mairaath and eventually Meerut. Meerut is famously associated with the Indian Rebellion of 1857 against the British East India Company. The famous slogan “Dilli Chalo” (“Let’s march to Delhi!”) was first raised here. Meerut cantonment is the place where the rebellion started when Hindu and Muslim soldiers were given rifle cartridges rumoured to have a coating made of animal fat. 1857 Mutineers’ Mosque.

IMPORTANT DAYS 😳

11 September – National Forest Martyrs Day

The date 11 September has historical significance and due to this, the date was chosen as National Forest Martyrs Day. In 1730, on this day, over 360 people of the Bishnoi tribe led by Amrita Devi, objected to the felling of trees. Due to their protest of saving the trees, they were killed in Khejarli, Rajasthan on the orders of the king

🛕 VEDIK GYAN

SHISHUPALA was the son of Damaghosha. Shishupala was born with an extra eye & arms. Coming to visit his cousin, Krishna placed the child on his lap and the extra eye and arms disappeared, thus indicating Shishupala’s death was destined at the hands of Krishna. In the Mahabharata, Shishupala’s mother (Shrutasharava) persuaded her nephew, Krishna, that he would pardon his cousin Shishupala for a hundred offences.

Shishupal’s family connections According to Mahabharata, Shishupal’s father was Damaghosha, the king of Chedi, and his mother was Srutashrava. Srutashrava had two siblings.

Srutashrava had a sister – Kunti (the mother of the 5 Pandavas).
Srutashrava had a brother – Vasudeva (The father of Shri Krishna).

This way – Shishupal was cousins with both the Pandavas and Shri Krishna, though he was much younger in age to all of them.

LEARN Sanskrit
क्षीर Milk (Kshira)

When do they play? ‘ taaha kada kreedanti? (ताः कदा क्रीडन्ति)?’
They play at 8 o’clock. ‘ taaha ashtavaadane kreedanti (ताः अष्टवादने क्रीडन्ति)’

*************

Click here to join:

https://t.me/joinchat/llGA9DGZF9xmMDc1