InFacts about India-01 March 2022

🇮🇳 FACTS ABOUT INDIA🇮🇳
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The Adiyogi statue is a 34-metre-tall (112 ft), 45-metre-long (147 ft) and 25-metre-wide (82 ft) steel statue of the Hindu deity Shiva with Thirunamam at Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. It is recognized by the Guinness World Records as the “Largest Bust Sculpture” in the world.

VEDIK GYAN:

The twelve jyothirlinga are:

1. Somnath in Gir Somnath, Gujarat

2. Mallikarjuna in Srisailam, Andhra Pradesh

3. Mahakaleswar in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh

4. Omkareshwar in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh

5. Kedarnath in Rudraprayag, Uttarakhand

6. Bhimashankar in Maharashtra

7. Vishwanath in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

8. Trimbakeshwar in Nashik, Maharashtra

9. Baidyanath in Deoghar, Jharkhand

10. Nageshvara in Dwarka, Gujarat

11. Ramanathaswamy in Rameshwaram, Tamil Nadu

12. Grishneshwar in Aurangabad, Maharashtra.

LEARN Sanskrit

कुलीनमकुलीनं वा वीरं पुरुषमानिनम् |
चारित्रमेव व्याख्याति शुचिं वा यदि वाऽशुचिम्।। – Valmiki Ramayana (2.109.4)

kulīnamakulīnaṃ vā vīraṃ puruṣamāninam।
cāritramēva vyākhyāti śuciṃ vā yadi vā’śucim।।

Meaning : It is only the character that tells whether a man is highborn or not, brave or only
proud of his manliness, honest or dishonest.

*भावार्थ* : चरित्र ही अकुलीन को कुलीन, भीरू(कायर) को वीर , और अपावन को पावन सिद्ध करता है।