Lakshadweep, formerly known as the Laccadive, Minicoy, and Aminidivi Islands, is a group of islands in the Laccadive Sea, 200 to 440 km (120 to 270 mi) off the southwestern coast of India. Lakshadweep comes from
Lakshadwipa, which means “one hundred thousand islands” in Sanskrit.
VEDIK GYAN
According to the Rigved Vishwakarma is the designer of all the flying chariots of the gods, and all their weapons and divine attributes. He is believed to be one of the ancient architect or engineer who created and taught building of ancient monuments, architectures in Bharat.
He is ‘Aja’ (Unborn) and as mentioned in Vishwakarma suktam of Yajurveda, he created ‘Brahmanda’ (where the universe exists) containing all the Gods and the Asuras which lies connected to his navel by means of a receptacle.
He also credited with creating the missiles used in the Puranas, including the Vajra, the sacred weapon of Lord Indra, from the bones of sage Dadhichi. Through the four yugas, he had built several towns and temples for the gods. Among them were, in chronological order, Svarga (Heaven) in the Satya Yuga, Lanka in the treta Yuga, and Dwarka (Krishna’s capital) in the dwapara Yuga.
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