InFacts about India-15 November 2021

🇮🇳 FACTS ABOUT INDIA🇮🇳
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JHARKHAND :
The word “Jhar” means ‘Forest’ and “Khand” means ‘land’ in various Indo-Aryan languages. Thus “Jharkhand” means ‘land of bush or forest’.

Ranchi was the centre of the Jharkhand movement, which called for a separate state for the tribal regions of South Bihar, northern Orissa, western West Bengal and the eastern area of what is present-day Chhattisgarh. The Jharkhand state was formed on 15 November 2000 by carving out the Bihar divisions of Chota Nagpur and Santhal Parganas. Ranchi has been selected as one of the hundred Indian cities to be developed as a smart city under PM Narendra Modi’s flagship Smart Cities Mission.

VEDIK GYAN:

Why Kartikeya is called Murugan?

KARTIKEYA . Meaning :Son of Lord Shiva, Brave, Vigorous, Active, Inspiring with courage. Kartikeya also known as Skanda, Kumara, Murugan, Mahasena, Shanmukha and Subrahmanya.

Mars is further identified with the Kartikeya, the god of war. He is the son of the god Shiva, who was born without Shiva’s union with a woman. Kartikeya was born with six heads as the six goddesses of the lunar constellation, Kritika

He was carried by Ganga to Saravana Poigai, Muruga is called Gangeya. Because the spark from which Muruga emerged was deposited in Saravana Poigai, Muruga is also called Saravana. Because He was raised by the Krittikas, He is Kartikeya. Because He has six faces, He is Shanmukha.

LEARN Sanskrit-

युक्ति युक्तं प्रगृह्णीयात् बालादपि विचक्षणः।
रवेरविषयं वस्तु किं न दीपः प्रकाशयेत्॥

yukti yuktaṃ pragṛhṇīyāt bālādapi vicakṣaṇaḥ।
raveraviṣayaṃ vastu kiṃ na dīpaḥ prakāśayet॥

The wise should learn to accept wisdom from anybody, even from a child.
Doesn’t the small night lamp light up things which the sun can not?​

बुद्धिमान को बच्चों से भी युक्तिपूर्ण वचन ग्रहण करने चाहिए।
क्या दीप उस वस्तु को प्रकाशित नहीं करता, जिसे सूर्य प्रकाशित नहीं कर सकता ?

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