InFacts about India-21 January 2022

🇮🇳 FACTS ABOUT INDIA🇮🇳
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Ellora is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, India. It is one of the largest rock-cut Hindu temple cave complexes in the world, featuring Buddhist and Jain monuments with artwork dating from the period 600–1000 CE.

Cave 16 features the largest single monolithic rock excavation in the world, the Kailash temple, a chariot-shaped monument dedicated to Lord Shiva. The Kailash temple excavation also features sculptures depicting the gods, goddesses found in Hinduism as well as relief panels summarizing the two major Hindu Epics. Ramayan & Mahabharata.

VEDIK GYAN:

The bow of Arjuna is known as Gandiva. It was given to him by Lord Agni, after Arjun burnt down the Khandav Forest in HIS request.

The bow was created by God Brahma, who held it first for a thousand years, followed by Prajapati whi held it for five hundred and three years, Lord Indra for five hundred and eighty years, and Lord Soma for five hundred years. After that Lord Varuna held it for a hundred years before handing it to Arjuna along with a Kapi bannered chariot.

LEARN Sanskrit

प्रथमे नार्जिता विद्या द्वितीये नार्जितं धनम् ।
तृतीये नार्जितं पुण्यं चतुर्थे किं करिष्यसि ॥

prathame nārjitā vidyā dvitīye nārjitaṃ dhanam ।
tṛtīye nārjitaṃ puṇyaṃ caturthe kiṃ kariṣyasi ॥

What can you do in the fourth part of your life, when you have not gained knowledge in the first, money in the second, and merit in the third?​

यदि जीवन के प्रथम भाग में विद्या, दूसरे में धन,
और तीसरे में पुण्य नही कमाया तो चौथे भाग में क्या करोगे ?