#Ancient history India

[h0bg0blin-meat]

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👏 SAY 👏 IT 👏 LOUDER 👏

[the-cricket-chirps]

Lotus-Headed Fertility Goddess Lajja Gauri

India (Madhya Pradesh)

ca. 6th century

Metropolitan Museum of Art

[bharataesthetics]

Aesthetics of Odisha~

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✿.・。.・゜✭・✿・✫・゜・。. ✿

[worldhistoryfacts]

Coins weren’t the only, or the most important, place that Indian and Greek cultures impacted one another. Take a look at this 1885 photo of a piece of an ancient column found in what’s now northern Pakistan:

If you know your Greek columns, you’ll be able to identify this as the Corinthian style (Corinthian capitals are the really complicated ones with lots of leaves). But who’s that in the middle?

Yep, it’s the Buddha, plunked down in the middle of a very Greek-looking piece of sculpture.

And look what’s on top of it — a bunch of very distinctively stylized Indian elephants:

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[aahanna]

"The birth certificate of a nation! 1947 newspaper clippings celebrating India's independence..."

[forgotten-bharat]

About Vedic Scriptures

[kaalbela]

Khona was a poet and astronomer from Deulia village in Bengal, best known for Khonar Bochon, a series of couplets and short rhymes which imparts advice regarding agricultural and rural life. Born somewhere between 800-1200 A.D., Khona defied social and cultural norms of her time when women were rarely taught to read. Her husband Mihir was the son of the philosopher and astronomer Barahmihir, who was one of the navaratnas (nine gems) at the court of Chandragupta II. Khona lived in Chandragupta's court in Pataliputra for a time with her husband and father-in-law. According to legend, Chandragupta was so impressed with Khonar Bochon which benefited the farmers of his state that he named Khona the tenth gem of his court. Khonar Bochon remains relevant to the agricultural life of rural Bengal to the present day.

ষোল চাষে মূলা / তার অর্ধেক তুলা / তার অর্ধেক ধান / বিনা চাষে পান।

Translation: After 16 days of cultivation, radish cultivation in that land gives good yield. Cotton land requires 8 days of cultivation, paddy land after 4 days of cultivation gives good yield. Betel does not require cultivation.

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[memories-of-ancients]

Ivory comb, India, 200 BC - 100 AD

from The Cleveland Museum of Art

[bharatpics]

The Rājarājeśvaram temple of Dārāsuram in India, demonstrates an exceptional level of ornamentation, achieving a tasteful balance without becoming indulgent.

[h0bg0blin-meat]

Nefertem x Brahma supremacy 🗿🪷🪷🪷

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 54: Ancient World and Earlier

If you could travel through time, but only to see something for Research or for Fun, not to change anything, what would you pick? Yes, you may have a Babel Fish in your ear to translate.

These Questions are the result of suggestions a the previous iteration. This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct earlier time grouping. In some cases a culture lasted a really long time and I grouped them by whether it was likely the later or earlier grouping made the most sense with the information I had.

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.

[aranyaani]

a few months ago I'd seen someone on twitter share this image of Barbar caves, the walls of which were polished so perfectly 2000+ years ago that it still shines.

It seems like the western world has finally taken notice of it. so much talent was lost in the last 2 millennia it makes me cry

[worldhistoryfacts]

Dionysus, aka Bacchus, was the Greek god of freedom, fun, and ecstasy. His worshippers engaged in wild festivals of drinking and sex. He represented the undermining of rules and authority, an invitation to abandon the strictures of ordinary life and let loose. 

Here’s an early Greek depiction of Dionysus, holding a cup of wine:

Sometimes, Dionysus was portrayed as being younger and more clean-shaven:

The god’s cult spread far and wide as Alexander the Great’s armies sprinkled Greek culture all over Western Asia. Depictions of Dionysus, including this intimidating head, which dates to the 300s or 400s, have been found as far away as modern Pakistan, the far eastern edge of Greek influence. I love this one — the god seems to peer right through you.

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[totallydonewiththis2]

"I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains."

-Anne Frank

[permament-witzelsucht]

Vasily Vereshchagin | Evening on the lake. One of the pavilions on the marble promenade in Radzhnagar, 1874 | Radzhnagar. Marble, adorned with bas-reliefs quay on the lake in Udaipur, 1874 |

[inc0rrectmyths]

Alexander: I will crush every kingdom in India and kill the kings, and most importantly kiss Porus.

Hephaestion: Hmm..?

Alexander: KILL PORUS-