@VEDANJANAM Same katapayaadi is seen in naaraayaneeyam where the ending denotes the date of the composition, which is the number of days since the start of kaliyuga as per malayalam calendar.
āyurārogyasaukhyam -> 1712210 -> 1587 AD.
Qutbuddin Aibak, the first ruler of the Slave Dynasty in the Delhi Sultanate, died after falling from a galloping horse.
But is it really possible that a general who rode a horse for the first time at the age of 11 and fought countless battles on horseback could die from a galloping horse?
Real History vs. Fabricated Story
When Qutbuddin Aibak plundered Rajputana, he killed the king of Mewar and captured Prince Karan Singh. Along with the looted wealth and the prince, he also took the prince's horse "Shubhrak" to Lahore.
In Lahore, Karan Singh tried to escape and was captured. Qutbuddin ordered his beheading and, to add insult to injury, ordered a polo match played using the dead prince's head as a ball.
On the day of the beheading, Qutbuddin arrived at the venue riding Shubhrak. Upon seeing its master Karan Singh, the horse bolted uncontrollably, causing Qutbuddin to fall from the horse. Shubhrak kicked the fallen Qutbuddin with a powerful kick. The powerful blows to the chest and head proved fatal. Qutbuddin Aibak died instantly in 1210 CE.
Everyone was stunned. Shubhrak ran towards Karan Singh, and taking advantage of the ensuing chaos, the prince jumped onto his valiant horse, which immediately took off running and began the most arduous race of his life.
It was a continuous race for almost more than three days, finally stopping at the gates of the kingdom of Mewar. When the prince dismounted, Shubhrak stood still like a statue. Karan Singh lovingly stroked the horse's head, but was shocked when Shubhrak fell to the ground.
The powerful horse managed to save its master and safely escorted him back to his kingdom before succumbing to his injuries.
We've read about Chetak, but the story of Shubhrak is beyond belief! Facts like this never make it into the curriculum of our modern education system. Most of us haven't even heard of it. Have we?
It is permanently buried in history. It's time to share the glory.
🙏🏻🇮🇳Jai Hind🙏🏻
WhatsApp CEO Kunal Shah recently claimed that there is no word for efficiency and productivity in any Indian language because Indians do not value time as much. Is the claim true? Watch the video to find out.
I don't know who else to tell this to, so I am going to tell my story here.
Every day is a struggle for a young business, but the last few months have been harder than usual.
We are a small Indian company. For more than ten years we have been building a homegrown brand in a product category dominated by big foreign players.
There are almost no Indian names in this space. We set out to be one.
We started in 2014. Over the years we began making parts in India instead of just importing, and we started selling in the US, Dubai, Nepal, Malaysia and South Africa.
We showed up at global trade fairs to represent an Indian brand on the world stage.
In 2023 we changed the import code we use for our product. We did not do this quietly. Every shipment was declared. Nothing was hidden. We didn't invent our approach.
We followed written professional advice and the way this product is treated in markets around the world.
And now we are facing a government demand running into tens of crores in duty recovery and penalties, plus personal penalties on the founders and even on an employee.
For a company our size, this is not a fine we can pay and move on from. This ends us.
We have not run from any of this. I am not built like that. It is not how I was raised. We have written to the authorities, met officials in person, and we have now filed a writ in the High Court.
All we are asking for is a fair treatment.
I set out to build in India and sell to the world. I am asking only that the system back honest founders trying to compete globally, instead of breaking them.
The process is the process, and it exists for a reason. But process should not feel like punishment.
From where I am standing today, it does.
I am not giving up. I have worked too hard for this. If you have read this far, please share it. If you know someone who can help, point them my way. Help me get the word out.
@might_offend@shub0414 'Who tf uses copilot ".... Statement show the lack of research on your part.
Most of the enterprises I know use it... Those are real paying customers.
Millions of young Indians are invested in the immediate, visible glory of Kohli/Gill lifting a trophy on a cricket field. This provides a vital, unifying sense of modern national pride & joy.
At the exact same micro-second, behind glowing laptop screens in Western universities, ideological historical revisionists are attempting to quietly pickpocket the very civilizational foundation (Bharat) & ethical cosmic framework (Dharma) that makes that modern nation possible.
In the Ramayan, when Vishwamitra takes Ram & Lakshman into the forest, it is not to fight a regular war b/w 2 armies. It is to protect a Yajna (a sacred ritual of knowledge & cosmic order) from invisible, shape-shifting subverters (Rakshasas) who corrupt the ritual from above. Ancient Indian statecraft recognizes 2 forms of national protection:
Civilizational Defense = Sastra-Bala (Physical/Economic Power) + Shastra-Bala (Intellectual/Narrative Power)
If a nation wins every trophy in the world but loses the argument over its own origins, it becomes a wealthy colony with no soul.
Much of the West’s religious heritage was shaped, directly or indirectly, by Indian thought transmitted through ancient trade networks.
From the 10th century BC, ships sailing from the Red Sea to India under the Hiram–Solomon maritime venture facilitated commercial exchange and intellectual and theological transmission. The Bhagavad Gita idea of the unity of the divine influenced the rise of Yahweh from minor deity to the main and eventually only Hebrew god.
Furthermore, Jain rejection of animal sacrifice influenced the decline of sacrificial practices across the Levant and eastern Mediterranean. Later, Buddhist ideas also traveled west. Under Chandragupta Maurya (c. 321–297 BC) and Ashoka (c. 268–233 BC), thousands of missionaries travelled the same trade routes. The doctrines they carried, asceticism, vegetarianism, the soul’s transmigration, reincarnation and pacifism, influenced far further.
These ideas resonated among Gnostics, Essenes, Manichaeans, Orphics, Pythagoreans, Druze and Neo-Platonists. The non-canonical Gospel of the Ebionites presents John the Baptist as a vegetarian, while parts in Genesis endorse plant-based sustenance.
Traditions surrounding Krishna and Indra include motifs later associated with Jesus: miraculous birth, celestial signs and wise men bearing gifts. Both Buddha and Jesus undergo wilderness fasts marked by temptation. Both advocate celibacy and renunciation of worldly wealth. In a Jataka, a Buddhist disciple walks on water. In another Buddha feeds 500 people with a piece of bread. Another resembles the prodigal son story.
Trinities within Vedic and later Hindu thought, Varuna–Mitra–Agni or Vaishnava–Shaiva–Krishna invite comparison with Christianity. Brahmanical substitution of rice cakes for human sacrifice parallels the Eucharist, where bread becomes Christ’s flesh. Brahmanical prohibitions against contact with raw flesh echoes in ritual restrictions imposed on Roman priests or flamens, probably derived from Brahmin. Krishna, Buddha and Christ were the result of virgin births. The word Christ is from Krishna or Krista. Indian ablution rituals spawned the idea of baptism, the idea of reincarnation became resurrection.
The Vedic “Om” became ‘Amen’. Devotion to Mary, mother of god, the Madonna is from Mata Nah, Our Mother, or the mother goddess. In Buddhist monasteries material gifts were linked to spiritual merit, copied by Christians. The idea of many divine manifestations emanating from a single ultimate reality resembles the hierarchical Christian God, Christ, the Holy Spirit, Mary, angels, saints, and martyrs. John1.1’s ‘In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God’ was a Vedic mantra.
Accelerating Indian maritime trade unintentionally brought Indian ideas, albeit re-moulded in transmission, which in Christian form eventually replaced European pagan religions, which themselves were originally Indian-influenced from thousands of years earlier.
BEFORE SLEEPING KNOW THIS...
FOR 15 YEARS, while most people escaped the summer heat, Harpal Singh Pali drove a tractor-tanker deep into the burning Shivalik Hills every alternate day carrying WATER for wild animals. As lakes dried and forests cracked under extreme heat, deer, wild boars, blue bulls, and peacocks began waiting for one sound — the arrival of his tractor.
Using his OWN MONEY, without donations or government support, Pali created and refilled 25 water holes across nearly 5 kilometres of forest so animals would not enter villages searching for water. Fuel prices increased. Maintenance costs rose. Still, he never stopped. He even dedicates 10% of his income to wildlife welfare.
One mother forbade medicines to the dying, converted them, then laughed at the death count; the other mother has provided free treatment to 5.9 million, built 13 million sqft, 95 OT, 101 speciality, 4050 bed hospitals employing 1540 doctors.
The first mother got the Nobel Prize.
@ShashiTharoor I guess that is why kerala is spiraling towards the bottom. In the realm of infrastructure, power and water it barely beats sub saharan countries.