indic bull

आज के  'गोलकुंडा' (हैदराबाद, तेलंगाना) को प्राचीन काल में 'किष्किंधा' कहा जाता था, जो रामायण में प्रसिद्ध रूप से वर्णित एक राज्य था जहां पहले वानर राजा बाली और फिर सुग्रीव ने शासन किया था।

रोमन सभ्यता में विलासिता को प्रदर्शित करने के लिए रोमन लोग दावत का आयोजन करते थे, जहाँ अपनी कुलीन स्थिति को साबित करने के लिए वे इतना अधिक खाते थे कि अपना पेट खाली करने के लिए उन्हें बीच-बीच में उल्टी करने के लिए ब्रेक लेना पड़ता था, ताकि फिर से अधिक भोजन खा सकें। उल्टी के लिए कमरा विशेष रूप से बनाया जाता था और इसे वोमिटोरियम (Vomitorium) कहा जाता था।

भारत माता की यह अनमोल पेंटिंग पहली बार 1870 में ऋषि बंकिम चंद्र द्वारा चित्रित की गई थी। बाद में अवनीन्द्रनाथ टैगोर ने 1905 में बंगाल विभाजन के दौरान इस पेंटिंग को फिर से चित्रित किया और प्रसिद्ध बना दिया। क्रांतिकारियों के मन में माँ भारती की जीवंत छवि के रूप में यह पेंटिंग थी।

'CHHATH' is a festival of Bharat in which Sun with his wives Usha & Pratyusha is worshipped. It first started in Satyuga when  Sukanya, the wive of Chyavan Rishi, kept the 'vrat' of Chhath for curing her husband from a curse of leprosy. Their Ashram was in Son Ghati in Bihar.

The Hope diamond is known to be the largest blue diamond in the world. It weighs 45.52 carats (9.104 g; 0.3211 oz). It was removed  from a sculpted statue of a Goddes from an ancient temple of Bharat by some foreigner.The stolen diamond from Bharat was taken to France. Finally, King Louis XIV of France bought it from a French traveller in 1668, before re-cutting it and surrounding it with other diamonds.     It was stolen in 1792 and re-cut with the largest section of the diamond appearing under the name 'The Hope' in an 1839 gem catalogue from the Hope banking family. The diamond then went through many owners.Then, in 1949 New York gems merchant Harry Winston purchased it. After owning for 9 years he donated it in 1958 to the Smithsonian Museum in the United States, for exhibition,where one can see it at present.

Interesting facts about Tropic of Cancer (Kerk Rekha)   in Bharat ○The latitude approximately  23°27′ N of  the terrestrial equator is called tropic of cancer. ○It passes through 8 states in Bharat. ○It divides Bharat into almost 2 parts.  ○It is the only latitude which passes through Bharat.

The Dal Lake in Srinagar is famous for its sorrounding heavenly landscape and 'shikaras'.But do you know it has a unique "Floating Post Office".Though Bharat has world's largest network of Post offices of more than 1.5 lakhs yet it is first of its kind. The post office works on a large floating 'shikara'.It has a unique philately museum & a shop that sells postage stamps,pictures & books on Kashmir.The post office also provides tourists to call and email their friends all across the world. Another unique feature of this post office is that the letters which are posted from here carry a special design with pictures of scintillating landscapes of the Dal Lake and other Srinagar attractions.People love to post letters to their home & friends to be kept as souvenir.The museum in the post office showcases its history and several fascinating postage stamps.

The grand wall of Kumbhalgarh fort which covers the boundary of the entire fortress is considered to be the longest wall in the world right after 'The Great Wall of China'. It is famous as 'The Great Wall of India'. The wall stretches over a distance of 36 km. It is 15 m wide which is wide enough for eight horses to walk abreast. The Kumbhalgarh Fort wall is constructed by using the stone bricks and passes through the valleys of the Aravali ranges and ends at the top of the Aravali hill.  Under the reign of Mewar kings in Rajasthan, the majestic Kumbhalgarh fort and the Great Wall was built by Rana Kumbha in the 15th century between AD 1443 and 1458 under the direction of Mandan who was a very renowned architect of that time. Inside the Great Wall many magnificient architecture of Rajputana style is located like Badal Mahal (Palace of Cloud), a famous Shiva Temple etc. The Fort is birth place of the Legendary Rajput King Maharana Prat

ब्रह्म कमल or Brahma Kamal is rare divine celestial flower native to the high altitudes of Himalayas in Uttarakhand of Bharat. ब्रह्म कमल or Brahma Kamal in celestial realm emerges from the navel of Lord Vishnu. On this divine flower Lord Brahma sits and creates. It was given to Lord Shiva to bring Lord Ganesha back to his life. By the elixir of the  ब्रह्म कमल or Brahma Kamal, he placed elephant's head on Ganesha's body. Then the seeds of the flower fall on the land around Himalayas from mountain Kailasa (Shiva's abode) and it started growing thereafter on Himalayas. The flowers blooms once in a year between July to August and only for one night.  Anyone who sees it blooming, gets his wish fulfilled. It has many rare medicinal properties and a person who has a knowledge of mysterious traditional Ayurveda (ancient Vedic medicine system) can use it to prepare Elixir.