I was under misconception that Maheshwar (ancient name Mahismati) was a pilgrimage like Omkareshwar. But after coming here I found that Parikrama pilgrims mandatorily visit this place in thousands to have pious darshan of Maratha Queen Ahilyabai who was revivor of the Hindu temples and religion which had severe onslaught from Muhammad Ghori to Aurangzeb […]
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Mandu – Spirit of Romantic Beauty
After a month of my trip to Mandu I sit and ponder or see in dreams I feel a full volume of history of Malwa passing through my eyes. Car streaming the paintings of dreamy green fields of rich Malwa and green hillocks passing like golden mounds of sweet beautiful desert. Scattered, poor but cleanly […]
Jantar Mantar – Ujjain past glory
A two hundred years historical observatory due to which Ujjain enjoyed a position of considerable importance in the field of astronomy in world.
Sanchi- A pride of Madhya Pradesh
April,2017 Sanchi a relic commissioned by Ashoka whose wife Devi belonged to Vidisha which is 20 KM from Sanchi. It was my second visit. First visit was in Sep,1989. Really speaking I had a wish to see Pyramids of Egypt and this desire was fulfilled for me and I got the same proud of feeling […]
Ujjain- A passage to Holiness
Today Ujjain abounds in temples and traditions and legends are still even today attached to each of them. But it is true that mostly (almost all) are built upon sites of antiquity and none have survived in original now. Desecration and despoiling time and time again , the structures that stand today are more of recent dates, renovated or rebuilt.
Bhojpur temple- Somnath of East
just impresses that how much efforts our ancestors did to carry forward and spread their faith in Hindu religion and this temple I feel is one more stone to prove why Hindu religion is Sanatan (eternal).