Gauri Shankar Temple
About
The
800 year old Gauri Shankar Temple is a Hindu temple and is located near
the Digambar Jain Lal Mandir on the main Old Delhi road in Chandni
Chowk. The Gauri Shankar Temple is dedicated to Lord Shiva and is one of
most significant temples of Shaivism. The temple has an 800 year old
brown Lingam (phallus stone) encased in a marble representation of a
female organ. The Lingam is surrounded by snakes made up of silver and
represents a cosmic pillar, the centre of universe or life.
According to history the temple was built by Apa Ganga Dhar, a
Maratha soldier who was a devotee of Lord Shiva. He was once severely
injured in a battle and chances of his survival were bleak. So, he
prayed to Lord Shiva requesting for his life and promised to build a
beautiful temple if he survived. He survived against all odds and
builder temple. His name is inscribed in hindi at the lower part of a
pointed pyramidal roof like construction near main entrance of the
temple. In 1959, Seth Jaipura renovated the temple and his name is
inscribed over the windows of the temple. Inside the temple, idols of
lord Shiva and his consort Parvati (Gauri-Shankar) and their two sons,
Ganesh and Kartik are present. The idols of Lord Shiva and Parvati,
wearing real gold jewellery are situated just behind the Lingham under
the silver canopy. The Lingham too has a silver water vessel above it
from which droplets of water continuously fall.
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Agriculture
and animal husbandry are the main economic activities of the district.
Oilseeds, sugarcane, cotton and food grains are the main crops that are
cultivated over here. Besides these, there are a large number of small
and large scale industries too.
laila majnu ki mazar
About
Layla
and Majnun is a love story that originated as a short, anecdotal poem
in ancient Arabia, later significantly expanded and popularized in a
literary adaptation by Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi who also wrote
Khosrow and Shirin. It is the third of his five long narrative poems,
Khamsa (the Quintet).
Qays and Layla fall in love with each
other when they are young, but when they grow up Layla’s father doesn't
allow them to be together. Qays becomes crazy about her and that's why
he's later given the name Majnun in his community. The epithet given to
the semi-historical character Qays ibn al-Mulawwah of the Banu 'Amir
tribe. Long before Nizami, the legend circulated in anecdotal forms in
Arabic akhbar. The early anecdotes and oral reports about Majnun are
documented in Kitab al-Aghani and Ibn Qutaybah's al-Shi'r wal-Shu'ara'.
The anecdotes are mostly very short, only loosely connected, and show
little or no plot development.
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Many
imitations have been contrived of Nizami's work, several of which are
original literary works in their own right, including Amir Khusrow
Dehlavi's Majnun o Leyli (completed in 1299), and Jami's version,
completed in 1484, amounts to 3,860 couplets. Two other notable
imitations are by Maktabi Shirazi and Hatefi (d. 1520), which became
popular in Ottoman Turkey and India. Sir William Jones published
Hatefi's romance in Calcutta in 1788. The popularity of the romance
following Nizami's version is also evident from the references to it in
lyrical poetry and mystical mathnavis—before the appearance of Nizami's
romance, there are just some allusions to Leyli and Majnun in divans.
The number and variety of anecdotes about the lovers also increased
considerably from the twelfth century onwards. Mystics contrived many
stories about Majnun to illustrate technical mystical concepts such as
fanaa (annihilation), divānagi (love-madness), self-sacrifice, etc.
Nizami's work has been translated into many languages.
Anupagad ka Kila
About
Asirgarh
Qila (Hindi: असीरगढ़ क़िला, Urdu: ) is an Indian fortress (qila)
situated in the Satpura Range, about 20 km north of the city of
Burhanpur, in Burhanpur District of Madhya Pradesh state. Because the
fortress commands a pass through the Satpuras connecting the valleys of
the Narmada and Tapti rivers, one of the most important routes from
northern India to the Deccan,it was known as the "key to the Deccan".
During Mughal Era, it was considered that Deccan starts from here: the
empire from Asirgarh to Delhi was considered as Hindustan. The fort was
built by Asa Ahir of the Ahir dynasty.
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The
ancient inscriptions in the Pali Buddhist character have been
discovered in various parts of Rajasthan of the race of Taxak or Tak,
Taka, Dhaka relating to the tribe Mori and Parmara are their
descendants. Taxak Mori was the lord of Chittor from very early period.
The Huna Kingdom of Sialkot (of Mihir
Kula 515–540 AD), destroyed by Yashodharman, was subsequently seized by a
new dynasty of kshatriyas called Tak. The Taxak Mori as being lords of
Chittor from very early period and few generations after the Guhilots
supplanted the Moris, this palladium of Hindu liberty was assailed by
the arms of Islam. (725-35) we find amongst the numerous defenders who
appear to have considered the cause of Chittor their own the Tak from
Asirgarh. This race appears to have retained possession of Asirgarh for
at least two centuries after this event as its chieftain was one of the
most conspicuous leaders in the array of Prithvi Raj. In the poems of
Chandar he is called the "Standard, bearer, Tak of Asir."
In 1536, the Mughal Emperor Humayun,
after his conquest of Gujarat, had visited Burhanpur and Asirgarh,
travelling via Baroda, Broach (Bharuch) and Surat. Raja Ali Khan
(1576–1596), also known as Adil Shah, was asked to submit to Akbar, when
the latter had sent an expedition to Khandesh, in the summer of 1577
A.D. The former, to avoid an unequal contest with Akbar, dropped his
royal title of "Shah" and pledged suzerainty to Akbar. This was a
significant achievement of the Mughals, for Khandesh was used as a base
for the future conquest of the Deccan. Raja Ali Khan constructed many
buildings: Jama Masjid in the upper portion of the fort of Asir in 1588,
Jama Masjid at Burhanpur in 1590, Idgah at Asir, mausoleums and serai
at Burhanpur, and serai and a mosque at Zainabad.
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