Saturday, August 16, 2014

NALANDA, was a learning hub......

The history of Nalanda goes back to 6th century B.C. The place rose into prominence in 5th A.D. century.

 Various subjects like theology, grammar, logic, asteonomy, mataphysics, medicine and philisiphy were taught here.
Historical sources indicate that the University had a long and illustrious life which lasted almost continually for 800 years from the fifth to the twelfth century CE.

It was a completely residential university with over 2,000 teachers and 10,000 students.The profound knowledge of the Nalanda teachers attracted scholars from places as distant as China, Korea, Japan, Tibet, Mongolia, Turkey, Sri Lanka and South East Asia. These scholars have left records about the ambience, architecture and learning of this unique university. The most detailed accounts have come from Chinese scholars and the best known of these is Xuan Zang who carried back many hundred scriptures which were later translated into Chinese.
Close to the end of the twelfth century Nalanda was destroyed by invaders

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

The Protector.... Somnath

Somnath means "The Protector of (the) Moon god"It is said that the somnath temple was raided and  destroyed many times by Islamic kings and rulers
And was rebuilt again and again...Most recently it was rebuilt in November 1947

It lies in the southern most end of IndiaThe present temple is built in the Chalukya style of temple

Friday, January 3, 2014

One of it's kind.... Vintage car museum.


IN outskirts of Ahmedabad (gujrat, IND) there is a vintage car museum. The place certainly has a wide variety of cars  - some more than 100+ yrs old. amazing collection for car India best and biggest car Museum. you can find vintage cars from 1927. Almost all model and all brands are covered. This collection of 113 to 126 vintage cars dating back from the model -T ..all in working condition and aesthetically displayed .