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Harappan Religion, Art and Craft.

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The development phases has took a turn in their religions, art and craft production. Some of these can be studied as follows. Religion The Harappan people workshipped female Goddesses. The workship of female Goddess associated with fertility has long being health as one of the major features of Harappan religion. There was a discovery of a large number of teracotta figurines laded as "Mother Goddesses" (Sakti) . The Harappan people also workshipped a Marry God represented as a stetite seal doscovered at Mohenjodaro . He is flanked by an Elephant, Rhinocerose, water Buffalo and Tiger . John Marshall saw a striking resemblences between thise deity and shiva of the later Hindu mythology. The Harappan people also practiced the workship of trees and animals . The Harappan seals, sealings, amulets and copper plates , depicts a number of trees , plants and animals , some of which have/had cultic significance. The Pipal tree appear often and may have been bener...
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Decline of the Mauryan Empire

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The Mauryan Empire being the first ever sub-continent empire have greatly attracted the Scholars attention on its aspects,from its rising to the decline of the Mauryan Empire. There is something almost dramatic in the way that the empire had decline after the dead of Ashoka , thus the decline was completed within half a century after the dead of Ashoka. The reasons given by historians and scholars were as conflicting as they were confusing .  Some of the causes for the decline of Mauryan empire were; Partition of the Mauryan Empire:  One of the major reason for the downfall of Mauryan Empire was the partition the had took place after the dead of Ashoka. The Empire was divided into two halves i.e. The Eastern and Western parts. Weakness of the King: After Ashoka had completly disrupted the Mauryan Administration the weeknesses of the kings were observed. The weekness of these kings can be imagined from the factual point that only Six(6) rulers could rule only 52 Ye...
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Sanskrit & English

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                                   -BY Richard Stoney    "First of all a great thanks to our philologist Mr. Richard Stoney for letting us build up a post of his great study art for a betterment for all of us,hope you make a great knowledge out of it. Once again, THANKS  A LOT" The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate the relationship between Sanskrit and English. To simplify matters, I will be using root-words and words in their purer forms. There will be no need to demonstrate every inflected form of a word. Words placed in parentheses are those English words derived from Sanskrit. Sometimes, there will be mention of words from other intermediary languages, serving as a demonstration of changes in spelling and pronunciation. Symbols used: "derived from" "resulting in" (a related word) Note: In Sanskrit and classical Latin, v is sometimes pronounced as w, whil...
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