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Two terracotta toys discovered at Nausharo. Sarasvati civilization. The wearing of the sindhur at the parting of the hair is over 4,500 years old. Hair is painted black. Jewelry painted golden. Sindhur is painted red. A stunning evidence that Sarasvati is the Mother of Hindu civilization.The Saraswati: The mother of Indian civilization. Inaugural address delivered on 24 October 2008 by Prof. BB Lal in the Conference on Vedic River Sarasvati and Hindu Civilization held at India International Centre, New Delhi
Sarasvati – Vedic River and Hindu Civilization by S. Kalyanaraman (2008)
Vedic River Sarasvati and Hindu Civilization (ed.) S. Kalyanaraman (2008) – Compendium of Papers presented at the Conference on the same subject held at at India International Centre, New Delhi between Oct. 24 to 26, 2008
Harappan and Mohenjo Daro civilizations were
extensions of Sarasvati or Vedic civilization : BB Lal Your sindhur is 3,000 years old By Kumar Chellappan Deccan
Chronicle, 1 November 2008 Sindhur, the uniq ue marking on the foreheads of Indian women,
dates back to the third millennium BC. Even during the early days of
civilisation women used to wear the sindhur or tilak on their foreheads,
excavations along the now defunct Saraswati river have proved. “The Indian woman had adorned
her forehead with sindhur as a symbol of marriage. This perhaps also indicated
the existence of a structural family life in an orderly society,” Prof BB Lal,
former director general, Archaeological Survey of India told Deccan Chronicle. “We came across the sindhur in
terracotta figurines from the sites along the states of Himachal Pradesh,
Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat. Carbon
dating confirmed the fact that these terracotta figurines date back to the
third millennium BC,” said Prof Lal. “Similarly the practice of
greeting one another with namaste and the criss-cross pattern of furrows on
farm lands, seen even today in Haryana and Rajasthan, date back to the
Saraswati era,” he said. The Harappan and Mohenjo Daro civilisations were only
extensions of the Saraswati or Vedic Civilisation, according to Prof Lal. “Since the excavations at Harappa and Mohenjo Daro happened simultaneously in 1920,
they are known as Harappan civilisations. But the Saraswati civilisation is
much older than that of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro,”
said Prof Lal. He said that linguistic
differences between the Saraswati civilisation and the one that existed in South India came to be known as the Aryan-Dravidian
divide. “In the third millennium BC, there was this southern Neolithic culture
in the region which later became the states of TN, AP and Karnataka,” said Prof
Lal an archaeologist of international repute. http://www.dc-epaper.com/DC/DCC/2008/11/01/ArticleHtmls/01_11_2008_005_007.shtml?Mode=0 Indian Peafowl Order: Galliformes Family: Phasianidae Genus/Species: Pavo cristata http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Birds/Facts/FactSheets/fact-peafowl.cfm
Celebrating Sarasvati as divinity of music and other arts
Metaphor: pavo cristatus, peacock.
Habitat: Sarasvati-Hindu civilization linguistic area
See peacock, peahen picture
See peacock dance video
See peacock cry video
Peacock cry: jeevan jeeva video
Depiction on a funerary urn as maraka 'peacock' rebus: 'death'; jeevan jeeva 'long live'.
See peacock-peafowl dance video
The Indian peacock, Pavo cristatus (Linnaeus), the national bird of India, is a
colourful, swan-sized bird, with a fan-shaped crest of feathers, a white patch
under the eye and a long, slender neck. Distribution and Habitat http://www.wildlife-tour-india.com/indian-wildlife/indian-peacock.html
National Insignia
The peacock is widely found in the Indian sub-continent from the south and east
of the Indus river,
Jammu and Kashmir, east Assam, south
Mizoram and the whole of the Indian peninsula. It is protected under the Indian Wildlife Protection) Act,
1972.
The Indian Peafowl occurs from eastern Pakistan
through India, south from
the Himalayas to Sri Lanka.
Though once common in Bangladesh,
it may now be extinct in that country. Its highly ornamental appearance
motivated early seafarers to transplant the peafowl to their homelands in other
parts of the western world. Phoenician traders in the time of King Solomon
(1000 BCE) introduced the birds to present-day Syria and the Egyptian Pharaohs.
In its native
India,
the peafowl is a creature of the open forests and riparian undergrowth. In
southern India,
it also prefers stream-side forests but may also be found in orchards and other
cultivated areas.
The Story of India- World's Oldest Civilization-Beginnings- Sarasvati River' (31 Oct. 2008)
Aryan invasion theory, proven false – India (December 28, 2007)
The video shows how the Britishers filled in an inferiority complex into the already sad post Moghul invaded India through their Aryan Invasion theory to convert all Indians into their culture and religion (Christianity).
A vast number of statements and materials presented in the ancient Vedic literatures can be shown to agree with modern scientific findings and they also reveal a highly developed scientific content in these literatures. The great cultural wealth of this knowledge is highly relevant in the modern world. Techniques used to show this agreement include:
- Marine Archaeology of underwater sites (such as Dvaraka)
- Satellite imagery of the Indus-Sarasvata River system
- Carbon and Thermoluminiscence Dating of archaeological artifacts Scientific Verification of Scriptural statements
- Linguistic analysis of scripts found on archaeological artifacts
A Study of cultural continuity in all these categories.
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