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Bhagwanpura, also known as Baghpur, is a village in Kurukshetra district, Haryana, India. [1] It is an archaeological site that lies on the bank of Hakra Ghaggar channel. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Situated 24 km northeast of Kurukshetra , the site is notable for showing an overlap between the late Harappan and Painted Grey Ware cultures.
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In Professor Senarath Paranavithana's book The Story of Sigiri, King Dathusena is said to have taken the advice of the Persian Nestorian Priest Maga Brahmana on building his palace on Sigirya. According to Paranavithana, during this period over 75 ships carrying Murundi soldiers from Mangalore arrived in Sri Lanka and landed in Chilaw to ...
Bhagwanpura is a village in Jasrasar Tehsil of Bikaner District, Rajasthan, India. People residing in this village rely on agriculture, consisting of irrigated and non-irrigated farming. Demographics
Rakhigarhi or Rakhi Garhi is a village and an archaeological site in the Hisar District of the northern Indian state of Haryana, situated about 150 km northwest of Delhi.It is located in the Ghaggar River plain, [6] some 27 km from the seasonal Ghaggar river, and belonged to the Indus Valley civilisation, being part of the pre-Harappan (7000-3300 BCE), early Harappan (3300-2600 BCE), and the ...
Buddhaghosa was a 5th-century Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist commentator, translator and philosopher. [1] [2] He worked in the Great Monastery (Mahāvihāra) at Anurādhapura, Sri Lanka and saw himself as being part of the Vibhajjavāda school and in the lineage of the Sinhalese Mahāvihāra.
Archaeologist stated, the people of the Raksha tribe had lived in the area. They were human beings who worshiped the Rakshasas.The Sanskrit word raksha means devils and demons, in Sinhala ‘Rassayo’ or ‘Rakshayo’, the word raksha have become Rassa over the years and since then this mountain is called Rassa-gala(The devils/demons's mountain).
The origins of the early Sinhalese kings are the settlement of North Indian Indo-Aryan immigrants to the island of Sri Lanka.Sri Lankan historian Senarath Paranavithana suggests, and according to the story in the Divyavadana, the immigrants were probably not led by a scion of a royal house in India, as told in the romantic legend, but rather may have been groups of adventurous and pioneering ...