Dāsānudāsa | दासानुदास.

Ashoka , known to be one of the greatest kings of India, has many theories and anecdotes running around him. One of these is that the great king adopted Buddhism after waging war against  Kalinga and killing thousands of innocent women and kids in it. A movie based on Ashoka, made by Shahrukh Khan, also depicted the same.  This same fact remains in almost all of the textbooks. But does this represent truth? Historical facts say not so much. When asked by people as to why and over what facts NCERT had mentioned that Aurangzeb granted funds to build temples NCERT drew a blank face. The same situation lies in almost of these left peddled facts and figures put up in NCERT textbooks. Let us now have a look on to the fact of embracing of Buddhism by Ashoka. In the book  Old World encounters : cross-cultural contacts and exchanges in pre-modern times by  Jerry H. Bentley in 1949 it is evident that Asoka was already a Buddhist when he waged war on Kalinga.  Deepavamsa ...

W hen  Vikramaditya (विक्रमादित्य) strolling across the jungles of the lost city of Ayodhya, which once stood in glory but lost it overtime, found tirthraja Prayag there. Asking for the reason as to why he was there, he came to know that Prayag , washing the sins since generations now wished to let it away in this pious land. Lost in time, the city of Ayodhya needed revival. For which Prayag directed Vikramaditya to find a cow and calf and let them wander. The place where the cow gives milk itself will be the actual position of Ayodhya Janmabhumi . Mentioned by many historians and folk tales Vikram constructed many Temples along with the main temple of Ayodhya destroyed by Babur in 1528. Though there are variations as to which Vikramaditya actually discovered Ayodhya (there are numerous of kings who assumed the title), the two top contenders are Skandagupta and the OG Chandragupta Vikramaditya of Ujjain with the later being more authentic (being the older). The reason for ...