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Spacemac Junior Artist Username: Spacemac Post Number: 390 Registered: 05-2012 Posted From: 49.37.153.212 Rating: N/A |
Ok Royal bro | ||
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one thread open and enjoy there @space ji | ||
Spacemac Junior Artist Username: Spacemac Post Number: 387 Registered: 05-2012 Posted From: 49.37.153.90 Rating: N/A |
Don't you see a parallel, once buddhism was overflowing then hinduism became the change, now if you recognise all the muslims in our region were also changed from hindus only, similarly indonesia or pakistan. Yet this is the truth they strongly believe that they are muslims, don't we see a parallel that we feel the same. The support for this is preciousness of our faith. Only difference in our circumstances is hinduism came before buddhism so we can consider that as a revival. This same kind of manner out parents and elders and community folks tell mahesh is bad or ntr is bad or bala is bad or cbn is bad etc. And then we start seeing and believing through that lense. India in ancient days was not dependent on these subjects, it was dependent on the idea of centre of learning, knowledge, discovery and wisdom, spirituality, bhakti, shraddha, veena, vaani etc In that magnitude all these other matters seem trivial and got washed away. But we gave prominence to sects instead of learning and made ourselves get carried away. So only I wish to share my experience that tells all these are not so important but to see each other as friends is more important | ||
Spacemac Junior Artist Username: Spacemac Post Number: 386 Registered: 05-2012 Posted From: 49.37.153.90 Rating: N/A |
We live like red Indians, edo valmiki, vyasa mariu buddha lanti valla valla ee matram nilbaddam invasions ki, lekapothey antey sangatulu. | ||
Spacemac Junior Artist Username: Spacemac Post Number: 385 Registered: 05-2012 Posted From: 49.37.153.90 Rating: N/A |
We have a lot to learn from each other and support each other, we do not see the interdependence of each of us so only we divide ourselves in name of multiple castes and sects. After you hear my insights, you will also saa the same friends, not knowing this inni rojulu kottukunnama ani anukuntaru | ||
Spacemac Junior Artist Username: Spacemac Post Number: 384 Registered: 05-2012 Posted From: 49.37.153.90 Rating: N/A |
The past is gone, the future is not arrived yet, the present is the only thing we can experience. So only I wish to share my experience with you as it is more relevant for all of us friends. There was a time I was also very proud of past heritage, I learnt something more important than all of it and want to share with you all. | ||
Spacemac Junior Artist Username: Spacemac Post Number: 383 Registered: 05-2012 Posted From: 49.37.153.90 Rating: N/A |
When Alexander Rea, Superintending Archaeologist for Madras (Archaeological Survey of India), arrived in the village of Bhattiprolu, in what is today Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, in 1892, he surveyed the mound known as ‘Lanjha Dibba’ just outside the village. Rea realised that he was looking at the collapsed and battered remnant of a massive brick stupa and that the site of Bhattiprolu was an ancient Buddhist monastic location. What he did not know then was that his work at the site would be path-breaking. Bhattiprolu, as it turned out, is the earliest stupa in South India, predating the reign of Emperor Ashoka by a hundred years. What’s more, the inscriptions here bore the earliest references to the Dravidian script. They have since helped rewrite the history of the Telugu and Kannada scripts, and take back the arrival of Brahmi in a form conducive to writing Dravidian scripts back to the 2nd century BCE, if not the 4th century BCE. Each of these findings marked a significant milestone in the study of India’s past. Buddhism in Eastern India Eastern India, especially the Andhra coast, was a very active, trade-driven coastline between the 4th century BCE and 1st century CE. Right from the inscriptions of Ashoka (3rd-2nd century BCE), we have mention of this region and a large number of Buddhist sites dotting modern Andhra Pradesh. There is an equal number of ports and monastic complexes, often both rolled into one, as seen at Thotalakondam near Vishakapatnam. The Kuras, Chutus, Andhras, Satavahanas and Ikshavakus were dynasties that ruled this region from the 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE, and they all appear to have been great patrons of Buddhism. As you can see from the map below, there is a legion of Buddhist monastic centres strewn down the length of Andhra Pradesh. The first serious archaeological work done anywhere in Southern India followed the surveys of noted cartographer Colin Mackenzie, who first marked and described the site of Amaravati in 1816. This was the site of the first Buddhist stupa recognised in Southern India. Today, it is a world-renowned Buddhist site. Mackenzie was an officer of the East India Company and became India’s first Surveyor General. His surveys of Southern India used locals, interpreters, scholars and priests to add to his understanding of the toposcape. He was the first person to make detailed maps of Southern India, and his interest in Ancient India led to the careful surveying of thousands of monuments for the first time. His work was an invaluable resource to later historians and archaeologists. – The archaeological sites of Salihundam, Guntupalli, Gudivada, Ghantasal, Bhattiprolu, Amaravati, Jaggayyapeta and Nagarjunkonda are some of the jewels in the crown of Andhra Pradesh’s Buddhist architectural and sculptural heritage. These sites form a chain down the length of Andhra Pradesh, from the Odisha border in the north to the Andhra-Telangana border south of Hyderabad. This region boasts rock-cut caves, Buddhist stupas, chaityas, viharas and monastic complexes. Buddhism had reached this region well before the reign of Ashoka as is evidenced from local texts like the Sutta Nipata (‘collection of suttas’). Buddhist religious texts tell us that Buddhism reached Andhra during the lifetime of the Buddha (5th to 4th century BCE) while this region was ruled by a king called Sujatha. By the time of Ashoka, Buddhism already had a firm foothold in what are now Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Nagarjuna (150-250 CE), one of the most well-known Buddhist saints/sages, was from Amaravati. He was a great Mahayana proponent and supposedly 14th in a line of monks from the Buddha himself. He articulated the concept of Shunyata and was the chief proponent of the Madhyamika Marga, the Middle Path, which was central to the Mahayana doctrine. Amaravati, very close to Bhattiprolu, according to the great Buddhist scholar Dr Akira Shimada (of the State University of New York), was built in three phases: first in the 3rd century BCE, then in the 1st-century BCE-CE, and finally in the 2nd and early 3rd century CE. Alexander Rea, the excavator of Bhattiprolu and Ghantasal, was of the opinion that Bhattiprolu was stylistically earlier than Amaravati. This would put it in the 4th-3rd century BCE, thus making it one of the earliest Buddhist sites in all of Dakshinapatha. | ||
Spacemac Junior Artist Username: Spacemac Post Number: 382 Registered: 05-2012 Posted From: 49.37.153.90 Rating: N/A |
But for meore important than these is to share my experience with all of you and I guarantee you it has no favouritism towards buddhism or hinduism or and specific religion. I it just normal meditation related without any religiousity. | ||
Spacemac Junior Artist Username: Spacemac Post Number: 381 Registered: 05-2012 Posted From: 49.37.153.90 Rating: N/A |
Lord Buddha is an historical person lived during 563 482 BC. The recorded history of Amaravati and nearby Dharanikota dates back to the 5th Century BC. Amaravathi was the capital of Satavahanas, who ruled from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd Century AD. The Satavahanas were notable for their patronage of both Buddhism and Hinduism. The most important historic monument in Amaravathi is the Mahachaitya, where Buddha's Holy Relics were found, which is protected by the Archaeological Survey of India and has a site museum known as the Old Museum. | ||
Spacemac Junior Artist Username: Spacemac Post Number: 380 Registered: 05-2012 Posted From: 49.37.153.90 Rating: N/A |
Interestingly, the fact that Uttara Andhra was a part of the Kalingan Empire did not in any way hinder the way in which Buddhism spread, and Sri Lankan texts like the Chulavagga often refer to ports on the Andhra coast. Buddhism only declined in the Andhra region after the rise of the Pallava dynasty and their patronage of Shaivism in the late 3rd century CE. The stupa at Bhattiprolu once stood at least 30-40 feet high. It had an anda (dome) placed on a drum, which bore a pradakshinapatha (path of circumambulation) and at one time at least the drum if not the whole stupa was clad in marble slabs very much like the maha stupa at Amaravati. Sadly, Alexander Rea arrived at the site well after the stupa had been partially dismantled and the cladding removed, and all we have are the observations of Mr Norris, the Assistant Engineer, to describe the stupa as it appeared in 1870, when he was responsible for damaging it. Norris wanted to reuse the large, well-made bricks for road-building, and the marble slabs were uprooted and used to make an irrigation sluice in the town of Vellatur, now a nearby village. The digging revealed two stone caskets. One of them contained a terracotta vessel, within which was a smaller, crystal vessel with gold foil, seed pearls and ashes. Sadly, the caskets were broken on site and the terracotta vessel soon followed suit. The crystal vial was taken to London. All seemed to be lost and there seemed to be no need for further intervention. But, in 1892, Alexander Rea, who was a dogged, determined and systematic archaeologist, decided to give it another go. Rea realised that the most important reliquaries would be at the base of the stupa and the central portion seemed relatively undisturbed. He began clearance activities and realised straightaway that the base of the Bhattiprolu Stupa was larger than the one at Amaravati. The base of the stupa had been raised and 8 feet below was the basement on which once stood a marble rail, of which only a few small fragments had survived. This was a revelation as a vedika (typical railing seen around a Buddhist stupa) was not known to have existed here. As the excavations continued, more interesting finds were made including fragments of a marble umbrella that would have once topped the stupa. A number of pilaster fragments with low relief sculptures also started appearing. Rea then discovered half of a large panel that would have been seen at the drum of the stupa. Stylistically it was identical to the early stupas seen at Jaggayyapeta (see map) and Ghantasala. Interestingly, large numbers of railing pillar bases were found and the gap between the pillars is almost half of that seen at Amaravati. Despite this, what could be reconstructed was that the Bhattiprolu Stupa in its heyday was very similar to the Amaravati Stupa, although it was of an earlier design and it had been covered in a veneer of marble slabs (at least around the drum), it had a marble vedika, and a marble umbrella(s). Bhattiprolu Reliquaries – Buddha’s Mortal Remains Rea then excavated what appeared to be a central shaft of the Bhattiprolu Stupa. Careful excavation of this shaft revealed three intact additional votive caskets made of stone, each containing an inner casket, within which was seen a crystal reliquary with jewels and relics. The most important of these was a reliquary containing the sharirika-dhatu (bodily remains) of the Buddha himself. That these were relics of the Buddha was clearly stated by an inscription on the casket containing these relics. This was a very remarkable find as actual relics of the Buddha had hitherto never been found this far south. Rea then spoke to a number of local craftsmen who had helped in reshaping the marble slabs to make the Vellatur sluiceway. Surprisingly, they said there was very little or no sculptural representation on the panels. A number of fragmentary panels, some bearing partial reliefs and a few pillar/rail members, all in marble, were also recovered by Rea during the excavations. Rea also noticed an archaeological mound to the east of Lanjha Dibba and recorded a Jaina image being worshipped by the local Brahmins as Muneeshawara. He also carried out excavations at the stupa at Ghantasala (see map). Fragment of a marble casing slab from Bhattiprolu Maha Stupa after Alexander Rea (1894) Fragment of a marble casing slab from Bhattiprolu Maha Stupa after Alexander Rea (1894) A marble slab from Ghantasala very similar to the one from Amaravati (now in the British Museum) excavated by Alexander Rhea (1894) A marble slab from Ghantasala very similar to the one from Amaravati (now in the British Museum) excavated by Alexander Rhea (1894) The Bhattiprolu Script On his discovery of the caskets in Bhattiprolu, Rea did not immediately realise their uniqueness and importance. All the caskets had been inscribed in Brahmi, with inscriptions ranging from the 3rd to the 1st century BCE. These were the oldest, clearly dateable Brahmi inscriptions in Southern India when they were discovered. They are still the earliest with the exception of the Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions discovered in Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka) and inscribed potsherds from excavated sites like Kodumanal (Erode District of Tamil Nadu). The Bhattiprolu script, though, is not the same as the Tamil-Brahmi script but is a variant of northern Brahmi with some parts of Tamil-Brahmi woven into its alphabet. That said, it is not ‘near identical’ to northern or Ashokan Brahmi either. A number of letters of the alphabet in the Bhattiprolu script are radically different, while a couple of others appear to be unique. | ||
Scorpio Megastar Username: Scorpio Post Number: 26635 Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 170.167.195.0 Rating: N/A |
A 1,357-year-old record of Guntur The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has confirmed the earliest known epigraphical reference to Guntur in copper plates issued in 669 CE by Eastern Chalukya King Vishnuvardhana-II. The plates refer to Guntur as ‘Kumturu’, tracing the evolution of the name: Kumturu --> Gomturu --> Gunturu --> Guntur Sanskrit, written in Archaic Telugu script Now in private possession in Pune Magha Shuddha 15, during a lunar eclipse (c. Jan 22, 669 CE) https://x.com/AndhraNexus/status/2093258059388952778  Nagarjuna Sagar...SriSailam...Polavaram...Handri-Neeva...SomaSila...ThotaPalli...VeliGonda...PuliChintala..etc | ||
Bitter Hero Username: Bitter Post Number: 17726 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 99.27.144.66 Rating: N/A |
GOOD job.. ongole zamindar swatantraaniki munde 4 times munciple chair gaa chesina Rajabahdur Varada Sriramula naaidu gaaru, Garikapati varalakshmi singer, actress, director, producer gaarlu amayakaulu.. SC llo goppa kavulu kalarulani gurthinchaaru.. Kalekuri prasad di prakasam jilla kaadu kanchikicherla, krishna jilla.. Bandaru ramarao garu great stage artist, paidi theresh babu, mallavarapu john.. katti chadrayya maadiga gaaru first SC IAS.. aayana intilo ippudu 8 civil servants vunnaru 3rd generation. Good job TDP. https://youtu.be/Fj-aFQxPDHY?t=212 | ||
Scorpio Megastar Username: Scorpio Post Number: 26634 Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 174.165.215.137 Rating: N/A |
Ongole Gitta https://x.com/JaiTDP/status/2093262531670507829/photo/4 Gorantla Venkanna https://x.com/JaiTDP/status/2093262612779684012/photo/3 Nagabhairava Koteswara Rao https://x.com/JaiTDP/status/2093262650629394802/photo/1 Bhanumathi Rama Krishna https://x.com/JaiTDP/status/2093262688709382376/photo/3 Garikapati Varalakshmi https://x.com/JaiTDP/status/2093262688709382376/photo/4 BVL Narayana https://x.com/JaiTDP/status/2093262723698311386/photo/2 Narapa Reddy https://x.com/JaiTDP/status/2093262723698311386/photo/3  Nagarjuna Sagar...SriSailam...Polavaram...Handri-Neeva...SomaSila...ThotaPalli...VeliGonda...PuliChintala..etc |