Amar Nath : At a height of 12,729 feet above sea level in the Lidder Valley (Kashmir), the cave considered to be the residing place of Lord Shiva and his wife, Parvati is an important pilgrim centre. Pilgrims throng the place annually on the full moon day in July!August to worship the holy ice lingam, which is believed to have spring up of itself. It is said that the lingam changes its size with t...

The construction of temples for the images of gods goes back perhaps to the second century B.C. They were built with perishable material. It was in the Gupta period that building with lasting materials began, such as dressed stone and brick.. The Gupta period marks the beginning of lndian temple architecture. Out of the initial experimentation two major styles evolved. Nagara and Dravida styles :...

Bhasa : Scholars variously place Bhasa as early as fourth century B.C. and as late as 10th century AD. he lived in the northern region. and created plays mainly on themes drawn from the Mahabharata and The Ramayana. In Madhyamavyayoga, a one - act play, Bhima is involved in a conflict with his son Ghatotkacha who is unaware of Bhima's identify; Urubhangam depicts the death of Duryodhana whose th...

Guru Arjun Dev : Fifth in the line of Sikh Gurus, and youngest son of Guru Ram Das, Guru Arjun Dev compiled the Adi Granth. He completed the construction of the holy tank begun by his father at Amritsar, besides gelling the Harmandir built Jahangir ordered his execution in 1606 at Lahore for having supported Prince Khusro who had rebelled against the Emperor, his father. Chaitanya : Viswambar Mis...

Advaita : Doctrine of monism 'No second' maintaining that the phenomenal universe with its multifariousness and the whole hierachy of being from the greatest of the gods downwards were not absolutely real, but were the secondary emanations of the one ultimate absolute being, the impersonal unchanging entity, Brahman, characterised by the three attributes of being (sat), consciousness (chtt), and...