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My first article in
City life in ancient Madurai by a Sangam Age Tamil poet. It is written in the pov of the poet as he sees the Madurai of the 2nd century BCE, very similar to the original Tamil Sangam literature texts.
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Astronomy in Classical India. India in 5th century CE. Details in my facebook for Illustrated Encyclopedia of Indian History Volume 1 book project.
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Destruction of Nalanda by Baktiyar Khilji's army.
Lest we forget.
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Cat doing yoga in 8th century Tamil Nadu !
Bhagīrata meditation panel, 8th century Pallava art, Mahabalipuram.
The cat seems to deceive the mice by doing fake yoga !
#internationaldayofyoga
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@GemsOfINDOLOGY
This is from Sringeri Vidhyashankara temple of Karnataka. The fish is Matsyavatar. It is on a different side. The left side is Shiva as Tripurantaka. The tip of the arrow has Vishnu, the bow is Meru, String is Vasuki. He is destroying the 3 cities of Asuras ( ānava, karma, māya )
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I once edited Wikipedia and added "the great" to Chandra Gupta Maurya. Within 10 mins or so they removed it because it doesn't have a source. So I went to Alexander of Macedonia 's page and asked for the source of "the great" and told "by whom ?". Wiki somehow found some obscure+
@CultChron
@PrasunNagar
@Shamana40185761
@baekartoot_
Alexander certainly doesn't deserve "the great" title!! Much of Alexander-mania is the result of a classical phenomenon called "Alexander Romanticism" which was a Greek response to Roman Conquest of Greece- "like look we conquered the world before" also..
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The Devi shrine within the Darasuram Airavadeshwarar Temple Complex. Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu. Chola Architecture built by Raja Raja Chola II in 12th century CE ( 1146 - 1173 CE ). Pinnacle of Chola Art.
Pic : Madhu Jagadish
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Simhavishnu with his queens: sculpture found in Adivaraha mandapam in Mahabalipuram. Made by his grandson, Narasimhavarman I (630–668).
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Launching my YouTube channel today ! Full video in the link ;
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1. Demetrius (I) with elephant-crown, a well-known symbol of India, which simply denotes his conquests in India (sic). Inscription from kanchi vaikunta perumal temple mentions when the royal council met the Cambodian king in 6th century to get a king for the pallava Dynasty...
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Part 3 of AI creations accompanying Thiruthondatogai song of 8th century, describing the hagiographic accounts of the life of Shiva devotees of Tamil Nadu. I will post 1 and 2 soon.
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Surkh Kotal, Afghanistan, Dynastic Sanctuary of King Kanishka, Kushan Period 2nd Century AD (created with Luca Maria Olivieri)
From : Archaeology illustrated.
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PoomPuhar a classical Tamil city from 100 CE showing
Harbour + Maruvūrpākkam + Market square. the Pattinampākkam or the citadel I did seperately. This is a rough sketch I did based on the sangam and post sangam Tamil literature like Silappathikaram. My idea of a classical ++
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This happened around the beginning of the 3rd century CE in ancient Tamilkam. Most probably during the lifetime of Buddhist nun Manimekalai.
Karikala Chola had as many as 9 sons and they were all rivaling each other. One of them was Māvalatthān. He had a good friendship +
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Today Ashada month's Ardra nakshatra - 1053rd Birthday of Rajendra Chola, the Magnificent! He brought the waters of Ganga to his newly built temple at Vikarama Cholapuram later called as Gangai konda Cholapuram. Conqueror of South East Asia
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1.The Gop temple dedicated to Surya by Maitrakas between 570-600 CE. This is late Gupta period.
Until this period we see only gsvakshas ( large Nāsi kūdu ) Gupta temples too have only array of gsvakshas simplistic to over-decorated in the hāra portions and no kūta or shāla ...
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Pataliputra too might have looked something like this.
Full virtual reconstruction of Imperial Rome, Italy
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@lndica02
There must be one more, with some more intricate work on the border of the kurta near the neck.
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All the so-called encyclopaedia of world history books allocate exactly two pages for India. There you will have a Buddha a nataraja, Ashoka emblem and a Sanchi Stupa that's it. Answer to that is the illustrated encyclopaedia of Indian history project. Please see the pinned post
Even after being part of Asia we read almost nil Asian History.
Our World history is focused on the "Civilised" western world. Sad!
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@PrasunNagar
Did they physically make roads like the Romans did? Shilpa shastras give the rules briefly but do we have any other evidence ? Like they laid bricks and covered them with lime mortar and made roads ?
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Today birthday of Chola Queen mother and royal matriarch Sembiyan Mādevi. AI generated image of her in different ages. She was active in building and renovating lot of Tamil temples. Costumes reference from Ponniyin Selvan novel.
#PonniyinSelvan2
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Sources and added that immediately! How clever they are !
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This is incredible!
Famous Shloka of 'Devi Mahatmya' (Markandeya Purana) was found in the late Gupta inscription at the 'Dadhimati mata' temple in Rajasthan , inscription is dated to 608 AD
सर्व मङ्गल माङ्गल्ये शिवे सर्वार्थ साधके ।
शरण्ये त्रम्वके गौरी नारायणी नमोस्तुते।।
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Sanchi Mahavihara, the Great monastery of Sanchi in the 1St century CEor earlier.
The Great Stupa at Sanchi is one of the oldest stone structures in India, and an important monument of Indian Architecture. It was originally commissioned by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka.
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Megasthenis' brother Dickesthenis came to Pakistan shortly after 300 BCE and wrote a now lost text called "Pakistanika". Jinnah came into my dreams and told this.
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@MumukshuSavitri
Samudra griha is more like an underground bed chamber surrounded by water like a pond. You have steps to go inside which is kind of an Air conditioned room, as the sides of the room upto the surface are surrounded by water. Romans had another technique to heat the room.
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Satavahana fans please help me out. Which exactly is the capital of Satavahanas ? Is it Amaravati, Prathishthan or Paudanyapura ? Which is the correct evidence for this ?
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Surpanaka speaks of Rama and lakshmana wearing black buck deer skin clothing. "Tarunou, rūpasampannou, sukumārou, mahābhalou, pundarīka vishālākshou, chīra Krishnājina - ambarou"
Ajina is the piece of deer skin that is worn in the Vedic tradition, it's a traditional clothing of those who perform Yajna
Young Brahmins who are initiated in Upanayana wear Ajin-Yajnopavita which is made of deer skin
Often Bodhisattvas are depicted with Ajina and Yajnopavita
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@IndiaArtHistory
@ParulSinhadel
The glory and greatness of Indian history in detailed Visuals from the origins. This detailed accuracy Visuals is not possible to create in AI or digital art, if we need historical accuracy. For example the sanchi monastery would have looked like this. This level of detailing+
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@TMahrattas
@Devasakha
Yes because of the conversion of Hoysala king by Ramanujacharya. He became vishnu vardhana and built a series of vishnu temples
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@GemsOfINDOLOGY
The dhyana shloka of goddess Revati in a Buddhist tantra text called Manjushri-mula-kalpa says that the deity's upper garment is to be painted in the same red colour as of the lower garment. The text is dated earlier to 6th century CE. So somewhere between 4-7th CE things changed
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1/n "Buddhist railing"
The standard upsc type history readers keep saying the railing design found in Sanchi and Bharhut Stupas as "Buddhist railing". I don't know who started using this term first. Is it James Ferguson? But history enthusiasts identify anything with that...
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The Sapta Sindhavah of Vedas later in the expanded understanding included the rivers of India, the Vara pritivya is the land of the bharata kings which became the name for subcontinent, their patron deity Bhārati became Bharata mata which is synonymous with Durga. The Vedic...
Shit refutation. There is no selfdesignation as hindu in the veda, NONE. Your 'hindu' national-ideology has apropriated the veda to fit YOUR imaginary definition of later origin. It is a shit argument. Maybe you should change you username to 'Hindu'?
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AI generated temples are really cool ! ❤️
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@SinghSavita111
@Rudraharyana
If we fix our hygiene standards, make bureaucracy efficient, fix our population issue and have a good civic sense from all classes of economy suddenly we will start receiving good respect, even otherwise we don't have to bother what other brown skin hatred they hold for us.
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Recreating history!
Astronomy in classical India
It requires this much of work and many hours of discussion to convert text to ond awesome painting! One picture really do speak 1000 words !
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1/11 Hello and Namaste,
For all the problems of modern India -be it inefficient bureaucracy or poor health care systems,the way to solve all of them is to inspire young minds by getting them learn about Bharat of the ancient past!
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Prehistoric India to 1000 B. C
by Stuart Piggott
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May be few decades later, we might build a temple or two on the Moon with Earth in the background night sky !
Chandreshwarar - Chandrambika temple !
Midjourney creation.
#chandrayaan3mission
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It is a silver peacock. That went missing. Yes, an entire peacock sculpture made of silver. It's not some silver spoon or a lota. It is a peacock ! Imagine the loot.
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1. Shuba Onam to all of you ! Onam was celebrated in ancient Tamil Nadu with much fervor and festivities just like in today's Kerala. As a matter of fact today's Kerala was a part of ancient Tamil Nadu.
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@Rudraharyana
Half of it is plain hatred of brown skin and multiple gods. The remaining half is about hygiene and over population.
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6th century BCE would be perfect to shut everybody's mouth
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I wish ,One Inscription In Brahmi Dating Back to 4/5th CE BCE where Vedas , Ramayana And Mahabharat will Come Out .. Hope
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Slowly Bingāchārya is making the vaulted roof buildings. Otherwise it's next to impossible.
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@yajnadevam
They carry the entire blackbuck with its head and horns ?! I thought it was just the skin.
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That's how H genocide usually begins
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In the sacred realm of my mind's design,
A temple for you, Mother I build,
Carved from dreams and devotion pure,
Every thought, an offering, I assure.
Within these walls of imagination's might,
Love's shrine gleams in the gentle moon's glow.
Columns of trust and pillars of grace+
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Today, Aadi month Thiruvadirai Nakshatram.
1052nd Birthday of emperor Sri Rajendra Chola, the magnificent.
The relief sculptures of him along with his chief queen is found in Thiruvārur and Mānabādi temples.
He is the Tamil-Bharatiya king who ruled southeast Asia in 11th century
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it looks like a rope in her other hand, no ?
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@HeideArchery
India is the only country left for hindus. Artificially separating H identity out of India will not go well. I don't think you have a solution for what is planned against Hindus. Besides the agamas are open for all irrespective of the Varna and modern day Hinduism is 90% agamic +
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@ did the Vaishnavite kings such as Guptas had their Raja-danda in the design of Garuda danda similar to Garuda stambha ?
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#WATCH
| Chennai | On Samajwadi Party MP RK Chaudhary's statement on Sengol, Dr Ramadevi, Professor at Shri Shankarlal Sundarbai Shasun Jain College, says, "...'Sengol' is the representation of the upliftment of 'Dharma' (duty). It is handed over by 'Raj Guru' or the priest to
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@GemsOfINDOLOGY
Anything before the 3rd century CE is scarce, except for coins. We don't have any Nanda or haryanka period architecture or even before that.
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@PrasunNagar
Unless dissolving the useless state and Central public service commisions, nothing is going to change. No govt will touch that. This country is going to the dogs.
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The Illustrated True History of India - Tithi Project
Hair styles in ancient India, Look How colourful Indianshave had their hair styles !
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We would never know how the interiors of early Indian houses and palaces looked like, or do we
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2/n ...style of railing as "Buddhist architecture".
On the contrary, we have evidence of similar railings from Gudimallam Parasurameshwara temple probably built by Satavahanas from 2nd century BCE or early. The Satavahana kings were Hindus and we have inscriptions that tell...
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@Rtam86418021
These are not toilets, even though the srilankan books / blogs claim to be so. It has something to do with Buddha's feet worship and a background pedestal for the same. Why would there be images in a gavaksha on toilet ? That too in stone.
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1. On this day in Vaigāsi 17th in the year 1371, the murti of Namperumal, the utsava icon of Ranganatha swamy ( chaturbhuja Vishnu ) returns to his abode in Srirangam, after 48 days of Exile. The image was taken to lot of places and temples in the 4 southern states before...
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@HeideArchery
You are unnecessarily angry. Why would the Hindu institutions allow you or anyone if you don't believe in the vibhuti of the deity residing inside. Why should a believing Christian come inside ? We have seen enough both in the historical and modern times.
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Please support, it takes a lot of effort to do this.
It hurts, this video should have views in millions but it hasn't touched 1K yet. Guys, please watch this a d support
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channel. Lots of love.
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@PrasunNagar
There is also some reference from the later Chola period inscription confirming the same.
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Since most of you are interested in architecture here. How Indian countryside might have looked like in classical Times. How it should look like even today.
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Mahabalipuram Durga panel, pallava architecture, 7th-8th century ( Mahendravarman I and his son). Notice the ripped abs for one of the matrikas below the lion. I assume since lion being the state Emblem besides elephant, Durga on lion holds much significance for the Pallavas
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Wow ! So now we can try writing a few words by ourselves!
The Indus script is a true beauty. Once you know the names of the signs, reading inscriptions is a breeze.
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@Gandaberunda4
Our people are aesthetically challenged really 🤦who in their right might will copy paste a broken statue?!
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Harishchandreshwar temple, Maharashtra. Late Gupta style by Kalachuris. 7th-8th century CE.
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And then they burnt the libraries of Nalanda
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@HeideArchery
I don't come to anybody's defence. The vedas ( karma Kanda ) long ago evolved into Agamas and temple worship. I care about that. You are welcome to the temples with public proclamation as Hindu. Whether you don't want to be called a Hindu is another matter, nor is the scope..
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@MumukshuSavitri
Their stand is clear. Any temple is after Gupta's. All temples are restructured stupas that must have existed before in the same place. If any temple existed before Gupta's, they were all destroyed by shunga kings. They run the whole show with such fairytales
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Ancient Indian yogi sitting in meditation in a forest experiencing the oneness of the universe. Midjourney is awesome. Most of my mid journey creations are in Facebook. Only now getting used to Twitter.
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@yajnadevam
I think we also need a horse shaped robot on moon or mars to signify the ashwamedha yagna in progress.
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5/11: My foundation - Samudbhava Foundation registered under govt of India, and its initial project called the Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Indian history in 3 volumes is precisely aimed at that.
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This is prasanna weerakody's art right ? He does amazing paintings of historical Sri Lanka.
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Vallabhi of north, Khakara of Kalinga and Shalakara vimana of Drāvida. Different names for similar design from north, central and south India.
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@Ugra___
@Devasakha
Hi, a tangent question. Why are the linguists and genetics experts so stubborn with AIT or A.migration ? How strong are their claims wrt the geography of rig veda ?
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Don't remember where did i take this from, but cool. Classical India !
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@PrasunNagar
Amazing! In the 620s he conducted Kumbhamela where Heun Tsang was a chief guest and the gold murtis of Buddha ( as seen as incarnation of Brahma in those times), Shiva and Vishnu were done with Abhishekams ( ritual bath ) on the banks of Ganga and donations and gifts..
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9/11: Your support is crucial. Be a part of this noble initiative and earn punya. This is the greatest Vidya dhanam !
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Lol
Chinese to math olympiads is Brahmins to Nalanda??
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@Devasakha
@Vritrahan2014
The 'araiyar sevai' in srirangam temple by the priests still uses similar headgears
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@IndiaArtHistory
@ParulSinhadel
Mughals and the east india companies. There are some 25 topics which are lesser known outside of X and fb, much less in secondary schools which is where the impact of teaching history is maximum imo. To fix this is my humble attempt of the Illustrated India project where we show+
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#varalakshmivratham
#VaraMahalakshmifestival
#varamahalakshmipooja
Shunga, chola and Khmer dynasty Lakshmi / Devi Shree from 2nd century BCE, and 10th - 11th century CE
Shuba varalakshmi vratam to all.
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This is the palace of Srilankan King Parakrama Bahu I of 12 th century. Reconstructed by renowned Srilankan artist Prasanna Weerakody based on the ruins, studies and other earlier reconstructions.
Since Tamil Nadu is nearer to Srilankana, how did the palaces of Cholas and ++
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@JahidHussain2
He simply means the yoga sadhana part. In many other videos he defended hindus, spoke against the tyranny of RoP, etc.
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11/11: Please spread this this for your children abd grand Children. Come, lets rebuild the Great Bharata ! Let's make it happen! Thank you. 🙏
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Ivc houses !
On seeing this beautifull house on net, immediately got connected with childhood memories of living in such houses made of mud/clay, in villages of Hardoi, Unnao, Kanpur. wood logs used in roof called धन्नी
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