हनुमान जन्मोत्सव

Humare prabhu Shri Ram ji Mata Sita ji ke swayamvar me

There is just a good bunch of songs and folk songs in awadhi dedicated to this particular event in Ramayan.

Sri Rama and Sita

Does that lie help you sleep better?

India violated the ceasefire as expected

I'm just so sad

I think one of the greatest things about Sanatan/hinduism is how animals are so intrinsically involved in worship and divinity, something which is often used by Hinduphobes to poke fun at us but I’m super proud of my ancestors for making us understand that every being is divine. That divinity is everywhere and that includes animals and plants as well.

Can't talk about any iconic bhakts of Maa Saraswati, but I've never heard a single performance of folk singers in Awadh not have a geet dedicated to Mata Sharda Bhawani. They sing her glories for she is the goddess of art and music.

And Maihar which is in Madhya Pradesh now, is the seat of Sharda Bhawani, and people in huge numbers go there from Awadh to worship her. I've never been there but I really wish to go there one day.

I am

Maybe

A teeny tiny bit salty there aren't like well known iconic Saraswati bhakts

Atleast not any that I know off

There's Mirabai for Krishna and Ramakrishna Paramahamsa for Maa Kali

Like c'mon dude,

I expected atleast a legendary poet or astronomer or mathematician

I'm sure that the ancient universities of India were busttling with Saraswati bhakts

But why didn't they write down any of their stories and lives :(

GURL SAME

Like where did all the Saraswati bhakts go?? Just disappeared into thin air??? 😭😭😭😭

Some or rather most universities were filled with Buddhist ideologies tho so I don't know how many were Saraswati Bhakts bit I'm sure there were some ofcourse

Also another reason could be is because Saraswati wasn't/isn't much worshipped, like in the way Kali, Durga, Vishnu, Shiva, Lakshmi and all are worshipped with temples and elaborate rituals throughout Indian subcontinent...

Like I can maybe name a few temples dedicated to Saraswati and only maybe the eastern side, have a dedicated day to worship her

So yeah... Its sad she doesn't gets the recognition she deserves tho :(

|| जय सिया राम ||

Sita Ram idol at a temple in Prayagraj.

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I've been to other places in Prayagraj before. But this time I decided to explore temples around the place where we were staying at. This place was close to Bade Hanuman temple, where a lying idol of Hanuman ji is placed. And the experience was still pretty amazing.

कर्पूरगौरं करुणावतारं संसारसारं भुजगेन्द्रहारम्

सदा बसन्तं हृदयारबिन्दे भबं भवानीसहितं नमामि

ॐ नमः पार्वती पतये हर हर महादेव🔱🚩🙏🧘😌

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Dancing Saraswati Hoysaleswara temple, Halebidu, Karnataka

Halebid – also referred to as Halebidu, Dwarasamudra, Dorasamudra – was a major city prior to the 14th-century in Hoysala kingdom.It is now a small town in south Karnataka. The temple belongs to the Shaivism tradition of Hinduism.

Like major historic Hindu temple complexes on the Indian subcontinent, this temple reverentially includes legends and ideas of Vaishnavism and Shaktism traditions of Hinduism. It was built in the first half of 12th century. During the early 14th century, Halebidu temple site along with others were sacked, looted and much artwork was damaged (particularly nose/face, limbs, sexual organs) by Muslim invaders from northern India (Khilji dynasty and Tughlaq dynasty of Delhi Sultanate). The relief panels present legends from the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Bhagavata Purana and secular fables found in Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Vedic deities such as Agni, Indra and Surya, various avatars of Vishnu, the Hindu goddesses such as Saraswati, Lakshmi avatars, Durga, Kali among others are presented.

The carving is three dimensional where the deep reliefs often emerge as statues with depth. Panels are continuous, with one perspective showing one part of the legend, a perpendicular perspective of the same column or wall or corner showing another part of the same legend. The carving material was soapstone.

Above: Sarasvati is typically shown seated and holding a musical instrument. She is, however, the goddess of knowledge and all arts in Hinduism. The reliefs at Hoysalesvara temple show her in many panel, some where she holds a musical instrument. Three panels show her dancing, in a classical Indian dance posture (all are damaged panels, two of these panels is better preserved, the third is badly damaged). In this better preserved panel, she has eight hands and she holds a pen, a palm leaf manuscript, tools of other arts as she dances.

📷 by Ms Sarah Welch (via wikipedia)

Yeah I've attended a few weddings in the last few years after Covid on both sides of my parents. Although the colours of the clothes have remained the same, it still feels dull. Why?

Because the biyaah geets — baraat geet, duar puja geet, gaari geet —have lately been replaced by DJ/songs being played on speakers instead of the womenfolk singing those songs in Awadhi.

Does anybody else also think that our weddings are also getting white washed? Like it used to be all bold and colourful with the bride and groom being in mostly red. Now you see it started with a lil toning down to pinks and dull pastels and now some are almost white. It’s almost like a western wedding just instead of a white gown there’s a white lehnga and sherwani. I’m not exactly saying that there’s anything wrong with it but doesn’t it feel like weddings are losing their authenticity?

Just an opinion, don’t go on attacking me.

Shiva and Parvati