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Odisha Part 11: Discovering the Jaina Heritage of Odisha at the caves of Udaygiri and Khandgiri

The Hindu and Buddhist history of Odisha , or rather, ancient Kalinga, is rather well known to everyone. Who hasn’t heard of the grand temples of Odisha – Puri, Lingaraj and Konark, or the great war of Kalinga which inspired Ashoka to convert to Buddhism? In contrast, very few know of the Jaina heritage of this region. This is quite a pity, since, just around 7 km from the city, is one of India’s most ancient inscriptions, which throws light on the Jaina heritage of Odisha. This inscription is the Hathigumpha inscription of Kharavela, in the hills of Udaygiri. Udaygiri and Khandgiri are two hills located opposite each other, and both are testaments to the rich Jaina heritage of Odisha. The caves at Udaygiri are older, while Khandgiri is relatively newer, but has lasted much longer, and continues to be a place of pilgrimage for Jains even today. These hills, from inscriptions and excavations of caves, shrines and rock beds, appear to have been a haven for Jaina monks, right from the ...
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Colours Of My Travels

Typing with one finger bandaged is not easy. I feel like I am going back to those days when I had to type with one hand, searching for the letters! Which is why I havent been able to post often.... and posting only photos gets boring after a while... So, when I saw that Deepak had tagged me on his post , I was actually happy to pick up the tag and do a post...  I am one of those who never knows what to write or post when tagged... and usually end up forgetting about it, but this one was about photography, and I have so many on my comp that it was actually a great chance to use some of them!  So, getting to the post, this is my entry for the Capture the colour contest held by TravelSupermarket.com.. The challenge is post photos that capture the 5 colours - Yellow, Red, Blue, Green and White. I have chosen to post photos of places I havnet yet written about on the blog..... Yellow - Yellow reminded me of the sun... and I had many photos of the sun clicked at various ti...
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Seven things you didn't know about me!

I have been tagged before , but never by two people for the same one! Well, that makes it easier…… so, thanks to Lavanya and Hema , here are seven things you did not know about me…. If there is an award for impatience , I will surely get it! Every couple of years, I make a resolution to learn to be patient, but it hasn’t worked so far….. And sometimes it is a real problem, especially when I easily get irritated by the kind of things Samhith does! I hated going to any classes when I was a kid….. I used to draw well, and my mom wanted me to take up art classes, but I convinced her I wanted it to remain a hobby and I was happy doing it the way I always did…and didn’t want to learn the right way…..same thing with music – attended classes for a year and then told my mom that I didn’t want to go anymore……. Of course, now I do wish I had learnt both painting as well as music, but still don’t have the inclination to actually go to a c...
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Just for fun.....

Chitra , of My Pilgrimage , has passed on an award with a few rules..... 1. to acknowledge the giver, 2. to list 10 things that you like, and 3. to pass on the award to 10 others. Thanks, Chitra ...for passing this on...... You have set a big task for me... and all I can do is try!! First, about the things I like, I am going to list only 5, for those are all I could think of....... and am too lazy to go on..... 1. Reading 2. Writing 3. Spending time with my son, reading or playing with his blocks 4. Visiting new places 5. Attending Book exhibitions, concerts and visiting Art Galleries. Now, to pass this on.... I am not keeping count, but am just tagging those I think would like to continue this.... Patricia Bhavesh Flowergirl Usha  -Usha, I don't know whether you would actually like to do this, but I have added your name just so that I could see something new on your blog :) Aarti Incidentally, have any of you noticed the new pages I have added on the blog???? Please t...
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Memories of bangs and scares.....

I have been tagged by Sujata  and the rules of the photo tag are: 1. Open your first photo folder. 2. Scroll to the 10th photo. 3. Post the photo on your blog and tell the story behind it and 4. Tag people to do the same. So here is mine……. This one is certainly not one of my better shots, and the only excuse I can offer is that I was just learning to use my new digital camera. My sister-in-law had come to Bombay for Diwali and we had headed off to Shirdi for the Diwali holidays. All of us wanted a break and a proper vacation, something which Shirdi does not offer, and decided to head to Bordi…..you can read about our trip here . Anyway , there we were, on Diwali…….. on a beach drier than anything we had ever seen, and Sandhya and Shankar headed off to find fire crackers. Samhith was thrilled at the idea, but once we began, he was so scared that he refused to participate, and huddled behind us in fear!!! I am not too fond of crackers either, and I occupied myself t...
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