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Today, we are happy to publish our 25th course on @Bharatvidya_in
Ancient Indian Dynasties is a fifteen-hour course which examines fifteen major dynasties spanning from 600 BCE to 1400 CE through inscriptions, coins & texts
Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
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Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
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Research in Indology & Oriental Studies I Library of Manuscripts & Rare Books I Est. 1917 I bharatvidya.in
- 14 Reasons for Sadness According to Mahabharata - A Long Thread
- India 2000 years ago - A Compilation of threads
- 5 Unique Deities of Rigveda - A Short Thread
- India: From the Year 1.4 Million BCE to the Year 1818 CE - A Compilation of our 20 threads from 2022 covering India's History, Literature, Philosophy, and Culture.
- The one who resisted, and the one who conquered. The one who established “Swarajya” and laid the foundation of the first indigenous Indian “Samrajya” in centuries. One of the most influential makers of India’s destiny. We bow down to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj on his Jayanti.
- We are extremely happy to announce the launch of a very special online course on Vedas. It is a series of 18 lectures: 1 opening session, 5 lectures on Rigveda, lectures on Yajurveda and Samveda each, 5 lectures on Atharvaveda, and 1 concluding session.
- Let us tell you a story of how we digitised 7,000,000 pages of almost 16,000 rare books at to create borilib.com: one of the first world-class Indian digital library of rare books. (thread)
- Today a total lunar eclipse is occurring on Vaishakh Purnima. 1402 years ago in 619 CE, a lunar eclipse occurred on Vaishakh Purnima as well. On that day, Chalukya king Pulkeshin commissioned a copperplate inscription that eulogized his victory over Emperor Harshwardhan 1/5
- Hon. Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi spoke about our online course on Mahabharata in today's Man Ki Baat. We are humbled and honored by this recognition from the Hon. Prime Minister himself. The link is here below (17.28 Minutes).
- The Ancient Indian Port of Lothal - An incredible 4500-years-old story of human ingenuity, international trade, climate change, calamities, and the world's earliest known dock (A long thread)
- 48 years (1919-1966) 3 generations of scholars A critical synthesis of 1259 Manuscripts & 12,985 plus pages across 19 volumes - The making of the Critical Edition of Mahabharata - A long thread
- The complete YouTube playlist of the Upanishads Series by @BhandarkarI - A list of 12 introductory talks on the 10 major upanishads and their philosophy
- We are glad to share that the birch-bark *Rigveda manuscript* from Kashmir, written in the Sharada script, and held by @BhandarkarI is to be displayed as one of the two *Artefacts of National Importance of India* in the *G-20 Summit Exhibition!*
