[FairfieldLife] Re: Pandits are HERE!

[Jason Spock]

       King PrithiviRaj Chauhan eloped and married Samyuktha, the princess of Kanouj, the daughter of another king jayachandra.  Mahmud Gauri of Afghanistan invaded india in 1192, every single village and town on the way was slaughtered.           Prithivi Raj Chauhan called for help from his father-in-law Jayachandra, but he was jealous of PrithiviRaj and refused to come to his help.         Mahmud gauri defeated the ill-prepared Prithivi Raj Chauhan and executed him and raped his wife who later commited Suicide.         The same Mahmud Gauri again invaded india, two years later, attacked and killed jayachandra and left for Afthanistan.         Nalanda, a part of the Budhist circuit, is famous for the the ancient International Monastic University. Established in 5th century BC by the Gupta Emperors, it was a famous learning centres in ancient times. The university had centres for studies in Buddhism, Vedas, Logic, Grammar, Medicine, Meta-Physics, Prose Composition and Rhetoric. Lord Buddha and Lord Mahavira have also taught here. The university library had a mammoth collection of 9 million volumes. The university remains are scattered around an area of 14 hectares. Though a large part of the university has been explored, a huge
 portion remains unexcavated. It is believed that the university could accommodate 10,000 students and 2,000 teachers easily. Hsuan Tsang, the renowned Chinese traveler was also involved with the university foe 12 years. There is a monument built here in his memory. In 12th century AD, the whole university complex was destroyed by Bakhtiar Khilji, a Turkish Invader.         All the 9 million books manuscripts and scrolls were burnt and all the buddhiust monks were killed.  The entire university was burnt to the ground.         Timur the Lame invaded india in 1398, the Mongols descended into India, occupying Delhi, capital of the Islamic Delhi
 sultanate, every single village and town along the way was slaughtered along the way.  The residents of delhi rebeled, Timur ordered all the 70,000 residents of Delhi to be slaughtered and their heads cut of and piled in a heap.          Aurangzeb the Mughal emperor from 1658 until 1707 was a Muslim fanatic. He tortured and killed thousands of Hindu Scholars because they refused to convert to Islam.  He also introduced the Jiziya tax that should be paid only by Hindus         The partition of India in 1947 left both India and Pakistan devastated. The process of partition had claimed many lives in the riots. Many others were
 raped and looted. Women, especially, were used as instruments of power by the Hindus and the Muslims; "ghost trains" full of severed breasts of women would arrive in each of the newly-born countries from across the borders.           Atleast, 100,000 women were raped during the Partition riots. Around a million people died directly or indirectly due to the partition riots.  it was the biggest displacement of people in history.         15 million refugees poured across the borders to regions completely foreign to them, for though they were Hindu or Muslim, their identity had been embedded in the regions where there ancestors were from. Not only was the
 country divided, but so were the provinces of Punjab and Bengal, divisions which caused catastrophic riots and claimed the lives of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs alike.          Many years after the partition, the two nations are still trying to heal the wounds left behind by this incision to once-whole body of India. Many are still in search of an identity and a history left behind beyond an impenetrable boundary. The two countries started of with ruined economies and lands and without an established, experienced system of government. They lost many of their most dynamic leaders, such as Gandhi, Jinnah and Allama Iqbal, soon after the partition. Pakistan had to face the separation of Bangladesh in 1971. India and Pakistan have been to war thrice since the partition and they are still deadlocked over the issue of possession
 of Kashmir. The same issues of boundaries and divisions, Hindu and Muslim majorities and differences, still persist in Kashmir.MarkMeredith2002 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 22:24:42 -0000Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Pandits are HERE!     India has hundreds of thousands of pundits doing their thing and hashad them for centuries and the country has been a social and economicmess for most of those centuries, yet 49 hindu priests in trainingarrive in the US and the destiny of the US and the world has beentransformed? ?? India itself is now finally going through some majorpositive transformations but not because of pundits but because ofprogressive and
 technological changes being introduced.I think I took part in a couple dozen all day all night workathons toprepare for some amazing new universe enlightening project or courseor event in the mov't over the years and there have been many dozensof others in recent years that I've missed. It is exciting workinghard in a group for a common goal, but after all these years how dopeople keep getting excited about this?? Is life that boring? Isreality that much of a drag? When the Settle money runs out, the pundits will go home and it'll allbe forgotten, and until there's a new administration in DC the US willremain pretty much the same.    

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