Aurangabadparyatan

14/11/2020

Dear Friends ..💐💐Happy Diwali....💐💐

20/08/2020

Incredible Natural Wonders from Aurangabad..

21/11/2018

# Gautala Autramghat Sanctuary .... Aerial View

17/03/2018

11/12/2017

05/11/2017

01/11/2017

Kranti chauk

25/09/2017

औरंगाबाद च्या जायकवाडी धरणाचे काही अप्रतिम दृश्य.. ❤️

05/09/2017

03/08/2017

30/06/2017

28/05/2016

Central Bus Stand to Railway Station in 5 minutes via new flyover.

DM

22/05/2016

Finally the wait is over for Aurangabadkars. CIDCO flyover will be inaugurated on 31st May.

Pic: Mangesh Shinde

21/05/2016

The exterior of Cave 27 at Ajanta Caves, Aurangabad.

24/04/2016

Ray of light at Daulatabad Fort.

18/04/2016

Pic:Feroz Khan

10/04/2016

Guess the place!!

Pic ©Sushant Khedgikar

05/04/2016

Sangramnagar Flyover

Pic© Vishal Pratik

25/03/2016

Guess the place!!

23/03/2016

Full moon.. Near Salim Ali Lake.

Pic : Anand Deshmukh

15/03/2016

Ajanta....A journey back in time.

Pic: Sumithras Shilpa

29/02/2016

Prozone Mall is one of the largest and the first horizontally designed shopping mall in India. It has over 1 million square feet of retail space and ushers in the concept of modern retailing in Aurangabad.

Pic: AIL

25/02/2016

अजिंठा आणि वेरूळच्या लेण्या म्हणजे पर्यटकांचं खास आकर्षण आणि अभ्यासकांना संशोधनात गुंतवून ठेवणारं महाराष्ट्राचं वैभवच म्हणता येतील.

Ajintha Caves Vellore

19/02/2016

शिवाजी राजा...

गौरवशाली इतिहासाचे पान शिवाजी राजा
माय मराठी मातीचा अभिमान शिवाजी राजा

जुलमी हुकूमशाहीचा अंधार माजला तेव्हा
मनगटात संचारला स्वाभिमान शिवाजी राजा

दुर्दम्य इच्छाशक्ती अन् गनिमीकावा युक्तीने
स्वराज्याचे गायलेले गुणगान शिवाजी राजा

सह्याद्रिवर चाल करुनी आल्या जेव्हा वावटळी
मराठी रक्तात भिनले तूफान शिवाजी राजा

खुप आले चाल करुनी गेले खुप हाल करूनी
हिंदवी स्वराज्या शोभते निशाण शिवाजी राजा

न्याय बंधुता अन् समतेची जाण शिवाजी राजा
पुरोगामी महाराष्ट्राचे भान शिवाजी राजा

-गणेश घुले
Pic © Mayur Golatgaonkar

19/02/2015

शिवजयंती निमीत्त सर्व शिवभक्तांना हर्दिक शुभेच्छा
जय शिवराय .............

18/02/2015

Famous saree Maharashtra (Paithani).........

16/02/2015

Ajintha Caves.....

Preface:
In the early 19th century (year 1819) some British soldiers were out hunting in the Deccan plateau. One of them suddenly saw, from a height, a horseshoe rock; His curiosity aroused by the entrance of a cave. The hunting party ventured across the ravine of the Waghur River. And they discovered several caves, against which bush, shrubs earth and stones had piled up. Goatherds for shelter were using a few.
The Government was informed about this finding and soon the Archaeologists began excavate them. Many experts have been restoring them during the last fifty years. The shock of discovery was worldwide.
All the rock-cut caves had paintings on verandahs, inner walls and ceilings, these revealed some of the most beautiful masterpieces of world art.
In the grottos were also symbolic Buddhist mounds called Stupas, and cells for monks called viharas. There were giant sculptures of Buddha's, Bodhisattvas (potential Buddha's), or Taras (female Buddhist divinities), as also dwarapalas (doorkeepers).
Later, an inscription was found of King Harisena ('moon among princes'), of the Vakataka dynasty of the 5th -6th century A.D. in cave No.17. It seems that the local Vakatakas had relations, thought marriage, with the great Gupta kings of the north.

NUMBER OF CAVES:
The total numbers of caves are 30. Most of them were finished, A few were half finished, A pathway, scooped out from stone, runs as a crescent by the caves for pedestrians. From this, one can have a glorious view of the ravine below.

SITING
For many years, expert scholars and other learned men form all over the world, have visited the Ajanta caves. Millions of pilgrims and tourists have been there. Every one wonders why the caves were scooped out on this particular horseshoe rock, in the middle of the Deccan Plateau.
The great scholar, late Prof. D.D. Kosambi, suggested that all the caves in the caves in the Western Ghats, from shudhaghar, through Karla, Bhaja, Nasik, Pitalkhora, to Ajanta are located on the crests of an ancient trade route from the Arabian sea in to the Deccan. This may be one good reason, which can explain the carving in the Ajanta rocks, nearby were the Mandis or trade centers, of Deogiri and Jalgaon.
The second reason was clearly the texture of the granite rock. This was in layers, which could be easily cut with instruments available to the craftsman in those days.
The third reason is that the Buddhist monks always preferred to live in secluded spots. They went to collect alms from the village and small towns and trade centers, but came back for quiet contemplation in ravines and gorges, away from the crowds.

RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANCE:
The painting and sculptures in the caves are of Buddhist origin; Gautama Buddha (600 B.C.) was against painting and Sculpture. He forbade image of himself. Also he was against the use of colorful clothes such as may excite desire he did not admit women to the order of nuns. He felt that all life was pain. The best way to attain salvation (Nirvana) was to suppress all for happiness.

Why then did the monks paint pictures of the Buddha or monks images of him and potential Buddha's?
After the death of the Buddha, many aboriginal and suppressed people accepted the faith of the 'Enlightened one'. It is well known that, with illiterate people, images come before ideas, these converts wanted to worship images of the Buddha and his incarnations, as the Hindus worshipped their gods. The Buddhist monks made up many stories of Gautama's previous incarnations. For instance, he was supposed to have been a lotus at one time in another birth, he was an elephant. In still another birth, he was prince; the monks painted these human stories. Also they were carved in reliefs near the symbolic Stupa or mound grave, over the Buddha's relics like his tooth or hair Neil. The pilgrims began to worship the symbolic painting and images. And then the monks raised this kind or worship into a holy ritual. The Hinayana or the phase of Buddhist denial of pleasure, thus slowly become Mahayana, the Buddhism of acceptance of desire - so long as men and women may remember the pain of existence.
To sum up the difference the Hinayana and the Mahayana phases of Buddhism, we may say:
The Hinayana Buddhism asked the people to rely on themselves and practice the eightfold path of right behavior. The Buddha was not like Hindu God, Whom the worshipper could ask for help.
The Mahayana made the Buddha almost into gods perhaps under the influence of Hinduism, by the time this more liberal faith emerged, Buddhism accepted women in the Sangha, or the order of monks and nuns, and promised to help people to attain Nirvana by practicing certain rites. By the time the Ajanta caves were carved, the Buddhists had evolved imagery almost parallel to the Hindus.

09/02/2015

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