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Tag: Dynasty

  • 1,300 year old temple of Lord Vishnu found in Pakistan

    A Hindu temple built 1,300 years ago has been discovered by Pakistani and Italian archaeological experts on a mountain in the Swat district of northwestern Pakistan. This temple was discovered during excavations at Barikot Ghandai. Fazle Khaliq of the Archaeological Department of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa announced the discovery on Thursday, stating that the temple belongs to Lord Vishnu.

    Fazle Khaliq of the Department of Archeology said that this temple was built 1300 years ago during the Hindu royal period. The Hindu Shahi or Kabul Shahi (850–1026 AD) was a Hindu dynasty that ruled in the Kabul Valley (eastern Afghanistan), Gandhar (modern Pakistan) and present-day northwest India.

    It was reported that during the excavation, archaeologists found traces near the cantonment near the temple site and where the guards lived. Experts also found a water tank near the temple, which is said to have been bathed there by the Hindus before worship.

  • Where have you got your knowledge on Hinduism, PM asks Cong

    Launching a stinging attack against the Congress for questioning his knowledge on Hinduism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday used the dynast-worker analogy to ask the opposition party where it got its expertise on the religion.

    Addressing an election rally in this Rajasthan town, the prime minister said in a sarcastic jibe that he was a small “kaamdar” (worker) who never claimed to have full knowledge of Hinduism but the “naamdar” (dynast) has the right to speak.

    Modi has often referred to Congress president Rahul Gandhi as “naamdar”.

    He also brought up India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and first president Rajendra Prasad.

    Nehru objected to Prasad’s visit for the consecration of Somnath temple, which was destroyed by foreign invaders and renovated by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the prime minister told the gathering ahead of elections in the state on December 7.

    The country, he said, was celebrating Prasad’s birth anniversary.

    The Congress, Modi alleged, has become a university for spreading lies. People who lie more get new posts in the party, he said.

    Rahul Gandhi, he asserted, has great capacity for speaking lies.

    “The Congress’ dreams have been crushed in all states. This will happen in Rajasthan also,” he said.

    The opposition party thinks it can come to power because of the trend in Rajasthan of alternate parties forming government but this will be proved wrong in the upcoming state elections, Modi declared.