#magadh

She is a local woman of Magadh, noted in the epic as a rakshasi. Her name appears however, far too late in the story for her to be a part of the original rakshasa clans, and hence it is just a descriptor rather than a concrete familial tie.

When the King Brihadratha abandons his infant son in the forest [noted as a child stillborn in two halves; some researchers suggest he may have been born premature and/or suffering from some kind of early-childhood disease], Jara finds the baby and nurses him back to health before returning him to the royal family.

so in the arson server, we have a wheel we spin to pick elves to draw or write or whatever we're doing for elf week. initially i just got nene, but the wheel landed directly on the line between nene and magadh, so i decided to draw both of them. then, i went crazy and said "what if i drew all of the fanelves?" and uhhhh yeah here we are

in order:

Illustration by Mali for the story Magadh ke Mahlon Mein (In the Palaces of Magadh) by  Bhagwat Sharan Upadhyay,1957). Featuring a double serpent bindi.

They are the twin princesses of Kashi, married to Vrihadratha, the king of Magadh.

When, after a long time, neither of these princesses had a child, Vrihadrath pleased a rishi called Chandakaushika, who gave him a blessed mango to be fed to one of his wives.

However, Vrihadratha had promised the two Kaushalyas that he would never treat them unequally. Hence, he cut the mango in half and fed it to both the princesses.

In time, they both give birth to one-half of a baby (or, breaking metaphor, maybe one of them gave birth to a child that, at first glance, appeared unlikely to survive), and so both the halves were thrown out by Vrihadratha.

She is the daughter of Shuktimati, and the wife of Uparichara Vasu, who carried a displaced strand of the Kaurava kingdom. She is a local woman, who Vasu probably married also to strengthen his hold over the new kingdom he had won.

Most kings rewrite history. Ashoka wrote his conscience into it.

On his edicts, he confessed: "Lakhs perished in Kalinga. The old who served society vanished. Families shattered." He didn't hide behind military glory. He didn't sanitize his past.

In an age of spin and propaganda, a ruler who admits devastation seems almost alien. Yet that vulnerability, that raw honesty is what separates the genuinely great from the merely powerful.

"प्राणी अम्बपाली की करुणा और विराग के ही पात्र बनें। अचल हिमगिरि शृंग की भांति अम्बपाली का सतीत्व अचल रहा, डिगा नहीं, हिला नहीं, विचलित हुआ नहीं, वह वैसा ही अस्पर्श-अखण्ड बना रहा......यह सोचते-सोचते अम्बपाली गर्व में तनकर खड़ी हो गई " Let the living beings become the objects of Ambapali's compassion and detachment. Ambapali's chastity remained unshakeable like the immovable snow peak, it did not waver, did not waver, did not get distracted, it remained untouched and unbroken…Thinking this, Ambapali stood once again with pride,

22 मार्च के दिन साल 1912 में बिहार को बंगाल प्रेसिडेंसी से अलग कर राज्य बनाया गया था। इसलिए हर साल राज्य सरकार 22 मार्च को बिहार दिवस मनाती है। विहार हो गया बिहारबिहार नाम का प्रादुर्भाव संभवत: बौद्ध विहारों के विहार शब्द से हुआ है जिसे विहार के स्थान पर इसके विकृत रूप बिहार से संबोधित किया जाता है। यह क्षेत्र गंगा नदी तथा उसकी सहायक नदियों के उपजाऊ मैदानों में बसा है। कभी कहा जाता था मगधबिहार…