Ancient India Era (प्राचीन भारतीय संस्कृति एवं शिल्पकला)

Naresar also known as (Nalesvara) Most of the temples built in the (7th-8th) centuries . Naresar (Small village) is located about 18 km in a northeastern direction from Gwalior in Morena district. Naleshwar is an epithet of Lord Shiva, to whom the temple is dedicated.  This temple group contains around 22 temples.  The attractive feature of the temple groups of Naresar is the unusual location in high rocky hill and on several man-made terraces.  This temple group is examples of the Pratihara style(Central Indian).  The earliest built during the early Pratihara period. Naresar,  Mitawali , and Bateshwar are located on or near  the rocky hill  that rises above the surrounding plains. Half of the temples of this group are situated beside a lake. A Hidden Gem. Amazing place, ruins of temples, a pond out in nowhere. The road to reach is pretty bad, almost non existent for a 4 wheeler. The Pratiharas extended the existing tradition by adding a full fledged mandapa to the

The Ahar culture, also known (Banas culture) is a Chalcolithic archaeological culture southeastern Rajasthan state in India. Gilund is the largest. The archaeological site was named after the present-day village, Gilund, and is locally known as Modiya Magari which means "bald habitation mound". Image taken from HT Ahar culture lasting from c. 3000 to 1500 BCE, contemporary and adjacent to the Indus Valley Civilization. The Ahar–Banas people were exploiting the copper ores of the Aravalli Range to make axes and other artifacts. They were sustained on a number of crops, including wheat and barley. Their name comes from a mid-1950s excavation led by R.C. Aggarwal, former director of archaeology, Rajasthan, at Ahar near Udaipur. A few years later, one excavation was carried out at Gilund in Rajsamand and then the focus shifted to the Harappans. A research paper by Amrita Sarkar (2012) indicates Chalcolithic village farming community developed in southeast R

The swastika (as a character 卐 or 卍) is a geometrical figure and an antiquated religious symbol from the way of life of Eurasia, where it has been and remains an image of heavenly nature and otherworldliness in Indian religions and East Asian religions. The word  swastika  derives from the Sanskrit root  swasti , of  su,  ("good, well") and  asti  ("it is, there is"). Swastika is the oldest, the most ancient symbol of a particular school of adepts. Some of the earliest archaeological evidence of the swastika in the Indian subcontinent can be dated to 3,000 BCE. Investigators have also found seals with "mature and geometrically ordered" swastikas that date to before the Indus Valley Civilisation (3300–1300 BCE). Their efforts have traced references to swastikas in the Vedas at about that time. The investigators put forth the theory that the swastika moved westward from India to Finland, Scandinavia, the British Highlands and other parts of Europe.

Maurya Empire (322 BCE–180 BCE) Chandra gupta (322–297 BCE) Bindusara (297–272/268 BCE) Ashoka ("Samrat") (272/268–232 BCE) Dasharatha Maurya (232–224 BCE) Samprati (224–215 BCE) Shalishuka (215–202 BCE) Devavarman (202–195 BCE) Shatadhanvan (195–187 BCE) Brihadratha (187–180 BCE) Shunga Empire (183 BCE– 73 BCE) Pushyamitra Shunga (185–149 BCE) Agnimitra (149-141 BCE) Vasujyeshtha (141–131 BCE) Vasumitra (131–124 BCE) Bhadraka (Odruka) (124–122 BCE) Pulindaka (122–119 BCE) Ghosha (Ghoshavasu) (119-108 BCE) Vajramitra (108-94 BCE) Bhagabhadra (94-83 BCE) Devabhuti (83-73 BCE) The Heliodorus pillar is a stone column that was erected around 113 BCE in Vidisha near modern Besnagar, by Heliodorus, a Greek ambassador of the Indo-Greek king Antialcidas to the court of the Shunga king Bhagabhadra.  Bhagabhadra was one of the kings of the Indian Shunga dynasty. He ruled in

Narwar Fort is situated atop a hill, at Narwar in M.P. - India , 500 ft. above ground level area of 8 km², which stands on a steep scarp of the Vindhya Range. This fort is very very old and historical. Kachwaha Rajputs are said to have built (or rebuilt) the fort when they occupied Narwar in the 10th century. Kachwaha, Parihara, and Tomara Rajputs held Narwar successively from 12th century onwards, until its capture by the Mughals in the 16th century. It was conquered by the Maratha chief Scindia in the early 19th century. Traditionally said to have been the capital of Raja Nala of the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata, the town was called Nalapura until the 12th century. Outside the walled town are memorial pillars of the Tomar chiefs. Now the descendant of narwar fort are Narauni Rajputs. The way of fort is very steep but yes it's a huge fort. Minimum 4 hours will be required to visit complete fort. few said, Kachawa (Kushwah , Kachwaha ) Rajputs migrat

Udayagiri Caves are 20 rock-cut caves near Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh from the early years of the 5th century CE. Udayagiri Caves are set in two low hills near Betwa River, on the banks of its tributary Bes River. There are a many places in India with the same name, the most notable being the mountain called Udayagiri at Rajgir  in Bihar and the Udayagiri and Khandagiri Caves in Odisha. The site at Udayagiri Caves was the patronage of Chandragupta II , who is widely accepted by scholars to have ruled the Gupta Empire in central India between c. 380-414 CE. The Udayagiri Caves were created in final decades of the 4th-century and consecrated in 401 CE. Only site that can be verifiably associated with a Gupta period from its inscriptions and art. They contain some of the oldest surviving Hindu temples and iconography in India. They are notable for the ancient monumental relief sculpture of Vishnu in his incarnation as the man-boar Varaha, rescuing the earth symbolically represe

Mahabodhi Temple  ("Great Awakening Temple") UNESCO World Heritage Site The site contains a descendant of the Bodhi Tree under which Buddha gained enlightenment, and has been a major pilgrimage destination for Buddhists for well over two thousand years, and some elements probably date to the period of Ashoka (died c.232 BCE). The first temple was built by Emperor Asoka in the 3rd century B.C. (2200 years ago), and the current pyramidal structure dates from the Gupta Empire, in the 5th–6th century CE. (atleast 1600 year old). It is one of the earliest Buddhist temples built entirely in brick, still standing in India, from the late Gupta period. Many of the oldest sculptural elements have been moved to the museum beside the temple, and some, such as the carved stone railing wall around the main structure, have been replaced by replicas. The most important of the sacred places is the giant Bodhi Tree, to the west of the main temple, a supposed direct descendan