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.