PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2002 ID-42382
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AKHIL BHARATIYA VIDYARTHI PARISHAD .
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13/10/2003.
ASI FINDINGS IN AYODHYA AND MARXIST PROPAGANDA Friends, The recent excavations at the "Ram Janam Bhoomi site" in Ayodhya were led by a team of very.
competent scholars. It must be remembered that the excavations, owing to various legalities were conducted un"er very constrained circumstances. The findings, further bolster the claim of a Rama temple being at the site originally. · .
It is unfortunate that scholars like lrfan Habib ( A medievalist, by training neither an archaeologist, nor an epigraphist) have tried to unnecessarily obfuscate the ASI report for purely political ends. Throughout the medieval Indian period, there is no dearth of temples being converted into mosques overnight. Some classic examples could be Adina Mosque in jaur in Bengal, the Krishna Janam Bhoomi in Mathura, the Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi, Ramesharam Mosque in Tamil Nadu and nearer to Delhi the Qutab Minar. These are some of the examples of the several thousands temples which were destroyed and converted into.
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mosque. Perhaps the most clinching evidence in the favour of a Rama temple being originally present at the site, .
I is the inscription of the Gahadavala King, Govindachandra. The Sanskrit inscription talks of a beautiful Vishnu Hari temple being present at the site. It needs to be overstated that Marxist scholars like K. Shrimali, writing in the 1970's, have themselves described the Gahadvalas as Hindu revivalists. This was pointed out by the ICHR .
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Chairman, MGS Narayan in a recent talk in Motilal Nehru College. The destruction of the temple by Babar is a well-documented fact, and was taken note of even by the colonial archaeologists, such as A. Fuhrer and H.R. Neville. Furher had written about the fine columns of the .
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temple which were later used in the construction of the Masjid. Similarly, H.R. Neville noted that the temple !1: was destroyed by Babar. All these facts are further corroborated by contemporary medieval literary sources. The recent ASI report has further brought to light artifacts of indubitable Hindu provenance. .
Conspicuous among these are terracotta images of Yakshas and Yakshinis. The antiquity of the site and its long-sanding connection with Hinduism is suggested by a Mother Goddess terracotta image of the Kushana period. Hiuen Tsang, writing in the seventh century A.D. has spoken of ten deva temples being present at the .
site. .
Marxist scholars have always argued that the temples in Northern India whenever they were looted or destroyed was because they were storehouse of wealth but this is factually not true because if~ refer to the Garuda Purana or the writing of Alberuni who accompanied Mahmud Ghazni during his numerous raid to India we find that Hindus throughout the Northern part of the country were not only killed or converted but were also .
, .
enslaved and the temples were destroyed not because of their booty but because of religious significance.How can one forget the famous quote of Mahmud Ghazni in Somnath when he said I would rather be a idol breaker rather than being a idol seller. .
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ASI's Findings in Ayodhya & Marxist Propaganda .
Lecture & Slide Presentation .
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By .
DR. S.P. GUPTA, .
Director, Indian Archaeological Society .
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Time : 9.30 P.M. .
MUKESH KUMAR MISHRA DHANANJAY SINGH RAMESH BABU K GAUTAM CHAKRABARTI .
SL Panel .
Abhishek .
Ankita Bhattarcharjee .
Harish Chandra .
Raghvendra .
Saket Kumar Srivastava .
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Sd/-Pinaki Routray Central Campaign Coord!nator .
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Venue: Sutlej Mess Date: 13.10.2003 .
CENTRAL PANEL .
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-PRESIDENT : .
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-VICE-PRESIDENT .
-GEN-SECRETARY .
-JOINT-SECRETARY .
SIS Panel .
Radheshyam .
Ramvir .
Sameer Kumar Jha .
Shalini Singh .
Yash Pal .
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Vande Mataram ! .
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SSS Panel .
Rakesh Ranjan .
Sachin Kumar Deo .
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Sdl-lnteahar Ahmad, Gen. Secy. AISA. JNU .
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PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2002 ID-42382
.
AKHIL BHARATIYA VIDYARTHI PARISHAD .
' .
""" .
13/10/2003.
ASI FINDINGS IN AYODHYA AND MARXIST PROPAGANDA Friends, The recent excavations at the "Ram Janam Bhoomi site" in Ayodhya were led by a team of very.
competent scholars. It must be remembered that the excavations, owing to various legalities were conducted un"er very constrained circumstances. The findings, further bolster the claim of a Rama temple being at the site originally. · .
It is unfortunate that scholars like lrfan Habib ( A medievalist, by training neither an archaeologist, nor an epigraphist) have tried to unnecessarily obfuscate the ASI report for purely political ends. Throughout the medieval Indian period, there is no dearth of temples being converted into mosques overnight. Some classic examples could be Adina Mosque in jaur in Bengal, the Krishna Janam Bhoomi in Mathura, the Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi, Ramesharam Mosque in Tamil Nadu and nearer to Delhi the Qutab Minar. These are some of the examples of the several thousands temples which were destroyed and converted into.
' .
mosque. Perhaps the most clinching evidence in the favour of a Rama temple being originally present at the site, .
I is the inscription of the Gahadavala King, Govindachandra. The Sanskrit inscription talks of a beautiful Vishnu Hari temple being present at the site. It needs to be overstated that Marxist scholars like K. Shrimali, writing in the 1970's, have themselves described the Gahadvalas as Hindu revivalists. This was pointed out by the ICHR .
}.
Chairman, MGS Narayan in a recent talk in Motilal Nehru College. The destruction of the temple by Babar is a well-documented fact, and was taken note of even by the colonial archaeologists, such as A. Fuhrer and H.R. Neville. Furher had written about the fine columns of the .
.
temple which were later used in the construction of the Masjid. Similarly, H.R. Neville noted that the temple !1: was destroyed by Babar. All these facts are further corroborated by contemporary medieval literary sources. The recent ASI report has further brought to light artifacts of indubitable Hindu provenance. .
Conspicuous among these are terracotta images of Yakshas and Yakshinis. The antiquity of the site and its long-sanding connection with Hinduism is suggested by a Mother Goddess terracotta image of the Kushana period. Hiuen Tsang, writing in the seventh century A.D. has spoken of ten deva temples being present at the .
site. .
Marxist scholars have always argued that the temples in Northern India whenever they were looted or destroyed was because they were storehouse of wealth but this is factually not true because if~ refer to the Garuda Purana or the writing of Alberuni who accompanied Mahmud Ghazni during his numerous raid to India we find that Hindus throughout the Northern part of the country were not only killed or converted but were also .
, .
enslaved and the temples were destroyed not because of their booty but because of religious significance.How can one forget the famous quote of Mahmud Ghazni in Somnath when he said I would rather be a idol breaker rather than being a idol seller. .
' .
ASI's Findings in Ayodhya & Marxist Propaganda .
Lecture & Slide Presentation .
.
By .
DR. S.P. GUPTA, .
Director, Indian Archaeological Society .
.
Time : 9.30 P.M. .
MUKESH KUMAR MISHRA DHANANJAY SINGH RAMESH BABU K GAUTAM CHAKRABARTI .
SL Panel .
Abhishek .
Ankita Bhattarcharjee .
Harish Chandra .
Raghvendra .
Saket Kumar Srivastava .
.
Sd/-Pinaki Routray Central Campaign Coord!nator .
~ .
.
I .
.
I .
Venue: Sutlej Mess Date: 13.10.2003 .
CENTRAL PANEL .
i .
-PRESIDENT : .
i .
-VICE-PRESIDENT .
-GEN-SECRETARY .
-JOINT-SECRETARY .
SIS Panel .
Radheshyam .
Ramvir .
Sameer Kumar Jha .
Shalini Singh .
Yash Pal .
.
Vande Mataram ! .
.
SSS Panel .
Rakesh Ranjan .
Sachin Kumar Deo .
.
.. .
.
\ .. ' ...,ut\fT 1li -!tT ~ftlcti'ftt '" .
.. .
3 '"" .PI 't<IICI51"< ~I.
Sdl-lnteahar Ahmad, Gen. Secy. AISA. JNU .
.
.