Dadi-Pota Makbara, New Delhi, India - by K J S Chatrath

 

Some photos of artifacts from Vidisha District Museum, India..shared by K J S Chatrath

 I visited Vidisha museum some time back.

Vidisha district museum was built in year 1964 and is located in almost at the central of the city and managed by Archeological department of Madhya Pradesh. Vidisha is a historical township with many monuments and buildings of Mauryan ruling period thus from archeological point of view, it is very rich city. Due to high rich in archeological sculptures, ancient coins, on feeling the need to conserve its historical statues, emblems, monuments, authorities felt the need to have a proper museum place where they can preserve the remains and making is accessible to normal public.
 

This museum site is well connected by road. Majority of tourists, visiting Sanchi - Udaigiri monments, often extend there visit and covers the ancient sites of Vidisha city and in this trip they visits district museum.  District museum of Vidisha have collection of many ancient coins, terracottas, sculpture art showpieces etc. Here scientists have found the ancient inscriptions which indicates towards the fact that old name of this city was Bedasa or Bedis Vesnagar or Bhellaswamipur.

Best time to visit this district museum is from October to March. This best time is approved as per tourism.

 

All photos shared here were taken by me.  

 

 

'The Second Coming: 8th-10th century temples of Bateshwar, India' - by K J S Chatrath

 

 Cover of the book

 

 Back cover of the book.

 

I am happy to present my 42nd book to all my friends

I visited the Bateswar Group of over 200 temples in Morena district of Madhya Pradesh, India in 2022. These belong to the 8th - 10th century AD. These were lying in broken and dilapidated condition till a few years back. Then the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) took upon itself to re-organise and put them back in shape under an initiative led by the ASI Bhopal region's Superintending Archaeologist Mr. K. K.  Muhammed.  As of now about 60 odd temples have been given a new life. 

These photographs show how the place was littered with broken stones and how some of the renovated temples look today.

My cofee table book explains the background and is richly illustrated with photos clicked by me. 

Kudos to the ASI and to Mr. Muhammed and his team. 🙏

'Cunningham & 9 feet long lead coffers".....says a puzzled KJS Chatrath

 I have been trying to get rid of my old papers collected since my last 81 years on planet earth. Before tearing off  any paper, I read it. While going through this exercise today, I found the following info noted by me in one of my diaries: 

"Page 82. Cunningham Varanasi. ...north of the Ganges he visited Hodgsons three Ashoka pillars and besides one of them he found burial mounds in which were huge lead coffers, nine feet long, containing unusually long human skeletons, dated to about 1000 B.C...these were the oldest finds ye made on Indian soil"

I do not remember in what context, and from which book I had taken these notes. Would any learned historian friend throw light on this.

'Arthuna temple, 11th-12th century AD, Rajasthan, India' - by K J S Chatrath

Do notice the small figure at the bottom of the photo. The person so depicted has an unusual hairstyle, is sporting a beard, and seems to be carrying something like a 'gadda' (as of Lord Bhima?) in his hand. It may also be noted that both a Buddhist and a Hindu figure are seen side by side in the same temple. 

Any comments please?

'Impressive Morena Museum, Madhya Prdesh, India' - by K J S Chatrath

I spent a feww days in Morena district of Madhya Pradesh in December 2023. I visited some lesser known gems of Indian archeology at Kakanmath, Padavali, Bateswar, Nareshwar and some other places.

I spent the last day in Morena visiting the  "Amar Saheed Ram Prasad Bismil Sangrahalaya".It is located Near Ramjanki temple Jiwaji Ganj or Near Police Station/ City Kotwali in Morena City. I was pleasantly surprised to see a good number of old statues, some were ofcourse  in fairly broken  condition but nonetheless being cared for.

Take a look at some of the artifacts on display- inside the impressive building as well as in its lovely green lawn.

 

 

 

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'Bateswar Group of over 200 temples in Morena -A lesser known gem of India' - by K J S Chatrath

Late last year, I visited the Bateswar Group of over 200 temples in Morena district in Madhya Pradesh, India. These belong to the 8th - 10th century AD. These were lying in broken and delapidated condition till a few years back. Then the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) took upon itself to reorganise and put them back in shape under an initiative led by the ASI Bhopal region's Superintending Archaeologist Mr. K. K.  Muhammed.  As of now about 60 odd temples have been given a new life. 

These photographs show how the place was littered with broken stones and how some of the renovated temples look today.

Kudos to ASI.