<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Interesting- I have never seen those in life or pictures.
By the time we reached the ASI museum we were out of time and saw very little.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Then I shall try to post some pictures I had taken of these. Unfortunately I had no camera on me, and took a couple of snaps using my cell phone. (Which is another problem as Nokia software I used to use to interchange the content between phone and PC no longer works on the Windows ver I now got... Let me see how I can get to post these images...)
These I saw not at ASI, but UP State Archeology Museum, and I believe are rather new finds (couple of decades?)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->trip to mathurA... I was however given an early memorable introduction to the effects of the shashidhvaja-s in the form of the masjid squatting on the old keshavAlaya. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Indeed visiting keshava-rAya temple and getting to feel the experience that you so described, must be made mandatory for every Hindu kid. For me since the days of young, visiting this site and vishvanAtha at vArANasI, remain the potent experience of what Islam is all about. I don't know how many times I have been to both of these, but each time the intensity of pang remains as intense as for the first time.
But to me the experience is a bit different. We have this old family tradition of being at mathurA every shivarAtri. Coincidentally, the local Hindus (mostly jAT kids that come from neighboring village side) celebrate every shivarAtri with much fanfare at kR^iShNa janmabhUmi and take out a grand procession, dressing themselves up like the senA of mahAdeva, the best looking teenager dressed up as mahAdeva riding on a virile bull, and crowd following him on foot. It is quite an experience to watch the procession from in front of the said mosque. Let me post some images of this year, as soon as I can have the Nokia issue fixed.
By the time we reached the ASI museum we were out of time and saw very little.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Then I shall try to post some pictures I had taken of these. Unfortunately I had no camera on me, and took a couple of snaps using my cell phone. (Which is another problem as Nokia software I used to use to interchange the content between phone and PC no longer works on the Windows ver I now got... Let me see how I can get to post these images...)
These I saw not at ASI, but UP State Archeology Museum, and I believe are rather new finds (couple of decades?)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->trip to mathurA... I was however given an early memorable introduction to the effects of the shashidhvaja-s in the form of the masjid squatting on the old keshavAlaya. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Indeed visiting keshava-rAya temple and getting to feel the experience that you so described, must be made mandatory for every Hindu kid. For me since the days of young, visiting this site and vishvanAtha at vArANasI, remain the potent experience of what Islam is all about. I don't know how many times I have been to both of these, but each time the intensity of pang remains as intense as for the first time.
But to me the experience is a bit different. We have this old family tradition of being at mathurA every shivarAtri. Coincidentally, the local Hindus (mostly jAT kids that come from neighboring village side) celebrate every shivarAtri with much fanfare at kR^iShNa janmabhUmi and take out a grand procession, dressing themselves up like the senA of mahAdeva, the best looking teenager dressed up as mahAdeva riding on a virile bull, and crowd following him on foot. It is quite an experience to watch the procession from in front of the said mosque. Let me post some images of this year, as soon as I can have the Nokia issue fixed.