A Gorgeous Bird with Disgusting Legs....!!

A Gorgeous Bird with Disgusting Legs…!

The gorgeous and magnificent Peacock is the National Bird of India. The Male Peacock with its long, flexible and bright blue neck, fan shaped tail feathers and a royal Tuft on head make it beautiful.

Female Peacock or Peahen, in comparison to their male counterpart are small in shape and size, has drab brown colour and has no sweeping tail. The female Peacock or Peahen lays four to six eggs in a year. These eggs hatched for 24-days.   The little Peacock begins to fly within three to four days after breaking out from eggs.

In these initial two months period of growing, the parents Peacock protect their little ones from other animals. Peacock shed their tail’s feathers once a year and grows new ones. People collect these feathers which are used for other decorative items like-Wall Hangings, Fans, and even Book Marks.

Peacock feathers are of deep and bright green colour and each feather has a half-moon shaped crest at the end. The feathers of Peacock are spotted with eyes like mark of bright blue colour. The Male Peacock is known and popular for their Rain Dance usually in front of Peahen to attract or woo them for mating.

Ajanta Caves Paintings are Like Graphic Novels...!

Ajanta Caves Paintings are Like Graphic Novels…!

In Indian Historical map the Ajanta caves (Near Jalgawn, Maharashtra) is placed second after the Taj Mahal (Agra, U.P.). The Ajanta Caves are set in horse-shoe shape and were carved out from 275 Meter rock hills, excavated out by Buddhist Monks.

Ajanta caves remained unknown for thousand years, hidden behind thick bushes, until AD 1819. When some British travelers, discovered it by a chance, and helped to restore back its glory.

There are total 29-caves. Some are small and some are larger by size and nearly all the caves have beautiful wall paintings called wall frescos. This has been restored back to their original colours in recent years.

In Ajanta caves you can see many chapters of Lord Buddha’s life (Jatak-Kathas) in quite Graphic Novel style. You can see Scenes of Sickness, Old age and death which led Lord Buddha to renounce the world, are vividly depicted.

In other Ajanta Paintings you find birds, animals, trees, flowers, fruits, and soldiers, Kings, queens, royal procession, Darbars (Courts), Singers and dancers. In one particular painting, you can see- the   enticement of Buddha by Mara and her three daughters-Tanu, Rati, and their failure.

 

In some of Ajanta paintings you get to see people and culture of other foreign countries like- Turks, Seythians, Chinese, Persians and Parathians. There are also other stages of Lord Buddha’s life. Many caves consist of galleries of cells in which the Monks used to live and study.