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Multi-periodSite Name: Reha, Kutch Ramayana reliefsCountry: India
NOTE: This site is 36.326 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Palace
Nearest Town: Bhuj
Latitude: 23.141152N Longitude: 69.746399E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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In spring 2005 , Mr. Dalpaht Bhy from the Abihian NGO took me to Reha to visit an ancient palace with most extraordinary reliefs of the Ramayana epic. The village suffered many earthquakes in the past so some of the reliefs are damaged yet i could see that it's a masterpiece of art.
The Ramayana is one of the two great Indian epics, the other being the Mahabharata. The Ramayana tells about life in India around 1000 BCE and offers models in dharma. The hero, Rama, lived his whole life by the rules of dharma; in fact, that was why Indian consider him heroic. When Rama was a young boy, he was the perfect son. Later he was an ideal husband to his faithful wife, Sita, and a responsible ruler of Aydohya. "Be as Rama," young Indians have been taught for 2,000 years; "Be as Sita."
The original Ramayana was a 24,000 couplet-long epic poem attributed to the Sanskrit poet Valmiki. Oral versions of Rama's story circulated for centuries, and the epic was probably first written down sometime around the start of the Common Era. It has since been told, retold, translated and transcreated throughout South and Southeast Asia, and the Ramayana continues to be performed in dance, drama, puppet shows, songs and movies all across Asia.
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About Reha And the kshatriya cast.
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