School education ensures us to have a mental picture of India map and we are capable of locating where is Punjab or Tamil Nadu. Yet we do not have a mental picture of where are those janapadas (kingdoms) mentioned in our Veda, Ithiāsa, Purāanas are located. An ordinary person is unable to locate where is Pānchala the kingdom of Pānchali or where is Gāndhara, the kingdom of Gāndhari. Yet there is enough information to create a digital map of Bhāratavarsha in our ancient texts.
This talk is about familiarizing the reader to recognize the janapadas mentioned in the Mahābhārata both the popular ones like Kuru, Pānchāla and rare references of Chīna, Darada and Kāmboja.
About Speaker: -
Jijith Nadumuri Ravi is the founder of the Website AncientVoice which contains 23500 pages on Mahabharata, Ramayana, the four Vedas and Vishnu Purana. It contains ancient India maps, analysis articles, lineage maps, the full text of English translation of these texts in Wikified form with 7000 plus nouns analysed creating huge information networks of Indic texts.
The author additionally hosts websites like Nalanda, Takshasila and RecentVoice, focusing on Greek, Avestan and Tamil literature. He was a former ISRO scientist (2001-2006) and an artist who loves to paint events from Mahabharata.
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00:52 Speaker’s profile
1:51 Introduction to Mahabharat
7:10 Bharat Varsha Kingdom Map – Northern Kingdoms
13:44 Bharat Varsha Kingdom Map – Southern Kingdoms
15:11 Bharat Varsha Maps – city level resolution
20:37 Chronology of different kingdoms
22:31 Bharat Varsha Geography – mountains, rivers, forests, lakes and geographical regions
27:08 The globe as island Sudarsana
28:59 The six mountain ranges and seven regions (Varshas)
32:57 The travel narratives – the emergence of Bharat as a union
36:16 Political polarizations reflecting in the geography
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