BETTER TO LIGHT A CANDLE THAN RELY ON THE DARKNESS

 

BETTER TO LIGHT A CANDLE THAN RELY ON THE DARKNESS

Being in the vicinity of the Shivalik Fossil Park (Suketi Fossil Park), Morni-hills, Renuka-Lake and Kalesar National Park, Kalesar Wildlife Sanctuary, (both from a bond between Kalesar Forest in contiguous with the Simbalbara National Park and Rajaji National Park). Kalesar forest is home to leopards, panthers, elephants, wild boars/pigs, red jungle fowl, and variety of birds nestling rearing their dreams in the backdrop of a beautiful mosaic of water channels forming Hathnikund Barrage. The serene natural freshness of the land always kept me engaged. From my early childhood it made me to probe and document the facts about its eco-system, geography, fauna-flora, culture, politics and people. While studying Botany and Zoology in MLN College at Yamunanagar we dwelled in these heavens with a noted Botanist Professor Kali Ram and Zoologist Professor Bindra. 

My great uncle Dr. Samay Singh, a Persian Scholar remained Sarpanch of our village. He had relations with Dr. Harbert (A noted surgeon), Aslam Khan, Sunil Dutt’s cousin and Roshan Lal Arya, MLA from the erstwhile Chachroli constituency.          

It was in the year 2000, Group Captain Harimander Pal Singh (HPS) Pannu, a noted environmentalist, naturalist, humanist, philosopher, historian, defense-analyst, aviation-specialist, political activist and philanthropist kindled passion to understand, document and search its history. He referred to Sir William Wilson Hunter, the editor of The Imperial Gazetteer of India and quoted excerpts from “the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” by Edward Gibbons about Elephants and Rhinoceros in the stretch of Himalayas. During my ten year close association with Gp. Copt HPS Pannu I could see the rhythm and feel the pulse of Himalayan life, it enabled me to document facts scientifically with clarity.  

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA ON THE VERGE TO BE THE MOUTH-PIECE OF THE RSS AND SAVARKARI-MANUVADI-MAFIA

Yamunanagar runs an RSS laboratory, Gp. Copt HPS Pannu had interaction with one such person who mooted and start working on the superstitious idea of Saraswati river in the year 2002. The person quoted an unproven reference from the Imperial gazetteer.

The Directorate of Archaeology, after sensing the nefarious ploy of the RSS pertaining to the plotted discovery of some Hindu-god-images found in Morni by some villagers, expressed his unwillingness to explore these sites.

There are only two sites — Ratthpur and the Bhima Devi temple in Pinjor — ASI discovered of some value worth preserving. Archaeologists are of the view that both these temples could have been built between the 8th century and the 12th century. It was during that time that the art of iconography had developed to a great extent. Also, the architectural style is typical of that period, says a senior archaeologist of the Directorate of Archaeology, Haryana. The excavated parts of the temples included stone pillars, carvings and statues of apsaras and five copper pots. The Department of Archaeology registered 54 pieces unearthed from the site. These items, in possession of the department, are being chemically treated to discover the exact age of the temple. The results are not out yet.

RSS and its mafia is on a cryptic mission to create superstitious hype, they manufactured lies of Milk-drinking-Ganesh, the other decade. For Morni the RSS says the temples were destroyed by Muslims and their remains were also dispersed but the some honest ASI personnel suspected the agenda of the RSS as the stones found in the region have traces of Gandharba art and the images of gods, goddesses, apsaras are quite similar to those found in the Khajuraho temple in Madhya Pradesh and the Konark temple in Orissa. The RSS is running a massive agenda to befool ASI, but they bit the dust, as ASI is internationally liable to scientifically confirm its results.

For Saraswati river hype started dominating in the main stream media. The cunning RSS Brahmans, the Savarkari brigade RSS-BJP started digging the fields in 2014 to bring the river up from its underground smadhi with lies of all sorts to infuse Manuvadi poison into the scientific archeological evidence, the idea was: “Six centuries B.C. there was yet a seventh river of the Punjab— the Saraswati, to the east of the Sutlej, of which tradition relates that, having ceased to join the Indus, it made for itself an underground connection with the Ganges and Jumna near Allahabad,” quoting imperial gazetteer.  

A misadventure of the Imperial gazetteer got nailed scientifically as it was said that Karoh Peak of Morni hills is 1499 meters (4,913 ft.), but it came out to be only 1,467-metre (4,813 ft.) Shivalik Hills. However still it is the highest point in the state of Haryana, the correction required is that the British rulers had incorrectly recorded the height to be 1499 meters, but later measurements found the actual height to be about 100 feet lower and official height was revised down.

A museum preserves the images and some fossils and the fossils sites from being indiscriminately extracted and vandalized at Chandigarh. It provides prehistoric period scientific information for scholarly research. The Suketi park is maintained by the Geological Survey of India. The Geological Survey of India identifies the fossils as vertebrates that lived in the area about 2.5 million years ago. Scientists believe that the Shivalik Hills, which formed about twenty-five million years ago, show the evolution of mankind. The mammalian fossils found in the Shivalik of this park are one of the world's richest antiquities.

During my recent visit to the Morni Hills area I witnessed the handy work of the RSS, in a temple claimed to be an ancient Pandav temple where Pandav's (who actually never existed with their Chakarvayuh, axes, swords, artifacts and vimans) claimed to be stayed. There are very old hand chiseled looking images and tablets are fixed in the wall. The temple exteriors are relatively new on asking a local Pundit told that the temple was built in the year 1993. The statues are regularly appearing here from the grounds after rains. The statues do look old but are not OLD and the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has rightly decided to not to fall prey to the Manuvadi agenda of RSS’s murti-vibhag. Truth shall prevail only when the falsehood shall be confronted with facts.

Dr. Pawan Kumar Aryan

01-10-2020

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