Preface |
Prayer |
| Preface of the
Culture Course Volume - IV Book. [More...] |
some important
prayers of Gods and Godesses. [More...] |
The
Golden Deer |
The
Pandavas and Durvasa |
| Rams, Sita and
Lakshmana lived in the Dandaka forest. One day a beautiful deer with golden
sking came that wat and started grazing near their ashrama. [More...] |
The pandavas lived
for fourteen years in the forest. They had been driven out of the country by the
Kauravas. [More...] |
Markandeya |
Arundhati |
| Mrikandu was great
rishi. Marudvati was his wife. ?For a long time they had no children.The rishi
prayed to god Siva. [More...] |
Kardama was the
son of god brahma.He married Devahuti. They had nine daughters. Arundhati was the
eighth among them. [More...] |
Sukanya |
Savitri |
| Sukanya was king
Saryati's daughter. She was not only beautiful, but clever and happy-go-lucky.
she was the King's favourited child. [More...] |
For a long time
King Aswapati of madra had not children. He worshipped Goddess Savitri with great
divotion. By the blessings of that goddess Savitri. [More...] |
Socrates |
Confucius |
| There is a country
in Europe called Greece. it is far away from bharat. Athens is its
capital. long, long ago, there lived in that city a man called Socrates. [More...]
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China is a great
country. it lies to the east of Bharat. many great and learned men have lived
there. For most among these was Confucius. [More...] |
Vikramaditya |
Prayag |
| Chandra varma was
a learned Brahmin. The king of Kanyapuri gave him his daughter in marriage.
When the king became old, he mad Chandra varma king in his place. [More...] |
:Have you ever
been to Allahabad? It is a famous city in the north of India. A mile and a
half from Allahabad is the holy Kshetra called Prayag. [More...] |
Godavari |
Kaveri |
| There is a village
called Triyambak near nasik. Not far from that village there is a hill. Not
far from that village there is a hill. Rishi Gatama lived on that hill. [More...] |
Coorg is a small
district in karnataka State. It gets plenty of raingall. It is rich
forest. There is small hill called Brahmagiri in Coorg. [More...] |
Ayodhya |
Somanath |
| Like the seven
holy rivers, there are also the seven sacred cities of India. They are ayodhya,
mathura, Haridwar, Kasi, Kanchi, ujjain and Dwaraka. You have read about some of them. [More...] |
Daksha was God
Brahma's son. He had many son and daughters. He gav twenty - seven
daughters to the Moon - God in marriage. [More...] |
The
Kumbh Mela |
Uposatha |
| Long before the
world was born, there was a sea full of milk. it was called Kshira Sagara.
That sea contained amirta. by drinkin amrita one remianed always young. [More...] |
You have read
about Gautama, the Buddha. The followers of the Buddh are known as the
Buddhists. [More...] |
Mauna
Ekadasi |
The Pious
Cat |
| Long ago, there
lived a merchant named Sur. he was a Jain. His guru said to him one day:
"Sur, you must do Mauna-vrata for one day on the 11 th day of the bright half
of Marghasira every year". [More...] |
There was an old
tree in a forest which had a hole in its trunk. In that hole lived a sparrow.
everyday, the sparrow went out in the morning to eatthe grain from the field around and
returned to the tree in the evening. [More...] |
The
Snake and The Farmer |
The
Hare and The Elephant |
| There was once a
farmer. He had a mall piece of land. He grew paddy on it. There came a
year when no rain fel and the crops failed. The farmer did not know what to
do,He was desperate. [More...] |
Once there was an
elephant king, who lived in a forest. There was no rain for long time in
the forest and so the water in all the pools dreid up. [More...] |
Shivaji |
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| You have all heard
of shivaji the Great. he lived three hundred years ago in Maharashtra. he was
born in Shivner in sahydri hills. [More...] |
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