Maharashtra kingdom people were affable: Chinese traveller Xuanzang
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Quaid Najmi ( IANS) |
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Tue, Jan 19 2021 19:27 IST |
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XUANZANG, the great Chinese Scholar and Traveller (602-664 AD) who visited the ancient Kingdom of Maharashtra and lived in present day Mumbai.. Image Source: IANS News
Mumbai, Jan 19 : The people of the ancient Maharashtra kingdom were very warm, friendly and helpful, with high self-esteem , observed the great Chinese Buddhist monk and wanderer Xuanzang, according to a new book.
The scholar Xuanzang (602-664 AD) travelled in classical India during the 7th century AD, spending around 12 years traversing the length and breadth of the country, according to the new treatise, Mumbai Beyond Bombay by historian, scholar and archaeologist Dr Suraj A. Pandit.
For centuries, perfumers in Kannauj have worked their alchemy to create “liquid gold.”
By Rachna Sachasinh
Published 18 Dec 2020, 21:08 GMT
A young woman plucks petals from a heap of roses at a sorting center in Kannauj, India. For more than 400 years, Kannauj artisans have been producing rose attar using the world’s oldest known perfume-making process.
Tegh Singh arrives at his flower farm on the banks of the Ganges before sunrise, ready to pluck rose petals when they are at their peak bouquet. Circling the dense and haphazardly planted
Rosa damascena shrubs, he works quickly, tossing the light pink petals into a jute sack slung over his shoulder. By the time the first rays of sunlight skim across the river, the 35-year-old Singh is already on his scooter, ferrying the sweet-smelling load inland to Kannauj, a small city known as “the perfume capital of India.”