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Amazing Facts

Areal view of Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple located at Srirangam

...Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple located at Srirangam is spread over 155 acres and contains seven prakaras or enclosures, representing the seven chakras of our body.
...during the 1857 War of Independence, Jhalkari Bai had disguised as Rani of Jhansi and taken over the command of the army.
...Maharaja Kharavela of Odisha was so powerful that the Greek invader Demetrius had shifted outside the Indian territory in morbid fear of the powerful Kalinga army without any war.
...Guru Tegh Bahadur, 9th Guru of Sikh sect martyred to save Kashmiri Pandits from Aurangzeb's cruel fanaticism.
...Tirthankar Adinath and other twenty one Jain tirthankars were born in the Ikshvaku clan, the same clan in which Lord Ram was born?
...Tondaimandalam region and its capital, the city of Kanchipuram, was one of the richest regions in the world under the Pallavas.
...The Tirrukural, composed by Sage Thiruvalluvar and a part of Sangam Literature, has 133 chapters, that deal with many aspects of life and religion.
...it was not Prithviraj Chauhan, but Maharaja Hemchandra Vikramaditya (Hemu), who was the last Hindu Emperor ruling from Delhi.
....the revolt of 1857, referred to as the Sepoy Mutiny by the colonial historians, was popularized as the First War of Independence by V.D Savarkar in 1909.