Reasons Why You Are Seeing 777.

Reason why you are seeing 777

Have you been seeing 777 often? Do you wonder what kind of hidden message this number has and what 777 means for you?

First of all, repetitive number patterns, such as 777, are by no means simple coincidences, but messages from the Universe and your guardian angels or beloved spirit guides. They want to capture your attention because something truly beautiful and awe-inspiring is happening or is about to happen in your life.

Although there can be multiple reasons why you are frequently seeing 777, here are the three most important reasons why this numeric pattern keeps showing up on your journey in this stage of your life.

1st Meaning of 777: You're Interacting in Perfect Synchronicity With The Universe

Whenever you’re seeing the 777 numeric pattern, the angels send you their congratulations! The reason? You are riding the wave and are in tune with your true self and the whole Universe. You are in alignment with your life purpose. It is a confirmation telling you that you’re doing well. When you understand who you truly are, you work on what's meaningful to you and bring your energy and light to the world. This is what the world needs from you.

This is an extremely positive angelic sign for you, so whenever you see 777, remember that your purpose flows from within you and everything that is unfolding or being revealed to you is part of your purpose. Your new thoughts and ideas will nudge you in the right direction.

You will feel as if something larger is taking you over and using you as an instrument or vessel to fulfill a mission. You may even notice that your health improves, your relationships shift for the better, your finances improve, or most significantly—your heart opens.

2nd Meaning of 777: You're Increasing Your Awareness to Know Yourself Better

Another meaning of 777 is that you need to keep your mind positively focused on your true potential and know that you are far more than what you appear to be. For this, you need to continue living in the state of awareness and put all your energy and effort into being more awake. The key is being present.

Being aware of yourself and everything around you is the authentic way you can live your life. Be observant of your own actions and pay attention to every thought and feeling. Be watchful of everything you do. Know what you like and dislike, recognize what motivates you, and be familiar with your strengths and weaknesses. "Know thyself."

Your increased self-awareness will give you the guidance in your life journey. Since you are in control, you will know where to focus your thoughts, feelings, and actions to fulfill your mission.

The following quote from psychoanalyst Carl Jung sums it up: "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

So whenever you see 777, know that the more you’re in touch with who you are, the more your internal chatter will decrease and you will develop more clarity. As the deepest parts of your being rise to the surface, you will notice a state of peace and calmness within your soul.

3rd Meaning of 777: You're Ready to Practice The New Knowledge

Another reason why you are seeing 777 frequently is that you’re ready to put into practice all the wonderful spiritual knowledge you’ve come to understand.

The angels are telling you that you’ve read all the books you needed to read, you’ve done all of your “spiritual homework” and you’re now ready to put everything into play.

You have come out of the study zone and you’re ready to enter the practice zone—this is the meaning of 777.

Start practicing the spiritual lessons that you’ve learned and always stay focused, humble and aware of yourself. Building self-awareness is a life-long effort, so you're never really done.

Whatever is unfolding around you is meant to guide you or to teach you. Everything is connected to you and part of your purpose.

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TREES: WHAT AGE IS A GOOD AGE?

You probably learned how to tell a tree’s age back in sixth grade (maybe even earlier). Every year a tree is alive, a new ring develops in its trunk. But these rings reveal more than just how many years old a tree is. Tree rings hold information about climate conditions specific to each year. Dendrochronologists (people who study tree rings) can look at the rings in wood that was harvested thousands of years ago and determine exactly when it was alive.

Speaking of tree age, what age do you think is the ideal age for a tree to be?

Young Tree

Middle Age Tree

Old Tree

Young?, Middle-aged?, or Old?

The answer is: All of the above. A diverse forest with different ages and a variety of plant species makes for a healthy ecosystem.

There are benefits to all ages of trees.
Young trees are great for our air. Like humans, trees grow the most when they are young. In order to grow, trees have to photosynthesize. During photosynthesis, trees absorb carbon, sunlight, and water and they produce sugar to eat and oxygen, which we use to breath. So, by understanding basic photosynthesis, you can see that young trees are best at absorbing carbon and producing oxygen, thus ensuring healthy air quality for our planet.

Young trees are also better than old trees at fighting off disease and pests. For example, the pine beetle typically only kills pine trees that are more than 80 years old. This is because the younger trees are better at producing sap that blocks the beetles from getting inside the tree. (It looks kind of gross, I know.) So if we have too many old trees, disease and pests can spread out of control and cause immense damage to our forests.

Another benefit of the younger trees is they are less likely to be struck by lightning (which can cause forest fires). Forest fires have their benefits—they help renew aging forests—but we don’t want our forests to be too prone to burning. When fires get out of control they can devastate habitat and risk spreading to towns and people. Since lightning causes 90% of burned forest area in Canada, young forests help prevent these massive forest fires.

Finally, there are certain animals that prefer younger forests. Deer, moose, and elk thrive in areas that have recently experienced events that produce new vegetative growth such as fires, timber harvests, and storms. 

Now, before you start thinking young trees are the only good kind of tree, I will tell you why old trees are also very important.

First of all, they are beautiful! There is something very majestic about old trees. And the density and sponginess of an old forest is kind of mysterious and ignites a desire for exploration.

Older trees are also usually better for harvesting. In Alberta, our trees grow very slowly, so it takes about 80 – 120 years of growth before a tree is large enough to use for products like lumber and pulp. Due to the slow growth of Alberta’s trees, the fibres are very long and strong, producing very high quality paper and wood products.

Just like some animals prefer young trees, other animals prefer old trees. For example, wolverines and caribou prefer older forests because the larger trees provide protection from predators. Old trees also serve better dinner for some animals. Caribou like to munch on the mosses and lichens that grow in old forests.

Finally, old forests are good for preventing the spread of ground fires. These fires spread easily in the presence of dense ground foliage (common to young trees). The foliage on old trees is up high, far from the ground, so ground fires don’t spread as quickly.

As you can see, it is important that we have diverse forests so that different species of plants and animals can thrive. Also, forest diversity provides us with healthy air and ensures we can always use the valuable resources in the forests. It’s a good thing we have foresters and forest technicians who understand the need for diversity in forests and who ensure that we have a range of tree species and ages growing in our forests. Foresters and forest technicians manage forest diversity by matching the appropriate tree species to site conditions and monitoring forest health.

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India likely to take up issues over hydroelectric projects with Pakistan

India, Pakistan will hold a two-day meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission in New Delhi, starting tomorrow (29/03/2018), to discuss various issues under the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT).

The six-member Pakistani delegation will be headed by Syed Muhammad Mehar Ali Shah, while India's Indus water commissioner PK Saxena will head the Indian team and will be accompanied by technical experts and a representative of the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), sources said.

This will be the 114th meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission (PIC), which should meet at least once a year as per the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), sources said.

India, Pakistan will hold a two-day meeting of the Permanent Indus Commission in New Delhi

A day ahead of the announcement of the PIC meeting, Union Water Resources Minister Nitin Gadkari categorically said that the Centre is making concerted efforts to stop "water sharing" with Pakistan.

Addressing the concluding session of Agri Leadership Summit 2018 in Rohtak in Haryana yesterday, Gadkari said, "During Partition, India got three rivers but we could not utilise our share of the waters, which kept flowing back to Pakistan. Now, the Centre has decided to stop the flow of the country's due share into Pakistan and utilise it to feed our parched lands."

The Indus Waters Treaty covers water distribution and sharing rights of six rivers--Beas, Ravi, Sutlej, Indus, Chenab and Jhelum. Water from the western rivers are reserved for Pakistan and eastern rivers for India.

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இருண்ட வானம்...Rain Clouds

Lent gives us a chance to reflect on God's love

Lent is a symbol of the progression of our earthly lives towards their goal. It is an opportunity to reflect upon, with deepening appreciation, what the Lord Himself has done for us - the love beyond all measure with which He has loved us; to marvel at His saving work and, with thanksgiving and adoration, to behold the Cross which declares that we are saved, that, with Christ, we are victors.

Lent is a call to "come, consider the works of the Lord and the marvellous deeds He has done (Psalm 66:5)".

Referring to His Passion and Cross, the Lord Jesus foretold: "The Son of Man must be lifted up, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in Him (John 3:14)."

Jesus is referring to the incident in the desert when the people's disobedience brought a plague of deadly serpents upon them. Many were bitten and died (Numbers 21:6). God instructed Moses to fashion a serpent of bronze and put it up on a standard, so that all who looked at it, were delivered from the deadly toxin. Thus, the means of death was changed into life and healing. The antidote to the deadly poison is created from the venom itself.

This prophetic gesture, shown to Moses by God, points to how God will redeem and save the world from the deadly effects of sin, from our fundamental disobedience to God's Word and from our disastrous departure from His Truth.

Moses lifted up a bronze serpent and all who looked at it were saved from the lethal venom. Jesus Himself is lifted up on the Cross, and all who look to Him, with faith, are saved from everlasting death.

The Cross of Christ is the anti-venom, the antidote, to the destructive power of evil. The Cross of Christ declares the truth that evil will never win and that the Devil's fate is sealed.

Disaster had befallen our humanity and there was no remedy to the catastrophe that had overtaken us, on account of our stubborn rejection of God's love and grace. Nevertheless, the response of God to our self-inflicted plight, was the advent of His Son.

"God loved us with so much love that he was generous with his mercy: when we were dead through our sins, he brought us to life with Christ - it is through grace that you have been saved - and raised us up with him and gave us a place with him in heaven, in Christ Jesus (see Ephesians 2:4-10)."

We were lifeless and He gave us His own life. We were prostrate in abject helplessness and He reached down to us, from the Cross, in infinite kindness and merciful love, raising us up, with Him, beyond the grasp of death. We were the Devil's prey but, by means of the Cross, the Lord has snatched us from the jaws of Hell.

The barren and bitter wood of horror and desolation is now the Tree of Life.

The One who hung upon the arms of the Cross has found and embraced us.

With mighty hand and outstretched arm, the Lord has saved and delivered us. His love endures for evermore (Psalm 136:12).

Let us never lose sight of these wondrous realities. Let us live constantly in the light of the truth of God's love for us (John 3:21) - His love "stronger than death (Song of Songs 8:8)".

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Anti-Homeless Spikes in India following UK, China styles.

Financial Times reporter Simon Mundy set off a firestorm Sunday after sharing photos on Twitter of the new tactics India's HDFC Bank has taken up to deter the homeless from sheltering near one of its branches.

​Within hours, Mundy had hundreds of netizens responding to his tweet, calling the move a safety hazard.

HDFC Bank Fort Branch.

Some tweets - 

​"As other have pointed out, these anti-homeless spikes from HDFC Bank Fort branch are not only a depressing gesture towards Mumbai's many rough sleepers," Mundy said in a follow up tweet, using a common British term for homeless people, "but could also impale any pedestrian unlucky enough to trip and fall in this crowded passageway."

However, this isn't exactly a new practice, as Mundy later told the Mumbai Mirror.

"It reminded me of ‘defensive architecture' installed in London to prevent homeless people from sleeping outside commercial premises, which attracted a great deal of public controversy," Mundy told the outlet. "I noted [in subsequent tweets], however, that the spikes outside this HDFC Bank branch were far longer and sharper than those I had seen photographed in the UK and could cause grave injury to anyone who fell on them — there appeared a particular risk of this happening since the passageway outside the branch is narrow and crowded."

Taking note of the growing outrage, HDFC Bank informed the publication that it would be removing the spikes immediately.

"We sincerely regret the inconvenience caused to the public by the installation of the spikes at our Fort branch as part of the recent renovation carried out there," HDFC said in a statement. "While the installation is legal, we should have been conscious of the possibility of inconvenience to passers-by, especially children and elderly."

"We should have been sensitive. We are having the spikes removed on priority," it added.

Concrete spikes under a road bridge in Guangzhou city, Guangdong, China

Metal studs outside private flats on Southwark Bridge Road, London.

Winter Cherry - Siberian Shopping Center Fire.

В торговом центре Кемерова произошел пожар
Информация о том, что в торгово-развлекательном центре (ТРЦ) «Зимняя вишня» в Кемерове произошел пожар, стала поступать около 14:00 по московскому времени в воскресенье, 25 марта. По предварительным данным, возгорание произошло на последнем этаже четырехэтажного здания торгового центра, где в том числе находится кинотеатр и детский развлекательный центр. Сотрудники экстренных служб сразу же перекрыли движение транспорта в районе места происшествия.


In the shopping center of Kemerovo there was a fire.
Information that a fire broke out in the shopping and entertainment center (SEC) "Winter Cherry" in Kemerovo, started comming around 14:00 Moscow time on Sunday, March 25. According to preliminary data, the fire occurred on the top floor of a four-story shopping center building, including a cinema and a children's entertainment center. Emergency officers immediately blocked traffic in the vicinity of the scene.

Another news portal reports -

HELL ON EARTH 

Dozens of kids among 100 feared dead as blaze tears though Russian shopping mall forcing desperate victims to jump to their deaths

Witnesses claim a fire alarm did not go off in the building when the blaze broke out in Siberia

Heritage history: the Nalukettu houses of Kerala

a nalukettu veedu

Tradition is making a comeback amongst millennials today. Fueled by the need to belong and to be part of a heritage there is a widespread revival of age-old customs across India. Coloured by sepia-toned memories and a strong sense of nostalgia, getting ‘back to our roots’ is in vogue, especially among NRIs seeking to buy properties in India.

This heightened longing for the good old days has been instrumental in bringing back many classical architectural styles, and one of them is the nalukettu veedu in Kerala.

Design of Nalukettu

Nalukettu means four blocks and a typical house built in this fashion would be divided into a north, south, east, and west block.

The naalukettu was a typical feature of the Kerala tharavadu tradition, where joint families lived together for generations with a patriarch and matriarch overseeing all their affairs. At the centre of the house is a nadumuttam, which is an open courtyard that served as the focal point of interactions between the family as well as various household activities and festivities. The larger and wealthier families had ettukettu or, the rarer, pathinaarukettu houses featured eight and 16 blocks with two and four courtyards respectively. All of these houses were built following the principles of ancient thachu shastra or the science of carpentry and developed during the 18th and 19th centuries, a time when the Nairs and Namboodiris dominated the society with their power and wealth.

These aristocratic families who prided on their lineage and the name of their tharavadu would build extensive naalukettu homes that would feature a grove with a snake mound to facilitate the popular worship of snakes, a basil leaves plant installation made of stone or brick, and even a pond for the exclusive use of the family. Naalukettus can be sprawling, entirely built on the ground floor or can go up to three storeys high.

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நையாண்டிப் பாடல்

ஒரு நபரையோ நிகழ்வையோ கேலி செய்யும் நோக்குடன்நகைச்சுவை 

தொனிக்கப் பாடப்பட்ட நாட்டார் பாடல்கள் நையாண்டிப் பாடல்கள் அல்லது கேலிப்பாடல்கள் எனப்படும்.

நையாண்டிப் பாடல்கள் பொதுவாக சமூக சீரமைப்பு நோக்கிலும் வளர்ச்சி நோக்கிலும், அவை மீறப்படும் போது எழும் சீற்றம் காரணமாகப் பாடப்பட்டவைகளாகக் கருதப்படுகின்றன. ஆயினும் இதற்குப் புறம்பான காழ்ப்புணர்ச்சியும் பல பாடல்களை ஆழ்ந்து நோக்கும் போது தொனிக்கிறது.

எ.கா:

1. பொருத்தமில்லாத திருமண சம்பந்தம் ஒன்று பேசப்படும் போது

காக்கொத்தரிசாம்கண்ணுழுத்த செத்த மீனாம்போக்கற்ற மீரானுக்குப்பொண்ணுமாகா வேணுமாம்.கச்சான் அடிச்ச பின்புகாட்டில் மரம் நின்றது போல்உச்சியில நால மயிர்ஓரமெல்லாம் தான் வழுக்கை.

2. அந்நியர் ஆட்சியின் போது அதற்கெதிராக

என்ன பிடிக்கிறாய் அந்தோனிஎலி பிடிக்கிறேன் சிஞ்ஞோரேபொத்திப் பொத்திப் புடி அந்தோனிபூறிக் கொண்டோடிற்று சிஞ்ஞோரேகோண ஆகாண மலையேறிகோப்பிப் பழம் பறிக்கையிலேஒரு பழம் குறைஞ்சதெண்டுஓலம் வைச்சான்வெள்ளைத் துரை

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Frank Lloyd Wright - American architect of the 20th century.

Frank Lloyd Wright - American architect of the 20th century.

Frank Lloyd Wright was the most influential American architect of the 20th century. He designed private homes, office buildings, hotels, churches, museums, and more. As a pioneer of the “organic” architecture movement, Wright designed buildings that integrated into the natural environments that surrounded them. Perhaps the most famous example of Wright’s daring design was Fallingwater, which Wright designed to literally hover over a waterfall.

Design by Lloyd Wright

Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright. Photography of the exterior.

His work, eventful life and outsized personality have inspired architectural acolytes, documentaries, films, novels and everything from furniture to finger puppets.

Born in 1867 in Wisconsin, his career spanned seven decades, during which he produced 1,114 architectural designs, 532 of which were built. Seven Wright-designed houses remain in Indiana.

As America came out of the Great Depression in the 1930s, Wright saw the urgent need for affordable, well-designed houses for middle-class families. He created designs he labeled Usonian – a play on United States of North America – that he touted as the realization of a democratic, organic, uniquely American brand of architecture. Rooted in his Prairie design principles, Usonian houses possess a similar horizontality, with flatter rooflines, built-in furniture, less expensive windows (no art glass, for example) and carports instead of garages.

- Taken from article written by PAIGE WASSEL Contributing Writer.

This week in history

25 March, 1986

25 March 1986: Princess Diana arrives to the launch of 'Help The Aged' charity's Silver Jubilee Appeal, at Mayfair Hotel in London. The princess has also launched a double-decker bus with information on the charity and a lifeline unit.

25 مارس 1986: اﻷميرة ديانا تصل الى فندق مايفير بالعاصمة البريطانية لندن لحضور حفل اليوبيل الفضي للمؤسسة الخيرية التي تتولى رئاستها، تحت شعار "ساعدوا المسنين". كما أطلقت الأميرة أيضا خلال الحفل حافلة بطابقين توفر معلومات عن المؤسسة الخيرية، وتشمل على وحدة طبية مصغرة لمساعدة المسنين ■

Gold spills on Russian runway

$400m Worth of Gold Bullion falls out of plane's cargo.

Russian news reports say the hatch of a cargo plane carrying precious metals accidentally flew open upon takeoff — scattering at least 3 tons of gold on the runway.

An investigation is underway after the incident Thursday at the airport in the far east city of Yakutsk, according to the Tass news agency.

An An-12 plane operated by the airline Nimbus took off for Krasnoyarsk carrying 9.3 tons of gold and other precious metals, according to a statement from the state Investigative Committee quoted by Tass. Damage to a door handle caused it to fly open and spill some of the metal.

Authorities recovered 172 gold bars weighing 3.4 tons, Tass quoted Interior Ministry officials as saying.

No one was hurt in the incident. Images circulating on social media showed gold bars scattered across a runway.

Florida International University Bridge Collapse.

A newly installed bridge touted as a feat of engineering collapsed on Florida International University's campus Thursday, killing at least four people.


The collapse occurred at about 1:30 p.m., Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Division Chief Paul Estopinan said in a press conference Thursday afternoon.

As of 5 p.m., a minimum of eight vehicles were trapped under the rubble, Estopinan said. Some workers were on the bridge when it collapsed, but officials did not detail whether any of them were among the dead.

A pedestrian bridge collapsed on the Florida International University campus in Miami, March 15, 2018

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department personnel and other rescue units work at the scene where a pedestrian bridge collapsed at Florida International University on March 15, 2018 in Miami.

Ten injured victims, labeled as level-one trauma patients, were transported to nearby Kendall Regional Medical Center, program director Dr. Mark McKenney said in a press conference.

One of the patients was in cardiac arrest and another was in a coma with "severe extremity injuries" when they arrived, McKenney said. Those patients were in critical condition.

Eight other patients admitted to the hospital suffered from traumatic injuries such as bruises, abrasions and broken bones but were in stable condition, McKenney said.

A rescue dog and its handler work at the scene where a pedestrian bridge collapsed at Florida International University .

Elephant Crosses China - Laos Border

Watch: Elephant Crosses China-Laos Border, Ignoring Security Checkpoint

Surveillance footage captured a wild elephant crossing a checkpoint from southwestern China into Laos late Saturday and then returning through the same crossing only two hours later.

China Central Television broadcast the video Sunday saying that the elephant crossed from the Chahe border in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan province, into Luang Namtha, Laos, in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Border officers had sent two teams in order to warn nearby residents of the danger, however, the animal returned without incident.

According to Chahe border official named Li Zhifu, the wild elephant was probably looking for food.

"It's winter now and there's not a lot of food in the forests. We often see wild elephants hunting for food in nearby villages," Li said.

"The elephant has returned to the [Chinese] forest safe and sound."

Footage recorded at the border showed the elephant circumventing a barrier and making its way into Luang Namtha, Laos, about 4:30 a.m. local time on Sunday (3:30 p.m. EST Saturday). Officials confirmed that the animal returned through the same route and was last seen entering the forest.

Thanjavur Palace

Thanjavur Palace is a wonderful example of the architectural style and cultural interests of the Marathas and Nayaks. Both these dynasties were great patrons of art and culture and did a great deal to promote and develop music, architecture and the fine arts.

Thanjavur Palace has the famous Saraswathi Mahal library, an art gallery and the Royal Museum with an interesting collection of artifacts, paintings, books and other memorabilia.

The paintings in the Darbar Hall retell the stories from the epic Ramayana. The walls and ceilings are covered with detailed stucco figures of gods and goddesses.

The State Department of Archaeology is in charge of taking care of the important monuments in the palace complex like the Arsenal Tower, Bell Tower, Darbar Hall of the Marathas and Sadar Madi (Sarjah Madi).

History :

Thanjavur Palace is situated in the Big Fort Complex that was originally built by Vijayaraghava Nayakkar (1633-74 CE), who was the last king of the Thanjai Nayak dynasty.

Attractions :

Darbar Hall and Sangita Mahal


The Maratha Durbar Hall has stripes on the octagonal columns and ornate designs on the arches. Portraits of several Maratha rulers including Serfoji can be seen in this hall. The walls are adorned with images of gods and goddesses like Shiva and Vishnu with their consort and Indra and other familiar figures. The Sangita Mahal, where music and dance flourished under the patronage of the kings, is a miniature of the surviving court of Thirumalai Nayaks.

Arsenal Tower

Madamaligai, the Arsenal Tower, is 190 feet height with eight storeys. It was constructed during the period of the Marathas in 1855 CE. It was used as a watchtower and an armory to store weapons and ammunition imported from European countries. After the English captured the palace in 1855 CE, all the contents were transferred to Tiruchirappalli, in 1863.

The Palace

The Thanjavur Palace is a huge complex that has many architectural features. The massive complex consists of huge halls, wide corridors, multi-storied observation towers and a shady courtyard. As you walk across, you can see that some parts of the complex are in ruins while other parts show that restoration work has been taken up to revive and protect the monument.

The royal objects that are on display in the museum include royal clothing, headgear and hunting weapons. On the upper floor is a skeleton of a 92-feet whale that washed ashore near Tranquebar in 1955.

Bell Tower

To the northwest of the Arsenal Tower is Goodagopuram, the Bell Tower also known as ‘the wide holed ear pavilion’ and designed in the style of the Gingee Nayaks.

The seven-story bell tower has superb views of the Big Temple and a bird’s eye view of the city of Thanjavur. It is also believed that Vijayaraghava Nayakkar climbed it every day at noon to worship the towers of the Srirangam Ranganatha temple, visible from the top of this tower. Today this tower has only seven storeys though it is said to have been higher with more levels that were damaged by thunder and lightning. A research note says that there was a huge and unusual clock on the tower in which the figure of a monkey used to strike the gong every hour.

Saraswathi Mahal Library

Originally called the Saraswathi Bhandar, the Raja Serfoji Saraswathi Mahal Library is one of the greatest libraries in India. The books, manuscripts, palm leaf and ancient texts have been collected over three hundred years by the Nayak and Maratha kings. Next to the art gallery, the Saraswathi Mahal Library contains over 44,000 palm leaf and paper manuscripts in Indian and European languages inside this library. Over eighty percent of the manuscripts are in Sanskrit. The Tamil literature and material in the library is on varied subjects like medicine and commentaries on works of the Sangam period.

King Serfoji II (1798-1832) was an eminent scholar. When he was young he studied under Rev Schwartz and learned English, French, Italian, Latin etc. he became greatly interested in Arts, Science and he spent a great deal of time, money and effort to add to the Saraswathi Library. When he was on a visit to Benares, he employed many Pandits (learned scholars) to collect, buy and copy many works from renowned centers of Sanskrit. As a tribute to this great collector, the library is named after him.

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Library

Tanjavur Palace

Lantara Painting French

SIMON MATHURIN LANTARA - SPIRIT OF GOD HOVERED OVER WATER

This page has a painting of Simon Mathurin Lantara - Spirit of God Hovered Over Water.

Simon Mathurin Lantara, The Spirit of God hovering over in the waters,
oil on canvas, 1752, 52.5 x 63 cm, Grenbole Museum.

L’esprit de Dieu planait au dessus des eaux

The Spirit of God Hovered Over The Waters.

Ce n’est pas dans un lieu de culte que j’ai vu ce tableau, mais au Musée de Grenoble, au hasard d’une errance trop rapide dans les salles des collections : une marine lumineuse, peut-être inspirée de Claude Lorrain, et annonçant Turner, la surface de l’eau marquée des virgules des vagues, et un rideau de nuages s’entrouvrant (comme des ailes d’anges) pour laisser passer une lumière si forte qu’on n’ose la fixer.

This isn't in a place of worship that I saw this tableau, but in a museum of Grenoble, wandering too fast in the halls of the collections: A bright light, perhaps imspired by Claude Lorrain(1600-1682) and JMW Turner(1775 -1851), The surface of the water marked with commas and spaces, and a curtain of clouds half-opening (as angels wings) to let through a so strong light.