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Who Are The Characters In This Afghan Museum Painting?

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  1. Thyagarajan

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    This painting exists (don't know for how many days more) in the Panjsheer Palace in the erstwhile Gandhara kingdom of Mahabharata time, the present day Afghanistan.

    The name 'Panjsheer' which is an aberration of the original name 'Panch sher' meaning Five Lions, was built in honour of the Five Pandava brothers.

    It was a totally Hindu Kingdom even in the later Buddhism period.
    It then fell to muslim shia sect invaders who promptly converted it into an Islsmic kingdom.
    However even they did not destroy the Hindu legacy and its remnants such as this painting and many other valuable antiques depicting Hindu culture. Most Hindu temples continued to exist.

    Now that the Sunni dominated Talibans have taken over Afghanistan, it is genuinely feared that all Hindus along with these memorabilia will no longer exist. They have very little time left.

    In the painting below who are the characters?




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    I like this post.

    How many people understand that india used to occupy so many lands thousands and thousands of years ago.

    In picture, I bbelieve it is Pandavas with Lord Krishna

    And i knew paanch cher meant 5 lions, but i never knew it referred to Pandavas!
     

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