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OPTION 1 - MAPPING SACRED INDIA BY - SHASHVATHI KRISHNEN ROLL NUMBER – 25 GRADE - 7 DIVISION - A
SACRED GEOGRAPHY SACRED SITES ARE LOCATED ALL OVER THE SUBCONTINENT AND ARE INTERCONNECTED. HENCE NATURAL LANDSCAPES THEMSELVES CAN BE PERCEIVED AS A SACRED SPACE OR PUNYAKSHETRA. PILGRIMAGE A JOURNEY TO A SACRED PLACE THAT IS SIGNIFICANT IN A RELIGION A OR BELIEF SYSTEM . SACREDNESS FINDING SOMETHING OF DEEP RELIGIOUS OR SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE, WORTHY OF RESPECT OR REVERENCE AND HOLY OR DIVINE
CHAR DHAM NETWORK UTTARAKHAND, GUJARAT, ODISHA, TAMIL NADU. IT MAPS OUT A PILGRIMAGE NETWORK THAT CONNECTS ALL CORNERS OF INDIA TO CREATE A SHARED CULTURAL IDENTITY. IT IS ONE OF THE MAIN EXAMPLES OF SACRED GEOGRAPHY. GANGA RIVER FROM THE HIMALAYAS THROUGH UTTAR PRADESH, BIHAR AND WEST BENGAL. IT REPRESENTS A VITAL ECOSYSTEM WHOSE BANKS SERVED AT MASSIVE SPIRITUAL HUBS. BODH GAYA BIHAR IT REPRESENTS A HISTORICAL EXAMPLE OF NATURE WORSHIP. TIRUVANNAMALAI TAMIL NADU IT IS A PHYSICAL PERMANENT MOUNTAIN LANDFORM AND IS REVERED BY MULTIPLE COMMUNITIES AS A SACRED SPACE.
UTTARAPATHA TAXILA TO MATHURA TO PATALIPUTRA DAKSHINAPATHA SHRAVASTI TO UJJAINI TO PAITHAN THE UTTARAPATHA WAS ANCIENT INDIA’S MAIN TRANS CONTINENTAL HIGHWAY LINKING MAJOR ROUTES IN NORTH AND NORTHWEST INDIA TO THE ECONOMIC HUB PATALIPUTRA. APART FROM THE TRADE OF LUXURY GOODS THE ROUTE ACTED AS A MASSIVE CORRIDOR FOR CULTURAL DIFFUSION AND ART ACROSS SOUTH ASIA THE DAKSHINAPATHA WAS THE DEFINITIVE OVERLAND ROUTE THAT CONNECTED YHE GANGETIC PLAINS TO DECAN PLATEAU AND SOUTH INDIA. EMPIRES CONTROLLED THIS HIGHLY STRATEGIC ROUTE TO COLLECT TAXES AND SPREAD RARE SOUTH INDIAN COMMODITIES INTO CONNECTED INLAND HUBS AND NORTHERN MARKETS.
PILGRIMAGE, TRADE AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE PILGRIMAGE - BELIEFS DRIVE MILLIONS TO THESE SACRED SITES, CREATING WELL TRODDEN PATHS. EXAMPLE – CHINESE MONK HIUEN TSANG, TRAVELLING TO INDIA TO STUDY BUDDHISM. THIS FACILITATES THE SPREAD OF IDEAS TRADE – TRADERS FOLLOWED PATHS CARVED BY PILGRIMS TO ESTABLISH MARKET PLACES EXAMPLE – THE SILK ROAD CONNECTED ASIA TO EUROPE CARRYING GOODS THIS HELPS ESTABLISH TRADE ROUTES. CULTURAL EXCHANGE – AS PEOPLE TRADED AND TRAVELLED, THEY DID NOT JUST TRADE GOOD BUT ALSO CULTURAL IDEAS, PERMANENTLY CHANGING SOCIETY. EXAMPLE – THE SPREAD OF BUDDHISM TO SOUTH EAST ASIA. AS DIFFERENT CULTURES INTER-MIXED THIS LED TO THE FORMATIONS OF NEW IDEAS AND BELIEFS. pilgrimage Spreads ideas trade Opens routes Cultural exchange Enriches new journeys
MY CHOSEN NATURAL FEATURE SACRED GROVES OF INDIA WHY IS IT SACRED? THESE PATCHES OF FORESTS HAVE BEEN SET ASIDE BY COMMUNITIES AND HAVE BEEN DEDICATED TO DEITIES. AS THESE SPACES ARE CONSIDERED THE HOME OF THE DIVINE, COMMUNITIES PROHIBIT HARMING THESE GROVES. WHY SHOULD WE PROTECT IT? THESE GROVES ACT AS ANCIENT, NATURAL BIODIVERSITY SANCTUARIES. THESE GROVES ACT AS THE LAST REFUGE FOR WILDLIFE. THEY ALSO HAVE GREAT CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE. HENCE, PROTECTING THEM MEANS PROTECTING OUR ENVIRONMENT AS WELL AS OUR CULTURE. Sacred Nature & Conservation Conversation message Sacred to people, precious to nature; guarded by faith, kept alive by tradition. Protect our sacred groves and honor our forests.
WHAT DID I DISCOVER I DISCOVERED THAT INDIA IS NOT JUST A PIECE OF PHYSICAL LAND BUT A LIVING LANDSCAPE OF CULTURAL MEANINGS. OUR ANCESTORS USED NATURAL FEATURES TO MAP SACRED SPIRITUAL VALUES. THIS SHOWS US THAT OUR BIODIVERSITY HAS BEEN DEEPLY EMBEDDED IN OUR CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL HISTORY. HOW DID SACRED JOURNEYS HELP CONNECT DIFFERENT REGIONS AND CULTURES OF INDIA SACRED JOURNEYS SERVED AS INDIAS FOUNDATIONAL NETWORK BEFORE MODERN INFRASTRUCTURE . AS THESE SPIRITUAL TRAILS OVERLAPPED WITH TRADE ROUTES, THEY CREATED BUSTLING HUBS OF TRADE AND CULTURAL INTER- MIXING, ULTIMATELY BINDING THE SUBCONTINENT INTO A UNIFIED SOCIO- CULTURAL FABRIC SOURCES SOCIAL SCIENCE TEXTBOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA SURVEY OF INDIA PHYSICAL AND CULTURAL MAPPING DATA SETS
THANK YOU !BY SHASHVATHI KRISHNEN