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Ancient People Were Anything But Primitive. The Carvings Make That Undeniable.

2026-04-15 Entertainment
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The lipstick is mentioned in the Kama Sutra. A 900 year old temple carving shows a woman applying eyeliner. Another shows a figure holding what Praveen Mohan identifies as an ancient hairdryer - a bundle of fragrant burning wood held near the hair, a practice still used by women in India today. Praveen’s point is both simple and profound - we have not changed. The continuity between ancient daily life and modern experience is visible in the stone, and because some of these traditions never died out in India, the meaning behind the carvings can still be read. The question Praveen builds toward reframes the entire understanding of what ancient Indian temples actually were. Wrestling. Dancing. Erotica. 2000 individual carvings covering every surface. None of that belongs in a simple place of worship - and Praveen argues that the Western framework of temple as church or mosque simply does not apply to the ancient temples of India and Southeast Asia. These were not buildings designed for prayer alone. They served multiple purposes simultaneously - astronomical, educational, cultural, ceremonial - and the extraordinary detail carved into their surfaces was never decorative. It was deliberate. Ancient people, Praveen concludes, were anything but primitive.

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@rickrobson8122 2026-04-15

Sire we're the same as the people from the Ancient civilisations, the difference is that we've been long devolving into primitive cave humans with high technology. Oh well.....

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@timpeifer6682 2026-04-17

I. Eleive everything we know came from India..Alexander the great never conquered India cause they had real technology they had black powder and the new how to blow things up ..they had plenty of things where dates of things being invented are wrong and where invented in India first ...the city of dwarka was found and recently scientist just found a asteroid that hit the indian ocean 2500 years ago and explains why dawraka was destroyed by war of gods then also explain for the timeline of egypt goi g fro. Megalothics structures to little easy stuff .2500 years ago that part of the world was changed by destruction and floods from that asteroid and everything lines up with peole all over the world doing crazy hard stuff to doing easy thing trying to replicate the grand stuff

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@devangerdthori3757 2026-04-19

Certain straight jacket logic..used in certain religions.. may not apply ..to those who build hindu temples..People may include philosophical concepts, educational ideas, purposes of worship of a deity etc...in their construction..As a gathering place..I agree the temple may have,..and I feel, should be used for social events to promote religious & cutural activities..

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