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GURUKUL,
JHAJJAR MUSEUM
: UNIQUE IN HARYANA
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The Archeological
Museum of Gurukul Jhajjar is probably, the biggest museum in Haryana. It came in
the picture in the year 1959. The Director of this museum Swami Omanand Saraswati
made great efforts in collecting the antiques under one roof from various parts
of the country.
The Museum
has vast collections of antique coins as well as the rare and beautiful variety
of idols in it. It has
a huge
variety of antics from all over Haryana, Rajasthan, Punjab
, Ahichchhatra (Bareli) and Koushanbhi (Alahabad).
In the year 1995, during the Indo-Japan Festival in Japan
, some of the antiques & rare pieces of idols had been
taken to be exhibit there, which proves its importance and insured then for lacked
by the Indian Govt. According to the
Director of the Museum the, idols, which had
been exhibited led lines in the Japanese
Newspapers and Magazines then.
A part from these idols the museum also consists
a large number of big and small sizes of idols and statues from
Rampart Period.
Some of them are;
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Panchwati’s Deer Statue (referring to the time of Sita’s Kidnapping) Photographs
of phallus
of Word Shiva from Gupt paring and the lusting of boar by Bharata, the
great son of
Shakuntala & Dushyanta attract the visitors. More to these are
lord Vishnu’s 5’, Lord
Ganesha’s 2’ and the brass plate (looks like of vaidic period)
made by the milkman
Dharamvir Arya, forcibly draws one’s attention.
A wooden chain with no joints, made by the local craftsman and the articles used
in agriculture in miniature inside the bottle are the magnificent examples of art
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It shows the scene of the historic Chakravyuha of Mahabharata period
in its other part there is an image of chessboard
too.
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Here, one can see the Nilgiri’s
huge pot, the barrels, made by camels skin, old scripture, pictures, art pieces
utensils
idolatrous and variety of small things made from brass and bell metal and
tusker.
The novelty of this museum is 427 copper leaves the Satyartha Prakash encaved on
them
and each one weighing 2.5 kilograms.
In 1983 it costs about 2.5 lacs. There is large no. of scriptures, ranograpty, philosophy,
mythology, therapeutic literature from the Ramayana and Mahabharata periods available
here.
Not only this, one can have the privilege of seeing a rich collection of antique
coins
in the glass boxes. A part from Roman, Unani , Gupt, pall and, chol, Gurger,
Pratihar,
Chouhan, Khitaji, Tuglak, Ledhi, Bahmani era it has a good no. of currency
from Nepal,
Bhutan, Sri Lanka, China, Pakistan, Japan, Thai Land , Berma, Russia,
Canada, Australia,
France, England and so on. One can also see the dies of those
currencies from various eras. |
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In its huge halls the idols and statues from different periods give a new charm
to this
museum.
The chief of these are……………….
(i) Collection
of arms and ammunitions from Mahabharata and Moughal eras, which are made from bronze and bell metal.
(ii) Its own literary institution. Through which it throws the rays of knowledge
of its
literatures on the people.
Rare of Rares
(iii) A unique stone is being kept. It was found from the hills of Kaliyana
(Ch.Dadri). The specialty ofthis stone is its unique flexibility found rarely. |
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