District de RatlamRatlam District is a district of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. The town of Ratlam is administrative headquarters of the district. Ratlam District has an area of . It is bounded by Mandsaur District to the north, Jhalawar District of Rajasthan state to the northwest, Ujjain District to the east, Dhar District to the south, Jhabua District to the southwest, and Pratapgarh District of Rajasthan to the west. It is divided into nine tehsils and is home to 9 at and 1,063 villages (as of 2001).
District d'UjjainUjjain district is a district of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. The historic city of Ujjain is the district headquarters. The district has an area of 6,091 km2, and a population of 19,86,864 (2011 census), a 16.12% increase from its 2001 population of 17,10,982. The district is bounded by the districts of Agar malwa to the north, Shajapur to the east, Dewas to the southeast, Indore to the south, Dhar to the southwest, and Ratlam to the west and northwest. The district is part of Ujjain Division.
KosambiKosambi, ou Kauśâmbî, maintenant en ruine, était une des plus grandes cités dans l'Inde, en 500 av. J.-C. C'était la capitale de Vatsa (aussi Vasma). La ville se trouvait à quelque 150 km à l'ouest de Bénarès. On trouvait à Kosambi quatre arama. et Gautama Bouddha y séjourna à différentes occasions, y dispensant ses enseignements. C'est dans cette ville que se produisit l'unique schisme du vivant du Bouddha: un moine fut excommunié en raison d'un manquement aux règles monastiques qu'on lui reprochait.
VarahamihiraVarāhamihira (ou Varāha Mihira, ou Varāha, ou Mihira, वराह मिहिर (Varaha Mihir) en Hindi) est un mathématicien, astronome et astrologue indien, né vers 505 et décédé en 587. Si sa vie est entourée de légendes et reste floue, il est connu principalement par ses traités de sciences astrales, ou Jyotisha, une discipline pratique et théorique rassemblant les mathématiques, l'astronomie et la divination. Le plus fameux de ses traités est le Pañca-Siddhāntika (que l'on peut traduire par « les cinq canons astronomiques ») qui constitue un résumé de cinq de ses manuscrits sur l'astronomie.
NeemuchNeemuch or Nimach is a city in the malwa region. Neemuch crowns the north western part of MP. It has been also referred to city of Nature and Peace. The town shares its northwestern border with the state of Rajasthan and is the administrative headquarters of Neemuch District. Formerly a large British cantonment of Gwalior princely state, in 1822 the town became the headquarters of the combined Rajputana–Malwa political agency and of the Malwa Agency in 1895.
Shipra (rivière)The Shipra, also known as the Kshipra, is a river in Madhya Pradesh state of central India. The river rises in the North of Dhar district, and flows north across the Malwa Plateau to join the Chambal River at the MP-Rajasthan boundary in Mandsaur district. It is one of the sacred rivers in Hinduism. The holy city of Ujjain is situated on its east bank. Every 12 years, the Sinhastha fair (Kumbh Mela) takes place on the city's elaborate riverside ghats, as do yearly celebrations of the river goddess Kshipra.
KhajurâhoKhajurâho (खजुराहो, « Khadjouraho ») est un village du Madhya Pradesh en Inde. Avant sa destruction, c'était l'une des capitales de la dynastie des Chandela qui, entre le gouvernait un large royaume englobant presque la totalité du Madhya-Pradesh. Site touristique très visité, sinon le plus visité, de toute l'Inde, il figure au patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO depuis 1986. Il compte encore 22 grands temples des qui ont été très largement préservés des destructions les plus graves au moment de la conquête islamique et au cours des siècles qui ont suivi.
BhāsaBhāsa is one of the earliest and most celebrated Indian playwrights in Sanskrit, predating Kalidasa. His name was already well-known by the 1st century BCE and he belongs to the late-Mauryan (322-184 BCE) period at the earliest, but the thirteen plays attached to his name are commonly dated closer to the first or second century CE. His plays had been lost for centuries until the manuscripts were rediscovered in 1913 by the Indian scholar Ganapati Shastri.
MahindaMahinda (pali, sanskrit : महिन्द्र; Mahindra), (c.282-222 ) né dans le Magadha, maintenant dans le Bihar en Inde, est un moine bouddhiste décrit comme l'introducteur du bouddhisme au Sri Lanka. Il était le fils de l'empereur Maurya Ashoka. Les deux grandes chroniques religieuses du Sri Lanka, le Dipavamsa et le Mahavamsa, relatent son voyage dans le pays et la conversion au bouddhisme du roi Devanampiya Tissa. D'autres références littéraires et des inscriptions montrent que le bouddhisme est devenu prévalent au Sri Lanka vers le , pendant la période où Mahinda y vivait .
SanghamittaSaṅghamittā (Saṅghamitrā in Sanskrit, nun's name Ayapali; 282 BC – 203 BC) was an Indian Buddhist nun and the eldest daughter of Emperor Ashoka (304 BC – 232 BC) and his first wife, Devi. Together with her brother Mahinda, she entered an order of Buddhist monks. The two siblings later went to Sri Lanka to spread the teachings of Buddha at the request of King Devanampiya Tissa (250 BC – 210 BC) who was a contemporary of Ashoka. Ashoka was initially reluctant to send his daughter on an overseas mission.
