Mandu
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A detail of one of the many ruins... anybody read Arab or Urdu?
Deep inside a huge Jain temple.
Read more about Jainism
Jainism's stance on nonviolence goes much beyond vegetarianism. Jains refuse food obtained with unnecessary cruelty. Many are vegan due to the violence of modern dairy farms. The Jain diet excludes most root vegetables, as they believe this destroys entire plants unnecessarily. Garlic and onions are avoided as these are seen as creating passion, meaning anger, hatred, and jealousy. Devout Jains do not eat, drink, or travel after sunset (Chauvihar) and rise before sunrise.
Well the Jain temple we visited hosted a multitude of posters, paintings and 3D cartoons to explain all the Jain laws in a simplistic manner. This one depicts a man having eaten meat and having drunk alcohol laying unconsciously on the street and getting pissed on by a stray dog.
Such is the faith of alcoholic non-veggies.
As you can see Jain statues also significantly differ from their Hindu counterparts
Extremely colorful, have a look at the abstract orange statue, it depicts Ganesha the elephant god
Hoshang Shah's Tomb is getting a face lift
Mandu is one of the few places where the Baobab grow. Meike is about to take a left to our "Maharadja" hotel run by the former mayor who has now become an alcoholic with a taste for young Asian boys...
The baobab is occasionally known colloquially as "upside-down tree" (from the Arabic legend which claims that the devil pulled out the tree and planted it upside down)
Late afternoon I got curious what kind of life was going on in the fields behind our hotel. So after a nice hike through dry yet cultivated fields I wondered into a farmers patch and tried to have a little talk. My Hindi is still stuck at "Ap kaise hee?" (How are you?) and "Ap ke nam kya hee?" (What's your name?) so we didn't get terribly far :)
But his kids made any further attempt impossible. Screaming, jumping up and down, posing, wanting to see themselves on the LCD display of my digital camera. This was fun :)
If you peek past the children you can see the stereo installation which often terrorised the fields behind the hotel with highpitched Hindi songs
Although poor as dirt, so happy and so cute!
Mei experienced her most beautiful sunset right there at the drop of the Mandu plateau.
Taken from a buddhist cave right behind her...
I love the fact that each Indian province (a province easily harbouring 10 netherlands) had its own riksha's and public transport vehicles. These almost frenchlike "ugly ducklings" were another unique sight :)
Yeah well ok... Elephant on the road... I ought to get used to it, but I don't :)
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