{"id":19685,"date":"2024-01-24T02:32:44","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T21:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19685"},"modified":"2025-04-05T19:13:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T13:43:05","slug":"batadrava-than","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/batadrava-than\/","title":{"rendered":"Batadrava Than"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Batadrava Than<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Location: It is located in Nagaon district of\u00a0Assam,<\/li>\n<li>It is also known as the Bordowa Than, is one of the most sacred sites for Assamese\u00a0Vaishnavites.<\/li>\n<li>It is a temple complex at the birthplace of revered\u00a0Vaishnavite reformer-saint Srimanta Sankardeva.<\/li>\n<li>Sankardeva founded the\u00a0first-ever Kirtan Ghar at Bordowa in 1494 AD to practise and preach the neo Vaishnavite faith during the fifteenth century in Assam, and propagated the\u00a0Ek Saran Naam Dharma.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Features\n<ul>\n<li>It is enclosed by a brick wall and has\u00a0two entrances.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0Kirtan Ghar, a capacious prayer house, was initially built by Sankardev using temporary materials.<\/li>\n<li>Connected to the Kirtan Ghar is the\u00a0Manikut, a place dedicated to housing sacred texts, scriptures, and manuscripts.<\/li>\n<li>The campus encompasses diverse structures such as\u00a0Natghar (Drama hall), Alohighar (Guest room),\u00a0Sabhaghar\u00a0(Assembly hall), Rabhaghar (Music room), Hatipukhuri, Aakashi Ganga, Doul mandir (festive temple), and others.<\/li>\n<li>Additionally, a mini museum is present, showcasing historical articles and artifacts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>A very big festival &#8220;Doul Mohotsava&#8221; (Holi) is a yearly attraction for the devotees in Bordowa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key facts about Shankardeva and his philisophy<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sankardeva espoused a\u00a0society based on equality and fraternity, free from caste differences, orthodox Brahmanical rituals and sacrifices.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0Ek Saran Naam Dharma focussed on worship in the form of\u00a0bhakti\u00a0(devotion) to Lord Krishna, through singing and congregational listening of His name and deeds.<\/li>\n<li>His teaching focused on\u00a0prayer and chanting (naam)\u00a0instead of idol worship.<\/li>\n<li>His dharma was based on the four components of\u00a0deva (god),\u00a0naam (prayers),\u00a0bhakats\u00a0(devotees), and\u00a0guru\u00a0(teacher).<\/li>\n<li>The Neo-Vaishnavite reformist movement that Sankardeva started is behind the monastic institutions called Thans\/Sattras that dot Assam.<\/li>\n<li>As the saint travelled across Assam, spreading his teachings, these Sattras\/Thans were established as\u00a0centres of religious, social and cultural reforms in the 16th century.<\/li>\n<li>Today, the Sattras promulgate Sankardeva\u2019s unique \u201cworship through art\u201d approach with music (borgeet), dance (xattriya) and theatre (bhauna).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Vaishnavism?<\/h3>\n<p>It is one of the principal traditions of Hinduism that is distinguished from other schools by its acknowledgement of Vishnu as the supreme divinity. The beliefs and practices of Vaishnavism are based largely upon Vedic and Puranic texts such as the Bhagavad Gita, Vishnu Purana, and Bhagavata Purana.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-politics\/rahul-gandhi-prevented-batadrava-than-significance-9122417\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rahul Gandhi prevented from visiting Batadrava Than: Significance of this Assam shrine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batadrava Than is also known as the Bordowa Than, is one of the most sacred sites for Assamese Vaishnavites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}