History Review of Garhwali Culture in Garhwal King Ajeypal Period

History of Garhwal including Haridwar (1223- 1804 AD) –part -85     

                                            

 History of Uttarakhand (Garhwal, Kumaon and Haridwar) -330 

                       By: Bhishma Kukreti (A History Research Student)

                                    Rituals in Badrinath Dham

         Garhwali king still called Bulaundau Badrinath (Living God or Deity Badrinath). There is no record about people calling Garhwal King as living God or deity. Shankaracharya offered the ritual performances of Badrinath and Jyotirmath to his disciple Totakacharya. The disciple system of Totakacharya had been managing ritual performances of Badrinath and Jyotirmath for four five centuries.  From the establishment of Garhwal Kingdom, the Badrinath ritual management was handed over to Dandiswami. Raturi furnished chronological names 21 Dandiswami from 1500-1833. Later on Rawals from Kerala became the ritual performing head of Badrinath. The first Dandiswami was Balkrishna (1443) and second Dandiswami Haribrahma got Badrinath Gaddi in 1500 . That suggests that Jagtipal was King when Balkrishna became Badrinath head priest and Ajeypal was King at the time of Haribrahma becoming head priest of Badrinath. Rawals of Badrinath also created imagery family tree of Garhwal Kings.

                             Art in Ajeypal Period

              Ajeypal had learned sculpture makers, architect and builders. Those artists built a remarkable palace in Shrinagar and dug four miles canal too.

 The sculpture artists were expert in carving art on stone and wood. The artist were expert of creating tunnel too.

 The Gahadwal art (plains of Uttar Pradesh, Kannauj) influenced on Garhwal art of temple or building in the Ajeypal period.  However, the art of Ajeypal period is inferior to Katyuri period in much sense.

Copyright@ Bhishma Kukreti Mumbai, India, bckukreti@gmail.com2/5/2014

History of Garhwal – Kumaon-Haridwar (Uttarakhand, India) to be continued… Part -331 

                                                              

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(The History of Garhwal, Kumaon, Haridwar write up is aimed for general readers)

History of Garhwal from 1223-1804 to be continued in next chapter          

Notes on South Asian Medieval History of Garhwal;  SouthAsian Medieval History of Pauri Garhwal;  Medieval History of Chamoli Garhwal;  South Asian Medieval History of Rudraprayag Garhwal;  South Asian Medieval History of Tehri Garhwal;  Medieval History of Uttarkashi Garhwal;  South Asian Medieval History of Dehradun, Garhwal;  Medieval History of Haridwar ;  South Asian Medieval History of Manglaur, Haridwar;  South Asian Medieval History of Rurkee Haridwar ;  South Asian Medieval History of Bahadarpur Haridwar ; South Asian History of Haridwar district to be continued

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