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Satya Bhakta, Founder Communist Party of india

Satyabhakta (सत्य भक्त) who used just one name, was one of the founders of the Communist Party of India on Dec 1925 at Kanpur (then spelled Cawnpore). He was born in April 2, 1987 in the Bharatpur district in Rajasthan. He was a prolific author in Hindi.

He is distinct from Swami Satyabhakta, the founder of Satya Samaj who also flourished during the early 20th century

He became an India nationalist after reading Ananda Math and a book on the rise of Japan.

He translated Mahatma Gandhi's books "Sarvodaya" and "Experiences of prison" in Hindi. He wrote numerous biographies starting with Dhondo Keshav Karve in 1916. He attempted to start a communist periodicals Samyavadi (1926) but its issues were confiscated by the British government.

In 1941, he joined the Akhand Jyoti Ashram of Shriram Sharma. He died at the Akhand Jyoti Ashram in 1985.

Bhadrasana Buddha Images

Buddha is shown in one of these four asanas:

• seated in padmasana.
• Seated in pralambasana (also termed bhadrasana), with the legs dangling down. This is sometimes referred to as the European fashion, since it represents a person sitting on a chair.
• standing
• reclining (about to enter parinirvana)

Common mudras, as represented by the hand placement or gestures are:

• dharmachakra pravartana (or simply dharmachakra)
• bhumi-sparsha, touching the earth with the right hand
• abhaya, right hand raised in blessing
• dhyana mudra. (The last only when he is seated).

Ajanta

Ajanta Cave 26 Dagoba with praying monks

Nalanda

Buddha Shakyamuni or the Bodhisattva Maitreya LACMA M.75.4.3 (1 of 2)

Nasik Some of the stucco figures of Nalanda within the niches of the temple no. 3 survive.

Gallery

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  Plaster Buddha figures on the tower
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  Wat Na Phra Meru, Ayutthaya c15]

Pocha Seeds

The seed company Pestonjee P. Pocha & Sons at Pune was founded by Pestonjee P. Pocha (1854—1917) in 1884 in a small store at Char Bowri in Poona with two staff members. This was the first indigenous seed company in India. They were followed by Suttons Seeds company in Calcutta in 1912, a branch of the older British seed company. The company grew to 70 employees in 1939 and established its own printing press printing catalogues, calendars atc. They sold seeds for vegetables, flowers, fruits as well as garden tools and equipment.

The Pocha Seed company supplied seeds within India as well as overseas. Many gardeners in India remember starting with Pocha seeds.. They published a Pochas Garden Guide in 1916 with sometimes detailed planting instructions, sometimes with specific instructions for different cities in India.

Its modern descendant Pocha Seeds Pvt. Ltd was founded in 1972. seeds for vegetables, flowers, fruits and also offers nursery plants, fertilizers, planters & pots, garden tools and irrigation equipments.

Also see

Suttons Seeds Seed company

References

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