Kutchi community celebrates its New Year on Aashadhi Beej, which falls in month of Ashada (July / August).

Gandhara School of art enjoyed the liberal patronage of Kushana rulers especially Kanishka. The Gandhara art primarily depicted the Buddhist themes. It displays Greek artistic influence and the concept of the “man-god” was essentially inspired by Greek mythological culture. Artistically, the Gandharan school of sculpture is said to have contributed wavy hair, drapery covering both shoulders, shoes and sandals etc.

‘Me-Dam-Me-Phi’ festival of the Tai Ahom community of Assam.The Tai-Ahoms extend offerings to their departed ancestors and offer sacrifices to Gods in traditional manner..

Śāradā is a script of the Brahmic family of scripts, developed around the 8th century. It was used for writing Sanskrit and Kashmiri. The Gurmukhī script was developed from Śāradā by Guru Angad. Originally more widespread, its use became later restricted to Kashmir, and it is now rarely used except by the Kashmiri Pandit community for ceremonial purposes. There are several variants of Śāradā Scripts such as Takkari or Tankari which is the parent of the Dogri script, Kului script (Kullu in Himachal Pradesh), Chameali Script (in Chamba Himachal Pradesh), Sindhi, Bania of Punjab etc.

The Chishti Order is a Sufi order which arose from Chisht, a small town near Herat, in western Afghanistan. It was founded by Abu Ishaq Shami in about 930 CE. Before returning to western Asia he trained and deputed the son of local emir, Abu Ahmad Abdal, under whose leadership the Chishtiyya flourished as a regional mystical order. Moinuddin Chishti is credited with laying its foundations in India. Other famous saints of the Chishti Order are Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki, Fariduddin Ganjshakar, Nizamuddin Auliya and Alauddin Ali Ahmed Sabir Kalyari.

Bhagat Movement is a religious movement among the Bhils scattered in 4 states of India viz. Rajasthan, Gujarat, MP and Maharastra. Bhagat means a devotee. When one of the Bhils becomes a Bhagat he has to abstain from eating meat, eggs and drinking wine. He also does not accept bride price. The movement is 3 centuries old and oldest Bhagat considered to be is Mavji of Rajasthan. Mavji is considered to be the 10th incarnation of Vishnu and had a large followership in Banswara and Dungarpur of Rajasthan.

Abhanga is kind of devotional poetry / bhajan dedicated to Vittala and the first to sing Abhanga was Sant Tukaram.

There are 54 letters in the Sanskrit alphabet. Each has a masculine and feminine, Shiva and Shakti

Bagh caves is in Madhya Pradesh

Konark Sun Temple in Orissa is known as Black Pagoda