Friday, December 28, 2012

2012 - Interesting Trips: Kappe Arabhatta Inscription, Badami


As the 2012 fades into history, it is the time to reflect on what the year had to offer me and what I could made out of it.

Let me start with some interesting snaps and learnings from my personal and official trips

Feb 2012: Badami, Banashankari , Aihole, Patadkal  Karnataka, India

You all would have been to the usual tourist spots in Badami, Banashankari, Aihole and Patadkal.

The below spot is extraordinarily important for the people of Karnataka

Tucked away in the boulders on the other end of the Aihole. To reach the spot you have go through the narrow lanes of the Badami town

 

Kappe Arabhatta Inscription:



 

 
What it means:

Kannada: ಸಾಧುಗೆ ಸಾಧು

ಮಾಧುರ್ಯಂಗೆ ಮಾಧುರ್ಯಂ

ಬಾಧಿಪ್ಪ ಕಲಿಕೆ ಕಲಿಯುಗ ವಿಪರೀತನ್

ಮಾಧವನೀತಂ ಪೆರನಲ್ಲ!

and in the English poetic rendering:

"Kind man to the kind,

Whose sweet to the sweet,

Very cruel to the cruel

He was nothing but God Vishnu in this regard"

 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappe_Arabhatta

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