Download or read book A Heritage of Open Air Square Temple Discovered In Russia written by Avinash Patra and published by Oxford University Press,United Kingdom. This book was released on 2010-10-22 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “India is mentioned in a number of ecclesiastical Slavonic texts. A description of the life of the Brahmanas or ‘ blessed ‘ people was very popular in Byzantine and old Bulgarian literature of the 10th , 13th centuries. The Narrative of Macurius of Rome, from example told of the journey of three youths to India, to the country of the ‘ blessed ‘ who live in a ‘ ave close to paradise itself, to about ( naked and have with white hair, the description of the ‘ blessed ‘ and the surrounding countries is reminiscent of the description of the life of the Brahmanas in late Graeco – Roman Literature which served as a source for the narrative. “ The Russioan popular story ‘ The Friend ‘ like other stories about evil spirits, has been traced to Indian sources. Another Russian story the ‘ Fox Wailor ‘ which is a variant of ‘ jack and the Bean stalk, in which a fox is described as wailing , is said to be of Indian origin. W.A.S. Ralstone in his work ‘ Russian Folk tales,’ refers to a variety of parallel stories in Russian and Indian traditions. “ As a result of new excavations by soviet Archaeologists in Altine – tape, in southern Turkmenia ( not far from the city of Ashkhabad ) the existence of the contacts between the cities of the Indus Valley bronze age settlements of southern Turkmenia was established. Some objects have parallels in the Harappan culture – those of metal and ivory, broken faience beads and ceramics. The terra-cotta figurines from southern Turkmenia are similar to those made by city dwellers of Harappan towns. These figurines reflect the ancient cult of the Mother Goddess.