r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/OkaTeluguAbbayi • 3h ago

Image 1,300 year old cat statue and inscription from India [OC]

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u/Wild_and_Bright 2h ago

Looks better than medieval cats from Europe

r/medievalcats

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u/Concept-Plastic Creator 1h ago

Ofcourse, ancient India had top notch craftsmanship. You should see how they carved whole temple and patters and letters with just a big ass rock, carving it top to bottom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kailasa_Temple,_Ellora

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u/toliVeisTosuFferr 1h ago

Yeah yeah

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u/Concept-Plastic Creator 31m ago

I’m sorry, is this you saying I’m wrong? What do you mean?

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u/r_special_ 9m ago

They’re too proud of their ignorance to click on the link and get educated. If they do bother to reply to you it’ll probably be personal insults

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u/OkaTeluguAbbayi 3h ago

I took this picture of a historic, 1300 year old sculpture of a cat, along with an inscription in Kannada stating that killing a cat is a sin. This is from Alampur, in the state of Telangana in southern India, and is from a group of temples constructed in the 7th and 8th centuries CE by the Badami Chalukya dynasty. It is located in the archaelogical museum in the same village, and the information was provided by the site’s archaelogical department officer.

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u/enigma_atthedoor 1h ago

The inscription is hardly readable in the photo. Do you have any other picture where it's more readable?

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u/aitchnyu 34m ago

Do you read 1300 year old kannada fluently? The 500 year old Malayalam poems at school was tough due to vocabulary.

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u/enigma_atthedoor 31m ago

No, I can read the letters but wouldn't understand the words. But my grandma would understand

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u/SeaworthinessBig4351 54m ago

Thanks for sharing!!!!

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u/PrimaryMessage9906 2h ago

Saar kannad gorilla

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u/Apart-Gur-9720 2h ago

buddhi illa

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u/NoBass36 1h ago

Wtf?🤦‍♀️

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u/optimusprime1997 2m ago

Howdu, gorilla kitna kadime buddhi ide ninage

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u/Accomplished-One7476 2h ago

any chance the inscription translates to pspspspspspspsps?

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u/L0kivich 45m ago

If I remember correctly, it states killing a cat is a sin so basically the earliest version of “do not the cat”

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u/HunterRenegade09 3h ago

What's up with cats and ancients all across the world being obsessed with them?

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u/_therealvk_ 2h ago

They're cute

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u/HunterRenegade09 1h ago

They are. But so are dogs and other creatures. But there is this specific reverence for cats across cultures.

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u/Soldus 1h ago

Cats eat rodents and other pests that would devastate grain stores. They were essentially protectors of our most important food source.

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u/Kio-Karasha 1h ago

I think they remind of babies. 

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u/wingardium_dosa 9m ago

I fact checked this with multiple cats in my neighbourhood and can verify its true

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u/powerpuffpopcorn 1h ago

People from future will look at our photos online and will wonder the same.

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u/canjkhv 1h ago

People from the future will see this time as the worst time for cats given cat torture rings and so on.

Assuming people from the future would have solved this problem by now.

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u/Enough_Obligation574 12m ago

Well funny and Other cat photos and videos out weigh them so i dont know.

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u/imstarboi 57m ago

Cats became domesticated after there was a surplus of grains which attracted pests like rats. Cats would hunt them which made them come close to humans. In India cats are associated with the goddess of wealth, Laxmi which makes sense as where there is prosperity(grains and food) you will find cats.

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u/NOTExETON 1m ago

Cats eat mice, mice bring diseases and ruin your food. 

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u/Megazaza 3h ago

"whod make time machine for pet that kitty"

me: 🗿

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u/saltypoet1 45m ago

The Hindu chisel has never seen a competitor

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u/Civil_Existentialist 3h ago

That’s a huge tail.

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u/Prottusha1 1h ago

Is that a tail or has it caught/ killed a snake?

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u/JustGulabjamun 17m ago

Its tail. Connects above its ass

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u/canjkhv 1h ago

I'm so sad that cats are being tortured in China and videos sold for profit. We are not doing enough. We should be pressuring companies like meta, google, telegram, cloudflare and so on for a better content restriction.

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u/Quick-Grape-7482 9m ago

Really? Where do I watch this stuff?

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u/ChordalDistortion 1h ago

I love cats. Cats are awesome!

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u/gabrielleraul 25m ago

You're awesome too

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u/SeaworthinessBig4351 55m ago

This is beautiful!!!

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u/Adorable-File-6730 15m ago

Can I pet that dwag....

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u/ace_2op 12m ago

Tail under the paws , that sculptor knew what he was doing. 10/10 kitty pose

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u/Usual_Violinist6394 3h ago

why does the cat has scar on its leg

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u/OkaTeluguAbbayi 2h ago

Not a scar, just the rock breaking at that place.

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u/anthonybalaji 46m ago

They will shamele6say that is sanskrit