Page 29 - Mann Ki Baat - English

tell you about Maidam for the So far 90 Maidams have been
benefit of all. reported in the Charaideo Valley,
Maidam is a structure built and the search is still ongoing. At
above the ground, which has present the Ahom people make
a room and a passage inside a small Maidam and worship
it. There is a dome above this traditionally. This edifice was in
room. Dead people were buried use from 1200 to 1900 century.
in this Maidam, and the things Presently people do not make
used by them and their favourite such burial mounds, but on the
objects were kept with them. basis of all the Maidams and the
This was done because people remains found in them so far,
believed that wherever the dead I can definitely say that these
were going, they would need are an excellent source to learn
these things there. After placing about history. In these, we see
all the items in the room, rituals coins, weapons and many other
were performed and then the things that give us a glimpse
room was closed. In the second about that period. Therefore,
phase, the room used to be it is an immense storehouse
covered by mud, thus giving it a of historical knowledge for the
beautiful shape that is similar to history of Assam and India, as
our stupas. well as the Ahom dynasty.

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