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Siddhagiri Gramjivan Museum
LocationKolhapur, Maharashtra, Kaneri, India

Siddhagiri Gramjivan Museum (Kaneri Math) at Kaneri, Kolhapur district, Maharashtra, is a sculpture museum. The full name is Siddhagiri Gramjivan (Village life) Museum. It is situated at Shri Kshetra Siddhagiri Math, a campus built around the Moola-Kaadsiddheswar Shiva temple.

Museum description

This museum showcases different aspects of Gramjivan (village life). Gram means village and jeevan means life in the Marathi language. This initiative was the dream of Mahatma Gandhi, and was created through the vision and efforts of Siddhagiri Gurukul Foundation co. The history of self-sufficient village life in Maharshtra, before the invasion of the Mughals, is depicted in the form of cement sculptures. Each sculpture is lifelike and represents activities performed in daily village life. There were 12 Balutedars (essentially artisan castes), and 18 Alutedars who provided equipment to carry out domestic and professional tasks.

The museum is spread over 7 acres (28,000 m), and the surrounding countryside is beautiful, with lush greenery. Every aspect of village life has been depicted in almost 80 scenes that showcase more than 300 statues.

Village scenes

The scenes of village life include:

  • Village priest’s abode. The first scene is the house of a highly educated village priest. He performs his duties, rites and rituals like weddings and thread ceremonies, and is tasked to find auspicious days and times for any major activity such as house-building and house-warming activities, digging wells, sowing seeds, piercing nose or ears. He earns his livelihood from Dakshina (donations) he receives. He consults the Panchaang (almanac) for finding auspicious dates.
  • Goldsmith at work
  • Ironsmith shoeing a bullock
  • Barber shop
  • Village well - villagers fetching water from the public well.
  • Nursing an elder family member
  • Grocer’s shop - a woman visiting the grocery shop with her son. The shop-keeper is weighing items in an old weighing machine. Items like jaggery, sugar, chillies, salt, wheat, and rice are stocked. The son is asking his mother to buy kites for him.
  • Farmer’s wada (house)
  • House of Vaidya
  • Grandma stitching a godhadi (quilt)
  • Farmers ploughing his farm using a bullock-drawn plow
  • Shepherd boy with his herd of sheep
  • Villagers performing Bhajan and Kirtan (singing Hindu devotional songs)

Shiva temple

The museum has an old Shiva temple on the grounds. It is related to the Inchegeri Sampradaya, to which Nisargadatta Maharaj belongs. It is believed that a Shivling was installed by a Lingayat Priest on a beautiful hill in the 14th century. About 500 years ago, a Lingayat Priest, Shree Kadsiddheshwar Maharaj, developed and renovated it, and hence the place is now known by his name. The temple includes a 125 feet (38 m)-deep well, a 42 feet (13 m) Shiva idol, and a large Nandi bull.

References

  1. Siddhagiri Gramjivan MuseumArchived 31 March 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Kaneri Math". kolhapur.nic.in. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  3. "Siddhagiri Gramjivan Museum in Kolhapur, Kanheri Mutt in Kolhapur". Kolhapuronline.in. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  4. Siddhagiri Gramjivan Museum (Kaneri Math)

External links

Inchegeri Sampradaya
Rishi Dattatreya
Navnath, the nine founders of the Nath Sampradaya,
Gahininath, the 5th Navnath Revananath, the 7th or 8th Navnath, also known as Kada Siddha Siddhagiri Math c.q. Kaneri Math (est. 7th or 14th century;
Lingayat Parampara c.q. Kaadasiddheshwar Parampara
Nivruttinath, Dnyaneshwar's brother
Dnyaneshwar (1275–1296)
also known as Sant Jñāneshwar or Jñanadeva
and as Kadasiddha or Kad-Siddheshwar Maharaj

Different accounts:
Kadasiddha, also called "Almighty "Kadsiddeshwar", who appeared as a vision to Sri Gurulingajangam Maharaj
or
The 22nd or 24th Shri Samarth Muppin Kaadsiddheswar Maharaj, who initiated Sri Gurulingajangam Maharaj
or
"The 25th generation of the kadsiddha at siddhagiri had then initiated Guruling jangam maharaj of nimbargi."
or
"Juangam Maharaj" c.q. "a yogi who gave a mantra and told him to meditate regularly on it"

1 Nimbargi Maharaj (1789–1875)
also known as Guru Lingam-Jangam Maharaj 		23rd Shri Samarth Muppin Kaadsiddheswar Maharaj
2 Shri Bhausaheb Maharaj Umdikar (1843 Umdi – 1914 Inchgiri) 24th Shri Samarth Muppin Kaadsiddheswar Maharaj
3 Shri Amburao Maharaj of Jigjivani

(1857 Jigajevani – 1933 Inchgiri)

Shivalingavva Akka (1867–1930) Girimalleshwar Maharaj Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj (1875–1936) 25th Shri Samarth Muppin Kaadsiddheswar Maharaj
4 Shri Gurudev Ranade of Nimbal (1886–1957) Balkrishna Maharaj Shri Aujekar Laxman Maharaj Madhavananda Prabhuji
(d. 25th May, 1980) 		Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) 26th Shri Muppin Kaadsiddheshwar Maharaj (1905–2001)

Student of Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj

5 Shri Gurudev Chandra Bhanu Pathak Bhausaheb Maharaj (Nandeshwar) Shri Nagnath Alli Maharaj
  • Maurice Frydman
  • Ramesh Balsekar
    • Gautam Sachdeva
  • Ramakant Maharaj
  • Alexander Smit
  • Douwe Tiemersma
  • Robert Powell
  • Timothy Conway
  • Jean Dunn
  • Mark McCloskey
  • "Sailor" Bob Adamson
  • Stephen Wolinksky
  • Mark West
  • David Hargrove
 27th head: Adrushya Kadsiddheshwar Swamiji Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Shree Swami Narendracharyaji Maharaj
Notes for table

Notes

  1. Frydman 1987
  2. Boucher
  3. Frydman 1987
  4. Dnyaneshwar
  5. Frydman 1987
  6. Frydman 1987
  7. Boucher
  8. Kada Siddha (website Ranade Maharaj
  9. Kada Siddha (website Ranade Maharaj)
  10. Siddhagiri Math
  11. Siddhagiri Math (website Shri Kshetra Siddhagiri Math, Kaneri)
  12. Siddhagiri Math (Gramjivan Museum)
  13. Kaadsiddheshwar Maharaj (website Kaadsiddheshwar Maharaj)
  14. Kaadsiddheshwar Maharaj Parampara
  15. Dnyaneshwar
  16. Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples
  17. Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples
  18. Frydman 1987
  19. Boucher
  20. Frydman 1987
  21. Ranjit Maharaj Timeline
  22. Ranjit Maharaj Timeline
  23. Siddhagiri Math (website siddhagirimath.org)
  24. Siddhagiri Math (website siddhagirimath.org)
  25. Kada Siddha (website Balkrushna Maharaj)
  26. Boucher
  27. Boucher
  28. Nimbargi Maharj (website Ranade Maharaj
  29. Frydman 1987
  30. Boucher
  31. Bhausaheb Maharaj (website Ganapatrao Maharj)
  32. Bhausaheb Maharaj (website Ranade Maharaj)
  33. Amburao Maharaj (website Ranade Maharaj)
  34. Frydman 1987
  35. Shivalingavva Akka (website Ranade Maharaj)
  36. Frydman 1987
  37. Girimalleshwar Maharaj (website Balkrushnamauli Maharaj)
  38. Boucher
  39. Frydman 1987
  40. Amburao Maharaj Maharj (website Ranade Maharaj)
  41. Ranade Maharaj (website Ranade Maharaj)
  42. Boucher
  43. Frydman 1987
  44. Ranade Maharj (website Bridge-India)
  45. Balkrishna Maharaj (website Balkrishna Maharaj)
  46. Nagnath Alli Maharaj (website)
  47. Madhavananda Prabhuji (website gurusfeet.com)
  48. Boucher
  49. Boucher
  50. Ranjit Maharaj (website Ranjit Maharaj)
  51. Ranjit Maharaj Interview
  52. Ranjit Maharaj Satsang
  53. Bhausaheb Maharaj (website Ganapatrao Maharaj)
  54. Kaadsiddheshwar Maharaj (website Kaadsiddheshwar Maharaj)
  55. Ranjit Maharaj (website Angelfire)
  56. Bhausaheb Maharaj (Nandeshwar) (website Balkrishna Maharaj)
  57. Nagnath Alli Maharaj (website Nagnath Alli Maharaj)
  58. Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples
  59. Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples
  60. Gautam Sachdeva
  61. Ramakant Maharj (website Ramakant Maharaj)
  62. Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples
  63. Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples
  64. Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples
  65. Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples
  66. Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples
  67. Jean Dunn (website Ed Muzika)
  68. Jean Dunn (website Ngeton)
  69. Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples
  70. Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples
  71. Sailor Bob Adamson (website Sailor Bob Adamson)
  72. Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples
  73. Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples
  74. Nisargadatta Maharaj Disciples
  75. Siddhagiri Math – History (website siddhagirimath.org
  76. Narendracharyaji Maharaj (website Narendracharyaji Maharaj)

Sources

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