1876
Phalke was being trained for a career as a Sanskrit scholar
He went to swim in the Ganga Godavari. He chopped the waters with his arms and his legs that were gathering strength, and laughed as he heard the water break away in pieces and fly, far from him. The sun warmed his skin. He was a frog in a large river, exulting in the small, sharp sound of his presence. Then he saw her.
He would see her again in the kingdom of Kolhapur, when his skin had started growing over his eyes, when his eyes had started closing in, like they had swallowed too much sun.
The father and son are bathing in the river. The father recites purush shastra, and the son repeats. They hold their noses and plunge into the water, the river flowing over their heads. When father emerges, child is out of sight. Father anxiously looks for him, calls. Terror. Then suddenly son emerges at a distance. Father is angry. Walks out of the water. Son runs after him. Father pleads with him not to touch him.
Image of Bhairava from Vidarbha, 19th century
Shri Trymbakeshwar Jyotirlinga
What do the learned books say about the mystery of the jyotirlinga? Because the word 'jyotirlinga' talks of light, and the word linga expresses both creation and destruction. Because the word 'linga' has two roots, one is drawing,form, and the other is movement. From the invisible, to a sense of the immanent, to the visible. In other words, for the darkness to open out of itself the multifarious forms of the visible world.
As soon as the five forhead like crowns were removed from the face of the Jyotirlinga, the lamps sprung to light. The light started radiating outwards. The doors of the temple began to open. Several invisible hands began ringing the temple bells. His little sister ran after Dhunidraj in that courtyard surrounded by freshly limed walls. Dhundiraj entered the temple and stood there, quietly. Kamala was standing a little distance away, with her family. He picked up a piece of coal and said, Come, let me show you how I make a horse. They both ran into the silence of the temple. He drew the horse without lifting his hand even once. He stepped back from the wall to look at the horse he had made. Behind him, Kamala looked on with astonished eyes.
When they turned back, his sister was complaining to Shivram. Sister: Look, Kaka has blackened the wall again. I really dislike this, this is not a school yard! Dhundi got scared and said, I won't do it again. But Kaka said, It is beautiful and it seemed like a wave had turned the moment around.
Famine between 1976-78. Bombay affected seriously
At the same time Lytton introduced a Custom duty on textile goods exported to England.
Dramatic Performances Act, 1876. Restriction on subversive, anti state content in performance April 8, 1876. Bell gets the patent for the telephone. Patent list from the newspaper "Scientific American" where it is listed at Telegraphy
