1872

The sky was large over Trymbakeshvar. The town looked upto the Brahmagiri hills, which flowed over the sky like a watercolour stroke gone loose. In the small town stood an ancient stately temple of a soft black stone that turned dark in the rains. Its spires quietly remade the hills that it lived under.

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Only some places retain a special charge. The demons and the gods were exhausted. Time was being swallowed up, seasons passing as they continued pulling the mountain, Meru between them by a large green rope around it. They were trying to make a churn of the mountain, to make the ocean yield up its treasures. The 'rope' was the giant snake Vasuki whose skin was red hot from the exertion, whose eyes bulged with veins so thick and red that the first Asura who held the head, never dared look down at what he was holding.

All manners of gems were thrown up from the waters, into the skies.. Kamadhenu of the soft black lidded eyes, the cow that gave all, a white horse that could fly.. the sky was resplendent with her new constellations but for the gods, they were still searching for the elusive amruta, which once tasted, would keep the scythe of death away, forever. Still new to life, they had experienced, in their battles, the ogre of death, they wanted to defeat him and play and fight eternally.

a few drops of the Amruta when it finally appeared fell, in the machinations, the fights, the interventions that were made to distribute it. The drops fell on some places on earth.. one of those places was Trymbakeshwar.

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In a time when there was no plough, what did it take to have a greener field? What did Rishi Gautam do, he flung seeds on the ground like everyone else, how did his field specially prosper? On earth, Gautam was specially respected, but the gods grew jealous of his growing radiance.

They plotted and sent a hungry cow to his field. She went on rampage, eating his crop. Gautam saw her lumbering among the radiant crop, looking isolently at him, her jaws slowly making mulch of his farm.

He merely chased her with some straw flinging it on her, to chase her away, how did she die?

Gohatya is a crime with no easy penance. Gautam first prayed desperately to Shiva, his body still. Shiva knew his bhakta had to first bathe in the Ganga to do penance. Feeling tender towards Gautam, he asked Ganga to help him.

Ganga would not refuse the blue skinned god, whose wild hair she had once lived in. So she came to Trymbakeshavar as the Ganga-Godavari.

And then Shiva, charmed by the presence of two who loved him there, came to live at Trymbakeshwar.

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Shri Trymbakeshwar Jyotirlinga

In a time when there was no plough, what did it take to have a greener field? What did Rishi Gautam do, he flung seeds on the ground like everyone else, how did his field specially prosper? On earth, Gautam was specially respected, but the gods grew jealous of his growing radiance.

They plotted and sent a hungry cow to his field. She went on rampage, eating his crop. Gautam saw her lumbering among the radiant crop, looking isolently at him, her jaws slowly making mulch of his farm.

He merely chased her with some straw flinging it on her, to chase her away, how did she die?

Gohatya is a crime with no easy penance. Gautam first prayed desperately to Shiva, his body still. Shiva knew his bhakta had to first bathe in the Ganga to do penance. Feeling tender towards Gautam, he asked Ganga to help him.

Ganga would not refuse the blue skinned god, whose wild hair she had once lived in. So she came to Trymbakeshavar as the Ganga-Godavari.

And then Shiva, charmed by the presence of two who loved him there, came to live at Trymbakeshwar.

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Shri Trymbakeshwar Jyotirlinga

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Tumblers and Jugglers 1872, from a paper published in London

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Mr. Griffith, who is principal of the J.J. School of Art, begins the work of copying Ajanta Murals which is completed 9 years later.

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Years: 1869 1870 1871 - 1872 - 1873 1874 1875

Decades: 1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar.

Events

January - April

• January 2 - Brigham Young is arrested for bigamy (28 wives).
• January 12 - Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ruler crowned in that city in over 500 years.
• February 20 - In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art closes for "urban renovation.
• March 1 - Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's 2nd national park
• March 5 - George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
• March 5 - The case of Tichborne Claimant decided against the claimant Arthur Orton
• March 26 - Earthquake at Lone Pine, California with an estimated magnitude of 7.2 .

May - August

• May 10 - Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States, although she is a year too young to qualify and does not appear on the ballot.
• May 22 - Reconstruction: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act of 1872 into law restoring full civil rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
• June 14 - Trade unions legalised in Canada.[1]
• July 4 - Society of Jesus is pronounced Illegal in German Empire

September - December

• September 1 - Group of Icaiche Maya under Marcos Canul attack Orange Walk town in British Honduras. British send troops against them
• November - Ulysses S. Grant defeats Horace Greeley in the U.S. presidential election
• November 5 - Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time (on November 18 she was served an arrest warrant and in the subsequent trial she was fined $100 - she never paid the fine).
• November 7 – Mary Celeste sets sail from New York, bound for Genoa
• November 9 - Great Boston Fire of 1872: In Boston, Massachusetts, a large fire begins to burn on Lincoln Street (the two day event destroyed about 65 acres (0.3 km²) of city, 776 buildings, much of the financial district and caused US$60 million in damage).
• November 27 - Meteor rain display over France
• November 29 - Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
• November 30 - First ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Scotland.
• December 4 - The crewless American ship Mary Celeste is found by the British brig Dei Gratia (the ship was abandoned for 9 days but was only slightly damaged).
• December 12 - A meteorite struck earth near Banbury, England.
• December 21 - HMS Challenger sails from Portsmouth on the 4 year scientific expedition that would lay the foundation for the science of oceanography

Unknown date

• Louis Ducos du Hauron creates the first color photograph.[2]
• London Metropolitan Police strike.
• In the aftermath of the War of the Triple Alliance, new government of Paraguay makes peace with Brazil, grant reparations and territorial concessions
• Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition
• Foundation of the Kolozsvári Egyetem, the predecessor of the University of Szeged
• US government geologist Clarence King reveals the diamond hoax in Wyoming

Births

• January 6 - Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (d. 1915)
• January 23 - Goce Delchev, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1903)
• January 31 - Zane Grey, American writer (d. 1939)
• March 7 - Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter (d. 1944)
• April 29 - Harry Payne Whitney, businessman, horse breeder (d. 1930)
• May 18 - Bertrand Russell, English philosopher and mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1970)
• May 31 - Heath Robinson, British cartoonist and illustrator (d. 1944)
• June 20 - George Carpenter, the 5th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1948)
• June 27 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet and publisher (d. 1906)
• July 1 - Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer (d. 1936)
• July 4 - Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States (d. 1933)
• July 16 - Roald Amundsen, Norwegian polar explorer (d. 1928)
• August 3 - King Haakon VII of Norway (d. 1957)
• August 9 - Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (d. 1962)
• August 10 - Bill Johnson, American jazz musician (d. 1972)
• August 13 - Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942)
• August 15 - Sri Aurobindo, Indian nationalist, writer, and mystic (d. 1950)
• August 21 - Aubrey Beardsley, British artist (d. 1898)
• October 11 - Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1946)
• November 30 - John McCrae, Canadian soldier and poet (d. 1918)
• December 21 - Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (d. 1956)
• December 24 - Benjamin Rockaway, writer (d. 1897)
• December 26 - Norman Angell, British politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1967)
• Charles Greely Abbot, American astrophysicist (d. 1973)

Deaths

• January 7 - Big Jim Fisk, American financier (b. 1834)
• January 21 - Franz Grillparzer, Austrian writer (b. 1791)
• March 20 - William Charles Wentworth, Australian explorer (b. 1790)
• April 1 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (b. 1805)
• April 2 - Samuel Morse, American inventor (b. 1791)
• June 4 - Stanisław Moniuszko, Polish composer (b. 1819)
• June 4 - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician (b. 1798)
• June 20 - Elie Frédéric Forey, Marshal of France (b. 1804)
• July 18 - Benito Juárez, President of Mexico (b. 1806)
• August 19 - Charles XV, King of Sweden and Norway (b. 1826)
• September 13 - Ludwig Feuerbach, German philosopher (b. 1804)
• October 23 - Théophile Gautier, French writer (b. 1811)
• November 28 - Mary Somerville, British mathematician (b. 1780)
• December 15 - Lady Beaconsfield, wife of Benjamin Disraeli (b. 1792)