Parshuram Gangavavne won the Padma Shri earlier this year for reviving a 500-year-old artform called Chitrakathi, wherein musicians and instrumentalists use voice modulation to narrate epics such as Ramayana and Mahabharata. But do you know why Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj found this art especially useful?
"The letter is written in the Modi script (the script that was used to write Marathi) and even has a 'Rajmudra' (royal seal) at the top, making it genuine,"
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