Bharat Mata

"हिमालयं समारभ्य यावत् इंदु सरेावरम् । तं देवनिर्मितं देशं हिंदुस्थानं प्रचक्षते ॥"

Starting from the Himalayan Mountains and extending till the Indian Ocean, this God-made country is called “Hindusthan(Bharat Mata)".

Bharat Mata (Bhārat Mātā, Mother India in English) is a national personification of Bharat as a mother goddess. Bharat Mata is commonly depicted dressed in a saffron-coloured sari and holding a saffron flag; she stands with accompanied by a lion.

The identity of India came to visually associated with the image of Bharat Mata. The image was first created by Bankim Chandra Chatatopadhyay. In the 1870s he wrote "Vande Materam" as a hymn to the motherland. Later it was included in his novel "Anandamath" and widely sung during the Swadeshi movement in Bengal. Moved by the Swadeshi movement, Abanindranath Tagore painted his famous image of Bharat Mata on 1905. In this painting Bharat Mata is portrayed as an ascetic figure. Bharat Mata as a four-armed Hindu goddess wearing saffron colored robes, holding a book, sheaves of rice, a mala, and a white cloth. She is calm, composed, divine and spiritual. Devotion to this mother figure came to be seen as evidence of one's nationalism.

Bharat Mata is the personification of India and some people see her as the goddess of fertility. Bharat Mata is an amalgamation of all the goddesses of Indian culture and more importantly Goddess Durga. Our Mother India is an ascetic woman. She is very calm, restrained, divine, represents an archaic spiritual essence and a transcendent idea of the universe and at the same time expresses universal Hinduism and nationalism.

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