India UA should be changed to boost religion

How about the following? Specific parts to the bonuses can be added or chucked as is necessary for balance:

UB/UU (sort of): Saddhu
Religious buildings (the exact ones would depend on balance, but should be available on the shrine to help get to the UA) have one 'Saddhu' specialist slot. +3 faith, no great people generation (could possibly have +25% GWAM generation if city has a garden, though this may be too strong). Half food and unhappiness cost, +10% tourism output and +10% religious pressure exerted per sadhu.

UU: Gurkha
Replaces Longsword (or Musket, whatever). Has the fearless promotion, giving ALL adjacent units a CS percentage bonus when fighting a common enemy (stacks with the GG bonus).

UA: Kumbh Mela
Upon founding a religion, once every 144 years, a half length golden age called the kumbh mela occurs in just one random city in the Indian empire following that religion (you should know which city one period before the GA occurs, and bigger cities should be more likely). During the kumbh mela, in addition to the regular golden age, if the cities have a Saddhu, then faith and religious pressure of cities (including trade routes) is doubled, gardens give +100% GP production, and the city gives no local unhappiness. At the end of the kumbh mela, the city receives +1 population.
 
Mughal Fort is unique for being a unique Castle replacement, so maybe we could take some of these ideas and apply it to the Fort because the devs seem to like having unique buildings that aren't otherwise used by other civs
 
Really, the missed opportunity is that India should have had Byzantium's special. An additional religious belief would be perfect for India and doesn't really make a great deal of thematic sense for Byzantium.

I'm not sure what Byzantium would get instead, but the main things that fit thematically would probably have to do with construction, religion, art and being constantly under siege (maybe +hammers from religious buildings and +faith from defensive buildings? It's not super-interesting, but at least it'd be Byzantine.)
 
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