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Day: February 27, 2015

  • City Of Hanuman in La Ciudad Blanca Honduras

    I have been writing on the spread of Hinduism, the Sanatana Dharma being present throughout the world.

    Myanmar,Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia,Thailand, Korea, Japan,Australia, New Zealand,Australia…

    Iran,Kazakhstan, Russia,Siberia, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Germany, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, England ,Latin America, North America,Nigeria, Peru,….

    I have posted articles on each of these places.

     

    Rama, Sita,,Lakshmana,Krishna,Balarama, Shiva, Muruga, Devi, Kali, Danu, Agastya all are found in each of these countries.

     

    The Incas trace their roots to Tamils.

    Mayas to Tamils and Sanatana Dharama.

    In Honduras city of La Ciudad Blanca, White City is called Monkey City.

    Seated Hanuman.Image.jpeg.
    Seated Hanuman.

    Scholars , unable to find any connection from any other source have now turned to Hinduism and Indian references.

    The Story.

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    Hanuman, The Monkey God in Honduras

    La Ciudad Blanca (pronounced: [la sjuˈðað ˈblaŋka], Spanish for “The White City“) is a legendary settlement said to be located in the Mosquitia region of eastern Honduras. This extensive area of virgin rainforest has been the object of study for many people. Archaeologists refer to it as the Isthmo-Colombian Area of the Americas. Due to the many variants of the story in the region, most professional archaeologists doubt it refers to any one actual city of the Pre-Columbian era.(wiki)

    Ancestors of Pre Columbian were the Tamils.

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    City of Hanuman, The American Weekly representing the Temple in Morde’s “Lost City of the Monkey God.” “Lost City of the Monkey God” by Virgil Finlay – The American Weekly. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons – http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lost_City_of_the_Monkey_God.png#mediaviewer/File:Lost_City_of_the_Monkey_God.png

    My Post Incas celebrtae Makara Sankaranthi.

     

     

    In 1940, Heye hired American adventurer and future spy[.Theodore Morde to perform a third expedition. The goal of the expedition was to further study the local indigenous people, explore archaeological sites, chart the upper reaches of the Wampú River, and search for a rumored “lost city.”

    After four months, Morde and his colleague Laurence C. Brown reported having made a great find, which included ancient razor blades. “‘City of the Monkey God’ is believed located: Expedition reports success in Honduras expedition” read the headline of the New York Times. According to the letter Morde sent home, the “city” was located in “an almost inaccessible area between the Paulaya andPlátano Rivers.” Morde and Brown described their find as the capital of an agricultural civilization of the Chorotega people.

    When he returned to the states, Morde described traveling miles through swamps, up rivers, and over mountains before coming across ruins that he interpreted as the remains of a walled city. In an article for The American Weekly, a Sunday magazine tabloid edited by fantasy fiction author A. Merritt,he claimed to have evidence of large, ruined buildings. He said that his Paya guides told him that there once was a temple with a large staircase leading to a statue of a “Monkey God.” Morde speculated that the deity was an American parallel to the Hindu deity Hanuman, who he says “was the equivalent of America’s own Paul Bunyan in his amazing feats of strength and daring.” According to Morde, he was told that the temple had a “long, staired approach” lined with stone effigies of monkeys. “The heart of the Temple was a high stone dais on which was the statue of the Monkey God himself. Before it was a place of sacrifice.”

    References.

    Preston, Douglas (May 6, 2013). “The El Dorado Machine”. The New Yorker: 34–40

    Maliszewski, James (2011) Merritt and Memory, Grognardia.

    Morde, Theodore (Sep 22, 1940). “In the Lost City of Ancient America’s Monkey God”

    Morde, Theodore (1939) Los Misterios de la Mosquitia Hondureña La Ciudad del Mono-Dios . Informe al Ministerio de Cultura, Turismo e Información. Tegucigalpa

    Chapman, Anne (1974) Los Nicaroas y los Chorotegas según las Fuentes historicas. San José: Universidad de Costa Rica

    Griffin, Wendy, Hernán Martinez Escober, Juana Carolina Hernandez Torres (2009)Los Pech de Honduras: Una Etnia que Vive, Tegucigalpa: Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia

    Reisman, Arnold; Wolf, George (October 2010). “Istanbul Intrigue: An unlikely quintet”.The Jewish Magazine. Retrieved 10 June 2012.

    • Razor Blades Used by Natives In Latin Areas 1,500 Years Ago”. Reading Eagle(New York). August 2, 1940. p. 11.

    “Seek Long Lost City of Monkey God,The Sunday Morning Star. United Press. April 7, 1940. p. 7..

    Ack . Second Image.booksfacts.com

  • Tambaram Stone Age Settlement Rajendra Chola Inscriptions

    The areas around Tambaram, especially the stretch from Nemilicherry, Nanmangalam , and the route from nanmangalam is declared as archeological area.

    I investigated this.

    This is the information.

    Tambaram,now a bustling suburb of Chennai was a settlement of Stone Age People.

    Implement of the Stone Age and Iron Age have been found here for a radius of 10km from Old Tambaram.

    A 13th Century inscription of  Rajaraja Chola and his son Rajendra Chola have been found(1000 AD).

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    Stone Age Hand Axe, Tambram, Chennai

    The area then was called Thondai Nadu.

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    Aathondai ,Capporis zeylanicaFlowers Used by the Pallava Kings.

    Tambaram is referred to as  Taamapuram.

    It’s still earlier name was Gunaseelpuram

    Kunrathur near Tambaram is the birthplace of Sekkizhar who compiled the 63 Nayanmars ‘(Devotees of Shiva) lives, calling the work as Periyapuranam.

    This was first inaugurated during the reign of Rajaraja Chola.

     

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    . One of the famous battles of Pallava history was fought in this region. The later Cholas, the Pandias and the Vijayanagar kings also ruled this region. Even the flowers in the jungle are connected with our history. During February and March the beautiful pink and white flowers of the aathondai or thondai creepers (Capparis zeylanica)1 adorn the campus. The region of thondai nadu comprising mainly Madras and Chinglepet districts derives its name from this flower from which garlands of the famous Pallava kings were made.

    About 200,000 years ago people of the Old Stone Age (Lower Paleolithic Culture) roamed about Tambaram. They fashioned rough stone implements out of quartzite and used them for hunting and skinning wild animals. These implements or artifacts are called ‘ the hand axes of Madras industry.’ . The primitive men did not know the use of wooden handles for their stone axe-heads but used their hands instead. The first hand axe was picked up at Pallavaram over a century ago, and within the campus, several artifacts have been picked up by students4 and members of staff .

     

    Around 300 B.C., there were people of the Iron Age living in Tambaram area and they built their burial monuments in the form of dolmens and stone circles which are called Megaliths5 (big stones). Fine examples of such Megalithic Monuments can be seen about 100 metres east of the Great Southern Trunk Road near Guduvancheri railway station.

    Tambaram region must have been a flourishing country during the later Chola period which lasted for about 250 years after 1000 A.D. Tamil inscriptions of the Cholas are found in Manimangalam, Tiruneermalai, Tirusoolam and Kunrathoor. At Kunrathoor, the birth-place of Sekkilar, one Kaasyappa was the local doctor (Vaidya) 8 and some lands were set apart for his services. Inscriptions at Tiruneermalai refer to certain merchants from Pammal showing that this village near Pallavaram existed even then. Inscriptions at Manimangalam of Rajadhiraja I (1018-1054) give us details of a war with Ceylonese kings. Rajadhiraja defeated one Veerasalaamaygan of Ceylon, carried away his wife and sister and cut off the nose of his mother. This sort of barbaric behaviour seems to have been very common in those days even though the kings were supposed to follow Manu’s Dharma Sastra. Stories of such mutilations and abductions have been handed down to us in epics like the Ramayana. The inscriptions of Kulothunga I (1070-1120), the hero of Kalingathu parani, are found at Tirusoolam near Pallavaram and of the inscriptions of Kulothunga III there are several in this area.

    At Pammal, on the basement of a ruined Siva temple, two Chola inscriptions not heretofore noticed were copied by the students. One is dated in the reign of Tribhuvanachakravarti Sri Rajarajadeva, and the other, in the reign of Virarajendra.

    The inscription of the time of Rajaraja (III) is incomplete. It refers to an endowment for burning a lamp at a temple at Pammal. The inscription mentions that the village of Pammal belonged to Surathurnadu. It may be interesting to note that Surathurnadu was a territorial division probably named after Tiruchuram. Tiruchuram happens to be the old name of the apsidal Chola temple near Pallavaram, which is now called Tirusulam.

    The second inscription at Pammal is dated in the 35th year of the reign of Virarajendra Chola. If Virarajendra is Rajendra III, the king who succeeded Rajaraja III, then this is probably the latest reported inscription of the reign of Rajendra III.

    The inscription is complete and refers to an endowment of land by Panchanadhivaanan Nilakangarayan and to its exemption from taxes. The endowment is made to the temple of Azhaga Perumal by the Sri Vaishnavas.

    Of special interest was the fact that this inscription refers to Tambaram, which is also called Gunaseelanallur. Tambaram is referred to here as Taampuram.

     

    A a newly discovered Chola inscription on the basement of the Ahatisvara temple in Perungalatur gives the old name of the village as Perunkulatur, that is, the village of the big tank.

    Pandya inscriptions are found at Kunrathoor, Tirusoolam and Tiruneermalai. Temple building activity which started during the Chola period continued during the Vijayanagar period in this area and inscriptions of the Vijayanagar kings of the 14th to the 17th centuries are found here. This brings us to the modern period.

    This find will be one of the references for my theory that the Sanatana Dharma was in Dravida desa , if not originated from it.

     

    References.

    1.S. Gamble, Flora of the Presidency of Madras (Calcutta, 1957), p. 33.
    2 Nandikkalambakam (Tamil), (Madras, 1961), p. 66.
    3 V. D. Krishnaswami, ‘ Stone Age India ‘, Ancient India (1947).
    4 The largest hand axe was picked up by Mitran Devanesen when he was a student here in the Pre-University class.
    5 N. R. Banerjee, ‘ Megalithic problem of Chinglepet district in the light of the recent exploration’, Ancient India, (1956), pp. 22-32.
    6 V. Rangacharya, Inscriptions of the Madras Presidency, Vol. i (Madras, 1919), p. 411.
    7 E. Hultzsch, South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I (Madras, 1890), p. 152.
    8 K. V. Raman, The Early History of the Madras Region (Madras,1957), p. 184.
    9 E. Hultzsch, South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. 3, Part I (Madras, 1899), p. 53.
    10 Annual Report of Epigraphy (1932-33), p. 75.

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  • Egyptians Ancestors Tamils Religion Sanatan Dharma

    I have ben exploring the spread of Sanatana Dharma and Tamil.

    I have written articles that Iran,Iraq,Mesopotamia),Sumeria,Russi,Arctic,Indonesia,Vietnam, Cambodia,Japan, Bali , Philippines, New Zealand Australia had the Sanatana Dharma as their roots.

    The Incas were the descendants of the Tamils

    I have found that wherever Sanatana Dharma is found Tamil is found!

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    Vanadevata’s (wood spirit) hand issuing from tree trunk offering water.
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    Deceased drinking water offered by tree divinity.
    Egypt

    The Mayans had Sanatana Dharma origin (please read my Post on this).

    More to follow on this.

    Now it seems that the Egyptians were the descendants of the Tamils!

    The presence of Narasimha as Naram Sin, Images of Rama, Sita and Lakshmana,Ancient Tamil scripts being found in Oman and Egypt(I have posts) point in the direction of Sanatana Dharma having been in Egypt.

    Of more interest is that the Ancestors of the Egyptians were the Tamils.

     

    ‘”Under the reign of Viswamitra, first king of the Dynasty of Soma -Vanga, in consequence of a battle which lasted five days, Manu -Vina, heir of the ancient kings, being abandoned by the Brahmans , emigrated with all his companions, passing through Arya , and the countries of Barria, till he came to the shores of Masra [Cairo].” (History of India, by Collouca-Batta). Unquestionably this Manu-Vina  and Menes , the first Egyptian King, are identical.Arya , is Eran (Persia ); Barria, is Arabia, and Masra, was the name of Cairo, which to this day is called,Masr, Musr, and Misro. Phœnician history names Maser as one of the ancestors of Hermes .”

    This tallies with the information that Viswamitra banished his sons to the Dravida Desa (History of Tamils by P.T.Srinivasa Iyengar)

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    “The four principal groups in ancient India were the Asuras (Assyrians or Indus Valley people), Panis (Phoenicians), Yakhus or Yakshas (subjects of Kubera, god of gold and treasure a.k.a. Nagas) and Mayas. We know them today as the Dravidians (Tamils, Malayalam, etc.)

    The non Indus Valley people in ancient days were exceedingly superstitious and fearful of the Mayans. The latter were excellent international shippers and traders, builders and astronomers. Their superstitious enemies thought their accomplishments had to be magic and beyond human ability. They were ultimately driven to Ceylon where they inhabited the province of Maya. Later, they went to the Americas, having been taken there by Kubera and his Yakshas.”  ‘Ceylon’ in those ancient times was more than likely the now sunken land to the south of India and connected geographically to the Ceylon of today, Sri Lanka. This is the ancient Tamil country of which today’s Tamil Nadu in India is but a small remnant:

     

    “Egypt  herself had, in those unknown ages when Menes  reigned received her laws, her social institutions, her arts and her sciences, from pre-Vedic India.”

    Menes the Ancient Egyptian King was Manu.

    ‘Menes is undoubtedly the Manu of the second subrace (5.2 Ancient Egypt) and there is a close connection to India which persists to this day – as any traveler to both nations will attest. If the Mayans have a ‘perfect identity of the rites, ceremonies, traditions’ of Egypt then it is further proof that their genesis is in India, also known as ‘Bharata’ in ancient times.

    This strenghtens my thory that the Sanatana Dharma was in the South and spread throughout the world and the ancient people of Sanatana Dharma lived in the Dravida Desa.

    Please read my post Ram’s ancestor Manu, a Dravida.

     

    References.

    Isis  Unveiled  I, H.P. Blavatsky. p.627.

    Will the Maya Prophecy Really Happen? Gene D. Matlock.

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