Seven Hooded Snake, is found as an Umbrella to Him.
Legend has it that, while Rama was returning to Ayodhya,on the request of the Vaikanasa Rishis to give darshan to them Lord Rama graced the place with His presence with Sita, Lakshmana and Hanuman.
Lakshmana , in his original form as Adisesha, appears as the Seven hooded Snake.
Venugopalaswamy with his consorts Rukmini and Sathyabhama is present in a separate Sanctum.
There is also this legend that Lord Shiva rested here after becoming tired of running away from Bhasmasura, during Mohini Avatar.
The Mohini Idol is placed in a nearby temple as this temple was in disrepair.
How to reach.
From Panruti , near Cuddlaore.
By Road.
After crossing Kadampuliyur, Samarasa Sanmarga Sabai temple on the left.
About 100 metres, a large water tank .
Turn left here towards Chattharam.
At the Chattharam junction, turn right.
Vengadampet is two kilometres from there.
Buses are available to Panruti from all Major Towns in Tamil Nadu.
There has a been a systematic attempt at converting students to Christianity by the principal of Sri Venkateswara Arts. College Tirupati.
Evangelical literature is being distributed in the hostel .
Famous Hindu Paintings Personalities disfigured in TTD Tirupathi College.
Protesting students were lathi charged while no action seems to have been taken against the offenders.
It is strange that a Non Hindu is appointed as a Principal in a Hindu run Educational Institution.
Would any Church or a Muslim Institution even dream of appointing a Non Christian, Non Muslim in their institutions?
There have been attempts to run an Islamic University in Tirupati, grabbing Lord Vishnu’s Temple land.
The news on the latest attempt by Christians to convert in TTD College, as in the case of Islam University, did not make it to Main stream newspapers.
Ghar Wapsi is being splashed around everywhere.
Long Live Secularism.
The Story.
The Principal of the Sri Venkateshwara Arts College who goes by the name of Dr M. D. Christopher has been accused by the students of college and various student organizations that he is aiding Christian proselytization. If one looks at the happenings at the SV Arts College in the recent months, there is a strong possibility that this allegation is indeed true.
Evangelist literature is being distributed to students in the college campus. The manner in which the evangelist books are distributed is quite alarming and would not have been possible without the helping hand of the college administration. The students of the hostel are specially targeted for this soul harvest. Evangelical books and other literature arrived in a postal package and were addressed to each student by his name and they were in fact delivered to his room in the hostel. The students say that such distribution of books has happened many times over.
Students allege that complaints about this missionary activity to the Principal andTTD officials have fallen on deaf ears. The students of the college directly point fingers at the Principal. The Principal has appointed to his staff a person named Rajkumar. Rajkumar is alleged to have given out the names and addresses of the students to the missionary organization distributing the literature. In spite of repeated complaints, no action was taken by the Principal. The Principal is also accused of appointing non-Hindu staff.’
Related.
Islamic University near Thirupathi?
Would The Saudi Government allow a Hindu Temple to come up near Mecca?
Global Hindu Heritage Foundation (GHHF) was able to get about ten pictures of the building and the nearby places. Many of our friends have been trying to find out the sinister plans of starting Islamic College near Tirupathi. Following information is being provide for your purview :
1. The seven layer/storied building is being constructed in Chandragiri village which is about 13 kilometers from Tirupathi.
2. There is big sign posted on the main road to indicate that it is the home of “Heera International Islamic College (HIIC).” On the same sign board it is written “Women Arabic College.”
3. Down below the sign board, on the ground there is a sign “Swarnamukhi River Rejuvenation Project.” The name Chandragiri is also printed on the sign board.
Twelve Fridays of a year are marked for Her worship.(Hubbs, p. 117).
The meaning of the word Siva is Auspiciousness, Mangalam.
Shiva is not to be confused with Rudra, as Amsa of Shiva.
Rudra is the chief of the Ekadasa Rudras.
He is described as Ferocious and anger prone.
Sri Rudram starts with,
‘On namo Bhagavate Rudraaya,
Namsthe Rudramanyave”
My Salutations to Rudra,
who is the embodiment of anger,
My Salutaions to Him’
He is the god of Destruction, while Braham is the God of Creation, Vishnu the Protector.
Shiva is different as Vishnu is different from Narayana.
Shiva has five functions.
Srushti(Creation), Stithi(Protection or Maintanence), Samahara(Destruction). Thirodhaaana(Hiding) and Anugraha( Benevolence).
Shiva is the Kinetic energy while Sakthi is the potentian Energy.
Shiva without Sakthi is useless.
In Tamil there is a saying Shiva without Sakthi(in Tamil this word also means Power) is a Sava, A corpse.
It is Sakthi who contributes to the Power of Shiva.
Lalitha Sahasranama calls Her as,
pancha Pretha Manchaathi Saayini’ one who rests on Five Corpses.
Please read my post onDevi worship on the meaning of this.
This sakthi is a part of Shiva and occupies the Left side of Shiva.
This is seen in Ardhanaareswara Form of Shiva.
Bhavani is an Amsa of Sakthi.
The word Bhavani springs from the Sanskrit word “BHU, BHUVA ,-“to live, be, exist”
It also means “being, existence’
This alludes to Being, Being Born, offspring and fertility.
n Slovakia, the equivalent to Siva is life-goddess Zivena, who is counterposed with chief god Praboh (Jones and Pennick, p. 187). His name means “(original) primitive god” (Konus, p. 906).
Interrelated Sanskrit words:
PRA- (prefix): “before, in front”, and therefore, “first, original”; BHU, #1 BHU’, #2 BHU’: “becoming, being, produced, live”. All are the root words of BHAVA/BHAVANI
—PRA-BHU*, “excelling, powerful, lord”, a name of Shiva.
The name itself means “before-living”, in other words, “original God”.
It obtains the concept of “excelling, powerful” exactly in the same way that Eng. PRIME implies “the best”.
—PRA-BHU/PRA-[root] BHU-, -BHAVATI, “originate from, be powerful/master.”
—PRA-BHAVA*, “excelling, production, origin, Creator (“might, power”=PRA-BHAVA) (Monier-Williams)
A picture of Siva shows her with a sun-disk behind her head (admittedly, not an unusual occurrence for ancient deities). And there is mention of Siwa/Syuna, a goddess of the Western Polabi (Hastings, vol. 11, p. 594).
Zhiva: “..…
“There persisted another religious rite more closely related to Procopius’s account of the veneration of nymphs. This religion appears to have had no organized priesthood. It revolved around the goddess called Zhiva by the Elbe Slavs.
The ceremonies were performed by the whole community in the depths of the forests [like the Baiga and Savaras of Northern India, who believe fully in forest spirits. (Hastings, vol. 2, p. 333; vol. 7, p. 214}] and in places where land and water met. (Hubbs, pp.12-13).
“Chroniclers, who confirm Procopius’s earlier observations, refer to the river, lake, and forest nymphs as BEREGINY.” (from BEREGINA, “earth, shore”). BEREGINY represent the fertility goddesses (Ibid, pp.14-15).
The role of diety of guardianship/family/ household is shared by Bhavani, Prabha and the BEREGINY (Kinsley, pp. 109 and 110; Ann and Imel. p. 291; Hubbs, p. 13).
In a similar vein, Shiva-Bhava is the “presiding diety of the waters” (Gupta, p.15).
Banaras/Benares, known as Shiva’s City, is referred to as the center of Earth, “this shore,” on the Ganges River and is an embodiment of the goddess Kashi (“shining, sun”. Cf. Hebrew names Ziva or Zivah, (“shining, radiant”).
Kashi is a counterpart to Bhavani and is a shakti of Shiva (Eck, pp.159, 418). Kashi is said to sit above the earth as a crossing place between earth and the “far shore” of the transcendant Brahman. (Eck, pp. 6, 35).
It is said that, when one dies, Shiva whispers the “ferryboat mantra”, or mantra of the crossing (Eck, p. 331).
This compares with Slavic concepts of the dead traveling across an ocean with a conductor to guide the deceased. Likewise, the Slavic Siva is connected with the life/death cycle. (Ann and Imel, p. 73).
Compare Slavic SHIVAYA/ZHIVAYA VODA (various sources give different spellings), “living water”, which brings dead people back to life; and MERTVAYA VODA, “dying water”, which makes a living person dead (Professor A. Babyonyshev, email).
The “dying water” heals all wounds on the corpse of the deceased, and then the sprinkling of “living water” bring it to life.
And in the Kanjar tribe, Bhavani is worshipped along with the goddess Prabha, “light” (Hastings, vol. 7, p.653).
This word is associated with a sun-disk (Monier-Williams, p. 683).
The Kanjar use a protector-exorcist called a SYAANAA (“wise one”) to propitiate bad spirits (Hastings, vol. 7, p. 653).
Neither the Kanjar nor the followers of Siva had any formal priesthood (Hubbs, pp. 13, 14; Hastings, vol. 7, p
References.
Ann, Martha, and Imel, Dorothy Myers. GODDESSES OF THE WORLD
Babyonyshev, A, professor. Email)
Eck, Diana. BANARAS CITY OF LIGHTS
Gupta, Shakti M. FROM DAITYAS TO DEVATAS IN HINDU MYTHOLOGY
Gutkin, Irina, professor. Email
Hastings, James , ed. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION AND ETHICS
Helmhold, CHRONICLE OF THE SLAVS, Tschan translator
Hubbs, Joanna. MOTHER RUSSIA
Hudec, Ivan. TALES FROM SLAVIC MYTHS, translated by Emma Nezinska and Jeff Schmitz
Jobes, Gertrude. DICTIONARY OF MYTHOLOGY, FOLKLORE AND SYMBOLS
Jones, Prudence, and Pennick, Nigel. A HISTORY OF PAGAN EUROPE
Kinsley, David. HINDU GODDESSES
Konus, Jozef J. SLOVAK-ENGLISH PHRASEOLOGICAL DICTIONARY
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Znayenko, Myroslava. THE GODS OF THE ANCIENT SLAVS
I have written about the Celts being Brahmins and Danube comes from the word Danu.
Danu is the daughter of Daksha Prajapathi, the Progenitor of Mankind.
She was married to Kashyapa and is the mother of the Danavas.”Though there are indications that the people of England, Celts did have a Sanatana Dharma connection, I have not been able to find a good research work till now on this subject.
Now,
There is enough evidence that the priestly class of the ancestors,Druids, of the Celts were…. Brahmins.
“like some wild beast, dread, prowling, mountain-roaming.
Source:(RV.I 154.2a).
There is an allusion to a Namuci story in RV.VIII 14.13:
With waters’ foam you tore off, Indra, the head of Namuci, subduing all contending hosts.
This short reference is believed to have culminated in the full puranic story of Narasiṁha.
This is in Hohlenstein Stade.
28 cm high and was found in 1939′ in the cave of Hohlenstein-Stadel in the Valley of Lone, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. It is one of the oldest known sculptures on planet Earth. photo via Robert Sepehr.
“One of the treasures of Prehistoric art from the period of Aurignacian art, theLion Man of Hohlenstein Stadel is an ivory carving of a lion-headed figure, and is recognized as the oldest known anthropomorphic animal carving in the world. It was discovered in a cave in Hohlenstein Mountain, located in the Swabian Jura of southwest Germany. Following carbon dating tests on earth in which this item of prehistoric sculpture was found, it has been dated to approximately 38,000 BCE, making it the earliest art of its type (male figure) in Europe. A number of other unique works of Stone Age art have been found in the locality, since excavations first began in the 1860s, including: (1) theVenus of Hohle Fels (38,000-33,000 BCE), the oldest of the Venus Figurinesand the oldest known figurative sculpture; (2) the earliest ivory carving of a mammoth – see Ivory Carvings of the Swabian Jura. The area is therefore an important centre of Paleolithic art and culture, and is likely to disclose further examples of Rock art in due course. After the discovery of the Lion Man, a similar, but smaller, lion-headed carving was unearthed in a nearby cave, together with other zoomorphic figures as well as several bone flutes. This has led archeologists to speculate that the lion-figure had a totemic role for the inhabitants of the early Upper Paleolithic. The original carving is now kept in the Ulmer Museum, Ulm, pending the establishment of a new museum of ancient art.”
Read my Post Narasimha Rama Nagar Tamils in Syria.
While I have been writing articles on the advanced technologies developed by the ancient Indians,especially in the Vedic Times, I was curious to find out how they produced the various things they needed to sustain such a large civilization
Look at what we come to know of the Life of the Vedic people from the Sarasvati Civilization.
“Granary,” a massive building with solid brick foundations with sockets for a wooden super structure and doorways.
Town Planning: The excavations of the ruins showed a remarkable skill in town planning. The main streets and roads were set in a line, sometimes running straight for a mile, and were varying in width from 4 meters to 10 meters. Most of these roads and streets were paved with fire brunt bricks. On the either side of the street stood houses of various sizes which did not protrude into the streets. The main streets intersected at right angles, dividing the city into squares or rectangular blocks each of which was divided length wise and cross wise by lanes. Some buildings had a lamp post and a well. There was an elaborate drainage system which emptied into the river.
The Drainage System: The Drainage System of the Indus Valley Civilization was far advanced. The drains were covered with slabs. Water flowed from houses into the street drains. The street drains had manholes at regular intervals. Housewives were expected to use pits in which heavier part of the rubbish will settle down while only sewerage water was allowed to drain off. All soak pits and drains were occasionally cleaned by workmen. In every house there was a well-constructed sink, and water flowed from the sink into the underground sewers in the streets. This elaborate drainage system shows that the Indus Valley people were fully conversant with the principles of health and sanitation.
Houses: The houses were of different sizes varying from a palatial building to one with two small rooms. The houses had a well, a bathroom, and a covered drain connected to the drain in the street. The buildings were made of burnt bricks, which have been preserved even to this day. Sun-dried bricks were used for the foundation of the buildings and the roofs were flat and made of wood. The special feature of the houses was that rooms were built around an open courtyard. Some houses were double storied. Some buildings had pillared halls; some of them measured 24 square meters. It is assumed that there also must have been palaces, temples or municipal halls.
Great Bath: One of the largest buildings was the Great Bath measuring 180 feet by 108 feet. The bathing pool, 39 feet long, 28 feet wide and 8 feet deep was in the center of the quadrangle, surrounded with verandahs, rooms and galleries. A flight of steps led to the pool. The pool could be filled and emptied by means of a vaulted culvert, 6 feet and 6 inches high. The walls of the pool were made of burnt bricks laid on edge, which made the pool watertight. The pool was filled with water from a large well, situated in the same complex. Periodic cleaning of the pool was done by draining off the used water into a big drain. The Great Bath building had six entrances. The Great Bath reflected the engineering genius of those ancient days.
Great Granary: Another large building in the city was the Great Granary which was made about 45 meters long and 15 meters wide. It was meant to store food grains. It had lines of circular brick platforms for pounding grain. There were barrack like quarters for workmen. The granary also had smaller halls and corridors.
Food: Specimens of wheat and barley show that they were cultivated in that region. Rice was also probably grown. There is evidence to show that date palms were grown in the area. Besides these, the diet of the people consisted of fruits, vegetables, fish, milk and meat of animals i.e. beef, mutton and poultry.
Dress: From the sculptured figures it can be seen that the dress of men and women consisted of two pieces of cloth-one resembling a dhoti, covering the lower part, and the other worn over the left shoulder and under the right arm. Men had long hair designed differently. Women wore a fan shaped head dress covering there hair. The discovery of a large number of spindles showed that they knew weaving and spinning. Similarly it was concluded, by the discovery of needles and buttons, that the people of this age knew the art of stitching.
Ornaments: Both men and women wore ornaments made of gold, silver, copper and other metals. Men wore necklaces, finger rings and armlets of various designs and shapes. The women wore a head dress, ear rings, bangles, girdles, bracelets and anklets. Rich people wore expensive ornaments made of gold while the poor had ornaments made of shell, bone or copper.
Cosmetics: The ladies of Mohen-jo-daro were not lagging behind in styles as used by the ladies of the present day, when it came to the use of cosmetics and the attainment of beauty. Materials made of ivory and metal for holding and applying cosmetics prove that they knew the use of face paint and collyrium. Bronze oval mirrors, ivory combs of various shapes, even small dressing tables, have been found at Mohen-jo-daro and other sites. Women tied the hair into a bun and used hair pins made of ivory. Toilet jars, found at Mohen-jo-daro, show that women took interest in cosmetics.
Furniture and Utensils: The furniture and utensils found at Mohen-jo-daro show a high degree of civilization because of their variety in kind and design. The beautifully painted pottery, numerous vessels for the kitchen, chairs and beds made of wood, lamps of different material, toys for children, marbles, balls and dice, indicate what people manufactured in those days.
Conveyance A copper specimen found at Harappa resembles the modern Ekka (cart) with a top-cover. Bullock carts with or without the roof was the chief means of conveyance.
Amusements and Recreation: The Indus Valley people liked more of indoor games than outdoor amusements. They were fond of gambling and playing dice. Dancing and singing were considered great arts. Boys played with toys made of terracotta, while girls played with dolls.
This lifestyle requires Mass production.
I have been able to find references about the Mass production of some items.
I am searching for further evidence for other items.
The people of the IVC manufactured bricks whose dimensions were in the proportion 4:2:1, considered favorable for the stability of a brick structure. They used a standardized system of weights based on the ratios: 1/20, 1/10, 1/5, 1/2, 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, and 500, with the unit weight equaling approximately 28 grams (and approximately equal to the English ounce or Greek uncia). They mass-produced weights in regular geometrical shapes, which included hexahedra, barrels, cones, and cylinders, thereby demonstrating knowledge of basicgeometry.[20]
The inhabitants of Indus civilization also tried to standardize measurement of length to a high degree of accuracy. They designed a ruler—theMohenjo-daro ruler—whose unit of length (approximately 1.32 inches or 3.4 centimetres) was divided into ten equal parts. Bricks manufactured in ancient Mohenjo-daro often had dimensions that were integral multiples of this unit of length.[21][22]
Mehrgarh, a Neolithic IVC site, provides the earliest known evidence for in vivo drilling of human teeth, with recovered samples dated to 7000-5500 BCE.
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