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  • Subha Thithi Punya Thithi Difference

    When one goes through information about Hinduism and it’s Practices,one would find that each and every practice is loaded with information that signifies some fact or the other which underscores the Core Belief of Sanatan Dharm.

    I have written various aspects of Hindu Rites and their significance and meaning.

    And about Sankalpa,which is recited by Hindus on both auspicious and inauspicious occasions.

    Sankalp is the Right Determination,be it in thoughts,Words or Deeds.And Sankalpa contains portions which Geotag the performers.

    It also refers to the Time frame when the Act is performed, indicating the Aeon,day or night parameters of the Aeon,Year, Movement of the Sun 🌞,Season,Month,Star ruling that day ,Movement of the 🌒,and Day.

    Hinduism considers Time to be Eternal and A stream. Time is cyclic.What we perceive as yesterday, today and tomorrow is nothing but the instrument of our minds through which we perceive.

    As such , essentially there is nothing in the Universe that is good or bad.

    This includes Days as well,though there are good days and bad days indicated by the Almanacs, Panchanga.

    However,days do not determine what happens to you , either Good or Bad.

    The reason why they are called as good and bad are is determined depending on the actions performed by you in the past and in the present.As you sow,so you Reap. In Hinduism you can not escape the consequences of your actions, whoever you might be,even of you are an Avatar. God is not above Cosmic law.

    The indication a day, star gives you as good or bad is but a forewarning that good or bad, from your standpoint, may befall as a result of your actions.

    Yet there are two occasions which are classified differently.The are exceptions to the Rule.

    Performance of Karma, in accordance with the procedures laid out in Vedas,the Scripture of Hindus ,and Smritis, that is remembered practices, on specific days- these days are called Auspicious days,Subha Thithi.

    On the other hand, death,which is not in our hands and a Harbinger of Rebirth and a beginning of new birth and deaths or merging with the Reality,is not considered auspicious. However Hinduism does not place the blame on the day.

    Based on these two principles, Sankalpa makes a fine distinction.

    One may note in the Sankalp, when done for auspicious occasions, it reads ‘Subha Thithou’.

    This term is used for Ayush homas,Upanayan, Marriage etc.

    But for Grahana, Sraddha,Pitru/Mahalaya Paksha, Amavasya ,the Sankalp reads thus.

    ‘Punya Thithou’

    There are Karmas which are beyond us and as such are classified as days that augur well for Good passage in Life.

  • Sri Vaishnavam Date First BC,10000 BC? Ghosundi Inscription

    Sri Vaishnavam Date First BC,10000 BC? Ghosundi Inscription

    It is a matter of historical interest to find out the time frame of Sri Vaishnava System in Hindu Thought. And it would be great if one could find evidence, especially Epigraphs/Inscriptions.And it should lend itself to Dating. It also should meet up with the evolution of the script in which it is written.

    Saivism and Vaishnavism, or for that matter any system of worship based on the God one worships, is found in the Vedas.Vedas speak of Reality,Brahman and also it has Hymns dedicated to various Deities like Agni,Indra,Varuna,Vishnu,Narayana,Sri,Durga ,Rudra,Maruts….But no specific instructions or rules are laid to declare one to belong to Either Saivism ,Vaishnavism etc

    In fact Vedas speak of Nirguna Aradhana of Brahman,that is the worship or meditation of the Reality ,Brahman as One Beyond Attributes.However,at the practical level it was found difficult for a common man to concentrate on an Abstract Principle for Self Realisation,worship of various Deities evolved. This is called Saguna Aradhana or Worship of Brahman with Attributes.

    As to when exactly it happened , one is not sure as Sanatan Dharma is not an Institutionalised Faith. It is a Way of Life and strictly Personal.

    Even during the period of Mahabharata,there seems to have been no sects like Saivism, Vaishnavism.

    The earliest inscription on this is found in Rajasthan.

    Written in Brahmi script,it speaks of Krishna and Sankarshana and identifies them.

    This has been dated to First Century BC.

    The Epigraph also speaks of Pushyamitra as having performed Aswamedha Yaga.

    So ,on this basis,one may say that the Vaishnava as a group might be dated to 1 Century BC.

    But ,when one looks at the worship of Vishnu as Thirumal , Maayon, in Tamil Classics,and as the Date of Tamil city Poompuhar at 12,000 years ago, it might also be said that the separate groups called as Saivism, Vaishnavism might be dated to 10000 BC.

    And if we take into account of Lemuria,which is dated around 230 Million years ago and MU civilization abutting Lemuria and Tamil was very much in evidence,we can date these groups to have originated around 200 million years ago.

    The Hathibada Ghosundi Inscriptions, sometimes referred simply as the Ghosundi Inscription or the Hathibada Inscription, are among the oldest known Sanskrit inscriptions in the Brahmi script, and dated to the 1st-century BCE. The Hathibada inscription were found near Nagari village, about 8 miles (13 km) north of Chittorgarh, Rajasthan, India, while the Ghosundi inscription was found in the village of Ghosundi, about 3 miles (4.8 km) southwest of Chittorgarh. They are linked to Vaishnavism tradition of Hinduism.’

    The discovered inscription is incomplete, and has been interpolated based on Sanskrit prosody rules.

    Fragment A

    Fragment A (Ghosundi stone inscription).

    1 ….. tena Gajayanena P(a)rasarlputrena Sa-
    2 ….. [j]i[na] bhagavabhyam Samkarshana-V[a]sudevabhya(m)
    3 ……bhyam pujasila-prakaro Narayana-vat(i)ka.

    Fragment B
    1. ….[tr](e)(na) Sarvatatena As[v]amedha….
    2 …..sarvesvarabh(yam).

    Fragment C

    Fragment C (Hathibada stone inscription)

    1 ….vat(ena) [Ga]j(a)yan[e]na P(a)r(asaripu)t(re)na [Sa](r)[vata]tena As(vame)[dha](ya)- [j](ina)
    2 ….(na)-V(a)sudevabh[y]a(m) anihata(ohyam) sa(r)v(e)[s]va[r](a)bh(yam) p(u)[j](a)- [s](i)l(a)-p[r]a[k]aro Nar[a]yana-vat(i)[k](a).

    – Ghosundi Hathibada Inscriptions, 1st-century BCE

    Extrapolation.

    Bhandarkar proposed that the three fragments suggest what the complete reading of fragment A might have been. His proposal was:

    Fragment A (extrapolated)
    1 (Karito=yam rajna Bhagava)tena Gajayanena Parasariputrena Sa-
    2 (rvatatena Asvamedha-ya)jina bhagava[d*]bhyaih Samkarshana-Vasudevabhyam
    3 (anihatabhyarh sarvesvara)bhyam pujasila-prakaro Narayana-vatika.

    – D. R. Bhandarkar’

    Reference and citation.

    1. Richard Salomon (1998). Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages. Oxford University Press. pp. 239–240. ISBN 
    2. ^ a b Theo Damsteegt (1978). Epigraphical Hybrid Sanskrit. Brill Academic. pp. 209–211.
    3. ^ Jan Gonda (2016). Visnuism and Sivaism: A Comparison. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 166 note 243. ISBN 978-1-4742-8082-2.
    4. ^ James Hegarty (2013). Religion, Narrative and Public Imagination in South Asia: Past and Place in the Sanskrit Mahabharata. Routledge. pp. 46 note 118. ISBN 978-1-136-64589-1.
    5. ^ a b c d e f D. R. Bhandarkar, Hathi-bada Brahmi Inscription at Nagari, Epigraphia Indica Vol. XXII, Archaeological Survey of India, pages 198-205
    6. ^ Dilip K. Chakrabarti (1988). A History of Indian Archaeology from the Beginning to 1947. Munshiram Manoharlal. pp. 137–138. ISBN 978-81-215-0079-1.
    7. ^ a b Gerard Colas (2008). Gavin Flood (ed.). The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 230–232. ISBN 978-0-470-99868-7.
    8. ^ Rajendra Chandra Hazra (1987). Studies in the Puranic Records on Hindu Rites and Customs. Motilal Banarsidass. pp. 200–201. ISBN 978-81-208-0422-7.
    9. ^ Srinivasan, Doris (1979). “Early Vaiṣṇava Imagery: Caturvyūha and Variant Forms”. Archives of Asian Art. 32: 50–51. ISSN 0066-6637. JSTOR 20111096.
  • Sanatana Dharma Answers My YouTube Videos

    Sanatana Dharma Answers My YouTube Videos

    I have been receiving requests that I start a YouTube channel on the lines of what I am writing in RamanisBlog. This suggestion started in 2016. I kept on postponing my decision because I am not technically proficient in running a channel. I just about manage writing this blog for the past ten years.

    The suggestion was reinforced in UK during last year by the people who attended my lectures in London, Bradford.And I was asked by my close friends in India and US to start a channel to rebut the secularists and to inform the concepts of Sanatana Dharma in simple modern terms without resorting to Pravachan style

    And it has become necessary to inform people of the latest Archeological finds that confirm our History as detailed in our Purana , Ithihasas, Sthala Puranas, References in regional languages of India.

    In short people wanted Ramanis blog in an audio visual format.

    I have started the YouTube channel on June 3.

    In the channel I am also answering questions from Readers

    The questions may be sent to ramanan50@gmail.com.

    Sample questions from a reader here below.

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    Question 1- Hinduism or any other religion is not constant – it evolves / changes over the years. There must be a golden period and there must be a degradation.  Please explain how will you divide the history of Hinduism  in different yuga . For e.g when temples culture started? When caste system devised? When feudal system ?

    Q2) who were the peoples who came from Central Asia and destroyed Sindhu valley civilization, what they called themselves and what was their language, religion ??

    Q3) history is based on archeological , scientific evidence , not mythology – Indian historian  / Sanskrit texts relies on purana , mythology, stories from grand parents or so called scholars. What is your approach ??

    Q4) so many wave of foreigners came to India , they settled here , and their God / Goddesses absorbed in to Indian culture – greek, Scythian , parthians, Kushan, huna , Persians, afghanis of Turk descend , English, Portuguese , Tibetans – how it changed the Hinduism ?

    Q5) Many foreigners became  Brahmins. How to  identify indian Brahmins ??

    Q6) the most ancient Indian religions  as per agam shastra were shaiva, vaishnav, shakt. How totally different thought, belief , deities / God can be combined in one religion? It contradicts the meaning of religion.- a particular belief system !!!

    Q7) how university education – bauddha vihara like takshila, Nalanda , vaishali etc vanished from India ? Why Hinduism does not lay stress on university education – how knowledge became monopoly of guru / Brahmins ?

    Thanks & Regards,

    Akshat Agrawal

    I have started answering the above in the three episodes I have published so far.

    I am providing the videos in this post.

    As usual ,my reluctance to record and upload is followed hete as well.So combined with my nil knowledge of technology,not to speak of my limited knowledge of the subject and my unfamiliarity in facing the camera, might be there for all to see. Kindly send me feed back do that I can improve.

    I will be starting my Podcast shortly.

    My Ramanis blog shall continue as usual with new redearched content.

  • Rama Pindo Rama Tribes Brazil

    Rama Pindo Rama Tribes Brazil

    The name of Rama is found everywhere in the world. Ra word was considered sacred in many countries.

    Rama ,along with Dasaratha (called as Dushratta,)Bharatha are mentioned in Kings’ List, Mesopotamia.Rama Chapel is in UR. Rama Nation in Ontario,Canada,Rama Language, Religion in Nicaragua,Honduras,Rama tribe in Nicaragua,Hanuman temple in Honduras,Siva temple and Rama Sita festival in Mexico…the list is endless.Inthe fareast,one finds Rama Kings,Korean queen from Ayodhya…..

    Now in formation about Rama Tribe as Pindo Rama in Brazil.I am providing below post from Facebook and I shall follow it up with more information on this and about Rama Tribes in South America in detail shortly.

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    RamaRama Tribes of Old Brazil (#PindoRama) and Sindhu vs Brazilian Script

    At the time when Europeans first landed on the soil of Brazil, a total of 2,000 indigenous nations, divided into several thousands of tribes existed in Brazil. Curt Nimuendajú gives a list of 1,400 nations in his monumental work Mapa etno-histórico do Brasil e regiões adjacentes, but he ignored many smaller (extinct) tribes in Eastern Brazil. Currently only approx 790 tribes are alive, with no survivors being reported for the remaining tribes. However this doesn’t mean all their bloodlines are extinct only their cultures.

    The natives called Brazil as #PindoRama. Even the archaeology and ancient reliefs indicate that Sri Vishnu, Ramayana, Sri Rama, Hanuman, Goddess Sita, Kurma Avatar (Turtle) etc. were not unknown in Brazil, Honduras, Peru, Bolivia, Guatemala and Mexico. An ancient sculpture of the ‘Vanara Monkey God’ of Copan, Honduras is linked to the Vedic Hanuman or Vanara tribes. Kaipo Tribes is also linked to the same. William Jones (1744 – 1794) stated in his papers published by the the Asiatic Society that the Incan festival ‘Rama-Sitva’ celebrated on the Winter Solstice Day gets its name from the Hindu God King, Sri Rama and his wife, Goddess Sita. The Winter Solstice Day is celebrated in June in Peru. (Peru lies in the southern Hemisphere and the winter solstice day falls in June).

    The ancient name of Brazil which is PindoRama is also linked to RamaRama tribes. The RamaRama were a Tupi speaking group of considerable size living in the Brazilian Amazonian area in a place called Rondonia. One can also find a place named Pindarama in district #Banswara, Rajasthan.

    ✳In his book “Mysteries of Ancient South America” on page 63 Mr. Harold T. Wilkins writes ”The Sinhalese priests and Orientalists at Oxford spoke of “Secret Ashoka cypher”; but this chapter tries to prove that those strange writings – syllabary rather than hieroglyphs, and assuredly not Ameri-Indian pictographs – are something far remarkable than hieratic cipher scripts – if it be that of an esoteric, Hindu Cult.”

    ✳Mr. Harold on Chapter V page 118 writes about finding of hieroglyphs by a young gunner lieutenant, P.H. Fawcett in the jungle of Ceylon. The hieroglyphs stone was covered in creeper of unknown date written on a great slab of rock. Mr. Harold says “I have myself found some queer links between these strange letters of old brazil and characters found in Tibet and Vedic Hindostan.

    ⏩Amazon was itself known as the ‘Maranon’ in ancient times. Many of the tributaries of the Amazon also bear Sanskrit names. The Jara and the Javary seem to be related to the Sanskrit ‘jhara’ (झर) meaning ‘water-body’ or ‘water-fall, also ‘Jhari’ is ‘river’; these words also appear in the names of major rivers around the world such as the Jordon and the Niger’ etc. Then there are the ‘Paru’, ‘Para’ and ‘Purus’ rivers. ‘Paru’ is ‘sun’ or ‘heaven’, ‘Para’ (पर) is ‘greatest’ or as a direction it means ‘across’, and ‘Purus’ is the equivalent of ‘in front’ or ‘ahead’.

    In 1932, Wilhelm de Hevesy was the first academic to suggest a link between Rongorongo and the Indus script of the Indus Valley Civilization in India, claiming that as many as forty Rongorongo symbols had a correlating symbol in the Indus valley script from India. The Inga Stone Inscription of Brazil is similar to the RongoRongo- the ancient script of Easter Island (Pascoa) which is similar to Indus valley Script.
    (CHECK OUT THE COMPARISON http://www.ancient-wisdom.com/easterislandindusvalley.htm)

    Lots of efforts were made by foreigner who invaded Americas to destroy the ancient records including tribes. The subsequent disappearance of the old wooden tablets from RongoRongo was also done and is probably due to their sacred character as the natives hid them from the European immigrants, presumably because the missionaries considered the ceremonial documents as idolatrous objects. The natives repeatedly asserted that the missionaries had prohibited them from reading the tablets, and even had induced them to burn these objects as devil’s work. The Swede De Greno, who arrived about 1870 at Easter island, said the following:“…soon after the Catholic Mission was established on the Island, the missionaries persuaded many of the people to consume by fire all the blocks (tablets) in their possession, telling them that they were but heathen records and that the possession of them would have a tendency to attach them to their heathenism and prevent their thorough conversion to the new religion and the consequent saving of their souls..”.

    Similar Thing happened with Mayan tabs…Bishop De Landa destroyed many book which ended the mayan civilization in mystery to establish a new world order & religion. In Mayan history as well, the Maya were a relatively advanced civilization. By 100 BC they had a system of writing, and for the next 1400 years they recorded their history as well as astronomical observations and calendar calculations. Then the Spanish showed up. For three months in 1562, Spanish friars tried to Christianize the Maya through torture. In order that no one could ever return to the old ways, they also burned all samples of Mayan writing they could find. Said Bishop De Landa, “We found a large number of books in these [Mayan] characters and, as they contained nothing in which were not to be seen as superstition and lies of the devil, we burned them all, which they regretted to an amazing degree, and which caused them much affliction.” Today only three of these works remain.

    Lots of effort in required by Indian researchers to connect the rich ancient history and linkages of Brazilian, Incas and Sindhu civilization considering the same scripts found in these places.


    http://www.ancient-wisdom.com/easterislandindusvalley1.htm
    https://archive.org/stream/mysteriesofancie035488mbp/mysteriesofancie035488mbp_djvu.txt
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decipherment_of_rongorongo

    Reference and citation.

    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=660672077453175&substory_index=0&id=180705592116495

  • Rama Language Rama Religion Nicaragua Honduras

    Rama Language Rama Religion Nicaragua Honduras

    The term Rama seems to have been prevalent in early religions.

    Sumerian and Minoan civilizations speak of Rama and Rama,Dasaratha and Bharata are found in Sumerian Kings List.

    Lord Rama’s Chapel is found in UR,Iraq.

    The land mass we call as Australia  Americas and Africa were once a part of a super continent,Rodina.

    Santana Dharma was present throughout Rodina.

    Australian tribes perform Shiva’s Trinetra Dance,The Third Eye Dance of Shiva and Australian tribes are found with Lord Vishnu’s marks in their body.

    And Lord Rama’s ancestor Vaivaswatha Manu was from the southern region of equator and meditated in Madagascar when a Tsunami struck the southern region.

    Sita Rama festival is celebrated in Mexico, Hanuman temple is found in Honduras.Makaratdwaja temple is found in Central America.

    We find the presence of Rama people in Nicaragua!

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/ramanan50.wordpress.com/2016/12/22/rama-people-nicaragua-dravidian-origin/amp/

    The Rama people of Nicaragua speak a language called Rama Language.

    The Rama language is severely endangered. Their language was described as “dying quickly for lack of use” as early as the 1860s (Pim & Seemann 1869:280). By 1980, the Rama were noted as having “all but lost their original ethnic language”, and had become speakers of a form of English creole instead (Craig 1990:293). In 1992, only approximately 36 fluent speakers could be found among an ethnic population of 649 individuals in 1992 (Craig 1992). The number of speakers on Rama Cay island was only 4 in 1992. There have been several language revitalization efforts. The fieldwork for the first dictionary of Rama was done during this time by Robin Schneider, a graduate student from the University of Berlin (Rigby & Schneider 1989).It is spoken in Honduras and Nicaragua

    Personal pronounsIndependentPrefixI, menaas, nan-you (sg.)maam-he/him, she/her, ityaingi-, y-we, usnsutnsu-you (pl.)mlutm- -lutthey, themanutan-

    The independent pronouns are often used as subjects: Nah tawan ki aakar “I live in Bluefields” (I town in stay), Maa kalma apaakut? “Can you sew a dress?” (you dress sew-IRREALIS), Yaing taaki “He/She is going”. They may also be complements of postpositions: Naing airung ning nguu ki aakar nah u “My mother lives in this house with me” (my mother this house in stay I with), maa kang “from you“, Walsa anut su tabiu “The tiger came out at them” (tiger they at came-out). Note that -ut changes to -ul before a vowel, for example in nsul u “with us”.

    The prefix forms of the pronouns are used as subject prefixes with verbs: Neli aa nitangu “I gave it to Nelly” (Nelly OBJECT I-gave), Tamaik suulikaas niaukut “Tomorrow I will cook some meat” (tomorrow meat I-will-cook), Taa u mtaaku? “With whom did you go?” (who with you-went), Itaaku “he/she went”, Ipang su ansiiku “They came to the island” (island in they-came). In the second person plural, m- is prefixed and -lut suffixed to the verb.

    Rama is one of the indigenous languages of the Chibchan family spoken by the Rama people on the island of Rama Cay and south of lake Bluefields on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. Other indigenous languages of this region include Miskito and Sumu (Craig 1992). Rama is one of the northernmost languages of the Chibchan family (Craig 1990:293).

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama_language

    The Name of their religion is Rama Cay.

    Their Ethnicity is Rama.

    It is essential ,in the light of the presence of Rama name in some aspect of the Lives of the people around the world,while no other name seems of ancients have been as much popular,and now in The form of a language as Rama Language, that detailed Research is undertaken to unravel the history of Rama around the world.