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  • Oldest Highway Dakshinapada Road Now NH 7, 2000 BC

    How did the ancient people get connected by road in the subcontinent of India?

    We have records of Kings and people of various kingdoms,they were fifty six,spread in the North,East,South and West .

    That too in a vast stretch of land.

    Tamil kings of yore,from Udiyan Cheralaathan,who provided food both for Pandava and Kaurava armies,traveled from the Chera Kingdom,present Kerala ,at the bottom of Indian subcontinent,to Kurukshetra,near New Delhi in the North India.

    So did Malayathwaja Pandya from Madurai, Tamil Nadu to New Delhi to take part in the Epic battle of Mahabharata.

    Senguttuvan, A Chera king traveled to Himalayas.

    Lord Rama,Krishna,Bhima,Arjuna,Sahadeva and a host of ancient Indians traveled throughout India either as Pilgrimage or a part of their assertion of their Suzerainty .

    Then we have Chandragupta who traveled to South.

    How did they travel?

    Were there roads?

    Yes.

    There were two highways.

    Ancient India, according to Mahajanapadas, Footprints of People or Kingdoms,was divided into Five parts.

    Vedic divisions of India.

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    • Udichya (Northern region)
    • Prachya (Eastern region)
    • Dakshina (Southern region)
    • Pratichya (Western region)
    • Madhya-desha (Central region)

    Puranic Divisions of India.

    • Udichya (Northern region)
    • Prachya (Eastern region)
    • Dakshinapatha (Southern region)
    • Aparanta (Western region)
    • Madhya-desha (Central region)
    • Parvata-shrayin (Himalayan region)
    • Vindhya-prashtha (Vindhyan region)

    The Dakshinapatha trade route was one of two great highways that have connected different parts of the sub-continent since the Iron Age. The other highway was the Uttarapatha or the great northern road that ran from Taxila in Afganisthan, through the modern Punjab up to the western coast of Yamuna. Following the course of Yamuna it went southwards up to Mathura, from there it passed on to Ujjain in Malwa and to Broach on western coast. According to “Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India’s Geography” by Sanjeev Sanyal, the trajectory of the northern road has remained roughly the same from pre-Mauryan times and is now NH2.However, the southern road appears to have drifted. Rama’s route into exile in the epic may have been an early version of the road, but by the time of Buddha it started at Varanasi and ran through Vidisha in central India, to Pratishthana (Paithan). It probably extended all the way to Chola, Chera and Pandya kingdoms of the extreme south. By the Mauryan period there would have been a branch from Ujjain to the ports of Gujarat. This made Ujjain a major city by Gupta times. Today Dakshinapatha is known as NH7, which runs much further east of the old road but still meets NH2 at Varanasi.

    This period is tentatively dated between 1200 to 600 BC( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Age_in_India )

    Taking into consideration that metallurgy was present in these period,the civilization could have been older with infrastructure like roads.

    So the highway may be dated conservatively around 2000 BC.

    Sources.

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

    Source.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakshinapatha

  •   Kartaviryarjuna Introduced Sanatana Dharma in The South, Dakshinapada

    When one observes India as a whole,one may find Unity amidst Diversity.

    The Bond that unites People of India is its Culture developed by Sanatana Dharma.

    However one must know that there was a parallel culture in India in the south called as Dakshinapada(Southern Paw,South).

    This term was strictly used denoting the direction where the people lived.

    Another term for South is Dravida.

    Unfortunately, this term has been used to denote a race.

    In the earlier days, these two cultures, Sanatana Dharma and Dakshinapada Culture flourished in India, then called Bharatavarsha.

    Lord Rama’s ancestor Vaivaswatha Manu was a Dravida King and he migrated to Ayodhyadue to a Tsunami.

    Please read my article Rama’s Ancestor. Manu Dravida.

    This fact is recorded n the Bhagavatha Purana.

    Manu left for North with his sons leaving his daughter behind.

    Ila married Chandra and founded the Lunar Dynasty, while Ikshvaku founded the Solar Dynasty,Surya Vamsa to which Lord Ramachandra belongs.

    The progeny of Ila continued ruling the Dakshina pada and developed a culture on their own.

    This was slighlty different from the Sanatana Dharma culture , the main differnce is that Fire worship which is supreme among the Vedic people, was not followed initiallly in Dakshinapada.

    And there were tribes in the Dakshinapada, one of them being Nagas.

    These are the same Nagas whose descendants live in the NorthEast of India.

    And these are the people who migrated to Americas and were the forerunners of Mayan, Inca Civilizations.

    The term Asura means one who is powerful.

    This term is used to refer to those from the Dakshinapada.

    Another term used to denote people from the south was Rakshasa.

    Rakshasas are reported to be powerful.

    As in any groupthere were good and bad People among them.

    ‘In the world of the Ramayana and Mahabharata, Rakshasas were a populous race. There were both good and evil rakshasas, and as warriors they fought alongside the armies of both good and evil. They were powerful warriors, expert magicians and illusionists. As shape-changers, they could assume different physical forms. It was not always clear whether they had a true or natural form.As illusionists, they were capable of creating appearances which were real to those who believed in them or who failed to dispel them. Some of the rakshasas were said to be man-eaters, and made their gleeful appearance when the slaughter on a battlefield was at its worst. Occasionally they served as rank-and-file soldiers in the service of one or another warlord.

    Aside from its treatment of unnamed rank-and-file Rakshasas, the epics tell the stories of certain members of the “race” who rose to prominence, some of them as heroes, most of them as villains.’ (Wiki on Rakshasa)

    Because there belonged to a different culture, it was natural for some from Sanatana Dharma to portray them as evil.

    However Sages like Valmiki,Vyasa, Agastya do not denigrate them unless they are found to be acting Dharma.

    These Asuras,Rakshasas, were ruling a portion of Dakshinapada.

    The King of Rakshasas was called Iraivan.

    The term Ravana is sanskritised form of Iraivan.

    Iraivan in Tamil denotes God.

    As King is the protector of People, he was also called Iraivan.

    One must, at this point of time, remember the Geography of India was different then.

    It extended from the the Antarctic to Artic, with Oceans in between and Bharatavarsha was ruling thearth.

    For more on this subject, please read my articles on Bharatavarsha,Lemuria,Kumarikandam.

    Some portions of the south,Dakshinapda was ruled by Chera, Chola and Pandya Kings and hence they trace their ancestry to Surya Vamsa or Lunar Dynasty.

    However , as said earlier they did not follow follow Sanatana Dharma, Vedic way of life in its entirety.

    Hence they were called Dasyus, a derogatory term for Non followers of Vedic way of Life.

    And the Dakshinapada had Shiva worship , which iwas not as prevalent in Sanatana Dharma.

    Dakshinapada had Shiva worship and Tamil literature abounds in Shiva Worship.

    Parallel Philosophical system was developed and it was Shaiva Siddhanta and Devi worship.

    Yet the people of Dakshinapada worshipped Murugan(Subrahmanya),Vishnu(Mayon),Varuna,Indra and Devi corresponding the unique geographical divisions ,Kurinji,Mullai,Marutham, Neydhal and Paalai.

    Later, the Sanatana Dharma practices entered in its full scope, amalgamating Vedic practices and the Dakshinapda Culture.

    So essentially the Dakshinapada culture is a Unique belend of the best in Sanatana Dharma and Dakshinapada)Tamil Culture.

    Who broght this change?

    The earliest person to bring Sanatana Dharma was Karthaviryajuna, who ruled from Mahismathi as his Capital(Bahubali Fame Mahismathi)

    Karthaviryajuna was the ancestor of Lord Rama.

    He preceded Ramachandra by thirty generations as was a contemporary of Trayayaruna,grandfather of Harischandra.

    Karthaviryajuna captured Mahismati from Karkota Naga a Dravidian King belonging to Dakshinapada.

    Then he proceeded further down south and conquered Some Dakshina pada lands and In the process killed Jamadagni, father Of Bhargava Rama,popularly known as Parashurama.

    While Sanatana Dharma made initial inroads through Karthaviryajuna, it was carried forward by Parashurama and Sage Agastya.

    I shall write on this and also on the essential differnces in Religious practices between the Vedic People and pwople of the South, Dakshinapada.

    References.

    Ancient Historical Traditions by Pargiter.

    Rig Veda Samhita.

    Bhagavatham.D.R.Bhandarkar, Carmichael Lectures.

    Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.

    History of the Tamils by P.T.Srinivasa Iyengar.

    Related.

     

     

    If some valuables go missing,if some your kith and kin go missing, the following Mantra shall ensure that the lost things are recovered and the lost person either returns or you get information about them

    This has to be chanted, after bath, in the morning 18 times.

     

    || कार्तवीर्यार्जुनोनाम राजा बाहू सहस्त्रवान् |

    तस्य नामस्मरणमात्रेण गतं नष्टं च लभ्यते ||

     

    || Kaartaveeryarjunonaam Raajaa Baahu Sahastravan |

    Tasya NaamasmaraNamatreNa Gatam Nastham Cha Labhyate |

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  • Veda Reference to Tamils Dravida Dakshinapada Bilingual English Hindi

    Veda Reference to Tamils Dravida Dakshinapada Bilingual English Hindi

    I have mentioned in various articles that the Dravididas,Tamils were mentioned in the Vedas,Puranas,Ramayana and Mahabharata.

    These remarks were made in the passing,assuming that further explanation was not necessary.

    This was remiss of me.

    I assumed that Indians,educated included are aware of these references.

    Thanks to western education and doctored History of India,where everything  worthwhile in India was/is being dated only after the birth of Christ,despite overwhelming archeological evidence and foreign literary works.

    I have also written that Poompuhar,excavated sometime back,is dated around 30,000 years ago and the Period literature Silappadikaram mentions Vedas.

    And there is a million year old archeological site in Chennai ,India that had an advanced Tamil civilisation.

    The earliest Tamil grammatical work of Tamil mentions Vedas and its author Tholkaapiyar declares himself to be a Brahmin well versed in the Vedas.

    And I have written many articles on this subject of the intimate relationship between Sanatana Dharma and Tamil/s.

    However there have been quite a few mails asking me to produce evidence of Tamil being mentioned in Early Sanskrit Texts.

    The term Tamil is used to mention the language spoken by the people in South India in ancient India and is being spoken even today.

    The term Tamils is used to refer to people speaking the language.

    This is a linguistic identity.

    One must remember that identifying people of India by language was an European invention,most of these attempts were aimed at dividing India.

    And the landmass of present India was vastly different from the present India in ancient times.

    The reference to various people belonging to different regions ,by early Indians was by the name of tribes.

    And also by referring to the directions where they lived in relation to Vedic,Sanatana Dharma,which was prevalent in the,Gangetic plains and Saraswathi valley.

    In terms of identifying people by directions,the Vedic people referred to the people in the south of Vindhyas,it was

    Dakshinapada,the southern part.

    It may be noted the term Deccan is derived from the word Dakshinapada.

    This area in the south was also referred to as Dravida,meaning South.

    The people of this area were called Dasyus,indicating those who did not worship the Vedic  Deity,Agni.

    Because of this,people, south of Vindhya Mountains were called Dasyus,heretics to Vedic form of worship.

    It is a different matter that the Dravidas followed Sanatana Dharma and I have explained this many of my articles on Tamils,Sanatana Dharma,Ramayana and Mahabharatha.

    The earliest reference to Tamil/s is foundin the Rig Veda.

    ‘Saratpada na dakshina paravarn na ta nu me prasnayo jagrbhre,

    -Rig Veda x.61.8-Vedic Index by McDonnell and Keith ,Volume I,page 337.

    The word Dakshinapada means,

    ‘To the place,the southward foot,where the Exiles( paravri) goes,on being expelled.

    Shall write on how it came to people being expelled to south ,by whom and why.

    Shall also provide evidence from the Vedas,Ramayana and Mahabharatha to Dravidas,Tamils in a series of articles.

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    मैंने अपने साथियों में कई लेखों में उल्लेख किया है कि वेदों, पुराणों, रामायण और महाभारत में द्रविड़, तमिल लोगों का उल्लेख हुआ है।

    मैंने मान लिया था कि इसे विस्तृत व्याख्या की आवश्यकता नहीं है, यह मेरा अनुचित ही था।

    मैंने धार्मिक लोगों को इन संदर्भों के बारे में जागरूक मान लिया था, यह धारणा थी।

    परंतु पश्चिमी शिक्षा और भारतीय इतिहास की जोखिममंद संशोधित जानकारी के कारण, जहां भी भारत में कुछ महत्वपूर्ण विषयों को क्रिसमस के जन्म के बाद तारीख दी जा रही है, इसे अत्यधिक प्राचीन को तारीख देने का प्रयास किया जा रहा है, बावजूद पूर्वाधिकारी सम्बन्धी संख्यात्मक सबूत और विदेशी साहित्यिक कार्यों के बावजूद।

    मैंने भी उल्लेख किया है कि कुछ मेल आए हैं जो मुझसे मांग कर रहे हैं कि एक शास्त्रीय डेवनागरी पाठ के प्रारंभिक संदर्भों में तमिल का उल्लेख पेश करें।

    तमिल शब्द का उपयोग भारत में अधिकारी भाषा के रूप में उल्लेख करने के लिए किया जाता है जो प्राचीन भारत में दक्षिण भारत में बोली जाती थी और आज भी बोली जाती है।

    तमिल शब्द का उपयोग होता है ताकि लोगों को उन भाषा बोलने वाले लोगों की संदर्भिकता के लिए किया जाए।

    इसे इंडिया तक विभाजन करने का प्रयास मुख्य रूप से यूरोपीय आविष्कार था, इन प्रयासों के अधिकांश भारतीय लोगों को भेदभाव करने का उद्देश्य था।

    और प्राचीन समय में वर्तमान भारत के भू-भाग का गहन रूप से अलग था।

    प्राचीन भारतीयों द्वारा विभिन्न इलाकों में विभिन्न लोगों की पहचान करने के लिए, उनके बारे में उल्लेख उनकी जनजाति के नाम से किया जाता था।

    और भी उनके ठिकानों से संबंध में उल्लेख करके, वेदिक, सनातन धर्म के संबंध में, जो, गंगीय तराई और सरस्वती घाटी में प्रचलित था, उनको उत्तर, दक्षिण की दिशा कहा जाता था।

    दिशाओं के माध्यम से लोगों की पहचान करने के मामले में, वैदिक लोग पिंडियों की दिशा में जीवित थे, उन्होंने संगणधी के लोगों के बारे में कहा, इसका मतलब है कि उन्होंने वेदीय देवता अग्नि की पूजा नहीं की थी।

    इसी कारण से, विंध्य पर्वतों के दक्षिण, उन्होंने द्रविड़, तमिलों को दस्यु कहा है, जिससे साफ़ होता है कि वेदीय पूजा के प्रतिष्ठान माने जाने वालों के खिलाफ हीरासतीय कदम अचरण करने वाला होता है।

    इसके बावजूद, द्रविड़ लोग सनातन धर्म का पालन करते थे और मैंने इसे तमिल, सनातन धर्म, रामायण और महाभारत पर कई लेखों में समझाया है।

    तमिलों के उल्लेख का सबसे पुराना संदर्भ ऋग्वेद में मिलता है।

    ‘सरत्पदा न दक्षिणा परावृण ना त नू मे प्रश्नयो जगृभ्रे।’

    • ऋग्वेद x.61.8 – वेदिक सूची द्वारा मैकडोनल्ड और कीथ, प्रथम खंड, पृष्ठ 337।

    शब्द दक्षिणापद का अर्थ होता है,

    ‘जहां विनाश के बाद पत्रावी जाता है।’

    स्वयं को यह लिखने वाले के मुताबिक, मैं पुराणिक संक्षेप में यह लिखूंगा कि यह लोग दक्षिण में किसके द्वारा, क्यों और कैसे निकाले गए।

    धीरे-धीरे मैं वेदों, रामायण और महाभारत से द्रविड़ और तमिलको द्वितीयको में तौलना के प्रमाण प्रदान करता हूँ।

    संदर्भ।

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