Tag Krishna

Krishna Dynasty Kingdoms Extended Throughout India

There is a Temple for Aravan ,Koothaandaar Koil, near Tindivanam , about 3 hours from Chennai, where a festival is conducted years by the Third gender for Iravan.Aravan is called thus in Tamil as words starting from R is not allowed by Tamil Grammar.

And the practice of Bul fighting called Manju Virattu in Tamil from ancient times in Tamil Nadu has Krishna connection.

Bull Fighting , which is famous in Spain was started by Krishna!

And the term Eru Thazhuvudhal, that of a jilted lover embracing death by climbing a special tree, also has Krishna connection!

I shall be writing on this in detail.

Krishna’s Temple Dome of the Rock Krishna Greek God?

'In about 1900 BC, hundreds of thousands of native Indians emptied Northern and Central India and fled to the Middle East after Krishna's Dwarka sank under the water.( I have reservations on the date here)

..*his family together and fled either to the Middle East or to what is now Iraq. Only some gigantic natural disasters, such as earthquakes and floods could have caused such an exodus. It was at this time that the Saraisvati and the Indus changed their proper beds. The Saraisvati dried up...( Possible as Krishna's son Pradhyumans' city is in Russia-please refer my post on this)

The word Jerusalem is derived from Sanskrit: Yadu-Ishalayam, meaning "The Holy Rock of the Yadu Tribe." Lord Krishna was a Yadu. The Moslems still revere this huge rock under the Dome of the Rock on Jerusalem Temple Mount.