The races of the world seem to have originated in ancient India.
When one checks European History one would find that the first migration there was from Asia and no further investigation was done as who these people are in Asia.
Family Tree of Bharata. Click to enlarge the Image.
This calls for early geological evidence and references to indian literature,both Religious Texts and Classics in Sanskrit an Tamil.
I am including Tamil here because the reference are found on this subject and I am looking into other languages of India to buttress my claims.
Scholars in Indian Languages may contribute.
I have written about Goddess Lakshmi Being the Goddess of the Canaanites and Phoenicians and that Krishna’s son Pradhyumna founded a city.
The Phoenicians are reported to be the descendants of the Yadavas, the clan to which Lord Krishna belonged to.
Now
,The Mahabharata, states, “The able Panch (पञ्च) setting out to invade the Earth, brought the whole world under their sway”. – Book 1, ch.94, shloka 3738
The able ‘Panch’ have been interpreted by some western philologist, foremost among them British researcher Laurence Waddell (1854-1938), as the ancestors of the people who later came to be known as ‘Britons’, Anyone who has read the Mahabharata knows that the ‘Panch’ are the ‘five’ Pandava’ brothers.
The word ‘Panch’ appears in the names of many Mahabharata tribes – one such tribe was the ‘Panchal’ (पञ्चाल) – the tribe to which Draupadi belonged. The first five tribes of the Vedic-Kshatriyas were known as Pancha-janya (पाञ्चजन्य) or ‘Five People’. In Vedic literature the ‘Pancha-janya’ are described as the ‘five major races’ of the Mahabharata. The Maha-Bharata is the chronicle of the Bharata dynasty. Bharat was a legendary emperor of India, the son of Dushyanta and Shakuntala, and his empire is known to have extended way beyond even what is referred to as greater India.
Laurence Waddell traces the origins of the Britons to the descendants of King Bharata, via the Phoenicians. Waddell quotes the following verse from the Mahabharata – “And King Bharat gave his name to the Dynastic Race of which he was the founder; and so it is from him that the fame of that Dynastic People hath spread so wide.“..
Waddell says that the descendants of King Bharata included the branch that later came to be known as Phoenicians. The ‘later Phoenicians’ also gave themselves the title ‘Barat’ which they spelled as ‘Parat’, ‘Prat’ or ‘Prydi’.’
Lakshmi, the consort of Lord Mahalakshmi is described thus in the Sri Suktha.
Lakshmi
‘Hiranya Varnaam Harineem’
Of deep red/golden in color, the wife of Hari(Vishnu).
Hiranya is deep red in color, bordering on Purple.
Phoenicians is the name given by the Greeks to the Canaan, the Pre Jewish People in and around modern-day Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Israel.
The Cannanites were the people of Kanha, or Krishna, the Vedic God,who after the devastation of the Mahabharata war moved westwards from India.-India in Greece by Edward Pococke.
Bit Lahmi of the Amarna Letters is traced to Lachmo, the Akkadian god of fertility. The Akkadian civilization flourished around 3000 BC. Lachomo, the Akkadian God was worshiped by the Canaanites as Lachma. They also worshipped Goddess Lachama as his wife. -Richard R Losch.
The posture of a Cannnite (pre Jewish Israel) God seated on the left shows a close link to Indian sculpture.
1000 years before the Hebrews arrived in Israel, the Cannanites erected a temple to worship the god on the hill now known as the Hill of the Nativity in the town of Beit Lachama. Beit Lachama was fertile and had a good water supply. When the Jews came in they would naturally not worship the Canan god Lachma and the distortion of interpretations began.
The Cannanite Goddess Astrate depicted here with snakes and skulls much like the Vedic Goddess Kali.
Beit Lachama meant ‘Temple of the God Lakhmu’, which later distorted to ‘House of Bread’ in Hebrew & Aramaic and to ‘House of Meat’ in Arabic. The etymology of Lakhmu and why the God had that name is unknown.-William F. Albright, American archaeologist .
1. the Goddess Laksmi (लक्ष्मी) – the goddess of wealth and prosperity.
2. The brother of Sri Rama whose name was Lakshmana (लक्ष्मण). ‘Lakshmi’ (लक्ष्मी) in Sanskrit means ‘wealth’, ‘fortune’ or a ‘mark’. ‘Lakshman’ (लक्ष्मण) means ‘lucky’ or ‘fortunate’.
Such slokas are rare and are believed to be quite powerful.
Lakshmi ,Goddess of Wealth.
Rudra, an Amsa of Shiva composed Mantra Rajapada on Lord Narasimha and it is very effective to ward off Evil, mental dpression.
The storta on Lakshmi, that too on Sidha Lakshmi( the Amsa of Lakshmi who guarantees fruitful completion of any task at the mundane level and Liberation at the Higher Level) by Lord Shiva is provided below .
Meditate on the young lass who is Brahmi, Vaishnavi,
Who provides safety, who has six hands and four faces,
Who has three eyes, who holds sword, trident, lotus, wheel and mace,
Who is the goddess dressed in yellow, Dressed in various decorations,
And who holds a shining globe and is the greatest.
to that young goddess I submit my prayers
She who tells “Om”, who has the form of Lakshmi,
She who is followed by Vishnu, She gives happiness to Vishnu,
She who is clear, she who has the shape of the sound “hreem”.
She who is “Kleem”, she who is the daughter of nectar,
She who provides safety, she who always grants great happiness,
She who is “sreem”, she who controlled asuras, she who is power,
She who wears garlands and she who kills her enemies.
She who gives out light, the goddess who fulfills desires,
She who does good things, She who is Brahmee,
She who is Vaishnavee, She who is angry,
And she who shines in the form of Kali.
In the letter “Aa”, there is the form of Lakshmi,
In the letter “Uu”, is she who does all that is good,
And in the letter “ma”, is her clear form of Purusha,
And thus the goddess is of the form of the letter “Om”.
She who is perambulated by crores of Suns,
She who has the shine of crores of moons,
In the middle of it in the very micro form,
She lives in the form of Brahmam.
She who is “Om” who is ecstasic happiness,
Who is always pretty and is the form of pleasure,
I salute the divine Lakshmi, the Lakshmi of salvation,
And also the primeval Lakshmi of yore.
Hey the power behind Shiva,
Who makes all good things happen,
Who grants all boons,
I bow before you,
She who is the creator, organizer and destroyer,
My salutations to you Narayani.
The poor one would get wealth, the childless one would get child
Eswarena krutham stotram praninam hitha karakam,
Sthuvanthu brahmana nithyam daridryam na cha badathe,
Sarva papa hara Lakshmi sarva sidhi pradhayinee., 15
This prayer written by Lord Shiva for,
The sake of the good of all the beings,
If recited in praise daily by Brahmanas,
Poverty would not stick to him,
And the goddess Lakshmi,
Who can grant all occult powers,
Would destroy all his sins.
Ithi sri Brahma purane Sri Sidha Lakshmi stotram.
Thus ends the prayer to Sidha Lakshmi from Brahma puranam.
The Sri vaishavaites of some groupings follow the Swayam Acharya Sampradaya.
I have a close friend who is a Swayam Acharya.
Unfortunately, though he is a devout Iyengar,he was unable to say what it was excepting that he was following the Acharya of a Mutt.
When I checked with some of m other Iyengar friends, they also did not have the details.
I have referred some texts, the internet and am sharing the information.
Suggestions for improvement is welcome.
The earliest name the Puranas ascribe to those who worship Lord Vishnu is ‘Bhagavatha’
Later it was meant to include those who follow Pancharatra.
Please read my post on Pancharatra.
Bhagavatha means one who sings. praises the Glory of Bhagwan, here it refers only to Vishnu,
Technically this is incorrect as it refers any one who praises Bhagawan,
Please read my post on Bhagwan, God in Hinduism.
Equally incorrect to say that Ishwara refers only to Lord Shiva.
Iswara means personal God , that’s all.
Now to Swayam Acharya.
Later when many Devathas were being worshiped, to distinguish those who worship Vishnu, the term Vaishnava was coined.
As Vishnu is to be worshiped always along with Lakshmi, Sri, has been added.
Thus was born the term Sri Vaishnava.
Swayam Acharya means one who is an Acharya to himself.
In the earlier days, when Brahmins were following all the duties of a Brahmin, including Agnihotra, the tradition was handed over to the son.
Thus the father becomes the first Acharya.
In Upanayana, the Gayathri is first taught by the father.
In all cases Father is the first Acharya.
Sruthi says Pitru devo Bhava, Acharya Devo Bhava in this context.
“Swayam Acharya sampradayam:
In olden days, all the Vaishvaites were very orthodox, performing daily Agni Hothram in their houses. Therefore the father of the family himself was the Acharyan for the members of that family. He was initiating the members into Sri Vaishnava sampradayam by Samasrayanam process.
Matams and Munitrayam sampradayam:
Now a days, most of the family heads do not perform agni hotrams and follow the sampradayam very strictly. So for the purpose of Samasrayanam, we approach Matams. The matadhipathi/Swami/Acharya initiates us into sampradayam.
This term is used for Sri Vaishnavas who are descendants
of the original 74 disciples of Ramanuja, and who continue
to have association with learned members of their extended
family who administer the panca-samskAra (samASrayaNam)
and minister to their needs. Many of our most learned
acharyas came from "svayam-AchArya" families -- Desika,
Pillai Lokacharya, etc. This is because the concept of
a maTha and therefore a sampradAya based on the maTha
dates from the 14th century, much after Sri Ramanuja's
time.
Some notable svayam-AchArya families are Prativaadi Bhayankaram,
Tatacharya, Tirumalai Anandaanpillai, Nallaan Chakravarti, etc.
There are many scholars among these families even today,
as they have a strong sense of connection to the tradition
and maintain a certain level of scholarship.
Not all descendants of the 74 original disciples are still
considered "svayam AchArya". At some point, some of the
descendants drifted away from their traditional acharya or
did not have a strong scholar in their family, and consequently
became associated with some maTham or other swami. So there
will be Sri Vaishnavas who bear the appellation "Kidambi",
"Vangipuram", "Tatacharya", etc., who at one point belonged
to svayam AchArya purusha families, but who now follow
some other swami.
It should be pointed out that some people object to the
term "svayam AchArya purusha" (not the concept behind it)
with the feeling that only one person is truly a "svayam
AchArya", an acharya for himself -- the Lord.
Lord Vishnu,without Lakshmi, desirous of Male child worshiped Lord Shiva at Tiruvarur.
He was blessed with a Male child, Kaama or Manmatha, the God of Love/Lust.
Angered at being omitted Lakshmi cursed Vishnu that His son would be burnt by Shiva.
Somaskanda.Shiva, Skanda and Parvati.
Upon realization of the curse, an aggrieved Vishnu created a composite image featuring Shiva, Uma and Skanda (Somaskanda – symbolic of fertility) and offered worship to it.
Parvati alleviated the curse placed on him stating that despite being burnt to death, Kaama would live on to create the forces of attraction between the male and the female that would ensure the continuation of the human race.
There is no other children of Vishnu or Vishnu and Lakshmi, from the Purarnic references.
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