Tamil and Sanatana Dharma are so intermingled that one finds numerous references to The Tamils and Tamil Kings in the Rig Veda, Ramayana, Mahabharata and other Puranas.
Ramayana Mahabhrata Dynastie. Click to Enlarge.
I have written quite a few articles on this.
The Chola Kings trace their ancestry to the Solar Dynasty.,Surya Vamsa.
Chera King Udiyan Cheralaathan fed both the Kaurava and Pandya armies.
Krishna killed a Pandyan King(5:48)
Chera and Chola Kings were defeated by Krishna (7:11)
King Sarangathdwaja wanted to attack Dwaraka to avenge his father’s Death, the Pandya King, after obtaining weapons from Bhisma, Drona, Balarama and Kripa.
However wiser counsel prevailed and he dropped the idea.
Later he fought alongside the side of the Pandavas against Drona(7:23).
He was rated as an Athiratha by Bhishma( (5,172)
When the mighty Pandya, that foremost of all wielder of weapons, has been slain in battle by the Pandavas, what can it be but destiny?(9:2)
Pandya, who dwelt on the coast-land near the sea, came accompanied by troops of various kinds to Yudhishthira, the king of kings (5:19). There hath come Pandya. Remarkably heroic and endued with prowess and energy that have no parallel, he is devoted to the Pandava cause. (5:22).
Pandya was present during the Rajasuya ceremony of Pandava King Yudhisthira.
The Kings of Chera and Pandya, brought numberless jars of gold filled with fragrant sandal juice from the hills of Malaya, and loads of sandal and aloe wood from the Dardduras hills, and many gems of great brilliancy and fine cloths inlaid with gold.
Singhalas gave those best of sea-born gems called the lapis lazuli, and heaps of pearls also, and hundreds of coverlets for elephants (2:51).(2:36,43).
Draupadi Swayamvara.
Pandya King took part in the event Panchala princess Draupadi’s Swayamvara (MBh 1:189)
Lord Krishna’s Cousin Arishtanemi is a Tirthankara of Jainism!
Krishna as a child
Arishtanemi is also called as Neminatha.
He is the twenty-second Thirthankara .
Tirthankara means one who helps to cross over, creates a Passage.
Life is considered to be an Ocean of pain, it is called Samsara.
Tirthankara is one who has crossed over the Cycle of Birth and death.
They create the path for those who follow them.
There are Twenty four Tirthankaras, Vardhamana Mahavira being the Twenty Fourth
More Tirthankara will manifest in future.
Buddhism and Jainism are two great religions of India and Jainism precedes Buddhism.
These two Religions are nastika systems of Indian Thought.
Nastika means one that does not belive in the authority of the Vedas.
We may call these systems as Heterodox.
Jains have excellent system of Logic.
And their Ethical system is very stringent.
I shall be posting on Jainism in detail shortly.
Lord Krishna’s Cousin Arishtanemi was a Jain Tirthankara, a counterpart of Lord Krishna,a Maha Purusha.
Arishtanemi, (Neminatha) Twenty second Tirthankara of Jainism
“The Tirthankaras, along with 12 cakravartins (“world conquerors”), nine vasudevas (counterparts of Vasudeva, the patronymic of Krishna), and nine baladevas (counterparts of Balarama, the elder half-brother of Krishna), constitute the 54 mahapurusas (“great souls”), to which were later added nine prativasudevas(enemies of the vasudevas). Other, more minor, figures include nine naradas (counterparts of the deity Narada, the messenger between gods and humans), 11 rudras (counterparts of the Vedic god Rudra, from whom Siva is said to have evolved), and 24 kamadevas (gods of love), all of which show Hindu influences. There are also four groups of gods, the bhavanavasis (gods of the house), the vyantaras (intermediaries), the jyotiskas(luminaries), and the vaimanikas (astral gods). These deities were assimilated from ancient Indian folk religion.”
Note the Vasus, Rudras and Adityas.
My detailed post follows on this.
“Arishtanemi is a legendary figure. Said to have lived 84,000 years before the coming of the next Tirthankara, Parshvanatha, he is believed to have been the contemporary and cousin of the Hindu god Krishna. Legend holds that on his wedding day, Arishtanemi heard the cries of animals being slaughtered for the marriage feast and immediately renounced the world. The name Arishtanemi (“the rim [nemi] of whose wheel is unhurt [arishta]”) is attributed to a dream his mother had before he was born in which she saw a wheel of black jewels. In paintings of the Shvetambara sect, Arishtanemi always appears black (in paintings of the Digambara sect, he is blue). His symbol is the conch. According to Jain belief, he attained moksha (release from earthly existence) on the Girnar Hills in Kathiawar (in western India), which has become a place of pilgrimage for Jains.
wait, we have some thing more intersting.
The Vedas refer to Aritanemi in Svasti Vachana.
Svasti vachana is rendered at the conclusion of an auspicious occasion, to Bless by Auspicious words.
‘HARI OM SVASTI NA INDRO VRIDDHA SHRAVAAH, SVASTI NA POOSHAAH VISHVA VEDAAH,
The Sanatana Dharma was an intruder into Tamil Culture, it was imposed by the Brahmins who crossed over th India through the Khyber Pass, say the Rationalists and The self-styled scholars of Tamil.
Yes , it was imposed to such an extent that the early Tamil literature Ahanaanuru records that the Chera King Udiyan Cheralaathan offered Tharpana to the people killed in the Mahabharata war.
Emblem of Chera Kings, Tamil Nadu,Bow ad Arrow.
He also fed both the Kaurava and Pandava Army, as a Third Umpire.
Udiyan Cheral performed obsequies for the ancestors’-Ahanaaanuru 233
His contribution in feeding the army was acknowledged so much appreciated that he was subsequently called with Prefix ‘Perunchotru Udiyan Cheralaathan’
Perunchotru Udiyan means one who fed vast quantities of food to People.
The Great Serpent Mound is a 1,348-foot (411 m)-long,three-foot-high prehistoric effigy mound on a plateau of the Serpent Mound crater along Ohio Brush Creek in Adams County, Ohio. Maintained within a park by the Ohio Historical Society, it has been designated a National Historic Landmark by the United States Department of Interior. The Serpent Mound of Ohio was first reported from surveys by Ephraim Squire and Edwin Davis in their historic volume Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, published in 1848 by the newly founded Smithsonian Museum.’
ncluding all three parts, the Serpent Mound extends about 1,370 feet (420 m), and varies in height from less than a foot to more than three feet (30–100 cm). Conforming to the curve of the land on which it rests, with its head approaching a cliff above a stream, the serpent winds back and forth for more than eight hundred feet and seven coils, and ends in a triple-coiled tail. The serpent head has an open mouth extending around the east end of a 120-foot (37 m)-long hollow oval feature.Most of them are depicted with the snake eating an egg or with eggs in the general vicinity,[5]though some scholars posit that the oval feature symbolizes the sun, the body of a frog, or merely the remnant of a platform. The effigy’s extreme western feature is a triangular mound approximately 31.6 feet (9.6 m) at its base and long axis. There are also serpent effigies in Scotland and Ontario that are very similar.
Various theories have been advanced on the meaning of this relic.
Built by members of the Adena culture,
the Hopewell culture, or the Fort Ancient culture.,
Allegheny people.
There is also a Theory that states how a comet-like Venus could have seemed to emerge from Jupiter as in ancient Hindu and Greek myths.There are serious suggestions that the serpent is intimately connected with the heavens. Several writers have suggested that the serpent is a model of the constellation we call the Little Dipper, its tail coiled about the north star.
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the cosmos is often thought of as having three basic levels – i.e.,
Upperworld, earth, and Lowerworld . These three levels are vertically connected by an axis mundi. In Native American cosmology, the Upperworld is the realm of the sky, sun, and stars, as well as powerful celestial birds known as Thunderbirds. By contrast, the Lowerworld is a watery world, located opposite to the Upperworld. It is the realm of fishes, frogs, snakes, and related creatures. Chief of the Lowerworld creatures is either the Great Horned Serpent or Underwater Panther. The Upperworld and Lowerworld are antithetical to each other.”
Location of the Under Water Panther Serpent Grotto (this amazing Lidar of the Serpent Mound, the largest effigy mound in the world and a UNESCO Nominated World Heritage site, was made and shared by Jeffery Wilson, President- Friends of Serpent Mound).
The attributes of the Water Serpent- Water Spirit include :
a) an unusually long tail and often represented with a man face with horns in petro glyphs
b) often accompanied by other water animals
c) ruled the waters- underworld-not a bad place
d) could come to the earth level in the form of a man (6)( William F Romain, Director of the Serpent Mound Project, in his article about the Newark Earthworks)
The attributes of the Water Serpent- Water Spirit include :
a) an unusually long tail and often represented with a man face with horns in petro glyphs
b) often accompanied by other water animals
c) ruled the waters- underworld-not a bad place
d) could come to the earth level in the form of a man (6)’
The Americas are the Patala Loka described b the Puranas of Hinduism.
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Here is another example of a Serpent Mound River Stone Artifact. Note the extended snake mouth jaws with a circle in it.
The Incas’s ancestors were Tamils.
Please read my post on this.
More archeological evidence has come to light on the Indian connection of South America.
Most of you in India are familiar with the Charak Puja ceremonial observed in Bengal and several States in South India. This Hindu Ceremonial also observed in Mexicohistorian call it the mexicon and peru. The Spanish Valador ritual. A relief of Bayon central temple of Angkor Thom inCambodia represents a rite similar to the Mexico Valador. The use of parasol (Chhatra) is an age-old sign of royalty and rank in India, Burma, China and Japan. The Maya Astec and the Incas also used it as a sign of royalty. Frescoes of Chak Multum in Yucatan show two types of parasols both of which correspond to types still in use in South-East Asia.’
Lord Krishna killed Kaliya by entering deep into the waters and was there quite some das before he emerged , killing Kaliya.
Bhima spent few months in the Patala Loka after having been poisoned by Duryodhana and pushed into river waters.
He married a Naga Girl and had a son through her.
In Ramayana, the Moola Sena of Ravana came from down South to assist him in his battle with Rama.
Lord Vishnu went down the sea and killed Hiranyaksha.
And the Puranas describe differnt toes of Serpents.
The Vedas were rescued for the deep-sea, Patala by Vishnu.
Considering all these references, the fact that all other archeological finds in the Americas, and the evidence of Sanatana Dharma having been present throughout the world and the Astronomical details provided by Vedic Texts having been proved right, one can look for Sanatana Dharma connection.
I am searching for more material and shall come back.
I have written on Baikal being of Indian origin and Arkaim being the land of Sanatana Dhrma, not to speak of the fact that the Rig Veda was composed in the Arctic.
Sudharshana Dweepa of Bharatavarsha.
The Puranas describe, while talking about the Earth, say that there was Ilavarsha and they talk, along with the Ithihasas Ramayana and Mahabharata bout Amaravathi, the capital of Deva Loka of Indra.
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The huge circle in the above diagram shows the extent of“Sudharshana Dweepa” where the rule of Sanatan Dharma was in place.
It had Bharath in the South (rectangle area in the bottom of this picture) with
Hemakuta or Himalayas in its northern limits,
an intermediary Ilavarsha to the north of Himalayas (noted in dark red square in the middle) and
a vast Airavatha varsha in extreme north of the Sudharshana dweepa..
Most of Russia come Airavatha Varsha and Airavatha is the name of Indra’s Elephant.
The Deva territory is close to the North pole where there was sunlight continuously for 6 months and darkness continuously for 6 months. The elephant, Airavatha in all probability was the Woolly mammoth ,which became extinct about 10,000 years ago. ..
Part of Uttarakuru Region.
Uttar kuru means the land of Kuru (a clan) settled in the North. They were the early settlers much before Mahabharatha times (which was about 5000 years ago.) The men and women of that territory were said to have led a free life and mingled with each other as they wished. The probable reason could have been procreation which was minimal owing to climatic conditions that existed there.
There is an opinion that the name Russia was derived from Rishi varsha. There is a mention of Rishi varsha in scriptures which goes well with this region. The presence of Devas in this part of the globe in a distant past had attracted sages to this place. We have a number of references in Puranas of sages going to the Deva territory. Perhaps their overwhelming presence gave the name Rishi varsha which later became Russia.
There is yet another root to the name Russia as being derived from the olden name of Volga river. Volga was called as ‘rasa’ or ‘rosa’. People think that it is derived from the Persian word ‘rana’ or ‘ra’. But this word ‘rasa’ is a straight Sanskrit word meaning essence, juice, nectar, elixir, soup, love, the finest part of anything and so on. This name perfectly fits with the river of fine water quality From the river’s name Rasa, the name Russia was derived.
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