The remains of Sanatana Dharma, Hinduism,Culture,Architecture,Languages,practices are found through out the world.
The references found in the Pali,Sanskrit texts have been found to be true,Vedas, Puranas, Ramayana, Mahabharata,Raghuvamsa,Silappadikaram,Manimekalai,Puranaanuru,Pathiruppathu,and many Tamil Sangam Works.
Bharata varsha,The Hindu Empire.
Be it.
The Narada Mountain of Nardonya,Archaim of Russia,
Maya, Aztec remains in Mexico,Central America,
Natural Vishnu Temple in Grand Canyon,
Nazca Lines of Peru,
Agastya in New Zealand,
Shiva’s Third Eye dance in Australia,
The places mentioned in the Ramayana, Ravana Palace, Sita’s prison,Pushpaka Vimana runway,in Sri Lanka.
Reference to Dhanu in Danube delta,
The legend of Hindus among the Celts,
Nataraja as the Protector of Buddhism in China,…..
List is endless.
Please read my posts with authentic Links filed under Hinduism.
The sources are from reputed archeologists,astronomers, linguists, anthropologists.
And the artifacts have been validated by , in many cases , by Carbon dating.
Now if Hinduism, Sanatana Dharma is a Myth and foreign history is correct,and that those civilizations, including the Sumerian, Minoan, Aztecs, Mayas, Incas,were advanced civilizations, then their cultural, historical, and religious remains should have been found in India, just as Hinduism remains are found throughout the world.
But none whatsoever!
Whatever has been found,relates to events that happened later tha what our Texts say.
And the reference back to this information comes back to India !
When Megastanes writes about India, the reference found in his works are found to refer to Greek connection with India before Megasthanes.
Read my posts on Megasthanes.
But we have the gift of ridiculing our Texts and trust the western sources.
We will question Ramayana/Mahabharata though its date is proven,but will believe The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer !( though Homer, Iliad and Odyssey are proven, the facts contained are not)
But Rama is found in Sumerian Kings List and Krishna is found in Greece!
We will belive the Bible where it is not proven , Jesus whose existence is not proved as scientifically as Rama and Krishna.
We do not even know Jesus’s name!
Such is the hold of colonial mindset we accept our own culture having been invaded by our own people(Aryan Invasion)
The answer to the Post title is,
Bharat History is ancient, proven, others follwed suit and they had no lasting influence on Sanatana Dharma as it had on them save the latest British type institutions,, Education and worse the slave mindset.
This blog receives notice among the netizens and is often quoted in Texts, both in English and Tamil as well.
This is also rated as the 15th authentic site on Hinduism by a site and 30th in the world by another.
It is my duty to disclose my sources to lend more authenticity and credibility ,though I provide relevant sources and links in the Posts.
There is another reason.
Ramana Maharishi On Consciousnes..
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The colonial mindset implanted in us is so great that people even when they look at facts of Indian Origin and Indian Texts, refuse to look into them.
Brush aside as non sense.
Worse still is that some make funny remarks.
One of the readers in a Facebook community commented for the Post Shankaracharya Intellectual Giant,where I listed the His works as follows,
‘So, He could have invented sanitary Napkins!’
I did not respond to this comment.
The point is that we have to let it be known our treasures with authority, which was eroded by the British as they have done for the whole world, including their own Irish.
I will take personal insults.
But I can not take any disrespect to Adi Shankaracharya.
The information I am sharing here in the blog is not my invention nor I am a Gnani or a self-styled Guru.
I am more like a curious child who is awestruk.
I refer sources, cross check them and publish.
If contrary evidence comes along I publish it too.
The sources of my Posts( Relevant Link is provided in each Post)
1.Rig , Shukla, Krishna Yajur , Sama and Atharva Vedas.( Includes all the parts of the Vedas)
2.Satapada Brahmana.
3.Puranas, specifically,the Vishnu Purana and Bhagavatham.
4.Ramayana of Valmiki, Tulsidas, Kamban, Adyatma ramayana, Jain Ramayana.
5,Mahabharata By Vyasa..
6.Commentaies of Adi Shankaracharya, Sri Ramanuja, Vallabhacharya,
7.Buddha Deepika.
8.Lalita Sahasranama.
9.Vishnu Sahasranama.
10.Surya Siddhantha,
11.Varahamihiram.
12.Agastya Samhita.
13.Raja Tharngini .
14.Harsha Charitha.
15.Magha’s Sisupala vadha.
16.Raghuvamsa of Kalidasa.
17.Fahien.
18.Yuan susuang.
19.Akbar nama by Firdausi.
20.Tholkaapiyam.(Tamil)
21.Purananuru.
22.Pathiruppathu.
23.Paripadal.
23.Silappakikaram.
24.Manimekalai.
25.Natrinai.
25.Siddhar paadalgal.
26.Thirumurugaatruppadai.
27.U.Ve. Swaminatha Iyer.
28,Vaiyapuri Pillai.
29.PT. Srinivasa Ayyanagar.
30.Works of Swami Vivekananda,.
31.Theory of Relativity by Einstein.
32.Plato’s Republic.
33.Rene Descartes.
34.Spinoza.
35.Aritotle.
36.Socrates.
37.Pliny.
38.Edward Gibbon, Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire.
39.Leibniz.
40.Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, Practical Reason.
41.Histroy of Time by Stephen Hawking.
42.Nicholas Tesla.
43.Lobsang Rampa.
44.Bertrand Russel.
45.Bishp Berkeley.
46.David Hume.
47,Kierkegaard.
48.Neils Bohr.
49.Edward Schordinger.
50.Schopenhauer.
51.D.N..Oaks.
52.Sir John Woodroffe.
53.Maurice Maeterlinck,
54.Huston Smith
55.Pierre-Simon Laplace
56.Tarikh al-Yaqubi, The Foundations of the Composite Culture in India,
57.Carl Sagan.
58.Romain Rolland, The life of Vivekananda and the universal gospel
59.Zend Avestha
60.Indian Acheology .( Government of India)
61.Epigraphy.
62.Thirukoilur Plates.
63.Rajaraja Plates.
64.Arikkamedu.
65.Dwaraka Remains.
66.Rajeda Chola Plates.
67.Tectonic plate movements.
68.Stephen Knapp.
69.Graham Hancock.
In addition Astronomy, Etymology are some of the tools I have used.
The questions the younger generation asks of about Hinduism are very intelligent and thought-provoking.
They do not accept anything at face value.They ask questions that are very pertinent and if we answer them, they are motivated to study Hinduism.
Vishnu,Brahma,Rama, Shiva, Krishna.
Asking them to follow Hinduism, because it ought to be followed puts them off.
As I have been mentioning in many of posts that my desire is to explain Hinduism, to the extent I know, in simple terms and many youngsters have been on to me over phone, email with questions.
Recently I had this question.
In The Mahabharata, Duryodhana chose the army of Lord Krishna, the Narayana Sena, instead of the unarmed Krishna for the Mahabharata Battle.
Krishna acceded the request and was with the Pandavas during the Mahabharata Battle.
The question is,
Did not Krishna abandon His army and desert them?
Why did He do so?
Was He not responsible for the deaths of his army personnel?
For no fault of their own?
Where is Krishna’s Dharma?
When we study the Avatars of Rama and Krishna we may notice that while Lord Krishna was aware of the fact that he was the incarnation of Lord Vishnu at all times, Rama did not have any idea that he was , save the occasion when the Sakthi Ayudha od Ravana, granted to him, neared Rama’s Chest.
He remembered He was Lord Vishnu,chanted the Pranava, OM and the Sakthi Syudha, which never fails, was shattered.
Even this instance Rama for got immediately.
And Rama had this feeling of Aham.
That is He identified Himself as human Being and went through the gamut of emotions and sufferings that are unique to Humans.
He was attached To Dasaratha, Brothers, Sita,Hanuman and considered Ravana as enemy as a Human would!
But Krishna had no-no such attributes.
In fact it does not mater to him personally by way of gains whether Duryodhan won or Pandavas succeed.
Both were his cousins.
Yet he chose the Panadavas, though army wise they were weaker.
Why ?
Because it was to protect Dharma .
He never had any personal feelings or score to settle with any one though they have wronged Him.
He killed them because they had to be killed to protect Dharma.
Sisupala was Krishna’s nephew and Krishna promised his mother that He could bear with 100 insults but would bear no more.
At the Rajasuya Yaga of Yudhistra,at the time of performing the Akrora Pooja, paying the first respect in an assembly,when Krishna was chosen for the honor, Sisupala started abusing Krishna in the vilest terms.
Krishna was listening tho all of them with a smile.
Bhima asked Krishna as to why Krishna was tolerating Sisupala instead of killing hi, Krishna replied that He has promised Sisupala’s mother that he (Krishna) would bear 100 insults.
Bhima asked what if Sisupla were to stop one short of 100 insults.
Krishna replied that it is Destiny that Sisupala would complete 100 and be killed by Him.
Such is the detachment and performance of duty as a Karma Yogi by Krishna.
When Krishna’s son was cursed by the Rishis and they came to Krishna requesting His forbearance Krishna replied that there was nothing wrong in their curse as his son deserved it!
Or when the Hunter who slew Krishna by an arrow, prostrated before Krishna and asked for His mercy, Krishna replied that He was being killed by the hunter for His killing of Vaali hiding behind a tree and he blessed the Hunter!
Rama was elevating Himself as Divine, without Knowing He was Divinity, Krishna was Divinity posing as a Human.
The purpose of Krishna Avatar is to reduce the burden of the earth and restore Dharma.
Nothing more.
So he had no personal attachment to any one including his army.
It may also be noted that Krishna had never been a King , but only a Prince because of a Curse to Vrishnis.
Balaram was the King.
Interesting to note that Balarama was av Avatar of Adi Sesha as Lakshmana was in the Treta Yuga.
Rama vowed to serve Lakshmana in the next Avatar to Lakshmana for the devotion he exhibited to Rama nd Sita,
This He repaid in the Krishna Avatara when he took a back seat and carried out Balarama’s orders.
All the machinations Krishna indulged in th Mahabharata were when Balarama was conveniently absented at Krishna’s request!
But Balarama never knew until Krishna’s job was done.
Lord Rama’s son ,Lava built Lahore now in Pakistan.
Taxila, called as Takshashila in Sanskrit and Takashila was built by Bharata, brother of Lord Rama , for his son Taksha.
Taxila, Takshasila, world’s First University.
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Legend has it that Takṣaśilā derived its name from Takṣa, who was the son of Bharata, the brother of the Hindu deity Rama. Takṣa’s kingdom was called Takṣa Khanda and its capital that he founded was named Takṣaśilā.
*According to another theory propounded by DD Kosambi, Takṣaśilā is related to Takṣaka, Sanskrit for “carpenter”, and is an alternative name for the Nāgas of ancient India. In the great Hindu epic Mahābhārata, the Kuru heir Parikṣit (grandson of the Arjuna) was enthroned at Takṣaśilā. Traditionally, it is believed that the Mahabharata was first recited at Takṣaśilā by Vaishampayana, student ofVyasa at the behest of the seer Vyasa himself, at the Snake Sacrifice.
* There is no supportive evidence for this.
In “Lalitha Vistara,” we are told of the formation of such institutions for teaching the three R’s and moral stories to the young. Further, a very remarkable achievement of ancient India in the post-Vedic and Buddhist ages was the organisation of higher education in a few of the prominent centres of India. The earliest and the most famous institutions of the kind were those of Benares and Taxila, which were the educational havens for people from all parts of the world, right down at least from the Buddhist age. The one place which acquired a great reputation not only for its mastery over a special branch of knowledge, medicine, but also for its general ideal instruction, perfect discipline and homely training was the University of Taxila…
In the Ramayana, (Vangavasi Edition-Uttarakandam-Chapter XIV) Bharata, Sri Rama’s brother, is said to have built two cities, Takkhasila and Puskalavata, and appointed his sons, Takkha and Puskala, to be their rulers respectively. The cities were described as very prosperous in as much as their citizens were pious and prosperous. There is another reference in the same Uttarakanda of Ramayana that Takkhasila was a centre of learning and that people from different parts of the country resorted to the Institution of Education there to specialise in Law (Vyavahara). The 88th Chapter of Vayupurana refers to Takkhasila, the capital of Takka, a beautiful city.
‘Brihatsamhita’ mentions Takkhasila as a most famous city, implying thereby that it was doubtless a centre of ancient education and culture. Further, in Mahabharata, it is recorded that the King Janamejaya conquered it. It also declares the men Taxila to be matchless and unrivalled in discussions and debates in educational and cultural learning. Lastly, Ksemendra’s ‘Aradanakalpalata’ says that Asoka’s son, Kunala, was sent by Asoka to conquer Takkhasila, which was ruled by Kunjarakarna.
Taxila has been referred to, often, in Pali literature as well, a great centre of learning and as an important University centre in ancient India. According to Dhammapadattahakatha, Pasenadi, King of Kosala, was educated at the University of Taxila. From the Mahavagga, (Vinaya Pitaka), we learn that several princes from various kingdoms, within and without India, went to the University of Taxila for their complete education.
Dhammapadadattahakatha speaks of a student who went to Taxila, all the way from Benares, to study the ‘Silpas’, in the midst of five hundred class-mates. In several places, in the Pali Jatakas, there are references to highly renowned teachers living at Taxila and to the various subjects taught there.
The foreign writers of Greece, Rome and China have left Lind valuable records of accounts of Taxila. Arrian refers it as having been a great and flourishing city in the times Alexander. Strabo comments upon its population. Plutarch dwells upon its fertile soil. Hiuentsang writes of its rich harvests and luxuriant vegetation. There are other foreign Buddhist works which refer to the various arts and sciences, imparted at the University of Taxila, in the Buddhist age.
I published an article on Rama’s Empire, showing the territories held by Rama.
The map was based on the references in the Ramayana of Valmiki,the descriptions of the Geography of Valmiki, the reference to the Kings who attended Sita’s Swayamwara,
The description Valmiki provides while the Horse of Lord Rama went around during the Aswamedha Yaga Rama performed after His return to Ayodhya, the directions provided by Sugreeva to his Vanara ,Monkey army when they were searching for Sita , the details found in Raghu Vamsa of Kalidasa and ancient Tamil Literature references to Rama and Ramayana.
There have been comments about the content in the post.
Hanuman Chanting Rama’s Name
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1.The landmass shown in the Map, shows relatively modern locations like the Suez canal.
My answer is that the reference to the areas won by Rama were cross checked for their modern names , correlated with the descriptions found in Valmiki Ramayana;then the Map was prepared taking the current names for these ancient places.
This has been done to enable the reader to understand the map.
Another point is that the ancient landmass was different from what we see to-day .
Landmass has changed.
There were super continents like Lemuria,Atlantis,Rodina, Pangaea,…
Some evidence of their existence has become available.
Research is on.
Meanwhile evidence unearthed in Arikkamedu,Tamil Nadu/Pondicherry and the epigraphs of the Thirukoilur TamilNadu speak of Kings from Tamil Nadu having links with Sanatana Dharma.
Early Tamil Sangam works speak of Rama and Krishna and Silappadikaram mentions that the Yadavas were present in Madurai,Tamil Nadu.
Krishna and Arjuna visited The Dravida Desa, South India.
Both of them married Princesses from the south.
While Krishna had a daughter through the Pandyan Princess , got her married to Pandya Prince, Arjuna had a son Babruvahana.
Balarama visited south and worshiped Lord Subrahmanya.
And Lord Krishna attended Tamil Sangam.
Please Check my posts on each these.
All these have been cross verified by archaeology, epigraph,Astronomy.
It would be erroneous to dismiss the mass of evidence because weare yet to recover all the artifacts.
Remember….
River Saraswati has been identified,Dwaraka excavated.
It takes time to unearth by Indian Scholars.
There is no Dhanushkodi in South Now.
Only traces remain.
I have visited the place when I was a child.
Can I deny Dhanushkodi now?
Hence the empire of Rama is true, possible and probable, taking into consideration all the facts mentioned above.
2.Rama lived in Treta Yuga.
No doubt about this.
Treta Yuga is thousands of years ago.
The present date of Ramayana around 5000 BC is not accurate for the following reason.
Astronomical dating is done by verifying the Planetary position by taking reference to the Horoscope of Rama, Sita and Ravana apart from the eclipses mentioned in the Ramayana.
The problem is that Astronomical events keep on occurring at regular intervals.
So a planetary position or an eclipse is not unique.
What date do we take?
Now we are taking the latest for reckoning, that’s all.
Here comes the concept of Circular Time.
According to Hinduism Time is not Linear, that it is not flowing in one direction.
It is circular.
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The Purana state that Agastya moved towards the South twice .
Once when Lord Shiva ordered him to move over to South to stabilize the earth, when the North end came down, South rose because of overcrowding by people who came to witness Shiva’s wedding with Uma.
( These two events have happened at different periods, not at one instance.He moved again to South to tame the Vindhya mountain.
Now let us look the calculation of Time .
There are Four Yugas and they repeat themselves.
Brahma, the Creator begins Creation at the beginning of each Yuga which will be dissolved at the end of one Chatur Yuga
Kali Yuga 4,32000 Years
Dwpara Yuga 4,32,000*2= 8,64,000
Tretha Yuga 4,32,000*3=1296000
Satya Yuga 4,32,000*4=1728000
Total 4820000 Years One Chatur Yuga
One Manvantara is 306.72 million Years.
Life in the universe is created and destroyed once every 4.1 to 8.2 billion years, which is one full day (day and night) for Brahma. The lifetime of a Brahma is believed to be 311 trillion and 40 billion years-Hindu Cosmology.
‘Eighty million years ago, India was approximately 6400 km (3968 miles) south of the Eurasian plate. Separating the two was the Tethys Sea. The Indo-Australian tectonic plate – containing the continent of Australia, the Indian subcontinent, and surrounding ocean – was pushed northward by the convection currents generated in the inner mantle. For millions of years, India made its way across the sea toward the Eurasian plate. As India approached Asia, around 40 million years ago, the Tethys Sea began to shrink and its seabed slowly pushed upwards. The Tethys Sea disappeared completely around 20 million years ago and sediments rising from its seabed formed a mountain range. When India and Tibet collided, instead of descending with the plate, the relatively light sedimentary and metamorphic rock that makes up the subcontinent of India pushed against Tibet, forcing it upwards, and created a massive mountain fold. The Himalayas.’
Proof from the position of Agastya Star,Canopus.
Canopus is associated with the sageAgastya, one of the ancient rishis (the others are associated with the stars of the Big Dipper). Agastya, the star, is said to be the ‘cleanser of waters’ and its rising coincides with the calming of the waters of the Indian Ocean. It is considered the son of Pulasthya, son of Brahma.
Canopus is 310 Light Years away from the Earth.
‘Agastya, is the author of 25 hymns (nos 166 to 190) of the first ‘mandala’ of the Rigveda.
2. Canopus, the second brightest star in the night sky, is called Agastya in India.
3. This star is close to the ecliptic south pole, having an ecliptic latitude of –76°.
4. As the celestial poles go round the ecliptic poles due to the phenomenon of precession of the earth’s axis of rotation, this star becomes visible from different latitudes on the globe at different times. If we assume that for a star to be visible at a place its altitude at the meridian passage should be at least 5°, then calculations give the visibility curve for Agastya (Canopus) as follows.
5. Agastya was not visible from any part of India before 10,000 BC.
6. First it became visible at Kanyakumari around that epoch. Thereafter, as it was brought more and more northwards by precession, it became visible at various places in India.
7. It became visible in the east coast (in the present Chennai region) in 8500 BC, and in the present day Hyderabad in 7200 BC, in the Vindhya region in 5200 BC, at Delhi in 3100 BC.
8. At present it is visible from most parts of India for longer or shorter durations. This cycle will repeat after every 25,765 years. It is thus clear that around 5000 BC, the star Agastya was visible from the south of the Vindhyas, but not from the north of it.
9. If sage Agastya was the first to cross the Vindhyas from the north, he would have been the first northerner to see the star. Hence the star has been named after him, just as the Magellanic clouds in the southern sky are named after the navigator Magellan, who first saw them as he sailed southwards.
10. This fixes an epoch of 5000 BC for sage Agastya. This date is based on the assumption that for a star to be visible its meridian altitude has to be at least 5°.
11. If we make 8° meridian altitude as the criterion for visibility, the date of Agastya would be shifted to about 4000 BC. The dates 5000 and 4000 BC should therefore bracket the probable epoch of Agastya crossing the Vindhya mountains.
Hindu Puranas state that the south pole came up because of over crowding in the Himalayas because people has rushed in to witness the wedding of Lord Shiva with Parvati and to set the earth’s balance aright Shiva ordered Agastya to go to South and he did so.
Now the tectonic plate movement of the Himalayas confirm this by observing that
” The Indo-Australian tectonic plate – containing the continent of Australia, the Indian subcontinent, and surrounding ocean – was pushed northward by the convection currents generated in the inner mantle. For millions of years, India made its way across the sea toward the Eurasian plate. As India approached Asia, around 40 million years ago, the Tethys Sea began to shrink and its seabed slowly pushed upwards. The Tethys Sea disappeared completely around 20 million years ago and sediments rising from its seabed formed a mountain range. When India and Tibet collided, instead of descending with the plate, the relatively light sedimentary and metamorphic rock that makes up the subcontinent of India pushed against Tibet, forcing it upwards, and created a massive mountain fold.”
Hence Agastya left for the South around 40 Million years ago to balance the earth.
Please read my Post Canopus Agastya validates Sanatana Dharma.”
Bharata varsha,The Hindu Empire.
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