Tag: Ramayana

  • Attack On Ramayana. Dare You Write on Islam, Holy Koran

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    The self-styled Rationalists , who

    offer garlands to dead people’ statues,

    celebrate dead persons’ birth days,

    believe in that Tamil is given by Lord Muruga/Siva’

    in Silappathikaaram, which deals with a  story as verifiable as Ramayana,

    who extol Thiruvalluvar and Thirukkural excluding the first ten Couplets of Thirukkural which praises God,

    believe that Kannagi burned Madurai by throwing one breast at the city of Madurai-ஒரு முலை இழந்த திருமா பத்தினி

    praise Kambar for his rendering of Ramayana in Tamil, sans Rama, and forgetting that Kambar wrote on what was written by Valmiki

    while the whole world is talking highly of the values found in the Ramayana, these people write to state that if Sita had stayed in

    Ravana‘s place for ten months, she should have lost her chastity( Annadurai in ‘Kambarasam’)
    people who formed a party because they could not hope to get a share of an elderly man’s property,

    are mostly people sans personal integrity, are corrupt-remember 2 G Scam,

    earn their livelihood by chanting the name of Tamil,

    admit their children in English Medium,

    pretend to hate Hindi, but falling at the feet of Delhi,

    murder for power and money,

    How does one react to them?

    If you believe in Tamil then it is equally Right in believing Ramayana.

    Do these people deny Nakkerar and his Thirumurukaatruppadai and Aatruppdai Noolkal?

    Do they deny Agathtiyam?

    Do they deny Bhakti Ilakkiyam?

    Do they deny the * Thinai Theivangal quoted by Tholkappiyam? Cheyon(Muruga),Mayon(Vishnu),Kotravai,Varuna?

    Do they at least know that there are Gods assigned by Tamil to each Geographical Entity?

    Do they know that the Mahabharata speaks highly of Tamil Culture and quote Tamil kings who participated in The Mahabharata war?

    Well, the Agenda is to make a fast buck by inciting passions.

    They have ruined the Tamils of Sri Lanka by talking non sense  and ran/are running away  when they face problems.

    These are the charlatans one should be beware.

    There is no necessity for any one else to destroy Tamil.

    These gentlemen will do nicely.

    It is a wonder that Tamil still lives despite these people.

    Noe coming to the issue on hand ,

    There is evidence that Rama destroyed the Bridge in some versions of Ramayana,Adhyatma Ramayanam

    What remains now is the remains.

    For Lord Rama‘s Date of Birth,Route taken by Rama-please read my blogs.

    Lord Rama’s existence is proved as also Tamil’ as  ‘கல்தோன்றி மண்தோன்றாக் காலத்தே முன்தோன்றி மூத்த குடி’

    Evidence abounds for both.

    To conclude read my head line for this Blog.

    ‘சேதுசமுத்திரக் கால்வாய்த் திட் டம் –  நிறைவேற்றப்பட்டு, கப்பல் களின் போக்குவரத்து நடைபெற் று வருவாய் வந்து சேரவேண்டிய நேரத்தில், மக்கள் நலத் திட்டத் தின் குறுக்கே புராணக் கதாப் பாத்திரமான ராமனைக் காரணம் காட்டி, அதன் இறுதிப் பணிகளை தடுத்து நிறுத்திவிட்ட‍ னர்.

    ராமன் என்ற ஒருவன் இருந்தானா? பாலம் கட்டினானா? என்பது ஒரு பக்கம் இருக்கட்டும்.

    ராமன் கடவுள் அவதாரம் என்றால் அவன் எய்த அம்பு யார் யாரை யோ, எதை எதையோ, துளைத்து ச் சென்று, சீதை மீது இராவணன் கொண்ட ஆசையின் அணுக்களை எல்லாம் குத்திக் குதறி, மீண்டும் இராமனிடமே வந்து சேர்ந்தது என்று சொல்வதில் இந்துத்துவா வா திகளுக்கும், சுப்பிரமணிய சாமிக்கும், அதிமுக பொதுச் செ யலாளருக்கும், நம்பிக்கை இருக் குமேயானால், அந்த ராமன் பால த்தைக் காப்பாற்றிக் கொள்ள ராமனால் முடியாதா? ராமன் பாலத் தைக் காப்பாற்ற இந்த அற்பமானிடர்கள் யார் என்ற கேள்வி எழா தா?

    இன்னொரு கேள்வியும் இருக்கிறது. அவர்கள் நம்பும், ஆதாரம் காட்டும் அந்தப் புராண நம்பிக்கையின் அடிப்படையிலேயே கேட் கிறது அந்த இணையம்.

    ராமன் கட்டிய பாலத்தை அந்த ராமனே இடித்து விட்டான் என்று சேது புராணமே கூறுகிறதே. இத ற்கு என்ன பதில்?

    சேது புராணம் என்ன? கம்ப இராமா யணமே கூறுகிறதே. மீட்சிப் படல ம் 17 ஆவது பாடல் என்ன கூறுகி றது? என்பதை சுட்டிக்கா ட்டி,

    “மரக்கால் மியங்க வேண்டி
    வரிசிலைக் குதையாற்
    கூறித் தருக்கிய
    விடத்தினை”

    எனும் பாடலில் போர் முடிந்த பின்னர் ராமன் புஷ்பக விமா னத்தில் பறந்து செல்கையில் கடலில் அவ்விடத்து மரக்கல ங்கள் இனிது செல்லும் பொரு ட்டு தனது வில்லின் நுனியால், சேதுவை ராமனே உடைத்தார் என்று கம்பநாட்டாழ்வாரே சொன்ன பிறகு இந்த இந்துத் துவ வாதிகள் யார்?

    ஒன்றைப் பொதுமக்கள் புரிந்து கொள்ள வேண்டும். கடவுளும், மத மும், சாத்திரங்களும் மக்கள் நலனுக்கும், வளர்ச்சிக்கும் முட்டுக் கட்டையானது என்று தந்தை பெரியார் அவர்களின் கொள்கை களை திராவிடர் கழகம் பிரச்சாரம் செய்து கொண்டு வருகிறதே. அது எவ்வளவு பெரிய உண்மை என்பதற்கு ராமன் பாலத்தைக் கா ட்டி மக்கள் நலத் திட்டமான சேதுக் கால்வாய்த் திட்டத்தை முடக் குகிறார்களே இது ஒன்று போதாதா?

    என்று அந்த இணையத்தில் கட்டுரையை முடித்துள்ளார்.

    http://vidhai2virutcham.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF-%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%88-%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%AE/

    *Tholkaappiyam-Tamil Grammar

    தமிழ் இலக்கணத்தில் கருப்பொருள் என்பது சொற்களினால் உணரப்படும் மூன்று பொருள் வகைகளுள் ஒன்றாகும். முதற்பொருள்உரிப்பொருள் என்பன ஏனைய இரண்டு வகைகள். கருப்பொருள்கள் எத்தனை என்பது குறித்துத் தெளிவாகக் குறிப்பிடாத தொல்காப்பியம் தெய்வம், உணா, மா, மரம், புள், பறை, செய்தி, யாழின் பகுதி என்று எட்டு வைகளின் பெயர்களைக் குறிப்பிட்டுள்ளதுடன், அவ்வகை பிறவும் கருப்பொருள் ஆகும் என்கிறது. இது பிற்காலத்தில் பதினான்கு என வரையறுக்கப்பட்டது[1]. இப் பதினான்கு கருப்பொருள் வகைகளும் பின்வருமாறு:

    1. ஆரணங்கு (தெய்வம்)
    2. உயர்ந்தோர்
    3. அல்லோர் (உயர்ந்தோர் அல்லாதவர்)
    4. புள் (பறவை)
    5. விலங்கு
    6. ஊர்
    7. நீர்
    8. பூ
    9. மரம்
    10. உணா (உணவு)
    11. பறை
    12. யாழ்
    13. பண்
    14. தொழில்

    http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8A%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B3%E0%AF%8D_(%E0%AE%87%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%A3%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D)

  • Ramayana, Lord Rama’s Exile Date and other Details

     

    The story of Shri Rams’ life was first narrated by Maharishi Valmiki in the Ramayana, which was written after Shri Ram was crowned as the king ofAyodhya. Maharishi Valmiki was a great astronomer as he has made sequential astronomical references on important dates related to the life ofShri Ram indicating the location of planets vis-a-vis zodiac constellations and the other stars (nakshatras).

    Similar position of planets and nakshatras is not repeated in thousands of years.

     

    By entering the precise details of the planetary configuration of the important events in the life of Shri Ram as given in the Valmiki Ramayana in the software named “Planetarium” corresponding exact dates of these events according to the English calendar can be known.

     

    Mr Pushkar Bhatnagar, of the Indian Revenue Service, had acquired this software from the US. It is used to predict the solar/lunar eclipses and distance and location of other planets from earth. He entered the relevant details about the planetary positions narrated by Maharishi Valmiki and obtained very interesting and convincing results, which almost determine the important dates starting from the birth of Shri Ram to the date of his coming back to Ayodhya after 14 years of exile. ( This in formation has been blogged by me  ‘Lord Rama’s Birth Date/Route taken by Lord Rama to Sri Lanka)

     

    Shri Ram was born in Ayodhya. This fact can be ascertained from several books written by Indian and foreign authors before and after the birth of Christ – ValmikiRamayan, Tulsi Ramayan, Kalidasas’ Raghuvansam, Baudh and Jain literature,

     

    These books have narrated in great detail the location, rich architecture and beauty of Ayodhya which had many palaces and temples built all over the kingdom. Ayodhya was located on the banks of the Saryu river withGanga and Panchal Pradesh on one side and Mithila on the other side.

     

    Normally 7,000 years is a very long period during which earthquakes, storms, floods and foreign invasions change the course of rivers, destroy the towns/buildings and alter the territories. Therefore, the task of unearthing the facts is monumental.

     

    The present Ayodhya has shrunk in size and the rivers have changed their course about 40 km north/south. Shri Ram went out of Ayodhya in his childhood (13th year as per Valmiki Ramayana) with Rishi Vishwamitra who lived inTapovan (Sidhhashram). From there he went to Mithila, King Janaks’ kingdom. Here, he married Sita after breaking Shiv Dhanusha.

     

    Researchers have gone along the route adopted by Shri Ram as narrated in the Valmiki Ramayan and found 23 places which have memorials that commemorate the events related to the life of Shri Ram. These include :

    Shringi Ashram,

    Ramghat,

    Tadka Van,

    Sidhhashram,

    Gautamashram,

    Janakpur (now in Nepal),

    Sita Kund, etc.

    Date of exile of Shri Ram: It is mentioned in Valmiki Ramayans’ Ayodhya Kand (2/4/18) that Dashrathawanted to make Shri Ram the king because Sun, Mars and Rahu had surrounded his nakshatra and normally under such planetary configuration the king dies or becomes a victim of conspiracies.

     

    Dashrathas’ zodiac sign was Pisces and his Nakshatra was Rewati.

    Lord Rama with Hanuman.jpg.
    Lord Rama with Hanuman.

     

    This planetary configuration was prevailing on the January 5, 5089 BC, and it was on this day that Shri Ram left Ayodhya for 14 years of exile.

     

    Thus, he was 25 years old at that time (5114-5089).

     

    There are several shlokas in Valmiki Ramayana which indicate that Shri Rama.

     

    was 25-years-old when he left Ayodhya for exile. Valmiki Ramayan refers to the solar eclipse at the time of war with Khardushan in later half of 13thyear of Shri Rams’ exile. It is also mentioned it was amavasya day and Mars was in the middle. When this data was entered, the software indicated that there was a solar eclipse on October 7, 5077 BC, (amavasyaday) which could be seen from Panchvati.

     

    The planetary configuration was also the same – Mars was in the middle,

     

    On one side were Venus and Mercury and on the other side were Sun and Saturn.

     

    On the basis of planetary configurations described in various other chapters, the date on which Ravana was killed works out to be December 4, 5076 BC, and Shri Ram completed 14 years of exile on January 2, 5075 BC, and that day was also Navami of Shukla Paksha in Chaitra month. Thus Shri Ram had come back to Ayodhya at the age of 39 (5114-5075).

     

     

    A colleague, Dr Ram Avtar, researched on places visited by Shri Ram during his exile, and sequentially moved to the places stated as visited byShri Ram in the Valmiki Ramayan, starting from Ayodhya he went right to Rameshwaram.

     

    He found 195 places which still have the memorials connected to the events narrated in the Ramayana relating to the life of Shri Ram and SitaThese include Tamsa Tal (Mandah), Shringverpur (Singraur), BhardwajAshram (situated near Allahabad), Atri Ashram, Markandaya Ashram (Markundi), Chitrakoot, Pamakuti (on banks of Godavari), Panchvati, Sita Sarovar, Ram Kund in Trimbakeshwar near Nasik, Shabari Ashram,Kishkindha (village Annagorai), Dhanushkoti and Rameshwar temple.

     

    In Valmiki Ramayan it is mentioned that Shri Rams’ army constructed a bridge over the sea between Rameshwaram and Lanka.

     

    After crossing this bridge, Shri Rams’ army had defeated Ravana.

     

    NASA put pictures on the Internet of a man-made bridge, the ruins of which are lying submerged in Palk Strait between Rameshwaram and SriLanka.

     

    Recently the Sri Lankan Government had expressed the desire to develop Sita Vatika as a tourist spot. Sri Lankans believe this was Ashok Vatika Where Ravana had kept Sita as a prisoner (in 5076 BC).

     

    Indian history has recorded that Shri Ram belonged to the Suryavansh and he was the 64th ruler of this dynasty. The names and other relevant particulars of previous 63 kings are listed in Ayodhya ka Etihaas written about 80 years ago by Rai Bahadur Sita Ram. Professor Subhash Kak of Louisiana University, in his book, The Astronomical Code of the Rig Veda, has also listed 63 ancestors of Shri Ram who ruled over Ayodhya.

     

    Sri Rams’ ancestors have been traced out as: Shri Ram, King Dasaratha  King Aja, King Raghu, King Dilip and so on. From Kashmir to Kanyakumariand from Bengal to Gujarat, everywhere people believe in the reality of Shri Rams’ existence, particularly in the tribal areas of Himachal,Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and the North-East.

     

    Most of the festivals celebrated in these areas revolve around the events in the life of Shri Ram and Shri Krishna. The events and places related to the life of Shri Ram and Sita are true cultural and social heritage of every Indian irrespective of caste and creed. Therefore, it is common heritage.

    After all, Shri Ram belonged to the period when Prophet Mohammed or Jesus Christ were not born and Muslim or Christian faiths were unknown to the world.

     

    The words Hindu (resident of Hindustan) and Indian (resident of India) were synonymous. India was also known as Bharat (land of knowledge) and Aryavarta (where Aryans live) and Hindustan (land of “Hindus” – derived from word Indus). During Ram Rajya, the evils of caste system based on birth were non-existent. In fact, Maharishi Valmiki is stated to be of Shudra class (scheduled caste), still Sita lived with him as his adopted daughter after she was banished from Ayodhya.

     

    Luv and Kush grew in his ashram as his disciples. We need to be proud of the fact that Valmiki was perhaps the first great astronomer and that his study of planetary configurations has stood the test of times. Even the latest computer softwares have corroborated his astronomical calculations, which proves that he did not commit any error.

     

    Shabri is stated to be belonging to the Bhil tribe. Shri Rams’ army, which succeeded in defeating Ravana, was formed by various tribas from Central and South India.

     

    Taking into account these details the Birth date of Lord Rama  is January 10 in the year 5114 BC.

    http://www.hindu-blog.com/2007/09/book-on-when-was-lord-ram-born.html

     

    Related:

    http://ramanisblog.in/2012/10/13/last-days-of-rama-date-of-death/

     

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  • Rationalist DMK turns to Ramayana for Solace.

    M. K. Stalin and M.KarunanidhiThe scramble for power between Karunanidhi’s sons,M.K.Stalin and Mu.Ka.Azhagiri is well-known.

    The issue has been cropping up off and on.

    Recently it erupted in the DMK General Council Meeting when Veerapandi Arumugam, ex Minister and a known Azhagiri loyalist and Stalin baiter started attacking Stalin indirectly and he was booed and the situation made Karunanidihi to challenge his son Stalin to contest the Election  for the post of DMK Chief against him.

    Exasperated K.Anbazhagan,Rubber Stamp Secretary of DMK and a sycophant of Karunanidhi  quoted Ramayana,which is regularly criticised by DMK leaders right from stating that it is well nigh impossible for Sita to have retained her chastity after having been in Ravana’s prison(Annadurai in Kambarasam,a book written by him to insult the Ramayana) to calling Lord Rama names by Karunanidhi) to pacify the warring factions of the DMK brothers.

    What a Rationalism!

    The “rationalist” DMK in Tamil Nadu has now turned to the ‘Ramayana’, a text that its Dravidian movement mentor Periyar had decried, to help soften the blow from the latest bout of sibling rivalry that reared its ugly head at the recently concluded general council meeting………

    Even the 88-year-old party patriarch M Karunanidhi was shell-shocked at this open tussle that he saw in it a “conspiracy” to break the unity within.

    Karunanidhi was so disgusted at this turn of events that he told his partymen to “elect their own new leader”, but was persuaded by seniors on stage to stay on, sources told Deccan Herald. Also, Karunanidhi’s elder son M K Alagiri studiously kept away from the evening session when the inner-party struggle popped up again. Though Veerapandi S Arumugam is known for such abrasive remarks, given the 90-years-old Prof Anbazhagan’s vast experience as DMK’s general secretary since 1977, could not dismiss it as a routine surface rift.

    In the larger backdrop, when two of the DMK’s senior-most leaders are handling a crucial leadership transition in the party, amid the image dent it has suffered in the wake of the ‘2G’ scam and other issues, Anbazhagan decided to bite the bullet as a Tamil scholar…..

    Anbazhagan thus came out candidly, urging everyone to learn a lesson or two from ‘Ramayana’, “though I have criticised it in the past”. The travails of Rama were many, but Barath did not exploit his adversity. Likewise, Rama’s two other brothers, Lakshman and Shatrugnan, stood by him and there was a “rare unity among the brothers despite differences.”

    http://www.deccanherald.com/content/224887/dmk-turns-ramayana-end-sibling.html

    P.S.When MGR was convalescing in the US, elections were called and MGR could not campaign as he was in the US under treatment.

    At that time Karunanidhi beseeched the voters to elect him as he ‘would run the Government on behalf of MGR as Bharath did with Lord Rama’s  footwear as the Ruler!”

     

  • Pallavas(including Bodhi Dharman of Ezham Arivu) are not Tamils.

    Augustus Coin found in the Pudukottai Hoard India
    Image via Wikipedia

    The much hyped Tamil filmEzham Arivu‘ talks about a Pallava Prince,Bodhi Dharman, who goes to China,teaches them martial arts and indigenous medicine and he is revered as a God in the Shaolin Temple in China.

    In the euphoria surrounding the legend people do not seem to have bothered to check History.

    Pallavas are an off shoot of Andhra Dynasty.

    Simha Vishnu of the Dynasty founded the Pallava Kingdom in Tamil Nadu with Kanchipuram as his Capital.

    To claim others success as one’s own is reprehensible whether it is by an individual or by an ethnic community.

    There are innumerous  instances of facts where people of Tamil origin scaled great heights and set a standard for the world to follow.

    In fact the Ramayana and the Mahabharata speaks highly of the great King Udiyan Chralaathan, also called ‘Perunchotru Udiyan’ for he fed both the Pandava and Kaurava Armies during the Mahabharata war.

    These Epics also speak of the Chola and Pandya Kings and Arjuna is reported to have married a Pandya princess.

    They also speak of the wealth and culture of Tamils.

    ‘Dravida’ is a name ascribed to Tamil people who were inhabitants of the area south of the Vindhyaas, extending up to  and including Australia.

    Sage Viswamitra banished his sons away to this area, thinking that this area was inhabited by barbarians.

    His sons and their progeny found this place to be far superior in Culture than Vedic culture and hence they combined the best of the Vedas and practices of the Tamils and evolved a compendium to be followed by people who live South of Vindhyaas.

    This is ‘Aapasthamba Sutra’ which is followed by Brahmins even today.( Aapasthamba compiled it)

    We have Sangam Literature and Thirukkural, among many other things,

    To bask in false glory does not add lustre to Tamils or Tamil language

    References.

      Google Books.

    The Pallavas

    By Gabriel Jouveau-Dubreuilhttp://books.google.co.in/books?id=6o9XCT3XiaMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Pallavas&hl=en&ei=2urITqGVE4qzrAfT_oykDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Pallavas&f=false

    The Pallava dynasty(Tamil: பல்லவர்) was a dynasty of South India which ruled the northern Tamil Nadu region and the southern Andhra Pradeshregion with their capital at Kanchipuram. They had established themselves as a notable rising power in the region between 275–350 AD.

    After a careful study of Pallava genealogy with all the available material, of no less than 45 inscriptions, Rev H Heras put forth the theory that there was an unbroken line of Pallava kings, twenty-four of them in number, who originally ruled at some city of the Telugu country, possibly at Dasanapura, which the Darsi copper plates state as their adhisthana.[1] Dasanapura has been identified as Darsi, in Nellore district.[2][3] The Pallavas were at first a Tamil power.[4] The earliest inscriptions of the Pallavas were found in the districts of BellaryGuntur and Nellore.[5]

    The Pallavas captured Kanchipuram from the Cholas as recorded in the Velurpalaiyam plates, around the reign of the fifth king of the Pallava line Kumaravishnu I. Thereafter Kanchipuram figures in inscriptions as the capital of the Pallavas. The Cholas drove the Pallavas away from Kanchipuram in the mid-4th century AD, in the reign of Vishugopa, the tenth king of the Pallava line. The Pallavas re-captured Kanchipuram in the mid-6th century, possibly in the reign of Simhavishnu, the fourteenth king of the Pallava line, whom the Kasakudi plates state as “the lion of the earth”. Thereafter the Pallavas held on to Kanchipuram till the 9th century AD, with the last king having been Vijaya-Nripatungavarman.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallava_dynasty

    References to Tamils in Mahabharat.

    I have selected the version of “Mahabharatha” translated into English Prose by “Mr Kisari Mohan Ganguli” from the original Sanskrit Text of Sage Viysa, and published by Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers (Pvt) Ltd, New Delhi, India, from which the following have been extracted.

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    [1] “…….Dhritarashtra (i.ee.Thiritarasra) said, ‘Hear O Sanjaya the celestial feats of Vasudeva feats that Govinda achieved and the like of which no otheer person hath ever been able to achieve……The mighty Krishna also slew the valiant king of Chedis…….all these he vanquished in battle. The Avantis……the Cholas, the Pandyas……as also Sakas, and the Yavanas with followers were all vanquished by him ……..’

    MAHABHARATHA – DRONA PARVA, PAGE 23.

    <u>Observation</u>:

    From the above it is noted that Lord Krishna defeated the Cholas and Pandyas in a battle prior to Baratha war .

    [2] “……..When that host was being thus struck and slain by heroic warriors, the Parthas headed by Vrikodara advance against us. They consisted of Dhrishtayumna and Sikhandin, and the five sons of Draupadi, and the Prabhadrakes, and Satyaki, and Chekitana with the Dravida forces, and the Pandyas, the Cholas, and the Keralas, surrounded by a mighty array, all possessed of broad chests, long arms, tall statures an large eyes. Decked with ornaments, possessed of red teeth, endued with the prowess of infuriate elephants, attired in robes of diverse colours, smeared with powere scents, armed with swords and nooses, capable of restraining mightty elephants, companions in death, and never eserting one other, equipped with quivers, bearing bows adorne with long locks, an agreeable in speech were the combatants of the infantry files led by Sayaki, belonging to Andhra tribe, retinue with fierce forms and great energy. Other brave warriors such as the Chedis, the Panchalas, the Kaikayas, the Karushas, the Kosalas, the Kanchis, and the Maghadhas also rushed forward……..”

    MAHABHARATHA – KARNA PARVA, PAGE 25. KULUTAS PAGE 26

    <u>Observation: </u>

    From the above it is very clear Pandyas, Cholas, Keralas who were the Cheras, the Kanchis undoubtedly the Thondaimandala kings whose capital was at Kanchi. all fought on the side of the Pandavas. The above also describes of the warriors from the Tamil countries, their forces, valour, and armoury.

    [3] “…….I behold the Ganga, the Satudru, the Sita, the Yamuna, and the Kausiki, the Charmanwati, the Vetravati, the Chandrabaga, the Saraswati, the Sindhu, the Vipasa, and the Godavari, the Vaswokasara, the Nalini and the Narmada, the Tamara, and the Venna also of delightful current and sacred waters, the Suvenna, the Krishna-venna, the Irama,and the Mahanadi, the Vitasti, O great king and that large river Cavery, the one also O tiger ! among men the Visalya and the Kimpuna also……”

    MAHABHARATHA – BY K.M.GANGULI, VANAPARVA, PAGE 381

    <u>Observation: </u>

    From the above it is noted that in the days of Mahabaratha the river Cavery river would have been very wide with more flow of water as the pronoun “large river” is only used to river Cavery, when many of the other rivers of India was being referred simply as rivers in Mahabaratha.

    [4] “Markandeya said `O bull of the Bharata race even Rama suffered unparalled misery, for the evil minded Ravana king of Rakshasas, having recourse to deceit and overpowering the vulture Jatayu forcibly carried away his wife Sita from his asylum in the woods. Indeed Rama with the help of Sugriva brought her back, constructing a bridge across the sea, and consuming Lanka with his keen-edged arrows……..”

    http://www.mayyam.com/talk/showthread.php?1018-References-to-Tamil-Dynasties-Countries-in-Mahabharatha

    Tamil is pre-sanskritic.

    http://www.mayyam.com/talk/showthread.php?1018-References-to-Tamil-Dynasties-Countries-in-Mahabharatha

    The smile of Murugan on Tamil Literature of South India.

    By Kamil Zvelebil

    The Culture Of India.

    By Educational Britannica Educational

  • May Serene Death Descend.

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    My mother in law who was  79 years became senile.

    She used to ask for her parents,child hood mates.

    Immediately she will come to the present and ask my wife whether she can cut the vegetables.

    My daughter’s marriage was conducted.

    She used to ask my sister-in-law’s daughter,who was unmarried, whether her husband(really it is my son-in-law) is well and in the same breath ask my daughter if she is pregnant.

    She used to narrate Ramayana thus.

    Rama was married to Sita,n0,Sita was married to Ravana,Rama sat on  cereals with oil on him, it got stuck to him and he got up, a crow came and Rama ran away.

    She will wake up in the middle of the night and ask for Refuge of Police.

    She passed away couple of years back.

    My class mate’s Father is 96.He lies in a fetal position and keeps rocking himself in that position.

    He is unable to remember his children,but recalls his parents,brothers and sisters.

    When one of his colleagues died recently my friend informed him of this.

    He immediately rang up his friend’s Home number and inquired of his Family.

    He eats well,takes care of himself without any one’s support.

    He is alive .

    I wonder- Is this where and how we end?

    These people had no Physical/mental disorder.

    I have numerous cases to cite.

    No doubt Lord Krishna in Srimad Bhagavad Gita, clubbed old age as a disease.

    ‘Kaumaaram Yauvanam Jara’ (II Chap.)

    ‘Vrudhdham’ is a disease.

    I am sixty. 

    What can I Pray?

    ‘Sree varchchasvam,ayur, arogyam maavidhhach choba maanam maheeyande,

    Dhaanyam,Dhanam,Pasum,bahuputhra labham,satha sam vathsaram dheerkamayuhu’

    (Wealth of all kinds,Good things in Life’Longevity,Health,Food,Assets,good children)

    No ,this is what I pray.

    ‘anaysena maranam vinyedainyena jivanam |

    dehi me krupaya Sasta tvayi bhaktimacancalam’
    A painless liberation, a life devoid of misery( one which is not dependent on others) – please grant these my Lord Sastha ! and also give me an unwavering devotion towards you..

    Enough of this Life.