Tag: Sagara

  • Ramayana Describes Pangaea Super Continent Geology Agrees

    That the information found in the Purans and the Ithihasas of Indians,is not a figment of someone’s imagination or Poetic Hyperbole,I have found during the course of my research for the past eight years on Indian texts by checking the information with modern science,like Physics,Chemistry,Geology,Archeology,Astronomy,Carbon Dating and cross referencing the information with the ancient civilizations of the world,their literature ,religious and cultural practices,legends and  Etymology.

    Pangaea map.image.
    Pangaea,Super continent described in the Ramayana.

    I also cross checked with the ancient texts in Tamil.

    I am yet to come across information which is untrue.

    I have written on the Super Continents of Rodina,Pangea and how they validate the Hindu texts.

    This is the latest version of the time scale, as revised and published in 2012.

    ERA PERIOD EPOCH START/END
    ARCHAEAN  4.56 – 2.5 BILLION YEARS AGO
    Proterozoic  2.5 billion – 541 million years ago
    Palaeozoic Cambrian  541 – 485 million years ago
    Ordovician  485 – 444 million years ago
    Silurian  444 – 419 million years ago
    Devonian  419 – 359 million years ago
    Carboniferous  359 – 298 million years ago
    Permian  298 – 252 million years ago
    Mesozoic Triassic  252 – 201 million years ago
    Jurassic  201 – 145 million years ago
    Cretaceous  145 – 65 million years ago
    Cenozoic Palaeocene  66 – 56 million years ago
    Eocene  56 – 34 million years ago
    Oligocene  34 – 23 million years ago
    Miocene  23 – 5.3 million years ago
    Pliocene 5.3 -2.6 million years ago
    Quaternary Pleistocene 2.6 million -10,000 years ago
    Holocene 10,000 years ago to the present

    There were  Nine prehistorical Super continents an i have ritten on Gondswana, Rodinia  Laurasia and Ur.

    • Gondwana (~510–~180 million years ago)
    • Laurasia (~510–~200 million years ago)
    • Pangaea (~300–~210 million years ago)
    • Pannotia, also called Vendian (~600–~545 million years ago)
    • Rodinia (~1.1 Ga–~750 million years ago)
    • Columbia, also called Nuna (~1.8–1.5 Ga ago)
    • Kenorland (~2.7 Ga ago). Neoarchean sanukitoid cratons and new continental crust formed Kenorland. Protracted tectonic magma plume rifting occurred 2.48 to 2.45 Ga and this contributed to the Paleoproterozoic glacial events in 2.45 to 2.22 Ga. Final breakup occurred ~2.1 Ga.
    • Ur (~3 Ga ago). Classified as the earliest known landmass. Ur, however, was probably the largest, perhaps even the only continent three billion years ago. While probably not a supercontinent, one can argue that Ur was a supercontinent for its time, even if it was smaller than Australia is today. Still, an older rock formation now in Greenland dates back from Hadean times.’
    • https://ramanisblog.in/2016/07/28/super-continents-pangaea-archea-prove-hinduism/

    I approached the information from the Angle of Time scales.

    Now I am providing the description/reference of Pangea,which is also called as Panthalassa, from the Bala Kanda of Valmiki Ramayana.

    एक एकम् योजनम् पुत्रा विस्तारम् अभिगच्छत || १-३९-१४

    यावत् तुरग संदर्शः तावत् खनत मेदिनीम् |
    तम् एव हय हर्तारम् मार्गमाणा मम आज्ञया ||१-३९-१५

    14b, 15. putraaH = oh, sons; eka ekam yojanam = one [each prince,] one, yojana – area of earth; vistaaram abhigacChata = square area, you advance – allocate for yourself; mama aaGYayaa = by my, order; tam haya hartaaram = him, horse, stealer; maargamaaNaa = while searching; turaga samdarshaH yaavat = horse’s, appearance, until; taavat mediniim khanata = till then, earth, you dig out.

    ” ‘Oh, sons, let each prince advance searching one square yojana of earth, by my order you dig up the earth until the appearance of the horse, while searching for the stealer of that horse. [1-39-14b, 15]

    योजनानाम् सहस्राणि षष्टिम् तु रघुनंदन |
    बिभिदुर् धरणीम् राम रसा तलम् अनुत्तमम् ||१-३९-२१

    21. raghu nandana = oh, legatee of Raghu’s dynasty; raama = oh, Rama; yojanaanaam SaSTim sahasraaNi tu = yojana-s, thousand, sixty, thus; dharaNiim = of earth; they dug to make it as the; an uttamam = unsurpassed; rasaa talam = as sixth, subterranean field; bibhiduH = hollowed.

    “Oh, Rama, the legatee of Raghu’s dynasty, thus sixty thousand square yojana-s of the earth is dug over, so as to make the earth’s outermost plane as the unsurpassed rasaa tala, the sixth subterranean and the nethermost plane. [1-39-21]

    एवम् पर्वत संबाधम् जम्बू द्वीपम् नृपात्मजाः |
    खनन्तो नृपशार्दूल सर्वतः परिचक्रमुः ||१-३९-२२

    22. nR^ipa shaarduula = oh, tigerly king, Rama; nR^ipa aatmajaaH = king’s, sons; parvata sam baadham = with mountains, verily, congested; jambuu dviipam = Jambu Island [plateau]; evam khanantaH = this way, while digging; sarvataH paricakramuH = everywhere, they endeavoured.

    “Oh, the kingly tiger Rama, the sons of Sagara have endeavoured everywhere digging over the Jambu Island which is verily congested with mountains in this way. [1-39-22]

    The jambu dwiipa is a continent according to Hindu mythology where the total continents listed are seven. jambuu plakShaahya dviipau shaalmaliH ca aparo dvija | kushaH krauncaH tathaa shakaH puShkaraH ca eva ca saptamaH the seven continents are jambu- plaksha – shaalmali- kusha – kraunca – shaaka – puSkara, and jambu dwiipa is one among them.

    Reference and citation.

    http://www.valmikiramayan.net/utf8/baala/sarga39/bala_39_frame.htm

    The numbers indicated below the verses refer to the Kanda(major chapter),Sarga( chapter) and verse, in that order.

    I shall be writing more on the size of the earth as revealed by these verses.i

  • Menes First Pharoah Son of Sagara Solar Dynasty India.

    Menes First Pharoah Son of Sagara Solar Dynasty India.

    The First Pharaoh of Egypy,Menes is identified as the son of Sagara, Emperor belonging to Surya,Solar Dynasty of India.

    Menes ,the First Pharoah of Egypt was Asamanja , the son of  Emperor of Sagara.

    Sagara was  from Kosala Kingdom of India.

    One may recall his descendant ,Bhagiratha brought River Ganga to Earth.

    Lord Rama belonged to Solar Dynasty and Sagara was his ancestor.

    The Kings List of Sumeria and the Kings List of Egypt confirm this.

    The reference to Sumeria is found in Indus Valley.

    This has been brought out by researcher Waddelll in his Book.

    I have provided the link to his work at the close of this article.

    He also presents evidence to the effect that the  Sumerian Kings List and the Egyptian Kings List confirm that the Sumerians preceded the Egyptians and both these trace their ancestry to Indian Solar Dynasty.

    The study is backed by deciphering the Sumerian ,Egyptian and Indus valley Seals,Tablets,Hieroglyphics and archaeology.

    And of course, the literature of these three civilizations.

    Not surprising at all.

    Considering the facts,

    Rama,Dasaratha and Bharatha find their names in the Sumerian Kings List.

    Akkadian civilization preceded the Sumerian civilization.

    And Sage Angirasa founded the Akkadian Empire

    Hindu OM is found in Sumrian Prayer

    Tamil city found in Sumeria,Akkadian

    Naramsin of Akkad.

    Tamil city in ancient Syria

     

    Menes,( C  3150 BCE) is the legendary first king of Egypt who is thought to have united Upper and Lower Egypt through conquest and founded both the First Dynasty and the great city of Memphis. His name is known from sources such as Manetho’s Chronology (3rd century BCE), The Turin King List, and the Palermo Stone as well as from some scant archaeological evidence such as ivory engravings. In the early days of Egyptology, Menes was accepted as the first historical king based upon the written records. As time went by, however, and archaeological excavations failed to turn up any evidence of such a king, scholars began to question whether he had actually existed or was, perhaps, a composite figure drawn from the memory of the reigns of other kings.

    Source. http://www.ancient.eu/Men

    Menes,First Pharoah of  Egypt.

     

    But here it is noteworthy, that in the Indian list of kings 
    given in the Puru version of the Indian Aryan King- 
    Lists — that is in that version which preserves especially full 
    details of Menes' dynasty as Manasyu of Gopta — we find that 
    the immediate successors of Manasyu' s dynasty are Nine kings, 
    whose names equate to a considerable extent with those of the 
    Ntne kings forming the Second Dynasty in the lists of Manetho 
    and the others. And these nine kings were clearly the local 
    successors of Manasyu's dynasty in Egypt and not in Meso- 
    potamia, for they are absent in all the main-line lists of 
    the Early Aryan kings, who, we have found, were kings of 
    Mesopotamia. 1 
    
    In this Indian Puru version of the kings who immediately 
    succeeded Manasyu's dynasty, is given a string of nine 
    names of which the holders are described as the " sons " or 
    descendants of Raudrashwa, a personage who is therein 
    (MBt. I. 94) called a " brother " of Sargon (or Pra-Vira, 
    see p. 4) ; and who is stated to have married " the 
    nymph " Misri-Keshi, whose name Misri is suggestive of 
    the old name Misr for Egypt. 2 And Sargon's father was, 
    as we have seen, a Predynastic Pharaoh of Egypt. This 
    presumes that Raudrashwa was an elder brother of Sargon 
    and was resident in Egypt. And the fact that he did not 
    succeed his deposed father in the kingship in Mesopotamia 
    could be explained by his having died before the reign of 
    the usurper Zaggisi, i.e. before Sargon had attained manhood 
    and recovered his father's empire ; for Sargon being a 
    posthumous son could not have had a younger brother. In 
    this view therefore, there were resident in Egypt, contem- 
    porary with and during the reign of Sargon's or Menes'

    The first clues to these discoveries were gained by my 
    observation that Menes (as he was called by the Greeks) or 
    Manj (as he is usually called in his own Egyptian inscriptions) 1 
    appears in his due chronological position along with his 
    dynasty in the official king-lists of the Early Aryans from 
    the first king onwards, as preserved in the ancient Indian 
    epic chronicles, the Puranas. In the latter he bears the name 
    of Asa Manja, or " Manja the shooter " in the solar version 
    of these lists, and Manasyu or Mawas-the-Uniter in the lunar 
    version. 2 And the great Indian epic, the Maha-Bhaxata, in 
    supplementing the Purana chronicle account, describes 
    him as " Manasyu of the line of the Prabhu [Parda or 
    ' Pharaoh '], the royal eye of Gopta [Kopt or Egypt] and 
    of the four ends of the earth." 3 The Indian epic king-lists 
    further record that he was the son and successor of the 
    mighty world-emperor, King Kuni or Sha-Kuni or Sagara, 
    whom I had fully identified with the Mesopotamian world- 
    emperor, whose name is variously spelt Kin, Gin, Gani, 
    Guni, or Shar-Guni, a name which is arbitrarily semitized by 
    Assyriologists into " Sargon," in order to equate it with 
    the Hebrew name " Sargon " of the much later notorious 
    Semitic Assyrian king of that name in the eighth century B.C. 
    who carried the Jews into exile, and from whom they dis- 
    tinguish the former as " Sargon-the-Great." 
    
    On comparing these Early Aryan king-lists with those of 
    the Sumerians in Mesopotamia,* I observed that the latter 
    documents also recorded in the self-same chronological 
    position the dynasty of King Gin or Guni (" Sargon-the- 
    Great "), bearing substantially the same names and titles as 
    in the Indian lists and in exactly the same order ; and that 
    the names and order from " Sargon's " son Manis onwards 
    were identical with those of Menes' dynasty of Pharaohs on 
    
    1 See later. 2 See pp. ^i. 3 See p. 4 and App. I. 4 Kish Chronicle. 
    
    
    
    MENES AS SON OF SARGON-THE-GREAT 3 
    
    
    
    their own Egyptian monuments. Menes or Manj in his 
    Egyptian inscriptions usually bears the title of " Manj- 
    the-Warrior," and in the Sumerian king-lists and in his own 
    inscriptions in Mesopotamia, the son and successor of 
    " Sargon-the-Great " is styled " Manis-the-Warrior." And 
    the last king of this dynasty, bearing the same name in both 
    Sumerian and Egyptian inscriptions, has his name signifi- 
    cantly written on his own Egyptian inscription by the 
    self-same Sumerian pictographic signs as in the Sumerian 
    king-lists and in his own inscriptions as Sumerian emperor 
    in Mesopotamia. 
    
    Further comparison disclosed that Menes' father, " Sargon- 
    the-Great," along with the latter's father and grandfather 
    were identical in names and titles with the three Predynastic 
    Pharaohs who immediately preceded Menes in Egypt ; and 
    who have left there their records, seals or sealings in 
    Sumerian script. And these identities are confirmed by their 
    own Sumerian inscriptions in Egypt, and by their official 
    seals in their Indus Valley colony, in which most of them 
    bore also the title of " Pharaoh," and mention Egypt by 
    name as being within their empire. 
    
    Let us now examine the detailed proofs for these identities 
    of Menes or Manj and his " predynastic " ancestors in 
    Egypt with those of Manis and his immediate imperial 
    Sumerian ancestors in their contemporary inscriptions in 
    Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley and in the Indian epic 
    records of the Early Aryan kings. 
    
    Menes or Manis-Tusu as Manasyu the " Pharaoh 
    of Gopta " (Egypt) in the Indian Epics 
    
    The name of this Aryan king under the form of Manasyu 
    is found in the lunar version of the Indo-Aryan King-Lists, 
    and corresponds to the solar form of his name as Asa 
    Manj as or Asa Manj a in the solar main-line lists in which 
    he is No. 38 (see Table, p. 151) — the solar lists 1 being the 
    most complete and in undisturbed chronological order. 
    And " Sargon " in this Puru version is called Pra-Vira or 
    " Foremost hero," in which Vlra corresponds to his Sumerian 
    title of Pir, 2 V being a very late invented letter. 3 
    
    1 Lists of the purer Sun-worshippers. 2 WMC. 200. 3 See WAOA. 49 f . 
    ....  
    
    
    The fuller Egyptian form of Menes' name as Manj, 
    strikingly confirms the literal identity of the Egyptian with 
    the Sanskrit Manja (or Asa-Manja), the son of the Emperor 
    Sagara, that is Sargon ; and it equates also phonetically 
    with the Manis name of Sargon's son in Sumerian — the 
    affix Tusu meaning, as seen below, " The Warrior." This 
    fuller Egyptian form of Menes' name is usually disguised by 
    many English Egyptologists as Mena. But the alphabetic 
    value of the last letter is rightly rendered by the Berlin 
    school as J} which is now seen to be its proper value by 
    our trilingual comparison ; and this is confirmed by the 
    pictorial form of this Egyptian hieroglyph which pictures a 
    flowering reed, which I observed was the same sign, form, 
    sound, and meaning as the Sumerian pictograph of the 
    flowering reed word-sign with the phonetic value Gi 2 — thus 
    affording another of the many instances I have demonstrated 
    of the derivation of the Egyptian hieroglyphs from the 
    Sumerian pictographs, with the same pictographs, form, 
    phonetic value and meaning. 
    
    ....
    of the two crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt." Under 
    his other Indian name as Asa-Manja, or " Manja the 
    Shooter," is described in the Indian Chronicles, his quarrel 
    with, and disinheritance by, his father, Sagara (Sargon), 
    which, we shall find later, appears to relate to his declaration 
    of independence in Egypt during the lifetime of his father 
    in Mesopotamia ; and thus explaining why Sargon's younger 
    son succeeded his father on the Mesopotamian throne and 
    not Manis-Tusu, his eldest son, who only succeeded later. 
    
    Identity of Menes with the Aryan Emperor Manasyu 
    & Manis-Tusu, son of Sargon, confirmed
    Source and Citations. Egyptian civilization and Its Sumerian Origin Real Chronology by Waddelll
  • Sagara Ramas Ancestor Married Dravidian Princess

    History of ancient India is complex,yet very interesting.

    Seemingly disconnected facts,events acquire  significance when they are analysed .

    One such is the intimacy between the Dravida Desa and Sanatana Dharma.

    Both have an intricate,complex relationship .

    Both quote each other.

    The Kings of the Northern India had a close relationship with their counterparts from the south,right from the days of the First Human Being,Manu.

    Manu was a king of Dravida Desa.

    He meditated in Madagascar,which was a part of his kingdom.

    He had a daughter who was married in the south.

    She was Ila.

    And King Sagara,of Ikshvaku Dynasty whose son. Bhagiratha brought River Ganga to earth,India was married to a south Indian,Dravida Princess.

    She belonged to Sibi,aka Sivi dynasty.

    She founded the Lunar Culture

    Sagara) is a prominent king of the Suryavansha dynasty in Satya Yuga. He has two wives, one a princess of the Vidarbha, and the other from royal lineage of Sivi,’

    Source. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Sagara

    SIBI.

    Sibi,Emperor.image.jpg
    King Sibi.

    ‘The story of Sibi Chakravarthy is so famous that it was sculpted in the Barhut, Nagarjunakonda ,Amaravati bas-reliefs and  Borobudur in Java,Indonesia (see Boropudur sculpture above).

    Tamil epics Silappadikaram and Manimekalai gave more details about this link. Since the oldest part of Sangam Tamil literature mentions it no one can reject it. The link is confirmed with other stories as well.

    Sibi ruled from the north west of India. There was a Sibi puram on the banks of river Chenab in Punjab. Sibi clan is mentioned in Rig Veda and Brahmanas. Panini referred one Sivapuram may be the same Sibipuram’

    Sibi is in Nort west of India, currently in Pakistan.

    There are views that Sibi ruled from there and that the Tamils were from North India.

    Considering the differences between the Tamil Culture and Sanatana Dharma, thought Tamils were a part of Sanatana Dharma and the archeological evidence,Literature, the structural difference between Sanskrit , I am of the opinion that it is not so.

    In the case of Sibi. it is probable that Sibi had the city of Sibi as a second capital.

     

  • River Ganga 25 Million Years Old

    River Ganga 25 Million Years Old

    Ganga,aka Ganges,is one of the largest Rivers of India and is considered as holiest of the Holies in Hinduism.

    As many as eleven major  Hindu pilgrimage centers are on the banks of the River Ganga.

    There are seven holy rivers mentioned in ancient Hindu texts.

    Ganga,

    Yamuna,

    Godavari,

    Sarasvathi,

    Narmada,

    Sindhu, and

    Kaveri.

    Ancient Vedic culture flourished here along with the other Vedic cultures on the banks of the other six rivers mentioned above.

    In examining the antiquity of Sanatana Dharma,Gaga region has not attracted as much attention as Sarasvathi.

    Similar is the case with the other rivers.

    How old is river Ganga?

    Hindus normally take it to be from the time Bhagiratha ,by intense Prayers to Lord Shiva, brought it back to earth.

    One has to note that he ‘brought it back’

    That means it must have existed before and vanished.

    There seems to be a message here.

    According to all Puranas, Satyavrata Manu was the first human being on earth.

    Bhagavatha Purana records that he was a King from Dravida(south)Desa( country).

    He being forewarned of a Tsunami,moved to a high plateau in Madagascar and then moved to Ayodhya,where his son Ikshvaku founded the Ikshvaku Dynasty.

    No mention of Ganga at the corresponding time frame of Manu,when he was in the south.

    So there is scope for research in this.

    Then we have the Southern kingdom he is reported to have ruled before the Tsunami.

    It indicates that he had a country to rule and there must have been other regions,apart from Dravida Desa.

    There were four civilizations then.

    Uighur,

    Atlantis,

    Manu and

    Lemuria.

    And there is reference that Lake Baikal ,Russia being the Vaikanasa Theertha of Indra .

    More on this in future articles.

    Now there are three versions as to the origins of Ganga.

    One by Indra,

    By Vamana,an Avatar of Vishnu and by

    Bhagiratha,ancestor of Rama,descendant of Manu,.

    The Vedic version, Indra, the Lord of Svarga (Heaven) slays the celestial serpent, Vritra, releasing the celestial liquid, the soma, or the nectar of the gods which then plunges to the earth and waters it with sustenance.

    In the Vaishnava version of the myth, Indra has been replaced by his former helper Vishnu. The heavenly waters are now a river called Vishnupadi (padi: Skt. “from the foot of”).As he completes his celebrated three strides—of earth, sky, and heaven—Vishnu as Vamana stubs his toe on the vault of heaven, punches open a hole, and releases the Vishnupadi, which until now had been circling around the cosmic egg within. Flowing out of the vault, she plummets down to Indra’s heaven, where she is received by Dhruva, the once steadfast worshipper of Vishnu, now fixed in the sky as the polestar. Next, she streams across the sky forming the Milky Way and arrives on the moon She then flows down earthwards to Brahma’s realm, a divine lotus atop Mount Meru, whose petals form the earthly continents.There, the divine waters break up, with one stream, the Alaknanda, flowing down one petal into Bharatvarsha (India) as the Ganges.

    It is Shiva, however, among the major deities of the Hindu pantheon, who appears in the most widely known version of the avatarana story.

    ……..the story begins with a sage, Kapila, whose intense meditation has been disturbed by the sixty thousand sons of King Sagara. Livid at being disturbed, Kapila sears them with his angry gaze, reduces them to ashes, and dispatches them to the netherworld. Only the waters of the Ganga, then in heaven, can bring the dead sons their salvation. A descendant of these sons, King Bhagiratha, anxious to restore his ancestors, undertakes rigorous penance and is eventually granted the prize of Ganga’s descent from heaven. However, since her turbulent force would also shatter the earth, Bhagiratha persuades Shiva in his abode on Mount Kailash to receive Ganga in the coils of his tangled hair and break her fall. Ganga descends, is tamed in Shiva’s locks, and arrives in the Himalayas. She is then led by the waiting Bhagiratha down into the plains at Haridwar, across the plains first to the confluence with the Yamuna at Prayag and then to Varanasi, and eventually to Ganga Sagar, where she meets the ocean, sinks to the netherworld, and saves the sons of Sagara.’

    1.The version of Vedas are to be taken as it is the earliest record and in Hindu traditions Veda is final and  Puranas and Ithihasas Ramayana,Mahabharatha are only secondary.

    In case of conflict with Vedas,the words of Veda is final.

    2.As mentioned in the above paragraphs,there must have been other regions,before the Tsunami,when Manu ruled the South.

    3.Bhagiratha brought Ganga from Deva Loka of Indra.

    Deva loka is identified as the present Russia and Indra’s capital Amaravathi was in Russia.

    Lake Baikal was Vaikanasa Theertha of Indra.

    4.The term Ganga has only one more significant meaning.

    Name of the source of the gaṅgā- (said to have sprung from viṣṇu-‘s foot or from an aperture made in the mundane egg by the toe-nail of viṣṇu-)’

    Reference. http://sanskritdictionary.com/?iencoding=iast&q=Ganga&lang=sans&action=Search

    Now that brings in the Vishnu connection and Vamana Avatar.

    This Avatar is in Satya Yuga, The Eon earlier to the Treta Yuga,when Bhagiratha brought Ganga back

    And this Avatar was in the south.

     

    Therefore Ganga dates earlier to Bhagiratha .

    Now to Geology on Ganga’s Date.

    ‘The Indian subcontinent lies atop the Indian tectonic plate, a minor plate within the Indo-Australian Plate.Its defining geological processes commenced seventy-five million years ago, when, as a part of the southern supercontinent Gondwana, it began a northeastwards drift—lasting fifty million years—across the then unformed Indian Ocean.The subcontinent’s subsequent collision with the Eurasian Plate and subduction under it, gave rise to the Himalayas, the planet’s highest mountain ranges. In the former seabed immediately south of the emerging Himalayas, plate movement created a vast trough, which, having gradually been filled with sediment borne by the Indus and its tributaries and the Ganges and its tributaries,now forms the Indo-Gangetic Plain’

    As the  Geological process  began 75 million years ago and it took 50 million years for the Drift,it is logical that Ganga was formed around 25 million years ago.

    Reference and Citation. In Block Quote.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges

  • Ash Island US Vishnu Turned Rama’s Ancestors to Ashes

    Ash Island US Vishnu Turned Rama’s Ancestors to Ashes

    I had written on the fact that the US is the Patala Loka mentioned in the Hindu Puranas ,Ithihasas, Ramayana and Mahabharata.

    And California is Kapila Aranya.

    I had also written quite extensively on the Inca connection to Hinduism. specifically the Tamils and how they celebrate the Makara Sankaranthi.

    Mayan temple Chichen Itza’s Sanctum is identical with the Sanctum of Chidambaram Nataraja.

    In Yucatan ruins one finds the 1000 Pillared Mantap( Hall ) in Tikal,like the ones in the Hindu temples in Sout Indi.

    We have Hanuman’s son Makaratwaja being worshiped in Honduras.

    Rama’s ancestor Sagara,after whom the Ocean is called as Sagara, conducted an Aswamedha Yaga.

    A decorated Horse is normally sent before the conclusion of the yaga.

    One who stops the Horse must engage himself in a fight with the King who sent the Horse/conducts the Yaga.

    Depending on the outcome of the battle, the Yaga will be concluded.

    In this case, the horse wandered off and landed in the nether world and stood in front of Sage Kapila, an Avatar of Vishnu, who was meditating.

    Meanwhile worried about the missing Horse, Sagara sent his 60,000 sons to search for Horse.

    The located the Horse standing in front of Kapila, assumed Kapila and started harassing Him.

    Kapila just opened His eyes and the 60000 sons of Sagara were turned into ashes.

    Knowing this, Sagara came rushing and requested the forbearance of Kapila.

    200,000 Years Old Colorado Shiva Temple.jpg 200,000 Years Old Colorado Shiva Temple.

    Kapila told Sagara that his sons would attain Moksha,only after Ganges was  brought from the head of Lord Shiva and the ashes were immersed in the Ganges water.

    And Sagara’s  descendant would achieve this after a strenuous effort.

    And that was Bhagiratha.

    River Bhagirathi is named after him.

    And any ceacseless, undaunting effort is called Bhagiratha Prayathana.( some thing similar to Herculean Task)

    The place where the sons of Sagara was turned into ashes is the Ash Island, US.

    The places are now the Ash Island and Horse island US.

    ‘According to Jagadguru Sankaracharya all this happened in “Kapilaranya” which is exactly opposite to India in the Globe and which is currently California. Geography, of course, confirms that India and California locations are diametrically opposite to each other on the Globe. Therefore if one were to notionally pierce a needle from India on the Globe, it would hit California directly at the bottom. This also corroborates the view that the princes who dug deep into the ground from India reached California at the bottom. Also the existence of “Ash Island” and “Horse Island” next to California today lends credence to this explanation suggesting that “Ash Island” was the place where the princes were burnt to ashes and the “Horse Island” was the location where the horse was tied. Hindus popularly believe that the epic Ramayana happened at least 100,000 years ago. So, could it be that Hinduism is 100,000 years old and spread to far off locations including the geographic area, which is USA today?’

    Citation.

    http://www.harekrsna.com/sun/features/07-06/features370.htm