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  • Chola Satyavrata Conquered Kasiraja Varanasi

    Chola Satyavrata Conquered Kasiraja Varanasi

    The information we get from Purans and Ancient Tamil Sangam Literature and Copperplates evidence reaffirm the close proximity,nay the total identification of ancient Tamil Kings and Genealogy as listed out in Purans. References in Ramayana and Mahabharata also reaffirm.

    One finds

    • Uparichara vasu was a king of the Puru lineage and his grandson was Veda Vyasa.
    • Pallavas From Turvasu Dushyant Puru Dynasty, Cholas Cousins
    • Muchukunda Chozha Ruled From North Western India with Mandhata
    • Sixteen Emperors of India Mahabharata List Chola Among Them
    • Chozhas Were In North , permanently Settled in South In Dwapara Yug?

    You may find these details at this site.

    According to the Genealogy by Purans and by Thiruvalankadu Copperplates,Satyavrat conquered the King of Varanasi and was also called Rudrjit.’in his family was born Satyavrata who conquered Kasiraja, the king of Varanasi (i.e., Benares) (v. 25)

    Satyavrat came from the Chola lineage, one of his ancestors being Muchukunda Chola. In the same lineage was born Chola Emperor Sibi.

    The prasasti of the Chola family conveyed by the Sanskrit portion of the grant (vv. 1 to 137) consists of 271 lines and is mostly Puranic.  In verse 4 are introduced the sun and Manu, the latter of whom was produced from the Sun by concentration of mind.  His son was Ikshvaku (v. 5) ; his son Vikukshi (v. 6) ; his son Puranjaya (v. 7) surnamed Kakutstha (v. 8) ; his son Kakshivat (v. 9) and his son Aryaman (v. 10).  In this family was born Analapratapa (v. 11); in his family was born Vena; and his son born from the right arm was Prithu (vv. 12 and 13).  In his familywas born Dhundhumara, so called on account of his having killed the demon Dhundhu (v. 14).  In (his) family was born Yuvanasva (v. 15) ; his son was Mandhatri who ruled the earth as far as the Lokaloka mountain (v. 16) ; his son was muchukunda who, by killing the demon Kalayavana, pleased the god Mukunda, i.e., Vishnu (v. 17).  In (his) family was born king Valabha who founded the city of Valabhi (v. 18) ; his son was Prithulaksha who set the mountain Mandara whirling in the ocean for securing nectar (v. 19) ; his son was Parthivachudamani (v. 20). In (his) family was born Dirghabahu (v. 21) and then came Chandrajit (v. 22); his son was Sankriti who became the emperior at the close of the Krita age (v. 23).  In that family was born Panchapa (v. 24) ; in his family was born Satyavrata who conquered Kasiraja, the king of Varanasi (i.e., Benares) (v. 25) and acquired the title Rudrajit (v. 26) by conquering Rudra in battle.  In that family was born Sibi; an ornament of his family was king Marutta who was an immediate predecessor of the Pandavas (vv. 27 and 28). . Thiruvalankadu Copperplates

    Genealogy of Ikshvaku Dynasty(as found in Sanskrit Texts) – Chola Dynasty.( as found in Thiruvalankadu Copperplates) Table credit.https://jayasreesaranathan.blogspot.com/2018/01/divya-and-dharma-two-sides-of-yuga_21.html?m=0

    Table showing genealogy of Ikshvaku, Solar Dynasty as found in Sanskrit Texts and as in Thiruvalankadu Copperplates of Cholas.

  • Madurai 155 Trillion Years Old? Puzzling Evidence.

    Madurai 155 Trillion Years Old? Puzzling Evidence.

    When one delves deep into Purana, Ithihasa and ancient texts of India, including regional language texts, one finds one Corroborates the other. Events,Persons mentioned in one is corroborated by the other. While the Purana is in Sanskrit, others are in ancient languages like Pali , Prakrit. Some languages like these may belong to Dialects. However, Tamil, an ancient language of India with which I am familiar, is rich in literature and grammar and it goes back to thousands of years along with Sanskrit. The archeological finds at Poompuhar, Tamil Nadu pushes the date of Tamil, at least, to 20,000 years. An Advanced Tamil civilization site near Chennai,reveals it to be a Million year old! . Thiruvannamalai,Tamilnadu is about 3.94 billion years old, Tirupati 2200 million years old, Jwalapuram Cuddapah, Andhara Is 74,000 years old Guruvayur, Kerala is over 25,000 years!

    Lemuris 230 Million years old My Tedtalk

    Ancient Bharathavarsha, in South, had Dravida Desa, Southern Countries. This landmass was ruled by three dynasties, Chera, Chola and Pandyas. The Kings of these dynasties trace their lineage to either Surya Vamsa , Ikshvaku Dynasty founded by Ikshvaku, son of the first human being Manu(Manu was the ancestor of Sri Rama) ;or to Chandra Vamsa, Lunar dynasty of Ila, Daughter of Manu.

    • Ruins of Tamil land off Japan’s coast
    Quote on Tamil

    Manu, aka Satyavrata Manu or Vaivaswatha Manu was a Dradiva Emperor. This is recorded in the Bhagavadha Purana. I had written an article on this.

    While Satyavrata Manu was offering oblations to ancestors, a 🐠🐋🐟 Matsya appeared.

    There is a river by name “Krita-Maala”, today famously known as River Vaigai. On the banks of this River Krita-Maala, there was this “Shraadha-Manu”, who had the name “Satyavrata”. As this Satyavrata is living his life at this place, one day he goes to the river bank to do his regular “Tharpana” (Spiritual Practice) in the evening. As he was performing the “Tharpana”, there was a small little fish that got into his hands.

    “Tasyaa dheenataram vaakyam ashrutya sa maheepathihi!

    Kalasaapshu nihiteneyam dayaalu ninya aashramam!!”

    As the little fish enters into Satyavrata’s hands, it suddenly started to talk! Upon hearing a fish talk in human language, Satyavrata was surprised! The little fish talks to Satyavrata thus, “Oh Satyavrata! As you see, I’m such a small little fish, just taken birth! Please do not leave me again into this mighty river amidst the fast-flowing water. There are bigger fishes here, which would eat me off. Therefore, please help me out!” Upon hearing this, Satyavrata was moved! He asks the fish thus, “Oh little one! I don’t have any problem in helping you and ensuring your safety. Please tell me what should I do!” The fish replies back, “Oh Satyavrata! Why don’t you put me into your ‘Kamandala’ vessel and take me to your home? You can put me into a small tank at your place, where I would be safe and secure!”

    Accordingly, Satyavrata takes the little fish into his vessel, takes it to his home and tries to put it into a nicely made tank, exclusively for that fish alone. But as Satyavrata tries to transfer the little fish into the tank, he is in for another surprise! Within the time that he walked back to his home, the fish has grown in size! It is not able to come out of the ‘Kamandala’ vessel. Now the fish replies thus, “Oh Satyavrata! I think this vessel nor this tank would be of sufficient size to house me. Perhaps you should put me into the well in your house.“ Accordingly thus, Satyavrata takes the fish to the well and drops it inside! Again, Satyavrata is in for a surprise! As he drops the fish into the well, it again grows quickly to a bigger size, which renders the well to be useless to hold it anymore. Again, Satyavrata puts the fish into another big tank, but in vain! Again the fish grows into a mammoth size, engulfing the whole tank!

    Upon seeing this, Satyavrata couldn’t understand what is going on here! Hence, he takes the fish and puts it into the river again! Now, the fish grows into a huge whale-like size and engulfs the whole river too! This leaves Satyavrata stunned beyond words! He is clearly running out of options and doesn’t know what is going on around him. This is surely some message from someone who is all-pervasive and all-powerful. At one point, Satyavrata starts to doubt whether this is really a fish or something or someone else!

    As Satyavrata looks on with awe and shock, the fish tells him thus, “Oh Satyavrata! Looks like even this river is not capable of holding my mammoth size. I think it’s best that you take me to the ocean and leave me there!” Now Satyavrata is clearly perplexed here! He doesn’t know whether to really honour these words of the fish. With all his past experiences with the fish, he was damn sure that even if he is going to leave it in the ocean, it is going to say that this ocean is also insufficient! What would he do then? Mustering up his courage thus, Satyavrata asks the fish thus, “I do not think that you are an ordinary little fish! You are somebody else! Please tell me who are you and what do you want from me! Why are you playing this game with me?” Skanda 8,Srimad Bhagavadham. https://www.google.com/amp/s/theindiandharma.org/2020/05/05/episode-242-the-matsya-avatara-satyavratas-encounter-with-a-fish/amp/

    Now, the purport of this article is not about Manu and the evolution of World as described in the Srimad Bhagavadham. We focus on where Satyavrata Manu was offering Tharpana, Oblations.

    It was in River Kritamala. Kritamala is the name of River Vaigai, at Madurai Tamil Nadu India. So, it is reasonable to postulate that Vaigai, and consequently Madurai is as old as Manu!

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/ramanisblog.in/2017/05/20/lemuria-the-home-of-tamils-my-tedtalk-at-coimbatore/amp/Based on Tectonic shift, Archeology and related evidence Ihad ,earlier,arrived at a figure of 230 million years for Lemuria of which Madurai was a part. It was Then Madurai then. Because of tectonic shift, it had moved to it’s present location. The present information in this article is Mind blogging. It is easy to dispose it off as Non sense. But evidence presented and the recent confirmation about the nature of Time as Non linear by Quantum would make one ponder.

    More to follow.

    This yuga cycle is called maha (in english, it means great/big) or divya (divine) yuga. One thousand such cycles forms one day of Brahma (a demigod in hindu religion which governs the universe). So one day of Brahma is 4.32 million * 1000 = 4.32 billion human years. Each such day of Brahma is called a “kalpa”. His night also constitutes 4.32 billion human years. During his day, life exists in universe. In nighttime, no form of life exists. So one complete day and night has 8.64 billion human years.

    -> Age of Brahma is 100 years. Each year of Brahma has 360 days and same number of nights. Thus, total age of Brahma is 360 * 100 * 8.64 billion = 311,040 billion human years. i.e. 311.04 trillion years. This period is called “maha kalpa”.
    -> The life span of the universe is one “maha kalpa”. i.e. 311.04 trillion human years. This time span is also the duration of one breath of “Vishnu” (the ultimate god in hindu religion). When he exhales, thousands of universes emerges and one “Brahma” is born in each universe. When “Vishnu” inhales, all universes get sucked and Brahma dies.
    -> This cycle is non-ending and eternal. Thats why “Vishnu” is considered eternal in Vedic Science (or religion).
    How much old is our universe:
    -> Note that the period of Satya Yuga is 0.4x, Treta Yuga is 0.3x, Dwapara Yuga is 0.2x and Kali Yuga is 0.1x where x is the time-span of one maha-yuga cycle. I will use ‘x’ as 1 maha-yuga cycle subsequently.
    -> In 1 day of Brahma, there are 14 “manvantara”. Each “manvantara” is divided into 71 “maha-yuga” cycles. So total make 14*71 = 994x (mahayuga cycles).
    -> Remaining cycles (1 day of Brahma contains 1000 maha-yuga cycles) are used to fill gaps between manvantara. Before and after each manvantara (called as “sandhya” and “sandhyamsa” respectively), there is a junction of 1.728 million (age of Satya Yuga, or 0.4x) human years. Total number of junctions are 15 (since there are 14 manvantaras). So total gap period is = 0.4 * 15 = 6x. Hence total makes 1000 maha-yuga cycles or 1 brahma day.
    -> According to the Vedic texts, current age of Brahma is 50 Brahma years and 1 brahma day (we are in the 1st day of 2nd half of brahma)and we are in the seventh “manvantara”, in the 28th turnover of its 71 yuga cycles. In this cycle, we are in the start Kali Yuga. Age of kali yuga is not known perfectly but it is around 5000-10000 years. For calculation, lets assume 8000 human years.
    -> So current age of our universe (in terms of maha-yuga cycles) =
    (50 * 720 * 1000) — 50 years * (360 days + 360 nights) * total no. of cycles in one day/night
    + (6 * 71) — 6 manvantara each of 71 maha-yuga cycle
    + (7 * 0.4) — 7 junctions or gaps for 6 manvantara
    + (27 * 1) — we are in 28th cycle of 71
    + (0.4+0.3+0.2) — In this cycle, we are in Kali Yuga. Satya Yuga, Treat Yuga and Dwapara yuga are 0.4x, 0.3x and 0.2x respectively.
    + around 8000 human years — very small, so ignoring it.

    Thus total age = (36,000,000 + 456.7)x = 36,000,456.7 * 4.32 million = 155,521,972.944 million years = 155.521972944 trillion human years. Now add the age of kaliyuga. i.e. around 8000 human years. One we calculate the exact age of kaliyuga, we can know the exact age of universe.https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~goyal/age_of_universe.php

  • Madagascar In Super Continent Nat Geo Confirms Ramayana?

    Archaeological finds throughout the world suggest the existence of super Continents.

    Coastlines of the present Continents, presence of flora and fauna as fossils found in various places where they had no business to be , rock formations, the artifacts of a different culture than the one present, mostly from other Continents all suggest the existence of different  landmass long back.

    The fact that,

    Thiruvannamalai, India is 3.93 Billion years old,,

    Tirupati 2100 Million Years old,

    Jwalapuram, Telengana, india 74,000 years old,

    the finding of a Brahmin with  Tuft in Gobbleki Tepe , Turkey,

    Nazca lines of Peru, being described in the Ramayana,

    Shiva’s third eye Dance being performed by the Aborigines of Australia ,

    Hanuman’s and his son’s temple in Honduras,

    Rama being mentioned as a King of Sumeria,

    The unique Tamil style of celebrating  Makara Sankaranti in South  America.,

    ……

    all this point out to a land mass encompassing the present countries as a Super Continent.

    And we have Atlantis and Lemuria to contend with.

    Please read my articles on each of these.

    I have written an article on the fact that Satyavrata Manu of Lord Rama ancestor,

    having meditated near Madagascar  thousands of years ago long way from the present geographical location of the present India.

    The reference is found in the Ramayana an the Matsya Purana.

    The Ramayana took place in the Treta Yuga, about two million years ago.

    Seems to be fairy tale!

    Not so.

    Consider the evidence.

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    According to Srimad Bhagavatam 3.1 which is dated at 200 BCE-200CE, the Yugas are much longer, namely 1,728,000 years, 1,296,000 years, 864,000 years and 432,000 years:

    The duration of the Satya millennium equals 4,800 years of the demigods; the duration of the Dvāpara millennium equals 2,400 years; and that of the Kali millennium is 1,200 years of the demigods […] As aforementioned, one year of the demigods is equal to 360 years of the human beings. The duration of the Satya-yuga is therefore 4,800 x 360, or 1,728,000 years. The duration of the Tretā-yuga is 3,600 x 360, or 1,296,000 years. The duration of the Dvāpara-yuga is 2,400 x 360, or 864,000 years. And the last, the Kali-yuga, is 1,200 x 360, or 432,000 years in total.

     

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    Seetha came together with Rama like the light with the Sun. Rama also was seen by me to be mounted on a great elephant with four tusks and equalling a mountain and Rama wandered together with Lakshmana.”

     

    (Sundara Kanda Sarga 27 , Verse 12)

     

    Now  History of Biology proves that,

     

    “The Gomphotheriidae were a diverse taxonomic family of extinct elephant-like animals (proboscideans). Referred to as gomphotheres, they were widespread in North America during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs, 12–1.6 million years ago. Some lived in parts of Eurasia,Beringia and, following the Great American Interchange, South America. Beginning about 5 million years ago, they were gradually replaced by modern elephants, but the last two South American species, in the genus Cuvieronius, did not finally become extinct until possibly as recently as 9,100 BP, and Stegomastodon remains have been dated as recently as 6,060 BP in the Valle del Magdalena, Colombia. Gomphotheres also survived in Mexico and Central America until the end of the Pleistocene

     

    Ramayana took place in the Treta Yuga, according to Valmiki and other Puranas.

    Rama date one million years

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    Why this obsession with a Mountain?

    I recalled an article I had written on Satyavrata Manu, ancestor of Lord Rama, having lived in the South and migrated to Ayodhya, because of a Great Flood and whose son Ikshvaku founded the Ikshvaku Dynasty.

    And this Satyavrata Manu is associated with the Great Flood and he is reported to have meditated in a Mountain.

    Satyavrata Manu meditated In Madagascar

    Now consider the latest finding about a micro continent in the Indian Ocean from National Geographic.

    This opens the possibility of what has been said in the Ramayana  and the Puaranas about the land mass to be true and that the events were not a figment of imagination

     

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    Ancient Lost Continent Discovered in Indian Ocean. Lemuria/Atlantis, Rodinia Super Continent

    Evidence of a drowned “microcontinent” has been found in sand grains from the beaches of a small Indian Ocean island, scientists say.

    A well-known tourist destination, Mauritius (map) is located about 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) off the coast of Africa, east of Madagascar. Scientists think the tiny island formed some nine million years ago from cooling lava spewed by undersea volcanoes.

    But recently, researchers have found sand grains on Mauritius that contain fragments of the mineral zircon that are far older than the island, between 660 million and about 2 billion years old.

    In a new study, detailed in the current issue of the journal Nature Geoscience, scientists concluded that the older minerals once belonged to a now vanished landmass, tiny bits of which were dragged up to the surface during the formation of Mauritius. (Also see “World’s Oldest Rocks Suggest Early Earth Was Habitable.”)

    “When lavas moved through continental material on the way towards the surface, they picked up a few rocks containing zircon,” study co-authorBjørn Jamtveit, a geologist at the University of Oslo in Norway, explained in an email.

    Most of these rocks probably disintegrated and melted due to the high temperatures of the lavas, but some grains of zircons survived and were frozen into the lavas [during the eruption] and rolled down to form rocks on the Mauritian surface.”

    Prehistoric Atlantis

    Jamtveit and his colleagues estimate that the lost microcontinent, which they have dubbed Mauritia, was about a quarter of the size of Madagascar (map).

    Furthermore, based on a recalculation of how the ancient continents drifted apart, the scientists concluded that Mauritia was once a tiny part of a much larger “supercontinent” that included India and Madagascar, called Rodinia.

    The three landmasses “were tucked together in one big continent prior to the formation of the Indian Ocean,” Jamtveit said.

    But like a prehistoric Atlantis, Mauritia was eventually drowned beneath the waves when India broke apart from Madagascar about 85 million years ago. (Also see “Slimmer Indian Continent Drifted Ten Times Faster.”)

    Ancient Rocks

    Scientists have long suspected that volcanic islands might contain evidence of lost continents, and Jamtveit and his team decided to test this hypothesis during a layover in Mauritius as part of a longer research trip in 1999

    The stop in tropical Mauritius “was a very tempting thing to do for a Norwegian in the cold month of January,” Jamtveit said.

    Mauritius was a good test site because it was a relatively young island and, being formed from ocean lava, would not naturally contain zircon, a toughmineral that doesn’t weather easily.

    If zircon older than nine million years was found on Mauritius, it would be good evidence of the presence of buried continental material, Jamtveit explained.

    At first, the scientists crushed rocks from Mauritius to extract the zircon crystals, but this proved difficult because the crushing equipment contained zircon from other sites, raising the issue of contamination.

    “That was a show stopper for a while,” Jamtveit said.

    A few years later, however, some members of the team returned to Mauritius and this time brought back sand from two different beaches for sampling.

    The scientists extracted 20 zircon samples and successfully dated 8 of them by calculating the rate that the elements uranium and thorium inside of the samples slowly break down into lead.

    “They all provided much older ages than the age of the Mauritius lavas,” Jamtveit said. “In fact they gave ages consistent with the ages of known continental rocks in Madagascar, Seychelles, and India.”

    Missing Evidence?

    Jérôme Dyment, a geologist at the Paris Institute of Earth Physics in France, said he’s unconvinced by the work because it’s possible that the ancient zircons found their way to the island by other means, for example as part of ship ballast or modern construction material.

    “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, which are not given by the authors so far,” said Dyment, who did not participate in the research.

    “Finding zircons in sand is one thing, finding them within a rock is another one … Finding the enclave of deep rocks that, according to the author’s inference, bring them to the surface during an eruption would be much more convincing evidence.”

    Dyment added that if Mauritia was real, evidence for its existence should be found as part of a joint French and German experiment that installed deep-sea seismometers to investigate Earth’s mantle around Réunion Island, which is situated about 120 miles (200 kilometers) from Mauritius.

    Citation and Reference. for quoted text and images National Geographic

    India was near North Pole

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuga#Durations_of_the_four_yugas

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/02/130225-microcontinent-earth-mauritius-geology-science/

  • India Was Near North Pole Rodinia Continent Vedas In Arctic

    Geological research throws interesting light on the formation of the Earth.

    Surprising is the fact  that these researches validate the Indian Tets, Puranas, Ramayana and Mahabharata.

    I have been writing on Sanatana Dharma, validating the events narrated in Indian texts with the help of Geology, Anthropology, Infra Red dating of Fossils, Etymology of the words in world languages, Cultural similarities and archeology,

    These endeavours point out to the fact that the earth was one big land mass in the distant past, about 4 Billion years ago and the places mentioned in the Indian texts are validated by Geology.

    India and Arctic.jpg India Located Near Arctic.

     

    India Near the North Pole..jpg Proposed reconstruction of Rodinia for 750 Ma, with orogenic belts of 1.1 Ga age highlighted in green.[1] Red dots indicate 1.3–1.5 Ga A-type granites. Image credit. “Rodinia reconstruction” by John Goodge – http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/AntarcticSun/science/images2/rodinia_map.jpg. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rodinia_reconstruction.jpg#/media/File:Rodinia_reconstruction.jpg

    Thiruvannamalai, a hillock in Tamil Nadu, India, is 3.94 Million years old.

    Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh,  India is 1100 million years old.

    The numbers in the circles are ages in millions of years. The areas with topography just below the sea surface are now regarded as continental fragments, scientists say. (GFZ/Steinberger)
    The numbers in the circles are ages in millions of years. The areas with topography just below the sea surface are now regarded as continental fragments, scientists say. (GFZ/Steinberger) Image from frontiers of anthropology

    Jwalapuram, Andhra Pradesh, India is about 74 Million Years old.

    There is an archeological site near Chennai, India, which is one million years old.

    I have written article on all these with evidence.

    Benares, Varanasi, is the world’s oldest town being inhabited continuously.

    Tamil , a language of India, is about a Million years old and they quote the Vedas and they in turn quote Tamil!

    All the Great floods of India find reference in Indian Texts.

    One great flood was after Ramayana about more than million years.

    Another is around 30, 000 years ago when Dwaraka sank.

    And evidence of these are found and I have written on these as well.

    And there is Lemuria, the ancient land of the Tamils, along with Atlantis, Uighur.

    Please read my posts on these.

    While the initial landmass broke up, it baume Pangea, Sundaland, Lemuria in that order.

    What can not be disputed is that there was a single landmass encompassing the earth.

    These broke up into seven islands, the Dweepas of India.

     

    The Continues also drift.

    What if the drifting contents paced India, then called Bharatvarsha near the North Pole?

    Our whole perception shall change and the Puranas stand validated.

    Here is what Geology has to say, confirming my  theory that India was near the North Pole..

    “In geology, Rodinia (from the Russian “Родина”, ródina, meaning “The Motherland”) is the name of a hypothesized supercontinent, a continent which contained most or all of Earth’s landmass. The name was coined by McMenamin & McMenamin in 1990. According to plate tectonic reconstructions, Rodinia existed between 1.1 billion and 750 million years ago[contradictory], in the Neoproterozoic Era. It is one of two models for the configuration and history of the continental crust in the latter part of Precambrian times. The other isPaleopangea.Rodinia is postulated to have formed at ~1.0 Ga by accretion and collision of fragments produced by breakup of a hypothetical older supercontinent, Columbia, assembled by global-scale 2.0–1.8 Ga collisional events.Rodinia has entered popular consciousness as one of the two great supercontinents of earth history, the other being Pangaea…

    Rodinia’s landmass is considered to have been centered south of the equator.Most reconstructions show Rodinia’s core formed by the North American craton (the laterpaleocontinent of Laurentia), surrounded in the southeast with the East European craton (the later paleocontinent of Baltica), the Amazonian craton (“Amazonia”) and the West African craton; in the south with the Rio de la Plata and São Francisco cratons; in the southwest with the Congo and Kalahari cratons; and in the northeast with Australia, Indiaand eastern Antarctica. The positions of Siberia and North and South China north of the North American craton differ strongly depending on the reconstruction:

    • SWEAT-Configuration (Southwest US-East Antarctica craton): Antarctica is on the Southwest of Laurentia and Australia is at the North of Antarctica.
    • AUSWUS-Configuration (Australia-western US): Australia is at the West of Laurentia.
    • AUSMEX-Configuration (Australia-Mexico): Australia is at the location of nowadays Mexico relative to Laurentia.
    • The “Missing-link” model by Li et al. (2008) which has South China between Australia and the west coast of Laurentia.
    • Siberia attached to the western US (via the Belt Supergroup), as in Sears and Price (2000).
    • Rodinia of Scotese.

    Little is known about the paleogeography before the formation of Rodinia. Paleomagnetic and geologic data are only definite enough to form reconstructions from the breakup of Rodinia onwards. Rodinia is considered to have formed between 1.1 billion and 1 billion years ago and broke up again before 750 million years ago.Rodinia was surrounded by the superocean geologists are calling Mirovia (from Russian мировой, mirovoy, meaning “global”).

     

    The Rodinia hypothesis assumes that rifting did not start everywhere simultaneously. Extensive lava flows and volcanic eruptions of Neoproterozoic age are found on most continents, evidence for large scale rifting about 750 million years ago.As early as 850 and 800 million years ago,[18] a rift developed between the continental masses of present-day Australia, eastern Antarctica, India and the Congo and Kalahari cratons on one side and later Laurentia, Baltica, Amazonia and the West African and Rio de la Plata cratons on the other. This rift developed into the Adamastor Ocean during the Ediacaran…”

    Rodinia

     

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    Fragments of an ancient continent are buried beneath the floor of the Indian Ocean, a study suggests. Researchers have found evidence for a landmass that would have existed between 2,000 and 85 million years ago. The strip of land, which scientists have called Mauritia, eventually fragmented and vanished beneath the waves as the modern world started to take shape. Evidence constituted of zircon found on Mauritius beaches; the zircon pieces are considerably older than the basalt that constitutes the oldest formations on the island at 8.9 million years.

    Until about 750 million years ago, the Earth’s landmass was gathered into a vast single continent called Rodinia. And although they are now separated by thousands of kilometres of ocean, India was once located next to Madagascar. Now researchers believe they have found evidence of a sliver of continent – known as a microcontinent – that was once tucked between the two.

    The team came to this conclusion after studying grains of sand from the beaches of Mauritius. While the grains dated back to a volcanic eruption that happened about nine million years ago, they contained minerals that were much older. Professor Trond Torsvik, from the University of Oslo, Norway, said: “We found zircons that we extracted from the beach sands, and these are something you typically find in a continental crust. They are very old in age.” The zircon dated to between 1,970 and 600 million years ago, and the team concluded that they were remnants of ancient land that had been dragged up to the surface of the island during a volcanic eruption. It would have spanned millions years of history, from the Precambrian Era when land was barren and devoid of life to the age when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

    But about 85m years ago, as India started to drift away from Madagascar towards its current location, the microcontinent would have broken up, eventually disappearing beneath the waves. However, a small part could have survived. “At the moment the Seychelles is a piece of granite, or continental crust, which is sitting practically in the middle of the Indian Ocean,” explained Prof Torsvik. “But once upon a time, it was sitting north of Madagascar. And what we are saying is that maybe this was much bigger, and there are many of these continental fragments that are spread around in the ocean.” Further research is needed to fully investigate what remains of this lost region.

     

    Lost Continet.

    The Vishnu Purana describes the formation of the eart on similar lines.

    Citations have been provided at the end of each refernces.

    Image credit from the respective sources mentione above.

     

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  • Manu Meditated Malayamarutha Near Madagascar?

    I have, through my articles, been able to reconstruct, albeit in a limited way,Indian ancient History which has been obliterated.

    Many misconceived notions have been cleared, like the Aryan Invasion theory, Tamil is antagonistic to Sanatana Dharam, Sanatana Dharma is about 5000 years  old,Ramayana and Mahabharata were just stories and legends,Indians were barbarians with no scientific temper,India was insulated from the world,Ancient civilizations rose in Egypt,Babylon…..

    ..https://youtu.be/bPTxAO68-XE

    This I have been able to unearth with the help of information available in web from sources whose ancestors, have spread misinformation.

    Namely, Astrodating, Etymology, Geology, Carbon dating of events,,cultural similarities, infrared dating of Fossils.

    I had recently written an article on Lord Rama’s war with the Atlantis people .

    While researching for the material to support my view, I had come across information about the Malaya Mountain, Malayamarutha.

    Malayamarutha is often mentioned in the Ramayana and repeatedly in Tamil Literature.

    Tamil is so obsessive with Malaya Mountain, even the Gentle breeze is named after it, Malaya Marutham.

    This wind is recorded to have emanated from the south.

    This breeze is soft, gentle and invigorating.

    There is a Raaga, Muscial Note, by the name Malayamarutha.

    It is one of the Janyaragas in Carnatic Music, which is highly mathematical.

    Janya Ragas are Carnatic music ragas derived from the fundamental set of 72 ragas called Melakarta ragas, by the permutation and combination of the various ascending and descending notes. The process of deriving janya ragas from the parent melakartas is complex and leads to an open mathematical possibility of around thirty thousand ragas. Although limited by the necessity of the existence of individual swaroopas (unique identities) for the janya ragas, a list is never comprehensive or exhaustive.’

    Why this obsession with a Mountain?

    I recalled an article I had written on Satyavrata Manu, ancestor of Lord Rama, having lived in the South and migrated to Ayodhya, because of a Great Flood and whose son Ikshvaku founded the Ikshvaku Dynasty.

    And this Satyavrata Manu is associated with the Great Flood and he is reported to have meditated in a Mountain.

    ‘The Sanskrit-language Bhagavata Purana (dated 500 BCE-1000 CE) describes its protagonist Manu (aka Satyavrata) as the Lord of Dravida (South India). TheMatsya Purana (dated 250–500 CE) also begins with Manu practicing tapas on Mount Malaya of South India. Manimeghalai (dated around 6th century CE) mentions that the ancient Chola port city of Kavirippumpattinam (present-day Puhar) was destroyed by a flood. It states that this flood was sent by the Hindu deity Indra, because the king forgot to celebrate a festival dedicated to him’

    ‘

    Shraddhadeva was the king of the Dravida Kingdom during the epoch of the Matsya Purana. According to the Matsya Purana, Matsya, the avatar of Vishnu, first appeared as a shaphari (a small carp) to Shraddhadeva while he washed his hands in a river flowing down theMalaya Mountains.

    The little fish asked the king to save him, and out of compassion, he put it in a water jar. It kept growing bigger and bigger, until the king first put it in a bigger pitcher, and then deposited it in a well. When the well also proved insufficient for the ever-growing fish, the King placed it in a tank (reservoir), that was two yojanas (16 miles) in height above the surface and on land, as much in length, and a yojana (8 miles) in breadth.[5][6] As it grew further, the king had to put the fish in a river, and when even the river proved insufficient, he placed it in the ocean, after which it nearly filled the vast expanse of the great ocean.

    It was then that Vishnu, revealing himself, informed the king of an all-destructive deluge which would be coming very soon.The king built a huge boat which housed his family, saptarishi, nine types of seeds, and animals to repopulate the earth, after the deluge would end and the oceans and seas would recede. At the time of deluge, Vishnu appeared as a horned fish and Shesha appeared as a rope, with which the king fastened the boat to horn of the fish.

    The boat was perched after the deluge on the top of the Malaya Mountains. After the deluge, Manu’s family and the seven sages repopulated the earth.’

    Lemuria Location.jpg Tamil Land.The arrow points at Kumari Mountain and the red dot Kapadapuram(Kavata).Image Credit jaysreesaranathan blog, Tamizhanthiravidana blog spot.

    Atlantis Lemuria Location Map.jpg Atlantis and Lemuria Location.Image credit. alternative research.

    According to historians, Kuadam was very close to Tiruchendur. Abraham Pandithar says that Greeks in those days named it as Periplus port’ ( Wiki)

    The Tami land extended from Kapadapuram to Then Madurai.( South Madurai, which is differnet from the Madurai now in Tamil Nadu , where Meenakshi Amman Temple is.

    The distance is about 7460Kms and the western side the land stretched to Africa!( 700 Katham)

    In this area there were 49 Tamil Kingdoms, called Ezheezh Nadukal( 7*7 countries)…

    Note the Kumari Mountain , indicated by an arrow in the First Image, and it starts from what is the presently known as the Western Ghats and extends to Madagascar, where the Mascarene plateau lay in ancient times.

    Since Satyavrata Manu was meditating on t a higher plane because of the great flood, the Mascarene plateau   fits.

    As He is reported to have meditated in Malayamarutha, I am of the opinion that the Malayamarutha lay somewhere in  Mascarene plateau..

    The Mascarene Plateau is a submarine plateau in the Indian Ocean, north and east of Madagascar. The plateau extends approximately 2,000 km (1,200 mi), from the Seychelles in the north to Réunion in the south. The plateau covers an area of over 115,000 km2 (44,000 sq mi) of shallow water, with depths ranging from 8–150 m (30–490 ft), plunging to 4,000 m (13,000 ft) to the abyssal plain at its edges. It is the largest undersea plateau in the Indian Ocean…

    Mascarene Plateau with Mountains.jpg Mascare Plateau marked by a Circle and two other ellipical circles are Kumari Malai(Mountain and 90Degree Mountain).Image credit.Jayasreesaranathans Blog

    The northern part of the Mascarene plateau includes the Seychelles and Agaléga Islands. The southern part of the Mascarene plateau includes the Mascarene Islands, Saya de Malha Bank, Nazareth Bank, Soudan Banks, and Hawkins Bank. The Mascarene Islands are the mountainous islands of Mauritius, Réunion, Rodrigues, and the Cargados Carajos Shoals..

    The Indian subcontinent was at one time next to the east coast of the Seychelles, but seafloor spreading has moved the landmass to its current position, where it has collided and fused with the continent of Asia.

    The northern part of the Mascarene plateau is formed of granite, and is a fragment of the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana. The granite is topped with deposits of limestoneand basalt. The basalt deposits in the Seychelles are from the Deccan Traps eruption, which occurred in the central part of the Indian subcontinent 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period.

    And this lies close to what was Thenmadurai.

    Location of Thenmadurai.bmp Location of Thenmadurai.Image credit,Jayasreesaranathans blog

    As the Malayamarutahm is recorded to have come from the south of Thenmadurai(South Madurai which is different from the Madurai in Tamil Nadu now), Satyavrata Manu , this could have been the Mountain range where Satyavrata Manu meditated .

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mascarene_Plateau

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria_(continent)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumari_Kandam

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shraddhadeva_Manu

    https://ramanisblog.in/tag/malaya-mountains/

    https://ramanisblog.in/2015/10/26/rama-atlantis-war-kavatam-periplus-port-window-of-lemuria/

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