Local Legends

We know this land history is a myth and fails the scientific test. We know the early man was wanderers they were navigating from one place to another. We know from cheras history Romans stayed near ports of Muzuris. They had temple of Apollo in South India for their people. Wherever one clan migrate they take their culture and history with them. During early periods of ancient kingdom mostly the society was pularistic. We have records of Pallava Kings accepted Buddhism, we have records of Chera Kings who followed Jainism. But we know the first Tamil Sangam was lead by Siva, Muruga and Agathiyar. When trade flourished migration of people was normal than usual. We could see this migration has taken to next level in this current age and United States and other developed countries are facing lot of challenges to safe gaurd their Indigenous rights. Lot of states in India too raise slogans for reservation for their Indigenous people. 

So let's see how these Tamil Kings handled this Indigenous rights. When there was an era of Jainism and Buddhism in Dravida Nadu before 300BCE, the pluralistic society of Dravida people had challenges to defend their identity. Saivism rose from its pit fall. Most of the Kingdom accepted Saivism and Vaisnavism. That's why these two religion still stands as two pillars of the Hindu society. All the legends of the clans were accepted and carved as puranas of their respective religion. Example Alwars and Naayanmars. All clan had their Legends in 63 Naayanmars. That's why you might see the legends of Indus valley people were mentioned in Periyapuranam. Tamil Kings revolutionized the religion and their identity. Tamil Kings merged their religion which Vedic groups and puranas were shared with them. That's how Sanskrit came into Dravida Nadu. Since the merger was started by Tamil Kings you will see lot of Saiva&Vainava temples more in Tamil Nadu than North India. Since trade flourished and Tamil Kings were rich they achieved excellence with their architecture and local legends were carved more in Tamil Nadu than North India. 

They convered all the existing gods in current religion were merged with current Saivism. Dieties of Saivism and Vaisnavism were kept as center of the city and all merger were made as gaurdian gods. The concept of sirudeivam were constructed after this merger. We know the Homas were accepting animal sacrifices during this era and only after Sankaracharya's time the agamas of Homas and pujas were reconstructed. During his time, he further went to an extend and accepted worship of 7 Dieties and Sanyasam was made as optional. People who worship the gaurdian gods were once a Local Legend from their clan. That's why each caste has its own Kula deivam and once they were Local legends. If I am true, then unknown poets would be kept as Local Legend and that's why Tamil Kings allowed sirudeivams to exists. May be some of you might be worshiping thiruvallur in other names and avaiyaar in other names. Who knows only the almight know everything. எல்லா புகழும் இறைவனுக்கே. திருச்சிற்றம்பலம்.

Walking with Rama

Today we are going to discuss about pre historic age. These people are the indigenous people of this land. There were no kingdoms on earth. Humans was still a cave man. Lot of civilization which existed with us have faded out in time. Sumerians, Mesapatomians, Maayans, Egyptian (Blue Nile Civilization) and Indus valley. These were the people lived roughly around 1500-2000 BC. These people had established some kind of symbols to explain their thoughts. Since possibility of trade between them were minimum they shouldn't have know eachother. But there is a archeological evidence that scripts of these Indus & Eastern Island are similar. So this brings a different perspective of trade or movement of people. When scripts are similar they should have migrated after they have lived some reasonable decades with Indus valley people. Why do they migrate, what is the reason to migrate? These answers are unknown to till date. We should comparitively relate and understand. 

Since we want to deep dive into pre historic period of man kind we must get help of puranas. Using Gallectical alignment softwares Lord Rama's birth date was calculated and it is 5114 BCE. Sita was captured by Ravana in Chattisgarh apart of current India. Even though when we deny the existence of Vimanas, They should have atleast travelled to Lanka beneath the ujjaini by sea route. This will connect the dots that sea routes were there even before 5000BCE. 

தொன்மை மறவேல்.

Why South Indians are black?

I came across a post in famous forum Quora where people were debating on dark skin people of South Indian. There were many diverse answers. Some answers were hilarious and sounded foolish. 

Some said north Indian womens were married by invaders and slowly they lost there identity. Ahh! This sounds hilarious to me. There was a practice called sati (உடன் கட்டையெரிதல்) in ancient India. When husband die, the women would burn herself with him. There were laws introduced to eradicate Sati in 17th century only. So women who were molastated in battle crimes would kill themselves. Whoever is the foreigner they will become a new caste in Ancient India. And they will be living alone side with other caste in Ancient India. 

So how do we relate to the dark skin question. We all know the race theory. Chinese and Europeans are different and white because they are in and above tropical line. Africans and Indians are different and black because they are closure to Equator line. So you can think why some tamils and mallus are black. What i learnt from history is Manu is a Dravidian and we know the story of how he saved the humanity from great flood. We have similar accounts which talks about 72 Pandiya Kingdom which was sunken in sea. Mudattirumaran, a Pandiya King had a past history of his ancestors lost their land becuase of some kind of tsunami. They got help from Cheras and Cholas and moved into southern part of India. Since they are from Equator region their clans are black in color or dark skin or dark brown. There are many people who believes in this dimensions. Because of this belief the movie Kandam was created by Canadian. You might search about British Indian Ocean territory, Mauritius, Maldives, Lakshadweep, Dwaraka and connect with Lumeria concept.

Golden era of Chera dynasty

Today we are going to show some light on history from early Cheras. Cheras one of the powerful Kingdom of South India who ruled the sub continent from Himalayas to Kaniyakumari. The trade flourished between Europeans and Cheras during Roman Empire. Mucuri (Sangam) or Mucuripattanam  (Ramayana) or Muyirikottu (Jewish copper plates) or Muzuris (Indo - Roman) was a port on the west side of South India. Where trade happened for gold, pepper, tiger, slaves and clothes. The people who came from Greece or Rome were identified as Yavanas or Yavanar. 

    How do these people from Europe travel to West cost of South India? This is a time called Hippalus (South-west monsoon) blows on the Arabian sea. Myos hormos a port in current Africa or old Roman Empire starts their journey to Muzuris to trade pepper. This is foreign market of those time. However the Greeks do not know Chinese or South east Asians directly. They exchanged goods through traders in South India.

    There were many archeological evidences found in this region in the means of coins (Julius Caesar coins in thiruppur) and pottery. Kodumanal is in current thiruppur of Tamilnadu which is near to Mucuri through the palakkad gap of western ghats. City that clothed Rome. 

The great Tamil epic Cilappatikaram (The Story of the Anklet) written by Ilango Adigal, a Jain poet-prince from Kodungallur (Muziris) during the 2nd century A.D., described Muziris as a place where Greek traders would arrive in their ships to barter their gold to buy pepper and since barter trade is time-consuming, they lived in homes living a lifestyle that he termed as "exotic" and a source of "local wonder". 

    Three Tamil-Brahmi scripts were also found in the Pattanam excavations. The last Tamil-Brahmi script (dated to c. 2nd century AD, probably reading "a-ma-na", meaning "a Jaina" in Tamil) was found on a pot-rim at Pattanam. If the rendering and the meaning is not mistaken, it establishes that Jainism was prevalent on the Malabar Coast at least from the 2nd century. 

    There were proofs that west believed earth was flat and we know the story of Galileo and after 350 years Vatican agreed that Galileo was right. Heliocentric theory came later into Greeks because those were taught to them. Yavanajataka, first form of current jathakam were in Sanskrit and that's the one of the reason why Sanskrit is considered as Indo-Aryan languages by many in Dravidian culture.

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