Written by S NAGARAJAN
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Date: 3 SEPTEMBER 2019
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Post No. 6971
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Posted by Tamil and Vedas on September 3, 2019
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Written by London Swaminathan
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Date: 2 SEPTEMBER 2019
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Post No. 6970
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I want to place it on record the amazing statistics about Athi Varadar with the hope of someone reding it after forty years, i.e.2059!
Who is Athi Varadar?
Mahavishnu in Varadaraja Swami Temple in Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu.
What is the meaning of Athi Varadar?
Athi is a wood mentioned in Vishnu Sahasranama as Udumbara along with two other trees. All the three trees belong to Ficus genus. Athi is Ficus Udumbra or Ficus racemose. Varadar is one who showers boons on devotees.
Why is God Vishnu known as Athi Varadar?
Because the original statue was made of Athi wood and placed in a water- tight silver casket under the temple tank. Instead of this a granite statue is worshiped on daily basis.
What is the significance of the wooden statue?
It was made by Lord Brahma and so considered very valuable. If it is anointed every day with all the usual Abishek/ bathing materials it will be damaged. So it is immersed in the tank and taken out once in forty years. Last time it was taken out in 1979.
What is the Forty Year wonder?
When it is taken out of the tank a great number of devotees gather to have the darshan (viewing). This time it was taken out in July/August and kept out for darshan for 48 days.
Few people reported that they are seeing it for the third time in their life!
What happened during 48 days?
During the 48 days in July/August 2019, over ten million people had the viewing of Lord in lying position and standing position.
Over ten million people contributed over Rs 9.9 crores during this period. Out of the 18 hundis (money box), 13 were open and 164 grams of gold, 4959 grams of silver, cash of nearly 100 million rupees were found.
Millions of people had free food. Rs.1-5 crore donation was received for Anna danam alone.
From President of India to a poor beggar in the street every one had the blessing of God.
What is the condition of the statue when it is taken out?
It was in good condition and applied with herbal oils.
On the re immersion day (178-2019,) 48 types of Prasadams were made and offered to the Lord.
How big is the statue?
12 feet tall and two and half feet wide.
Any more wonder?
The statue that is placed in the Vasanta Mandapam will be immersed on the 48th day. The tank dried for cleaning and other purposes will be automatically filled in by the rain. This time also the city and its suburbs had heavy rains.
When is the next darshan?
It will be in year 2059.
If we are all lucky we will have the Darshan!
I am attaching some paper cuttings for future generations.
One more wonder!
There re over 350 inscriptions in the temple. They are from
Chozas,Pandyas, Telugu chodas,
Pallava /Kadavarayas,Chera ,Kakatiya,
Sambuvaraya,Hoysala,Vijayanagara,
and devotees. 16 inscriptions are from the great ruler Krishnadevaraya (1510-528). Two of the inscriptions give a complete list of his conquests.
The Kalyana Mandapam alone has 800 bas reliefs depicting various puranic themes. Wood carvings and paintings are also found in the temple.
–subham–
Posted by Tamil and Vedas on September 2, 2019
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Written by London Swaminathan
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Date: 2 SEPTEMBER 2019
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Post No. 6969
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அடைப்புக்குறிக்குள் உள்ள எண், அந்தச் சொல்லில் எத்தனை எழுத்துக்கள் என்பதைக் குறிக்கும்.
குறுக்கே
1. –(5)– மராட்டிய புனிதவதி; கணவன் கட்டிப்போட்டபோதும் பண்டரீபுரம் செல்லக் கடவுளே அப்பெண்ணாக நடித்தார்
4. –5– மரியாதை கலந்த வணக்கம்
5.—3– வலமிருந்து இடம் செல்க- கூட்டத்தில் பெரும் மோதல்
8. – மீன் பிடிக்க உதவும்
9. –5– பச்சைக் கல்
கீழே
1.-–7– பெண்களுக்கு நக்கீரர் செய்து தந்தது
2.-–6– மதுரை வைகை நீரைக் குடித்தவன்
3-.–5– ஒட்டகம் வாழும் இடம்
6.-–4– கீழிருந்து மேலே செல்க. நல்ல மணம் வீசுதல்
7.-–3- புண்யத்தின் எதிர்ப்பதம்
10-.–2– எண்சான் உடம்புக்கு — —— பிரதானம்
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Written by London Swaminathan
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Date: 2 SEPTEMBER 2019
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Post No. 6968
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Posted by Tamil and Vedas on September 2, 2019
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Written by London Swaminathan
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Date: 2 SEPTEMBER 2019
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Post No. 6967
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1. – 8- – OLD NAME OF PUNJAB
8.– 6–STAR OF SHIVA N THE SKY
9. – 4–RIVER AND VALLEY NAME IN PAKISTAN
10. – 4—SANSKRIT WORD FOR COLOUR
11– 6–PEOPLE OF INDIA
1. – 8–LAST MONTH OF HINDU CALENDAR
2. – 7– ONE OF THE PHILANTHROPISTS, OF MIDDLE GROUP, BEGINNING WITH LETTER ‘A’
3. – 6– WORD FOR DANCE IN SANSKRIT
4. –6– NAME OF KING, WITH LONG SOUND FEMININE NAME, PRAISED BY POET BANA
5.– 6– MAN WHO SACRIFICED HIMSELF BEFORE THE MAHABHARATA WAR
6.– 7– CREEPER; FEMININE NAME, BEGINNING WITH ‘L’
7. — 8– MAN WITHOUT WIFE IN SANSKRIT
10.– 3—SEER ; MIRROR IMAGE OF SANSKRIT WORD IS ‘SEER’
–SUBHAM–
–subham–
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Written by S NAGARAJAN
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Date: 2 SEPTEMBER 2019
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Post No. 6966
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முல்லா, “எனது தூக்கம் தொலைந்து விட்டது. அதைத் தேடிப் போய்க் கொண்டிருக்கிறேன்” என்றார்.
இப்படி நூற்றுக் கணக்கான முல்லா கதைகள் உள்ளன.
Posted by Tamil and Vedas on September 2, 2019
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Compiled by London Swaminathan
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Date: 2 SEPTEMBER 2019
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Post No. 6964
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1968ம் ஆண்டு சென்னை நகர உலகத் தமிழ் மாநாட்டுக் கண்காட்சிக்கு வெளியிடப்பட்ட கையேடு அரிய தகவல்களை பட்டியலாக வெளியிட்டுள்ளது. இது பாதுகாத்துவைக்கப்படவேண்டிய குறிப்பு.
இவைகளைப் பற்றி ஏற்கனவே கட்டுரைகளில் குறிப்பிட்டுள்ளதால் இங்கே விளக்கம் தரவில்லை.
96 பிரபந்தம், 32 அறம், 64 கலை, 11 ஆடல், 10 ஆயுதம் பட்டியல், அட்டநாகம், அட்ட போகம், அட்டபந்தனம் (அஷ்ட பந்தனம்), 16 வகைப் படைகள், பத்து விரல்கள், பல வகை மணிகள் ஆகியவை இதில் உள்ளன
Posted by Tamil and Vedas on September 2, 2019
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Written by London Swaminathan
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Date: 1 SEPTEMBER 2019
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Post No. 6965
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Hindus are the first race to give divine status to stars. They gave the little boy Dhruva’s name to Pole star. They named the Ursa Major (Great Bear) constellation after Seven Great Hindu seers. And they named the double star system in it after Vaishtha and Arundhati. Every newly married Hindu couple must see the Vaishtha- Arundhati star system before they enter the First Night room. 27 stars in the zodiac have stories from Hindu mythology.
But the wonder is that they named some stars in the Southern Sky also after some Hindu seers and Kings. The Southern Cross is named after the King Tri Sanku. And the Canopus is named after the great seer Agastya. Agastya will beat 100 Columbuses and 1000 Captain Cooks. He did incredible jobs of laying road route via the mighty Vindhya mountains and crossed the Indian ocean to establish Hindu rule in South East Asia. These incredible feats were made mythological stories ‘Agastya drinking ocean’ and ‘Agastya belittling Vidhya mountains’. tamilandvedas.com, swamiindology.blogspot.com
But my latest research is about how and why they did name Southern Cross and Canopus after Trisanku and Agastya respectively. Sapta Rishi and Pole star cant be seen by people living in Southern most part of Australia. And in the same way Indians living in Northern most part of India cant see Trisanku and Canopus. Then how come the Bhagavatha Purana and other Puranas talk about Trisanku and the star system. Hindu scriptures praise Viswamitra creating new heaven (star system).This shows the seers can go above the earth and see the star system. Sanskrit and Tamil literature talk about seers using the sky route (Gagana Marga).
Some may say that the people in the south might have added Trisanku and Agastya star stories in Hindu mythology, because the star system cant be seen by the northern most people. Even that shows that India was one country from North to South. This will explode the myth of British uniting India. More over 2000 year old Sangam Tamil literature is also talking about one county – From the Himalayas to Kanyakumari.
So Trisanku- Agastya Stories illustrate two points:
1.Puranic writers know southern hemisphere and the stars visible there. They gave divine status to Southern stars also.
2.Even before British arrived in India, the country was considered one.
Latest Interpretation-
One article in the book ‘Facets of Vedic Culture’ give new interpretation to Tri Sanku and Agastya stories. The interpretation is based on the Big Hindu Numerals Sanku and Jaladhi.
Who was Trisanku?
Tri sanku was a great king of solar dynasty. When he was nagging his teacher/Guru Vasishtha to send him to heaven with his human body he refused. When the king abused the Guru, he was cursed by him. Then the cursed king approached another seer Visvamitra. He sent Tri Sanku to heaven with his power. But the Devas in the heaven rejected him and pushed him down to earth. Visvamitra stopped him half way through the sky. This is called Southern Cross by westerners because it looks like hanging cross. It is found in the flags of Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, Brazil and Papua New Guinea. Hindus are using Tri Sanku Swarga as a phrase for any half- finished or unfinished task. tamilandvedas.com, swamiindology.blogspot.com
Here is the the interpretation:-
Posted by Tamil and Vedas on September 1, 2019
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She looks like Dhanya Lakshmi
Compiled by London Swaminathan
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Date: 1 SEPTEMBER 2019
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Post No. 6963
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18 வகை கூலம், 4 வகை யாழ் என்ன என்ற பட்டியலை 1968ம் ஆண்டு சென்னை உலகத் தமிழ் மாநாட்டு கையேடு வெளியிட்டுள்ளது-
Posted by Tamil and Vedas on September 1, 2019
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Research Article written by London Swaminathan
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Date: 1 SEPTEMBER 2019
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Post No. 6962
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Posted by Tamil and Vedas on September 1, 2019
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