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Paripatal wonders

Purananuru wonders-48, Tamil Encyclopedia-88, One Thousand Interesting Facts -Part 88

Item 714 Poems on River and Hindu Gods

Tamils are nature lovers; they composed 26 long poems on River Vaigai of Madurai.

No where in the world we see such group of poems in one book, that too 2000 year old.

Paripatal – paripaatal- is one of the eight anthologies of Sangam literature. Like Sama Veda in Vedic literature this is the only anthology dealing with Tamil music. Out of the 70 poems we have got only 24 poems in full and nine more in fragments.

In the olden days we had

Eight poems on lord Vishnu

Thirty one poems on lord Murugan/ Skanda

One poem on Goddess Durga

Twenty six on river Vaigai and

Four on Madurai city.

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Item 715 Poets Names in Sanskrit

Another wonder is Paripatal genre has pome running up to 400 lines.

Some half baked people considered it as late production because lot of poems are in praise of Hindu Gods.; they are proved wrong because Maruthan Ilanagan of Purananuru  praised Paripatal poet Nallanthuvanar (in Akam.59) which shows Nallanthuvan  was his contemporary or an earlier poet.

This book is about Pandya country. That is another specialty; all other Sangam books deal with the entire Tamil  Nadu.

We have at least 13 poets giving us 2050 lines.

Interesting point is poets have names like KESAVA and ACHYUTHA; and in Purananuru we have DAMODARA, KANNAN/Krishnan, VALMIKI etc.

It shows that there was no taboo in using Sanskrit names.

Another wonder is poets with Vaishnavite names praised Saivite gods.

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Item 716 Balarama

In the modern days Krishna’s brother Balarama is not worshiped in big temples; but during Sangam age he was praised along with Krishna  his skin colour, his flag, plough on his shoulder, wearing ear stud in only one ear etc are described by poet  in the first poem.

This shows that Sangam age Tamils were great Hindus who have mastered all Sanskrit texts.

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Item 717 — 1000 headed snake

If we go to Vishnu temples we can see five headed, seven headed and many headed snakes as the bed of Vishnu. We know all these are symbolic; but thuis is sung by Sangam age poets ; see poem 1.

We come across five headed snake even in Purananuru verse 37. That is the symbol of five senses.

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Item 718 — seven types of catastrophes.

Paripatal poem two has very interesting information about seven types of catastrophes.

They believed that the apocalypse will have destructions from sky, fire, sea, earth quakes etc

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Item 719 Vishnu avataras

Verse three described Avataras of Vishnu such as Annam/swan, Varaham/boar, Krishna .

Five planets are mentioned; 33 gods are listed.

Upanishad is also mentioned.

Four colours are attributed to Vasudeva, Sankarshana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha

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Item 720

Paripatal poem 4, adds Narasimha avatar compared the sun, moon sky earth, wind rain, flower etc to Vishnu.

One would be reminded of Vibhuti yoga of Bhagavad Gita.

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Item 721 puranic stories

Great tamil scholar U Ve Sa has listed the puranic episodes mentioned in Paripatal, which shows Tamils were thorough with Hindu puranas 2000 years ago.

Following are some of the episodes,

Ahalya becoming stone;

Devas getting Amrit;

Demons jumped and hid themselves in sea;

Vishnu becoming swan and stopping rain;

Indra guarding the Himalayas;

Indra being cursed;

Siva burning tri pura’ three hanging space stations;

Urvasi becoming horse;

Churning the milky ocean;

Garuda recuing Vinata;

Vishnu controlling arrogant Garuda;

Birth of divine medicine men;

Brahma sending Ganges river to earth.

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Item 722 forty types of ornaments

Tamil scholar U Ve Sa listed over forty ornaments worn by Sangam age Tamils as found in Paripatal.

They were worn from head to foot.

All the statues from second century BCE show them to us; so it is not in exaggeration. No where in the world we see such head to foot ornaments.

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Item 723 Rewrite History

Half baked foreign scholars (???) took the latest addition or interpolation from ancient Hindu books and gave the wrong dates.

They dated all Puranas in Gupta period or later.

Sangam Tamil Books exposed those idiots; all the Purana stories about Lord Vishnu, Lord Siva and Lord Skanda are in 2000 year old Sangam Tamil poems.

  Kumaragupta I (c. 415–455 CE): Preserved peace and founded Nalanda University.

  Skandagupta (c. 455–467 CE): Repelled early invasions by the Hunas (White Huns), straining imperial resources.

Kumara and Skanda for Lord Murugan is in Kalidasa’s books Meghaduta, Raghuvamsam and Kumarasambhavam.

Both these naes for Lord Muruga are in Paripatal and Tirumurugatruppadai, two Sangam books on Hindu Gods.

Gupta , who were Vishnu worshippers named their children after Lord Muruga/Skanda.

Even Asvaghosha stole Kalidasa’s names and compared Skanda with Buddha!!!!!!!

All the Sangam poems on Muruga/Skanda show Kalidasa lived before Sangam Age and influenced Gupta Dynasty, Asvaghosa and Sangam Poets.

Sangam Poems and Kalidasa works made two great Gupta Kings.

If we believe foreign idiots , then we will have to date all Sangam poems after Gupta period.

Sangam Age Tamils were well versed in all Puranic stories.

Yaudheya kings issued punch marked coins with Six Headed Muruga! Kalidasa and Sangam poems mentioned Six Headed Skanda=Muruga

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Item 724

Murugan=Skanda names in Tamil:

Seyon – red coloured – in Tolkappiyam.

Son of Siva – pari. 9-6/7;

Red coloured like sun, six heads- Tirumurugu. Lines 1-11 and 77-125;

Looking like fire and coral – Pari.19-97/100;

His pearl garland looked liked the v shaped flight of migratory birds – Akam120;

Lord Muruga = Skanda had an elephant named Pinimukham as vahana – Kuru.1; Puram-56; Pathitr.11-16;

Pari .5-2, 17-44, 21-1; Murugu.78-82.

Peacock as his vahana is in many places.

His weapon Vel= spear is in innumerable poems.

All these are in Skaandam in Sanskrit Kandapuranam in tamil.

So purana dating is wrong.

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Item 725 destroying demons

Kumarasambhava of Kalidasa made it very clear that incarnation of Muruga appeared to destroy demons.

They are called Tarakasura, Surapadma etc.

Again it is in a number of poems- Kuru.1;  Murugu.59-60; Pari.1-25; 5-7;

Puram. 23-3; Pathit-11-56; Perumpa- 456-460; many poems in Kalittokai.

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Item 726 breaking Krauncha hill

Krauncha is the migratory bird that uses a Himalayan pass to enter India from China and Russia.

This Himalayan pass is linked with lord Murugan= Skanda in tamil and Sanskrit.

This also proves foreigners dating of Kalidasa and puranas wrong.

Breaking open Krauncha / Kuruku in tamil – Murugu.266; pari.8-29, 19-26, 19-102/103.

Geologists to do more research to find out whether any earth quake caused it. Tamil and Sanskrit literature shows clearly Muruga= Skanda did this with his vel/spear.

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Item 727 Jambhudwipa in Tamil

Brahmins use the Jambhudwipa geography very often in their Sankalpa and priests use it almost every day whenever, wherever they do puja or any religious ceremonies.

Hindus are great historians and geographers and so they always begin any ceremony by announcing where and when they do it.

No culture in the world had this custom.

The great land mass of asia is called Jambhudwipa. Jambhu is the name of the blackberry trees of India. In tamil it is called naaval.

And so Tamils called india Naavalam  Tivu.

It is in Paripatal 5-8/10.

This shows that tamil never lacked behind their counterparts in the north.

Following references are found in Tamil about the tree and the Land of Jhambu tress (Jambudwipa): Paripatal 5-8,9 ,Puram 397, 177-11 ,Perum 465 ,Malai 135, Akam 380, Narr 35-2, Thiru 18, Post Sangam Literature: Mani 25—2—12/16, Silambu 17-15

KALIDAS: Megha 19 talks about the Jambu forests. Ragu 18—44 refers to Jhambu land.

Later Tamil poets such as Appar  (in marmaatrah thiruth thandakam) use this more times in their poems.

To be continued……………………

Tags– Jambhudwipa, Krauncha Hill, Muruga, Skanda, Kumara Gupta, Skanda Gupta, Date of Puranas, of Kalidasa, Paripatal wonders, Tamils Rewrite History: Purananuru wonders-48, Tamil Encyclopedia-88 , Item 727