Post No.1809; Date: 18th April 2015
Compiled by London swaminathan
Uploaded from London at 18-45
Foreign scholars are trickier than liars. Once we identify the liars, we isolate them or simply ignore their views. But foreign broadcasting organisations, newspapers and academicians will tell you half-truths and mislead you or confuse you and make you doubt your own father and mother. They will make you think that you are a bastard. The best example for this is the Aryan Dravidian Racist theory. It is nowhere found in Sanskrit or Sangam Tamil literature. But they even made Hitler to believe in the pure Aryan race and provoked him to kill twenty million people! They will tell you fifty percent truth and sow poisonous weeds of doubts in your mind. Today I came across some examples in the book “History Revealed by Ramayana Astronomy” written by Puspendu Chaudhury (Calcutta, 1998). I wanted to share some of the points he discussed in his book
1.In the Bhagavad Gita (2-2), Sri Krishna reproached Arjuna using the words ‘Anaryajustam’ to mean like an ‘Anarya’ where ‘Anarya’ meant uncivilized. In Ramayana Vali was addressed ‘Aryaputra’ by his wife Tara. Ravana was addressed ‘Aryaputra’ by his door keepers; but these words were NOT translated by the Western Scholar T H Griffith, though he used the word ‘vile’ in translating the word ‘Anarya’ used by Dasaratha in scorning Kaikeyi in the same book, ‘The Ramayana of Valmiki’ just because it would go against the ‘theory of the Aryan Invasion’ (though Max Muller had at last to retreat from the theory).
2.The religious bias of many Western scholars may be understood from the fact that Sir William Jones fixed the time of Manu B.C.4006 i.e the time of creation of the earth according to the Bible and that of Rama B.C.2029, quite ignoring the Bharatiya Puranic tradition.
ERAN STONE INSCRIPTION
3.Western scholars have tried to prove, as far as possible a late date for our civilization and they picked up the pen with a questionable motive to cast doubts upon facts which constitute an object of pride to Indians. And such motive is reflected when the Eran Stone Pillar Inscription reading ‘trayodasyam suraguror divase’ offered by James Prinsep (who first deciphered the Brahmi scripts) was changed by putting ‘Dva’ in place of ‘Trayo’ by John F Fleet to make the tithi of offer of the stone pillar (as a Victory Pillar = dwaj sthamba) Dvadasi in place of Trayodasi so that the date could be available in 484 AD (June 21 Thursday) while Trayodasi could be available in 150 BC (Thursday, June 1)
Dvadasi is not a favourable tithi for holy ritual of offer of Vijaya Dhvaja (Victory Tower) to God Vishnu, while Sukla Trayodasi causes a nectar like benevolent combination .Knowledge of Indian astrology is, therefore, necessary for correct dating of such events. Rama attacked Lanka fort of Ravana in Sukla Trayodasi
- Distortion of Ramayana by Michael Madhusudan in his Meghanadhavadha Kavya:- “Lakshmana killed weapon less Indrajit against moral code of war. The idea of Ravana elevates and kindles my imagination. He was a grand fellow. Though as a jolly Christian youth, I don’t care a pin’s head for Hinduism … it is my ambition to engraft the exquisite graces of the Greek mythology on our own” (But according to Ramayana both Indrajit and Lakshmana bitterly fought with each other. Indrajit was killed by Lakshmana. Indrajit was an immoral warrior who broke the code of war by keeping himself disguised behind the cloud created by him with the Nikumbhila Yajna technology)
Monier Williams
5.”It may, however, be mentioned that the motive behind such work of the Western scholars in general was, as pointed out by Mr Steve Rosen, the religious bias for Christianity, while he discussed the matter in his book ‘Archaeology and the Vaishnava Tradition” (pages 18 to 28). The motive was delineated by Prof Monier-Williams: “ I am only the second occupant of the Bolden Chair, and that its founder, Colonel Bolden, stated most explicitly in his will (dated August 15, 1811) that the special object of his munificent bequest was to promote the translation of scriptures from Sanskrit – so as to enable his countrymen to proceed in the conversion of the natives to the Christian religion”.
Tamil and Vedas 
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