Dear Tmt VR
Your post # 970.
I meant # 960 - the '0' just ran away ! Sorry.
Your posts 971,972, 973 974 & 975 - I don't think anyone is doubting / questioning you.
Just that we have such a horrible record of not logging things in the chronological order that
things sound illogical. There is enough evidence to show that the Sethu Bridge built by Sri Rama
was an engineering marvel - but the dating seems something like 1,75,000 years ago!
A little narrative of how the Vindhya range of mountains came up before Sage Agastya returned to
Northern India after he came to the came to the South is itself quite mind bogging. Geo-Tectonic
studies show that it takes millions of years on the Earth's crust to form a mountain range. So, what exactly
are we talking about - especially in today's concept of 'time' ?
Surely, 'they' [ the elders of bygone times ] were trying to say something - definitely they didn't have a
short, stubby, bearded, pot-bellied [ Sirkali Givindarajan lookalike ] in mind when they described the Earth
tilting and Sage Agasthya moving to the other side as a counterweight to balance it! But the Earth does have
a tilt, because of which the seasons, monsoons etc occur.
Academicians record history. Poets don't. The flowery flattery of poets has always created a
'larger-than-life' image of even very ordinary people. It is here that we have got mixed up and confused
between fact and fiction - this has happened through the centuries.
I had earlier posted in a different thread about Indus Valley Civilization and how possible evidence of
nuclear holocaust might have caused the disaster that led to its devastation has been found.
Recent scientific dating here seems to fit somewhat closely with NASA's dating of the Sethu bridge .
'They' were definitely not having in mind a tall, handsome, muscular [ 6 pack abs, if you want it ], warrior,
wearing a gem studded golden crown, plunging into battle on a horse drawn chariot - a quiver full of arrows strung
over his shoulder - one of which was called the 'Brahmastram' - capable of destroying the world.
That was just a poet's description.
The description of the weaponry is more like today's ICBMs with nuclear warheads. And the 'Mantram' that
Karna forgot was something like a password /PIN changed without his knowledge.
Reg Smt RR's post on the new Temple - 25 yrs ago there was nothing there - looks like someone
hit a bright idea that seems to sell !
Guruvethunai
Yay Yem