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Come, let us travel along Vandhiyathevan to retrace the hero's journey in modern day Tamilnadu, with google map links and images! (A thread)
Vandhiyathevan is on a mission - to deliver two secret messages from Kanchipuram to Thanjavur.
After 175km of travel, both the hero and his horse are tired. That is when he sees the refreshing visuals of Veeranarayanapura lake.
It was Aadi 18, and the Cholas were celebrating.
This dam of 16km length was built by Rajaditya Chola who named it after his father Parantaka-1 aka Veeranarayanan.
Ramanuja was influenced by the magnitude of this lake and decided to establish 74 mutts : a number based on the 74 openings in the lake. Map:
https://t.co/c8O0numTgr
Hero & Aazhvarkadiyaan proceed south to Veeranarayana Perumal temple. They see a young Nathamuni, singing the 10 known pasurams of the time (who later goes on to discover the lost 3990 pasurams)
This is Kalki's genius: making his reel characters meet real historic people!
This Abimaana Sthala temple is in Kattumannarkoil, which is 26km from Chidambaram and 6km from Veeranam lake.
Chola inscriptions mention the temple's name as Veeranarayana Vinnagaram (Tamil for Vishnu's Griham-house)
Map:
https://t.co/yFWOdiZ9V8
So this tweet below reminded me of some thoughts I have been having regarding some aspects of interaction with animals that seem to occur more often in India than other places.
Interactions which the sanctimonious idiots of PETA etc cannot fathom even in their dreams.
Jains buy goats to save them from sl\u03b1ughtering on #Bakrid, a Jain Organization rescued over\xa0618 goats in Rajkot & Ahemdabad where these helpless animals were being sold & released them from sl\u03b1ughtering.
— Maggi (@JainMaggii) July 10, 2022
This is called the real animal activists, not fake like Peta. pic.twitter.com/Mrp6jpQu6P
I'll start with this heart-warming video of an Old Amma feeding a fellow devotee of Mahadev with all the devotion and love that can possibly exist. And he too graciously accepts the offering.
It is saved on my HDD with the title, 'Indyeah'!
At the other end of the spectrum of age is this little one that has made a colossal friend for herself!
The hymn being chanted in the background perfectly sums up what I seek to underline by the way of this thread
Of course, when our Gods themselves choose to incarnate in various non-human forms, this devotion and love is but expected, no?
Here's Traffic constable Sanjay Ghude, just doing his bit towards a fellow being that was having a tough day in the summers
Came across a discussion on BVP that linked to a few leading western Indologists opining on the Sanskrit Revival movement & the spoken Sanskrit movement
https://t.co/KXFQU9exUx
Quite instructive!
The starting point - the famous chai video of Pollock (Padma Shri 2010)
Efforts to revive or ‘speak’ संस्कृतम् as exemplified by unwashed Hindoos trying to order चायपानीयम् in Sanscreet memorably filled Prof. Pollock with ‘nwosayae’ 😀
As a background, worthwhile to hear what Prof. Pollock wants to see happen for \u0938\u0902\u0938\u094d\u0915\u0943\u0924\u092e\u094d\u0964
— \u092a\u094d\u0935\u093e\u0932\u0903 \u0964 pvaal (@pvaal2) September 4, 2020
Don\u2019t you dare order Chai in \u0938\u0902\u0938\u094d\u0915\u0943\u0924\u092e\u094d\u0964 \U0001f602
And while you are at it, check out the \u0909\u091a\u094d\u091a\u093e\u0930\u0923\u092e\u094d\u0964\U0001f60e pic.twitter.com/S1nlE1DQdh
The evocatively titled Death of Sanskrit by Sheldon Pollock had crystallized the Indological view that Sanskrit is dead & its best left dead!
He also shared a horror of Hindoos, ‘Inheritors of a past that they did not create themselves’ actually daring to bring it back to life
For a second snort of this exquisite high colonial discourse!
— \u092a\u094d\u0935\u093e\u0932\u0903 \u0964 pvaal (@pvaal2) September 4, 2020
Brilliant exemplar of the \u2018white man\u2019s burden\u2019 and cultural appropriation
How dare some desert dweller deny me photographing his rare Sanscrit manuscripts? I offered him a FREE digital CD ROM in return \U0001f602\U0001f601\U0001f923 pic.twitter.com/oEA5odNzCb
Now most संस्कृतम् learners will find it most perplexing !
Why should an Indologist, a lifelong Sanskritist have such a horror of संस्कृतम् springing back to life?
किमर्थं भोः?
To help संस्कृतानुरागिनः understand their PoV, an instructive thread is attached
Prof. Stella Sandahl, an Emeritus Professor at Dept. of East Asian Studies has this opening remark
‘How can we rescue Sanskrit from these vandals’?
She claims that speaking Sanskrit is correlated with demolishing temples & violating nuns!
This is a Professor & a Sanskritist!
இடைக்கால சோழர்கள் இருந்தது நிஜம்,அங்கு ஆதித்த கரிகாலன் கொல்லபட்ட குழப்பத்தில் ராஜராஜசோழன் ஆட்சிக்கு வந்ததும் நிஜம்
அது சேரர், சோழர், பாண்டியர் என மூவரும் ஒருவரை ஒருவர் முறைத்தும் அரவணைத்தும் ஆண்ட வகையில்
\u0baa\u0bca\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0ba9\u0bbf\u0baf\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b9a\u0bc6\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0baa\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0b9a\u0bcb\u0bb4\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bb0\u0bb2\u0bbe\u0bb1\u0bc1 \u0b85\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0bb2.. \u0b85\u0ba4\u0bc1 \u0b95\u0bb2\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbf \u0b8e\u0bb4\u0bc1\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0baf \u0b92\u0bb0\u0bc1 \u0b95\u0bb1\u0bcd\u0baa\u0ba9\u0bc8 \u0ba8\u0bbe\u0bb5\u0bb2\u0bcd \u0b85\u0bb5\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bb3\u0bb5\u0bc1\u0ba4\u0bbe\u0ba9\u0bcd.
— Cartoonist Bala (@cartoonistbala) July 9, 2022
\u0baa\u0b9f\u0bae\u0bcd \u0bb5\u0bb0\u0b9f\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bc1\u0bae\u0bcd.. \u0bae\u0ba3\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0ba4\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0ba9\u0bae\u0bcd \u0b85\u0ba3\u0bcd\u0b9f\u0bcd \u0b95\u0bcb \u0b8e\u0bb5\u0bcd\u0bb5\u0bb3\u0bb5\u0bc1 \u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bbf\u0baa\u0bc1 \u0b9a\u0bc6\u0baf\u0bcd\u0ba4\u0bbf\u0bb0\u0bc1\u0b95\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bbf\u0bb1\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0b95\u0bb3\u0bcd \u0b8e\u0ba9\u0bcd\u0baa\u0ba4\u0bc8 \u0baa\u0bbe\u0bb0\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bcd\u0baa\u0bcb\u0bae\u0bcd.
அவரவர் நலனை காப்பதில் சரியாக இருந்தார்கள்
உதாரணமாக சேர நாட்டுக்கு அரிசியும் இதர தேவைகளும் பாண்டிய சேர நாட்டில் இருந்துதான் செல்லவேண்டும், அதே நேரம் சோழர்களுக்கு யானையும் இதர விஷயங்களும் சேர நாட்டில் இருந்துதான் வரவேண்டும்
பாண்டியருக்கு கிழக்கே கடலாடுவதில் சோழரோடு சில உரசலகள் உண்டு, இன்னும் பல உண்டு
இதனால் மூவரும் அடிக்கடி மோதுவார்கள், எவன் வலுத்தவனோ அவனை இருவர் சேர்ந்து எதிர்த்து ஒரு சமநிலை பேணுவார்கள்
அப்படி சோழ வம்சத்தை பாண்டியரும் சேரரும் சேர்ந்து எதித்த போரில் மதுரை சுந்தரபாண்டியனை
ஆதித்த கரிகாலன் எனும் சோழ மன்னன் மதுரையில் வென்று பின் காடுகளில் பதுங்கியிருந்த பாண்டியன் தலையினை வெட்டி எறிந்தான்
தங்கள் ஆதரவு பாண்டியனை தங்களை ஆதரித்த பாண்டியனை சோழன் வெட்டியதை அறிந்த சேர தேசத்து ராஜகுருக்கள் ஆதித்த கரிகாலனை சோழ நாட்டுக்குள்ளே வெட்டி கொன்றார்கள்
அந்நேரம் பெரும் குழப்பம் நீடித்தது, இனி எதிர்காலம் என்னாகும்? யார் அடுத்த அரசன்? எதிரிகள் வந்தால் என்னாகும் என பலத்த குழப்பமான காலமது, சேர பாண்டியரோடு சிங்களவர்களும் சேர்ந்து கொண்டார்கள்
அப்படிபட்ட நேரம் எல்லோரும் அடுத்த சோழ மன்னன் யார்?
Plan was to get favorable report from SIT n to prosecutor Modi and send him to Jail but one honest man destroyed their plan.
In the first progress report in Nov 2010, SIT said that they didn't find any evidence that Modi was behind Gujarat riots.
23/40
Those who haven't read first part of the thread, Pl read first part here
https://t.co/NzfiEQXvNQ
Report was not as expected. SC asked amicus curie to visit Gujarat n check the authenticity of report.
Teesta Files - Part 1 (Thread)
— NEO (New Account) (@InfinityTarun) June 26, 2022
The lady who took supari to finish Modi
On Juhu road, most posh area of Mumbai, near to Amitabh Bachhan Bungalow there is a bungalow called "Nirant" that is 3 times bigger than Amitabh's Bungalow, cost of that bungalow is Rs 500 crore.
1/22 pic.twitter.com/pe1yu3Hibs
Amicus curie Ramchandran n Bhooshan visited Gujarat to damage control and they gave their report that Modi sud be prosecuted.
On 15 March 2011, Supreme Court directed SIT to examine the observations of the amicus curiae, to re-examine the entire evidence recorded
and if some more evidence is required to be recorded, to do so. It observed that the SIT chairman's inferences did not match with the findings of the SIT probe.
This fight between SIT n Amicus curie kept going till 2012.
SIT kept saying that they didn't get any evidence against Modi and amicus curie kept saying that there r evidence against Modi n Modi sud be prosecuted.
Meanwhile they tried their best to attack on SIT Chief Raghwan also.