SingavEL kunRam

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> Wed, 23 Aug 95 21:45:18 EDT

>Parthasarati Dileepan <MFPD

> SingavEL kunRam

 

Very interesting and informative posting about the trip. I suggest that

we collect each of these (you can add more details about the fares

etc. Time it took. What you would have prefered to improve

on your next visit etc. Walking time and distance. Availability of

food, stay etc..etc...}

>According to its dharmam the angry lion kills the

>innocent elephant. From the carcass, the lion then offers

>the most precious part, i.e. ivory, to the Lord.

>

>If ones tradition involves meat eating, like that of the

>noble senjees, don't they have the right to make ritual

>offering of meat to our Lord?

>

 

My opinion is "Certainly yes",

- if you still live with the same environment as of 1000 years ago.

- if the animals still have the same status as 1000 years ago.

- if you deny yourself of all the other changes in food and daily

routine changes.

 

Otherwise, I do not see anything wrong in asking the "senjees"

to modernize and adapt to the current environment.

 

The northern natives often ask for compensation for losing the

hunting rights. Then after getting a settlement of few million dollars,

they invest in gambling casinos. Go to McDonalds and eat Hamburgers!.

 

Srinivasan K

[Guest guest]

>(aside: some of the native Dravidian worship practises

>are amazingly primitive and shocking even now. There was

>a detailed report in 'The Hindu' about 6 months back

>about animal sacrifice to the village goddess 'Laxmi'

>(not to be confused with Sri or Lakshmi, the divine

>consort of vishnu) in the Andhra region. Men, intoxicated

>with alcohol and driven to a frenzy by all the

>accompanying drum beats literally bite off the jaws of

>young lamb cubs and offer the meat and blood to the

>village deities. Similar sacrifices are performed in

>thamizh naadu villages too.)

 

If one bases "native Dravidian" as "thiruvaLLuvar based culture",

I would personally rather call what you call as "native Dravidian" as

"native munda" culture.

 

thiruvaLLuvar condemns meat eating and meat offering to God

in very strong words. pari mEl azhagar interprets thirukkuraL

as a vaishnavite work. Others have interpreted as Jainist, Saivite,

and Christian works!

 

Srinivasan K.