Fwd: PraLayams

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--- sampath kumar <sampathkumar_2000 wrote:

> Wed, 3 Nov 1999 23:09:17 -0800 (PST)

> sampath kumar <sampathkumar_2000

> Re: PraLayams

> Ramanbil

>

> Dear Sri.Anbil Ramaswamy,

>

> Thank you for the information on "pralayAm". Most

> interesting and your connecting it to Sir.Hoyle, the

> scientist's observations is also most pertinent.

> adiyen has really learnt something new from your

> post

> today.

>

> Sir, adiyen has one more related question

> re:"pralayam". Are there any passages in Vedas

> related

> to pralayam? We know "purusha-suktam" which is a

> great

> hymn appearing in all the 4 vedas. Generally,

> 'purusha-suktam" is known to be a primordial hymn

> that

> is Veda's eye-witness account of the process of

> Cosmic

> Creation. Similarly, is there a hymn in the Vedas

> that

> speaks of "pralayam" -- a Vedic eye-witness account

> of

> cosmic dissolution?

>

> In the prabhandhams also the only pasuram hinting at

> pralayam that adiyen can think of is from

> "amalanadipiran" that talks of

> "aalama-marrathin-illai-mEl...etc" (Verse#9)where

> TiruppAn=azhwar alludes to the Lord lying like an

> infant upon a banyan-leaf and drifting atop the

> great

> tides during the Great Deluge accompanying

> pralayam...

>

> If there are any more passages in the Vedas and the

> prabhandhams to pralayam I would like to know the

> reference. Sir, can you or somebody else on the list

> please help?

>

> Thanks,

> adiyen,

> Sampathkumar

>

> --- Ramanbil wrote:

> > Dear Sanpathkumar

> > I give below excerpts from Chapter 21 on the

> > evolutiopn and dissolution of

> > the Matter- Time -Space triad fro my book

> "Hinduism

> > Rediscovered" for your

> > information.

>

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