The Hindu News item on Vedic Civilization in South India -

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Hari Om,

 

 

Shri Ramchandranji has been regularly posting articles from The Hindu, which

carries a column everyday. I would like to draw the attention of this satsang to

the new report carried today (Dec 3rd) in The Hindu about Vedic Civilization

being present in South India for several thousand years. This should help dispel

the misconception that Tamil Nadu "Dravidians" are somewhat different from North

Indian "Aryans" and help reduce the "anti-Brahmin" sentiments in Tamil Nadu.

 

 

 

 

New light on south Indian civilisation

By Our Special Correspondent (published in The Hindu- 3rd Dec-Page 9)

 

 

 

 

Bangalore Dec. 2. The discovery of long-forgotten underwater settlements off the

coast of Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu by American marine archaeologists has

pushed the antiquity of civilisation in South India by a few millennia and

showed a link with Vedic civilisation.

This was stated here on Monday by the noted American scholar in the Vedas and

Hinduism, David Frawley, while presenting a video demonstration on the

underwater archaeological discoveries in the Gulf of Cambay in Gujarat and off

the Mahabalipuram coast.

Dr. Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) is the Director of the American Institute

of Vedic Studies at Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.

He was speaking along with Navarathna Rajaram, engineer and historian, who has

`deciphered' the Harappan seals.

Dr. Frawley said fishermen along the Mahabalipuram coast had been mentioning the

existence of temples and other structures beneath the Bay of Bengal. It had now

been corroborated by underwater videography.

He stressed the southern links of the civilisation of ancient India, and said

that the Vedic civilisation was older than those of Mesopotamia and other

regions held to be the most ancient by Western scholars by at least 4,000 years.

The finding of a submerged city in the Gulf of Cambay near Broach, which was

perhaps as old as 7,500 BC, had pushed the seats of ancient Indian civilisation

deeper into the southern peninsula.

It would be no surprise if more such sites were discovered in South India,

especially in the coastal regions for the South had always played a significant

if neglected role in ancient India from the Vedic times.

The Gulf of Cambay find was only the latest in a series that included Lothal

(discovered by S.R. Rao) and Dholavira (R.S. Bisht). Dr. Frawley argued that the

Vedic civilisation had maritime connections like most other civilisations.

Rejecting the Aryan-Dravidian divide theory still adhered to by a section of

historians, he quoted from the Rig Veda to point out that its most prominent

sage, Vasistha, was the younger brother of Agasthya, the most prominent sage of

South India.

The Aryans and the Dravidians were the same people. The linguistic diversity of

India was not surprising as it was a country of continental proportions.

There were similar diversities in Europe. Ancient India's ties with East Asia

and Southeast Asia were much closer than those with Central Asia and Europe.

Dr. Frawley reminded those stating that there was no evidence of the existence

of horse in the Harappan civilisation, that no such evidence was available even

in the land of the horse: Iran and Afghanistan.

About this, Dr. Rajaram said John Marshall, who did the pioneering excavations

at Mohenjadaro and Harappa, had even provided the measurements of the Harappan

horse.

 

Pranams.

P.B.V.Rajan

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[Guest guest]

advaitin, "pbvrajan" <pbvrajan@i...> wrote:

> Hari Om,

>

>

> Shri Ramchandranji has been regularly posting articles from The

Hindu, which carries a column everyday. I would like to draw the

attention of this satsang to the new report carried today (Dec 3rd)

in The Hindu about Vedic Civilization being present in South India

for several thousand years. This should help dispel the misconception

that Tamil Nadu "Dravidians" are somewhat different from North

Indian "Aryans" and help reduce the "anti-Brahmin" sentiments in

Tamil Nadu.

>

>

>

>

> New light on south Indian civilisation

> By Our Special Correspondent (published in The Hindu- 3rd Dec-Page

9)

>

>

>

>

> Bangalore Dec. 2. The discovery of long-forgotten underwater

settlements off the coast of Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu by American

marine archaeologists has pushed the antiquity of civilisation in

South India by a few millennia and showed a link with Vedic

civilisation.

]

 

Namaste,

 

I think if one revisits Churchward you would see that the

subcontinent was part of and later in association with the Land of

Mu, of which Lanka was a remnant, ( not talking of Sri Lanka per se).

 

This is an excerpt from one of my writings;

Then, there's the situation involving Colonel James Churchward. The

Colonel served with the British Army in India

for thirty years and was in Western Tibet in 1883, as a member of an

expedition to Mongolia and Siberia. He was

fixated on Mu (Lemuria) and drew his information from his

contemporaries, and other traditional writings, including

the Masons, etc.

 

He also spent time with Indian Priests, who were aware of the history

of their land in relation to Mu. One particular

person, a Rishi, took a special interest in Churchward and shared

much knowledge with him. This was apparently due

to Churchward's interest in bas reliefs and all things East Indian.

This Rishi, or 'Master', it seems, was one of the last

persons able to understand the language and writing of the Naacals,

or Priests from Mu who came to India about

70,000 B.C.

 

Much of what Churchward says is in accord with Cayce's records, even

though they were living in different countries,

and functioned in different time frames.

 

ONS.....Tony.