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The Himalayan academy has a good publication written by SatGuru

SivAya SubraMuniya Swamigal,

 

Dancing with Úiva : Hinduism's contemporary catechism = Úivena saha

nartanam : sanâtanadharmapra

 

The book provides an essence of Thirukkural, NaRchindhanai,

ThiruvAsagam, ThiruManthiram, Agamas and all the Vedas. SivAya

SubraMuniya Swamigal has brought out the importance of the teachings

in the ancient Tamil scriptures a fluid English, simple and easily

understandable, in this book.

 

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Sacred_Tamil , " K. Loganathan " <ulagankmy

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> Pathmarajah Nagalingam <pathma wrote:

akandabaratam

> " Pathmarajah Nagalingam " <pathma

> Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:42:01 -0000

> [akandabaratam] Agamas are Available

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> The Kamika and Karana agamas is now available in scanned pdf

format at the

> site below. It is in grantha and in Tamil. As can be readily seen,

grantha IS

> ancient tamil script. And to think the agamas are ALL in grantha

and are only

> available in south India, not one in the north, not even in Kasi.!

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> The english intro file is damaged and does not open but I am sure

it will be

> corrected in a day.

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> I hope some tamil scholars translate at least some selected

passages as soon as

> possible into english so as to give us an idea of what it contains

and says. The

> whole world cant wait for the agamas to be translated as I'm sure

it will give

> clues about antiguity, icon worship, Gods and the the then jaati

system.

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> I'm also sure the agamas will spell the end of varna and eclipse

sanskrit, and by

> extension the sanskrit Varnashraama Texts. In case anyone is

missing the point,

> the original 28 agamas alone is several times over more voluminous

than the 4

> vedas and all upanishads!

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> Kauai Aadheenam is engaged in translating all of them into english

but its going

> to take some time.

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> http://www.himalayanacademy.com/resources/books/agamas/

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> Pathmarajah

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