Srilanka Skanda and some thoughts

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Srilanka Skanda and some thoughts

- by Sreenadh OG

From the very

beginning of Srilanka, from the fag end of memory of Srilankan history they

have a Skanda temple in Kataragama (Katir grama – the village of sun's rays?).

Skanda is the patron god of astrology, and ancient kerala tradition asks the

daivajnas to pray "Skando(a)ham" (I am skanda) before doing prashna or reading

chart to kindle devotion and intuition. As per Bhavishya purana, Mihira learned

astrology from Srilanka. Is there an ancient connecting link?

The nasty Greek

Ptolamy is there too! Ptolamy in his chart of the world mentions Srilanka

and calls it by the name Taprobane (Tamra vana? The copper colored forest?).

Some argue that the word Kataragama originated from the Sanskrit word "Gaja

grama" (village of elephants!) – and Ptolemy also might have been aware of it.

For example, he unaccountably labels the then heavily populated Ruhunu area

adjacent to Kataragama as "the elephants' feeding grounds"! Even more puzzling is

Ptolemy's curious naming of the ocean waters just off Kataragama as the 'Sea

of Dionysus'!

(Ref: http://www.kataragama.org/research/history-is-whose-story.htm)

It seems that the

ancient Skanda and the later day duplicate Al-skandas (Alexander), even though

originated and branched from the same ancient Agama culture beyond Himalayas

in Central Asia, had became a fearsome ghost of

plagiarism and duplication to the originals, Ptolamy representing the

culmination of the same! Learning from the South (remember druvanka based

indian astronomy used by Hipparchus which no later day scholars in Greece

followed, and the possible indian and Srilankan visits of Ptolemy as evident

from above and similar facts possibly for learning purpose, and his insincere

plagiarism of Hipparchus related to the star catalogue etc). Poor ancient

Yavanas (Ionions) – not only the did Macedonian Greeks of Alexander killed,

conquered and devastated their home land, but also robbed their (i.e. Ionian)

epics Iliad and Odyssey, their astronomical astrological and other knowledge

and started arguing it as their own! Making the enemies mother his own wife and

robbing his house and still arguing that they truly inherit the property as the

son of the poor souls who got killed by the ambush in the dark! Yes, as

cheaters, robbers and one who says as other's property as their own (remember

Ptolemy's naming of Srilankan sea as 'Sea

of Dionysus'), the Macedonian

Greeks are worthy to be the forefathers of Englishmen (UK,

Spanish and all the other medieval colonialists) and the Semitics (Muslims and

Christians). The religiously uncultured Semitics without much religious

history; who are still in the religious evolution stage of "personal god

external sitting somewhere above" and is yet to reach the culmination

"impersonal god internal omnipresent – knowing existence itself as god divine"

– the realization and enlightenment that is reflected in declarations such as -

Aham Brahmasmi, Tat-twam-asi, An-ul-huk (of Sufism which developed from

Zoroastrianism) etc. No wonder that

Ptolamy named even this Skanda Siddha land as "land

of Dionysus" possibly in an effort

to spread his gods and religion! Or may be he couldn't understand the religion

and culture of ancient land Srilanka and so ascribed it to his mystery god

"Dionysus" - the got of madness and ecstasy, a god the Greeks borrowed from

ancient Ionian culture, which they destroyed.

 

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