tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442555339667770589.post4353617312048943783..comments2024-03-18T22:56:06.696+05:30Comments on Jayasree Saranathan: From Sibi to Siberia!Jayasree Saranathan http://www.blogger.com/profile/01048252011566427834noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442555339667770589.post-89730796198462291312017-11-22T00:18:49.668+05:302017-11-22T00:18:49.668+05:30Vidhya got it's name from vindhai Devi accordi...Vidhya got it's name from vindhai Devi according to sangam age Tamil anthology pathirru Pattu. It is Bindu or Vindhu (bheeja) Devi housed somewhere in vindhyas. I have not researched the location of this Devi. But vindhyas mountains refer to this range only.Jayasree Saranathan https://www.blogger.com/profile/01048252011566427834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442555339667770589.post-62032574610379019952017-11-21T20:10:44.643+05:302017-11-21T20:10:44.643+05:30one reason i was also considering himalayas is bec...one reason i was also considering himalayas is because i had past life nadi readings being born as a punjabi jat with a typical sikh sounding name [though the time this happened is actually 2-3 centuries before the supposed birth of the khalsa in 1699] and it said i was born in the vindhya region.....it could have actually been the vindhyas but i still think the shivalik himachal area is the real vindhyasmythra81https://www.blogger.com/profile/05443519709628211254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442555339667770589.post-78970050544460905912017-11-20T17:10:59.735+05:302017-11-20T17:10:59.735+05:30The next idea in your comment:
//india probably wa...The next idea in your comment:<br />//india probably was divided north-south by the himalayas those days and 'north india' was probably tibet,mongolia,turkestan,siberia//<br /><br />The entire India was south of Meru! (Meru appears in different contexts wherever a pivotal or prime position has to be referred). The sankalpa mantra invariably says "Bharat varshe, Bharatha khande, Mero dakshine parsve" <br /><br />Here the Meru is the Himalayas. There were 9 varshas (countries) of Bharata, of which we live in Bharata khanda. This is in south of Meru / Himalayas. <br /><br />The entire Eurasian landmass was known as "Sudharshana dwiipa" - and aptly to the name it is almost round in shape. Bharata Varsha is in the south. To the north of it is Ila varsha that includes Mongolia / Altai mountain. Further north is Iravatha varsha where Siberia is located. It is also possible that Iravatha varsha was in the immediate east of present day India, composed of Burma, Thailand and Vietnam. In my next article I will be talking about this region in the east.<br /><br />Vedic people did not go to the west - the left handed region or regions in the anti-clockwise direction. Only those who were exiled or those who left the vedic way of life were ordained to go west. A remnant of their previous connection with Vedic life is seen in the West, as a result.<br />Jayasree Saranathan https://www.blogger.com/profile/01048252011566427834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442555339667770589.post-27199701950835092732017-11-20T17:10:48.376+05:302017-11-20T17:10:48.376+05:30@mythra81,
I am sorry to say there is no basis fo...@mythra81,<br /><br />I am sorry to say there is no basis for whatever you have written in the comment. Taking them up one by one:<br /><br />//i think the vindhyas that agasthya crossed is the himalayas itself coming from kailash since its the highest mountain range in the world....but british erroneously or deliberately christened the low mountain ranges in central india as vindhyas for their north-south divide and rule strategy....//<br /><br />Vindhya was the mountain Agastya crossed, not Himalayas. The Agastya myth (not one but many) was not a British creation, all these are found in ancient Hindu texts, the puranas and Mahabharata. In Mahabharata, the story of Agastya crossing the Vindhays is told by rishi Lomasa to Yudhishthira. The very name Agastya is derived from this myth only. <br /><br />The basic issue in the myth is that the Vindhyas asked the Sun to circumambulate it as it does to Meru. When refused by the sun, the Vindhyas started growing to hinder the path of the sun. In order to stop this growth, sage Agastya came to the mountain to cross it. When the mountain gave way to him, Agastya asked it remain so until his return (so that he can go back through the same path). But Agastya did not return till this date and hence the maintain did not grow from thence onward. <br /><br />On peripheral reading one would dismiss this as an absurd story, but one who knows that sages have always hidden secrets in their narrations, will dissect this myth to know the truth.<br /><br />The truth is that Vindhyas was the northern most limit of Sun's movement in the sky (Tropic of Cancer.) Vindhyas asking the Sun to circumambulate it like it does around Meru, refers to the daily circumambulation of the sun around the equator (Meru) and yearly circumambulation covering both tropics of cancer and Capricorn. Due to oscillation in the tilting degree of the earth, there was a time the tropic of cancer was south of the Vindhyas. Refer the pic in this link where I have explained this myth. https://jayasreesaranathan.blogspot.in/2013/09/is-vedic-astrology-derived-from-greek_25.html. <br /><br />At that time the Sun never came overhead in the regions to the north of the Vindhyas. This is referred to as Vindhyas hindering the path of the sun.<br /><br />But as time went by, the tropic of cancer shifted to the north of Vindhyas (as it is today). The sun came overhead in that region and it looked as though the Vindhyas had stopped growing / stopped hindering the Sun! The name of Agastya is brought in here, because until then people in the north of the Vindhyas could not see Agastya star (Canopus which is a circumpolar star of the Southern hemisphere). But now with further tilting of earth, people were able to see Agastya star. This happened around 5200 BCE. Today till Jammu, Agastya is visible. But after 1000 years, Agastya will start disappearing gradually in Jammu. After 7400 CE, it wont be seen anywhere in the north of Vindhyas. That period can be said to be the time that Agastya returned to the north of Vindhyas! <br /><br />Coming to the myth, the sages connected the shifting tropic of cancer (to the north of Vindhyas) with Agastya being sighted in the southern sky. Agastya, the sage who contributed many hymns to Rig Veda had shifted to south in reality. His first shift was to Dandaka forest (Ramayana times). Later on he had gone far south to the Pandya kingdom and never returned to the north of Vindhyas. Keeping all these in mind the sages had woven the myth of Agastya dwarfing the Vindhyas. <br /><br />I will be writing this and more on Agastya later as separate articles.<br /><br />(continued)Jayasree Saranathan https://www.blogger.com/profile/01048252011566427834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442555339667770589.post-26887389795901075412017-11-19T20:01:22.688+05:302017-11-19T20:01:22.688+05:30i have been thinking about the story of agasthya r...i have been thinking about the story of agasthya rishi stopping vindhya mountains rising further as long as he doesn't return from the south .....i think the vindhyas that agasthya crossed is the himalayas itself coming from kailash since its the highest mountain range in the world....but british erroneously or deliberately christened the low mountain ranges in central india as vindhyas for their north-south divide and rule strategy....india probably was divided north-south by the himalayas those days and 'north india' was probably tibet,mongolia,turkestan,siberiamythra81https://www.blogger.com/profile/05443519709628211254noreply@blogger.com