Tamil culture: an integral part of Dharma (my article in Organiser)

My article in Organiser on how Tamil culture is Sanatan in every aspect of it and how the core concepts of Sanatana Dharma are revealed in the Sangam literature.

Read here: https://organiser.org/2023/10/03/199074/bharat/tamil-culture-an-integral-part-of-dharma/?fbclid=IwAR37uGyig6qHK9ig7nyL5tADhIek1JlVGVFjvEWzU2HeFtct4DCE3fpsLVA

‘Samatva Garbhagriha’: A facet of assault on Sanatana Dharma (My article in Organiser)

As part of the agenda to eradicate Sanatana Dharma, the DMK is hell bent on removing hereditary priests (archakas) of the ancient temple of Tamil Nadu and replacing them with Government certified persons from other castes including three women after giving them year long training....

Read more at: https://organiser.org/2023/09/24/197468/bharat/samatva-garbhagriha-a-facet-of-assault-on-sanatana-dharma/

Will Udhayanidhi challenge ‘Tholkappiyam’ before eradicating Sanatana Dharma? (My article in Organiser)

Will Udhayanidhi challenge ‘Tholkappiyam’ before eradicating Sanatana Dharma?

Jayasree Saranathan Sep 17, 2023, 07:00 pm IST in Bharat, Opinion, Tamil Nadu......

Those who regularly follow the Dravidian politics of the DMK will never be surprised to hear Udhayanidhi Stalin, the prince in waiting, making a clarion call to abolish Sanatana Dharma like dengue, malaria, and corona. It is the annual ritual for this party to conduct this kind of ‘Eradication’ conference right from the days E.V. Ramasamy Naickar. Taking cue from the Divide and Rule policy of the British, the DK party of those days kept harping on inventing an enemy by infusing a fear complex in the common man. That enemy was Brahmin and Hinduism was the target to be demolished.

EVR went to the extent of calling for the ‘annihilation of Gandhi’ and ‘annihilation of congress’ along with Brahmins and threatened to burn his photos and statues for supporting Sanatana Dharma. In 1957, the Caste Eradication Conference was held by him where he and his followers burnt the Indian Constitution and declared the Constitution Day of 26^th November as “Genocide Day”, inciting cadres to murder 1000 Brahmins and burn Agraharam-s to ‘eradicate caste’.

Disturbed by this development, Nehru wrote to Kamaraj, the then Chief Minister of Madras, to take necessary steps to check this tendency, but nothing happened. In the next year around the same time, Nehru shot another letter to Kamaraj expressing that EVR must be put in a mental asylum and given treatment. Had Kamaraj taken stringent steps to check EVR then, the Periyarist cult would not have evolved and a Udhayanidhi could not have stoked a controversy now.

The Dravidian parties have had a free run all these decades, growing leaps and bounds in polluting the minds of people with anti-Aryan, anti- Manu, anti- Brahmin, and anti-Hindu ideas. In his long innings in politics Karunanidhi exploited the non-existent Aryan invasion theory to such an extent that in a veiled dig at the Allahabad court ruling on Ram Janma Bhumi, he wondered how a court could accurately pinpoint the birthplace of Ram who lived 17.28 lakh years ago and lamented that Aryan culture.... continue to READ HERE

Early Tamils traced their ancestry to Rama (My article in Organiser Magazine)

Not many have known about the wealth of information available in Tamil sources – both literary and epigraphic – giving valuable inputs related to Rama. Foremost among them is the claim by the Cholas that Rama was their ancestor! The second-most important information pertains to the time period of Ramayana. The third set of inputs establishes beyond doubt the location of Lanka of Ravana in present-day Sri Lanka.

Rama, the ancestor of Cholas

Chera, Chola and Pandya are the three ancient Tamil dynasties of which the Cholas belonged to the solar dynasty starting from Surya, Manu and Ikshvaku. One often comes across the reference to ‘Manu-Neeti’ as the hallmark of the Chola kings in their inscriptions. A Chola king is remembered as ‘Manu Neeti Chola’ for having given the highest punishment to his son, the crown prince, for having killed a calf under his chariot. Though it was done unknowingly, the Chola king did not hesitate to punish his son by getting a chariot run over him and kill him. None knows the name of this king as anything other than ‘Manu Neeti Chola’, for being a just ruler. Only the Buddhist chronicle Mahavamsha gives his name and describes his sense of justice in the context of the death of this king in a war in Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka. Though an invader to their domain, in recognition of his unparalleled sense of justice, his mortal remains were cremated with honours and a monument raised, which was worshiped by the kings of that country, reports Mahavamsha in the 25^th chapter. 

The sense of righteousness running in the lineage of Manu, it is no wonder that Rama became an epitome of Dharma, to be emulated by any king wishing to follow the right path. If any  king is related to Rama in the remote past, would he lose any opportunity to boast off his filial connection with Rama? We do find evidence for such claim by the Chola king Veera Rajendra, the grandson of Rajaraja Chola -I, engraved in the Pillars of  Bhagavati Amman temple at Kanyakumari. While giving the detailed list of his forefathers starting from Brahma and then Manu, the king has written that in the family of Rama was born a king named Chola who ventured southward and founded the Chola dynasty in Poompuhar – the place deduced from the description.

Verse 26 of the poetically written inscription in Sanskrit, stands out among every other description about Rama, by having addressed the tough events in Rama’s life and how he stood beyond personal considerations. For the curious reader, here is the verse as reported in Travancore Archaeological Series (1921):

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"Janamejaya inscription: Mahabharata's veracity proved" - My article in 'Organiser'

I am glad to share the link to my article on Janamejaya inscription found in the custody of Bhimanakatte Matha offering solid proof for the year of the Mahabharata war on 3136 BCE (Pre-Kali 35 years). I have spelt out the objections to this grant and offered my counters to them. I am thankful to the Editorial Team of Organiser, the esteemed magazine of the RSS for publishing the crucial piece of evidence for the year of the Mahabharata war at 3136 BCE and for the beginning of Kali Yuga on 3101BCE. 

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Janamejaya Inscription: Mahabharata’s Veracity Proved (organiser.org)

Janamejaya Inscription: Mahabharata’s Veracity Proved

DR JAYASREE SARANATHANMar 08, 2022, 12:19 PM IST                                           

The Janamejaya inscription, demonstrating the authenticity of the Mahabharata, was found to have been made 5,000 years ago. However, British historians were reluctant to accept that Bharat had such a thriving civilisation

Inscriptions are accepted as foremost primary evidence in historical studies. They belong to the genre of written documents or Lekhya Pramana approved by Shastras, according to the late Dr Nagaswamy, historian and preeminent epigraphist. 

The date of the inscription mentioned in Jyothisha units of time such astithi, star and week-day are therefore reliable. The dates of many kings and dynasties have been deciphered from the year of the Shaka or Kali Yuga found in the inscriptions.

Historicity of Mahabharata

In the same way, the year of the Mahabharata war can be derived using the well attested evidence of a 35-year gap between the war and Krishna’s exit given in four verses in the Mahabharatatext (MB: 11.25.4; 16.1.1; 16.2.2; 16.3.18,19). This makes locating the year of the war easy: it was pre-Kali 35 years. Counted from the completed Kali years as of today (that we continue to use for all religious purposes) 3136 BCE was the year of the Mahabharata war. Though there is no direct epigraphic evidence for this date, five inscriptions have been located so far, bearing the name of King Janamejaya, the great-grandson of Arjuna, as donor. This article highlights one that bears strong evidence for the year of the war and the historicity of the Mahabharata.

For people, who believed that the earth was created only 5,000 years ago, it could have been a rude shock that India had a thriving civilisation 5,000 years ago. Secondly, that was the time that the Aryan Invasion Theory was gaining momentum, which denied the indigenous origin of the Vedic culture and proposed that ‘Aryans’ from Europe brought the Vedic culture to India 3,500 years ago 

Janamejaya Inscription Down South 

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