Due to pre-occupations, I couldn't post some of my videos in the past few weeks.
Let me start uploading here one by one starting with my interview in Mediyaan News Channel on Ayudha puja.
In this interview I am answering questions such as
# Is Ayudha Puja an Arya festival?
# Why should we celebrate it?
# Does celebration of Ayudha Puja mean celebration of violence?
I also pointed out the details of the Vettuva Vari in Silappadhikaram as the earliest evidence of Ayudha Puja.
Apart from that, the 'TuRai" called VaaN Mangalam mentioned in Tolkappiyam shows that there was a practice of worshiping weapons. In connection with that, there is a Purananuru verse about Avvaiyar talking to Tondaimaan.
In Pari Paadal there is also a description of Mallars decorating their weapons.
All these are not pujas done just for the sake of preparing for the war.
It is a pooja performed every year on Maha Navami which is the day of Ayudha Puja.
In this connection, I discussed the epigraphical evidence and literary evidence found in Periya Puranam.
The interview can be watched here:
