This discovery has lot of connections with the occurances described in ancient literary works of Tamil. The oldest sangam extents like Agananooru, Purananooru, Tholkappium talk of the first and second tamil sangams which happened in Old Madurai and Kapaatapuram. Old madurai was described as a the capital of ancient pandya rulers situated in Lemuria or Kumari kandam which is a sunken landmass south of kanyakumari and connected east africa and west australia. Even the destruction of Old madurai and the migration of people to the present day tamilnadu and kerala is aptly described in the oldest availble sangam literature. This phenomenon is well explained by the theory of Plate Tectonics which speaks of the migration and shrinking of Indian plate along with Australia as they were previously connected with Africa.
In addition, Silappathikaram points out the occurrance of kadalkol or Tsunami submerging the old kaveripoompattinam or Poompuhar in the eatern coast due to a deadly volcanic eruption in indonesia. Thus Tamil literature has a well recorded proofs for those geological occurances.
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by anuragawasthi on Apr 30, 2008 12:35 PM Permalink
But you forget an important point is that Magescanesas(Greek traveller) mentions in his book that the Daughter of Krishna Pandia moves south ward and establish a kingdom called Mathura or should we say madura or Madurai
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by JGN on May 01, 2008 03:40 PM Permalink
Mr.anuragawasthi, I really wonder from where on earth you are getting all sorts of absurd informations? The Greek Traveller's name you mentioned is incorrect and the Mathura referred to in that is located in UP (not Madura in TN). On another Site you were talking about some obscure language of Baluchistan was also "dravidian" Why it should not be the other way round? People from that part of Indian sub-continent migrated to TN?
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by saigeetha jagannathan on Apr 30, 2008 12:02 PM Permalink
Silenzer, The concept of 'Forbidden Archeology' is not proved and it is mixing the evolution and vedanta as it is understandably a product Bhaktivedanta institution. Of course, the ten incarnations of Lord Vishnu represent the ten steps of evolution. But the great mistake we do is that we ignore the core concept or the scientific part of such philosphical ideas and pay too much attention to the philosophy part which cannot be experimented. In this case, people like you forget the core concept of evolutionary steps but give more importance to Lord Vishnu and his characteristics and powers. Remember that vedanta is like a medicine coated with sugar in which the medicine is the science and the sugar is the philosophy.
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by saigeetha jagannathan on Apr 30, 2008 12:10 PM Permalink
On the contrary, I dont mix things like you and am talking of science and science alone with evidences from literature. Both these fields are open to experimentation and thats why I rely on them. I am not mixing these facts with unexperimented philosophical ideas. Dont try to mix up things and get confused.
Morover, you dont have to question the theory of Plate tectonics as it is well proven and can explain almost all geological occurances.
