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Showing posts with label Ramayana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ramayana. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Is the Indus Valley Civilization Aryan or Dravidian ?

Aryan-Dravidian Kinship

M. Vaitialingam has observed:

" The Indus-Valley civilization is now accepted as the earliest civilization found on the Indian soil. It was an urban civilization, no doubt. We are not sure of the creators of this civilization. Some say it was the “Dravidians.” But “Aryans” and “Dravidians” are concepts comparatively very modern which were created by philologists of the 19th century. The Indus Valley people had nothing to do with them. What is more surprising that the Gods of the Indus Valley people are also the Gods of the Vedas and are Gods of the Hindu religion worshipped to this day a fact which has compelled the writers of ‘An Advanced History of India’ (Dr. Majumdar, Dr. Raychaudhari and Dr. Datta) to say “We must therefore hold that there is an organic relationship between the Indus-Valley and the Hinduism of today.

Monday, September 29, 2008

NASA debunks Rama bridge theory


NASA poured cold water on claims by Hindu news services that the US agency's spaceborne cameras had discovered the remains of the mythical bridge built by Rama across the Palk Strait.

"Remote sensing images or photographs from orbit cannot provide direct information about the origin or age of a chain of islands, and certainly cannot determine whether humans were involved in producing any of the patterns seen," said NASA official Mark Hess.

NRI websites like Indolink.com and the Vaishnava News Network had run a story earlier this week saying that "space images taken by NASA" had revealed "a mysterious ancient bridge in the Palk Strait." The story gained currency when it was picked up, unquestioningly, by the PTI.