From: verma@pfeast.enet.dec.com (Virendra Verma)
Subject: Re: "...kt"   --- mystries of the unexplained
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: 11 JAN 93 17:11:38    


In article <C0pJAG.LpK@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, mvishnu@bcr3.uwaterloo.ca (Meenan Vishnu) writes...
> 
> 
>It is a well established truth that the indigenous works of Tamil
>(such as aha-naanopoRu and pura-naanooru, thirukkuRaL etc) are
>infinitely more civilized than the Vedas and their follow-ups.  
>However, kt and other Aryan supremacists want to prove (in vain)
>that indigenous Tamils have the same problem as the Vedic people
>such as purusha-medha yaaga, aswa-medha yaaga and its wild bestiality
>ritual involving the queen and the horse etc.
> 
>Other sickening practices of Aryan descendants are mentioned in a
>French book written by Abber du Baise.  Abber was a missionary worker
>in India and he wrote that during his time the Namboodhiris had a
>strange practice:
>if a young girl dies before her marriage, a person is hired to perform 
>sexual intercourse with the corpse of the young girl before cremating
>it.  Thiruvalluvar also mentions this in his chapter on 
>"varavin mahaLir (prostitutes)".  Kathiravan wrote about what he
>saw (and read) in an Australian museum where it was recorded that 
>in Namboodhiri weddings, the bride is forced to sleep with the
>officiating Bramin on the first day so that the family may 
>achieve liberation (yea liberation !).
> 
>kt and other Aryan supremacists want to reduce the Tamil culture to a
>comparably degraded level as his Vedic culture is.   But the world has
>just begun to look at Tamils' civilized works of literature and culture
>with more care. 
> 
>Long live Tamil,
> 
>Meenan Vishnu
> 

	Just think about it. Aren't you trying to establish the so called
	Tamilian supermacy by your standards? Why are you dividing Hindus 
	between Aryana and Dravidians? Most advocates of Aryans are'nt even 
	talking about Aryan as a race. It is the proponents of 
	Dravidian-like mentality that these terms have been given a racist
	twist.

	Ashwamedha yaggya is not sacrifice of horses. The way I was taught
	in the North is that in a Ashwamedha yagya, the karta of the
	yagya (usually a King like Rama did) challenges the world of his
	strength by freeing and running a horse. Whoever gets the horse
	challenges the karta. Then there is a fight, whoever wins establishes
	his supremacy from strength point of view only.

	Sometimes blood has been mentioned in different kind of yaggyas
	(not in Aswamedh yaggya). This blood is not used in the performace, 
	but was used by the demans (rakshasa) to pour into the yagya to undo 
	the fruits of yagya that a karta hopes for.

	May be I was born in a different world. May be our northern brothers
	changed the history. Who knows? But this interpretaion is not
	terribly senseless.

namaste,

-- Virendra Verma
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