Our knowledge of Gods and practices of care for
are a long way away less
compared to how it was with Tamils of yore.
For spell, we know that sun is household as Surya or Adithya.
The sun has various names in Sanskrit (in Vedas).
We castle in the sky that all these names are like peas in a pod in meaning.
It is not so.
The various names of sun are in harmony with a fixed fabrication
exhibited by the sun.
Tamils had household these fixed names and fixed fabrication and
hand-me-down the names consequently straightforwardly.
For spell Bhagan (bhaga) is the name of sun
which we find hand-me-down in Vedas in the being there of the pithru devas,
Mithra, Varuna and Aryama.
Sun is Bhaga seeing that he is blind!
Can the Sun be called as covering, we may wonder.
The sun is not the self-same roughly the day.
The originate sun is wholesome.
The sun at the era of guerrilla and scenery
is safe of purifying the air in agni hotra and
destroying the demons (hurtful micro organisms) in sandhya vandana.
The fore-noon sun helps the plant life in food making.
The a long time ago lunchtime sun helps in loss.
The sunset sun helps in the build-up of clouds.
Offer are other incomprehensible works done by the sun in the course of its ramble in the sky.
Based on the works, the sun is household by on a plane names. ( 1)
In this way, the Sun is covering
being he does not see any nibble amid the good and bad species
and tortures them like peas in a pod by his uncultivated heat.
This happens at mid-day being the sun moves overhead at any place.
All the species - any good and bad - detect from the heat of this sun.
So the uncultivated (ugra) sun of the lunchtime is household as covering - bhaga.
So whenever Bhaga is found in texts,
we want understand that it is about a uncultivated or covering sun.
It confer on be sensational to know that even hoi polloi in olden Tamil lands
had household such provisions.
In Kalitthogai we come corner to corner a performance by a commoner
who compares the Kaurava king, Dhritharashtra with Bhagan -
in his qualities covering in unite look at and as well covering in his love of his sons. (2)
"vayakkuru maNdilam vada-mozhi peyar petra mugatthavan, makkaLuL mudhiyavan.."
(The one who is covering affection the Bhagan, Dritharashtran.. the oldest amid species..)
(Here all the analogies found in kalitthogai and various such olden texts
on paper or else 2000 verve are stories from
Mahabharatha, Ramayana and puranas straightforwardly.
In the march of Kalitthogai, it is straightforwardly about Mahabharatha incidents.
All these confer on be implied in a carve up post.)
Bahga is one who schedule inoperative with the 3 pithru devas, namely,
Mithra, Varuna and Aryama.
From choodamani Nigandu
We come to know that Sun is as well household as
Mithra, Varuna and Aryama. (1)
By this it is buried that the sun as a unit
includes the three pithru devas.
Vedic verses speak about the three in the being there of
the covering sun, Bhaga.
We wave around already seen in posts on pithru tarpaN
that the tarpaN is to be done at mid-day.
We saw the time regulation, but not the corroboration of it.
The corroboration of it is known factor in a verse in PuranaanUru.
These devas ad infinitum travel with the sun who is Bhaga,
It money it is about mid-day
being the world confer on be reeling under moneyed heat of the sun.
These devas, by drinking the havis from the shraddha and tarpaN ceremonies,
which is done by money of water,
reduces the heat of the sun!
This is corroboration ended out in the verse. (3)
In order to make the species base the heat of the sun.
"theru kadir kanali vemmai thaangi"
they ad infinitum paint the town red with the sun and explain up the contributions
"sudarodu kotkum avir sadai munivarum aruLa"
From the Tamil texts it is not straightforwardly household that
the knowledge of the Pithru devas was award,
it is as well household from various texts that
they had household all other gods, their care for,
the ways of vedic life and sanatana dharma.
They were assured sanatanists
whose life fit did not rise and fall a bit from the sanatana ways.
On top on this aspect in the next post, a long time ago which
we confer on administer with the supreme leading part of death connected issues,
namely burial, burials
and even pot burials (of Adicchanallur)
which are in harmony with the very ancient refinement of the vediks
and which were known factor up by various in the north even by the Ithihasic period,
but were followed narrowly by the Tamils until 2000 verve ago,
thereby making it a privilege place for the preservation of Vedic refinement
that pressed the basil Agasthya, the Old Grammarian of Tamil and
the patron of the very discourse Tamil,
assistance
the enormous, but the soothing household migration
of species from the North to Tamil nadu
who came to be characterized as Dravidas by their clan
who continued in the North!
(to be continued)
Mention :-
(1) The on a plane names of the sun depending on the work it does -
are found in Choodamani Nigandu, the Tamil encyclopedia.
Greatest of these names wave around Sanskrit birth straightforwardly.
They are as follows.
1- Sooriyan -the one who propels species trendy their jobs.
2- Parithi - the one who is condemn in sum
3- Bharkaran or Bhaskaran - the one who lights
4- Adhithyan - the son of adithi, who refreshments water by rays.
5- Pani-p-pagai - the disbeliever of blizzard
6- Sudar - the one who glows, the one who burns
7- Padangan - the one whop moves
8- Irul vali - the one who deters shadows.
9- Savitha -the one who makes species stiffen on their works
10- Sooran - the one who ad infinitum moves on all sides of
11- El - ad infinitum having lucidity
12- Maarthaandan - the son of Mridharunda, the one safe of making the large" Brahmaanda stand for.
13- Arunan - ad infinitum moving
14- Aadhvan -bright one
15- Mithran - user-friendly to all beings, gives rains
16- DharaNi - the one who crosses the sky
17- Sen-kadirOn - having red rays
18- Sandan - high-pitched character
19- Tapanan - one who heats.
20- VoLi - the ignite one
21- SaandrOn - the one who is details of all works.
22- Anali -having detonate.
23- Ari- remover of shadows
24- Bhanu -bright one
25- Anda yOni -The certainty of this world
26- Kanali- one having fires
27- Vikarthanan - remover of shadows, the one whose heat was lessened by Vishwa accident. This is traced to a story in Markandeya pura as per which Sanjai, the wife of sun may possibly not base the heat of sun. So her get going Vishwakarma rubbed the sun in such a way as to nick his heat. So the sun is household as Vikarthanan.
28- Kadiravan - one having rays.
29- PagalOn - one belonging to the day.
30- VeiyOn - one having hot rays.
31- Dinakaran - the one who makes days
32- "the one who divides the day
33- Jothi - the one who is ignite
34- Aryama - the one who goes fast.
35- Inan - the one who wanders
36- Vudayan - the one who rises
37- Gyaayiru, ellai - very clear-cut
38- KiraNa maali - having groups of rays
39- YEzh pariyOn - having 7 pigs (extra explanation of this can be found in Bhoja sambu kaavya vurai, niruttha vurai and Mathsya puranam)
40- VEdhan - ignite one
41- Vricchikan - having wicked rays
42- VirOchanan - having farthest lucidity
43- Ravi- the one who is praised
44- ViN maNi - the gem of the sky
45- Arukkan - the one worshipped by all.
(2) Kalitthogai -25
(3) PuranaanUru - 26