Cutety Olimbic Boxing . . .

Keezhadi:- Harappa-like site surfaces in Tamil Nadu-3000 Ancient Artefacts found in a Tamil Nadu Village

சிவகங்கை மாவட்டம் கீழடி பள்ளிச் சந்தைபுதூரில் நடைபெறும் அகழ் வாய்வில், நகர நாகரிகம் இருந்ததற்கு அடையாளமாக சுடுமண் குழாய் மூலம் உருவாக்கப்பட்ட கழிவுநீர் கால்வாய் வசதியுடன் கட்டிடங்கள் இருந்தது கண்டறியப் பட்டுள்ளன. மேலும், 3 ஆயிரத்துக் கும் மேற்பட்ட தொல்பொருட்கள் கிடைத்துள்ளன.

பெங்களூருவில் உள்ள மத்திய தொல்பொருள் துறை அகழ்வாய்வு பிரிவு சார்பில் சிவகங்கை மாவட் டம், திருபுவனம் அருகே கீழடி பள்ளிச்சந்தைபுதூரில் இரண்டாம் கட்ட அகழ்வாய்வுப் பணிகள் ஜனவரி 18 முதல் நடைபெற்று வருகின்றன. தொல்பொருள் துறை கண்காணிப்பாளர் கே.அமர்நாத் ராமகிருஷ்ணா தலைமையில் உதவி தொல்லியலாளர்கள் ராஜேஷ், வீரராகவன், தொல்லியல் துறை மாணவர்கள் உள்ளிட்டோர் அகழ் வாய்வுப் பணியில் ஈடுபட்டுள்ளனர்.

முதல்கட்ட ஆய்வில் கிடைத்ததைவிட இரண்டாம்கட்ட அகழ்வாய்வில் 10-க்கும் மேற்பட்ட சங்க கால கட்டிடங்கள் கண்டுபிடிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளன. ஹரப்பா நாகரிகம் போன்று கழிவுநீர் கால்வாய் வசதியுடைய கட்டிட அமைப்புகள் இருந்தது தெரியவந்துள்ளது.

அக்கால மக்கள் பயன்படுத்திய சுடுமண் முத்திரைக் கட்டைகள், எழுத்தாணிகள், அம்புகள், இரும்பு, செம்பு ஆயுதங்கள், அரிய வகை அணிகலன்கள், 18 தமிழ் பிராமி எழுத்துகளையுடைய மட்பாண்ட ஓடுகள் உட்பட 3,000-க்கும் மேற் பட்ட தொல்பொருட்கள் கிடைத்துள் ளன. இதுகுறித்து தொல்பொருள் துறை கண்காணிப்பாளர் கே.அமர் நாத் ராமகிருஷ்ணா, ‘தி இந்து’விடம் கூறியதாவது:

தமிழகத்தில் அகழ்வாய்வில் கட்டிடங்கள் கண்டறியப்படுவது மிகவும் அரிய விஷயம். ஆனால், கீழடியில் 53 அகழ்வாய்வுக் குழிகள் தோண்டியதில் 10-க்கும் மேற்பட்ட கட்டிடங்கள் கண்டறியப்பட்டுள் ளன. கடந்த ஆண்டு சங்க காலத் தைப் பற்றிய பல ஆதாரங்கள் கிடைத்தன. அதன் தொடர்ச்சியாக இந்த ஆண்டு இரண்டாம்கட்ட அகழ்வாய்வில் சங்க கால கட்டி டங்கள் அதிக அளவில் கண்டறியப் பட்டுள்ளன. ஒரு நகர நாகரிகம் இருந்ததற்கான ஆதாரங்கள் கீழடியில் எதிர்பார்த்ததைவிட அதிக மாகவே கிடைத்துள்ளன. இந்த அகழ்வாய்வில் சங்க கால கட்டி டங்கள் குறித்து விரிவான ஆய்வு செய்ய உள்ளோம்.

அரிக்கன்மேடு, காவிரிபூம்பட்டி னம், உறையூர் போன்ற அகழ் வாய்வில் கிடைத்ததைவிட கீழடியில் அதிக எண்ணிக்கையில் தொடர்ச்சியாக பல கட்டிடங்கள் கண்டறியப்பட்டு வருகின்றன.

சங்க காலத்தில் கட்டிடங்களே இல்லை என்ற கூற்றை இந்த அகழ்வாய்வு மாற்றியமைத்துள் ளது. கீழடியில் கண்டறியப்பட்டுள்ள கட்டிடங்கள் மூலம் ஒரு நகர நாகரிகம் இருந்ததற்கான அத்தனை அடிப்படை ஆதாரங்களும் கிடைத் துள்ளன. சங்க கால கட்டிடங்களின் முழுமை, அதன் தன்மை, விரிவாக் கம் எவ்வாறு இருந்தது என்பதை ஆய்வு செய்ய உள்ளோம்.

முழுமையான கட்டிடங்கள், செவ்வகம், சதுரம் வடிவிலான செங் கலால் ஆன கட்டிடங்கள் கண்டறி யப்பட்டுள்ளன. மேலும் ஹரப்பா நாகரிகம் போன்று சுடுமண் கழிவு நீர் கால்வாய் வசதியுடைய கட்டிட அமைப்புகளும் கண்டறியப்பட் டுள்ளன.

தமிழகத்தில் இதுவரை நடை பெற்ற அகழ்வாராய்ச்சியில் இப் போதுதான் முதல்முறையாக சுடு மண் முத்திரை (ஷீல்) கிடைத் துள்ளது. இது கலை வேலைப் பாடுடன் கூடியதாகவும் உள்ளது. தற்போது ரப்பர் ஸ்டாம்ப் பயன் படுத்துவதுபோல், அக்கால மக்கள் தங்களது வாணிப நோக்கத்துக்காக இந்த முத்திரைக் குறியீட்டை பயன் படுத்தி இருக்க வேண்டும். இது போல் 3,000-க்கும் மேற்பட்ட தொல் பொருட்கள் கிடைத்துள்ளன என்றார்.

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Indussian Decipherment

4500-6000 yr old bilingual-like stone inscriptions found in Keezhvaalai village in Villupuram district in ancient Tamil Nadu, prove as the pivotal role in Indussian decipherment!
Both the pictographs and the script denote the same story and read the same!

Skelton Dance with Tamil Gana Song . . .

If we Save Nature it will save our life

What a Tamil cultural continuity! !

Just compare the floral patterns on the leopard of Vellore Jalakandeswarar Fort Temple, the Harappa chief, and the Rhino-Bull chimera on the Indus seals.. 

Mani & Son Slapping . . . How Is It?

Way to remember Tamil numbers:

1ka.2u.3nga.4sa.5ru.6saa.7e`.8a.9koo.10ya.100la.1000sathi..

PANDYAN TAMIL KINGDOM IS THUS EVIDENCED IN EGYPTIAN INSCRIPTIONS EVEN BY 2500 BCE, 4500 YEARS AGO:

2500 BCE: Ancient Egyptians first make contact with a place called Paunti(PANDYA) via the Red sea, and sailed down along the coast for ONE YEAR, and traded INCENSE, IVORY, LEOPARD SKINS, PET DOGS, etc.
c.1470 BCE: Queen Hatshefsuht(Hatshepsut) sends trading ships to Paunt, which returned with precious items!
PANDYAN TAMIL KINGDOM IS THUS EVIDENCED IN EGYPTIAN INSCRIPTIONS EVEN BY 2500 BCE, 4500 YEARS AGO:
So hereby, "ANCIENT TAMIL HISTORY OF SOUTH INDIA STARTS EARLIER THAN 2500 BCE":
"INDIAN HISTORY BOOKS NEED TO BE CORRECTED AND REWRITTEN IMMEDIATELY!"

Source: "Encyclopedia of Great Explorers, Simon Adams, Parragon books, 2010:

English Baby's Break Dance with Tamil Song Background . . .! How is it?

TAMIL IN TIBET c.3000 bce

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Ancient names of the lakes near origin of River Indus are derived directly from Old Tamil language as LINGUA FRANCA contiguous with Indus Valley Civilization:

Porunthal - Tamil Nadu India 2500 year old Ancient Glass Making furnance Discovered

Two seasons of excavation, undertaken during May and June, in 2009 and 2010, have put Porunthal firmly on India's archaeological map. 

Kudumiyanmalai - Tamil Nadu- India 4000 years old rock arks of iron age

Rock arts of Iron Age (Megalithic period), believed to be 4,000 years old, have been discovered at Kudumianmalai in Pudukottai district.

J. Raja Mohamad, president, Pudukkottai Historical and Cultural Research Centre, and Rajendran, secretary, have found these painting during the field study in the area.

Kudumianmalai and its surrounding areas are rich in Megalithic excavations. The Tamil Brahmi inscription of third century AD, rock beds of Jain monks, cave temple of the Pandyas, and the inscription of musical treatise of 9th century A.D, temples built by Cholas, Pandyas, Vijayanagar kings, Nayaks, Thondaimans, are some of the antiquarian remains at Kudumianmalai. The discovery of the ancient rock art attests further to the posterity of human activity in the area, according to Dr. Raja Mohamad.

The paintings are found in a rock about 30 feet high, behind the Kudumianmalai temple.

The paintings in red, black, and yellow are found in about 20 spots throughout the length of the rock on its eastern face.

Man with a bow (in red), human figure, and an animal (in black), trees and creepers are a few of the legible paintings in the group. Since the paintings are drawn in the near vertical rock, most of them have been damaged because of vagaries of the weather and vandalism. However, the vestiges of these ancient paintings are evidence to the remote past of the place.

The paintings are executed with the natural colour pigments such as red and yellow ochre, hematite stone and charcoal, in water medium. The slow action of water on the siliceous rock fixes the pigments firmly on the rock rendering them immune to the solvent action of water.

The chronology of the rock art in South India is believed to be about 4,000 to 5,000 years old, Dr. Raja Mohamad says.

The paintings at Kudumianmalai resemble other paintings found at places such as Alampadi in Villupuram and Sirumalai in Dindigal.

Dr. Raja Mohamad who is engaged in a project study on the ancient history and culture of Pudukottai is hopeful of bringing more such new evidences on the early history of the region

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TAMIL IN TIBET c.3000 bce:

Ancient names of the lakes near origin of River Indus are derived directly from Old Tamil language as LINGUA FRANCA contiguous with Indus Valley Civilization:

1. Location: in TIBET (southeast of KAILAS Range)
Current name : MANASAROVAR lake
Tibetan/local name : MampaYum Co
Archaic Indus Tamil name : Mampazha Coan Eri
மாம்பழக்கோனேரி
Tamil meaning : 'Mango-king' lake
Shape of lake : Mango-shaped

2. Location : (west of Manasarovar lake)
Current name : LaAng Cuo lake
Tibetan/local name : CuoLa/Ang Er i
Archaic Tamil name : Cuolai (CuoAngi) Eri
குவளை (குவங்கி) ஏரி
Meaning in Tamil : 'Water jug' lake; also 'blue' lake
Shape : Water jug
Color : aqua/light blue
!Cuolaiகுவளை=blue (in Tamil)
!LaAng=blue (in local Tibetan)

It is more than mere coincidence that these two lakes look like குவளை (water vessel/pot/jug) and மாம்பழம் (mango) in shape, and at the same time are named exactly the same both in local Tibetan/Chinese and Old Tamil languages!!!

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Indus Vally and Tamil Civlization

Scholars today confidently identify Meluhha with the Indus Valley Civilization (modern South Asia) on the basis of the extensive evidence of trading contacts between Sumer and this region.

Meluhha /Melakham means "the high/west land" in ancient Tamil.
Sesame oil was probably imported from the Indus River region into Sumer: the Sumerian word for this oil is illu (Akkadian: ellu). In Dravidian languages of South India, el or ellu stands for sesame.

Ref: McIntosh, Jane (2007). The ancient Indus Valley: New perspectives. ABC-CLIO/Greenwood. p. 185. ISBN 1-57607-907-4

Tamil and Indus Civilisation

Name of the Indus country : MELUHHA : MELAGHAM - மேலகம்
Name of the kings' dynasty : PULIYAN - 
புலியன்
Title of the kings : Aai - ஆய் 
Sign denoting the king : Tiger - புலியன், Bull - Aa - ஆ 
Name of the Gods : SIVAN, AIYAI, MURUGAN - சிவன், அய்யய்(ஐயை), முருகன்
Name of the high-priest : Ara-Aai - அறஆய்
(below : a king worshipping the Goddess Aiyai)

Sanskrit = Spoken Persian + Written Tamil

The previous article brought out the fact that Sanskrit never had a script of its own. Since Tamil is the only oldest1 language of India, with rich and very old literature, Tamil Brahmi and Devanagari scripts should be called as variants of Tamil script.

This article explores the origin of Spoken Persian and Spoken Sanskrit. Knowledge of the ancient human civilizations, their migrations, and cultural sedimentation in Persia and Gandhara, provide a scientific basis to analyze the composition and evolution of Persian and Sanskrit languages.

I. Ancient Human Civilizations. Before the country borders were drawn, there were five unique sweet human versions roaming on the surface the earth. They were Chivan (Chivamer / Sumer), Akathiyan (Akkadian), Kotha (Goth), African and Mongoloid as depicted in the picture.

Sembiyam Kaniyur-Tamil Nadu-India the Neolithic Polished Stone Celt (Hand-held Axe) with th indus vally script between 2000 b.c. and 1500 b.c.

The discovery of a Neolithic stone celt, a hand-held axe, with the Indus script on it at Sembian-Kandiyur in Tamil Nadu is, according to Iravatham Mahadevan, "a major discovery because for the first time a text in the Indus script has been found in the State on a datable artefact, which is a polished neolithic celt." He added: "This confirms that the Neolithic people of Tamil Nadu shared the same language family of the Harappan group, which can only be Dravidian. The discovery provides the first evidence that the Neolithic people of the Tamil country spoke a Dravidian language." Mr. Mahadevan, an eminent expert on the subject, estimated the date of the artefact with the Indus script between 2000 B.C. and 1500 B.C.

Mavadaippu-Coimbatore-Tamil Nadu India 4000 year old Ancient rock art and dolmens

A natural cavern with a profusion of ancient rock art, contemporary tribal paintings and even modern-day graffiti has been discovered near Mavadaippu tribal village, about 7 km from the Kadamparai hydel power station in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore district.

K.T. Gandhirajan, art historian and explorer, P. Manivannan, K. Natarajan and a group of students from the Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai, made the discovery on May 17.

Marungur -Cuddalore Tamil Nadu -India 2200 year old Tamil Potsherds found Urn Burial site

Discovery, near Vadalur, opens new chapter in research

Three potsherds with Tamil Brahmi inscriptions have been discovered in an urn burial site at Marungur, 17 km from Vadalur in Cuddalore district.

The broken pots with the inscriptions were placed in urns that could have contained the bodies of the dead or their bones. “This is the first time that such inscribed pots, with Tamil Brahmi letters, placed as grave goods in urn burials, have been recovered from any archaeological site in Tamil Nadu. This opens a new chapter in archaeological research in the State,” say three specialists in Tamil Brahmi inscriptions. They are K. Rajan, professor of History, Pondicherry University; Y. Subbarayalu, head, Indology, French Institute of Pondicherry; and V. Vedachalam, retired senior epigraphist, Tamil Nadu Archaeology Department.

2000 year old Tamil Inscription on pottery found Thailand

The presence of the characteristic letter "Ra" confirms that the language is Tamil

A unique Tamil-Brahmi Inscription on pottery of the second century AD has recently been excavated in Thailand.

A Thai-French team of archaeologists, led by Dr. Bérénice Bellina of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France, and Praon Silpanth, Lecturer, Silpakorn University, Thailand, has discovered a sherd of inscribed pottery during their current excavations at Phu Khao Thong inThailand.

At the request of the archaeologists, Iravatham Mahadevan, an expert in Tamil Epigraphy, has examined the inscription. He has confirmed that the pottery inscription is in Tamil and written in Tamil-Brahmi characters of about the second century AD. Only three letters have survived on the pottery fragment. They read tu Ra o... ,possibly part of the Tamil word turavon meaning`monk.'

The presence of the characteristic letter Ra confirms that the language is Tamil and the script is Tamil-Brahmi. It is possible that the inscription recorded the name of a Buddhist monk who travelled to Thailand from Tamil Nadu. This is the earliest Tamil inscription found so far in South East Asia and attests to the maritime contacts of the Tamils with the Far East even in the early centuries AD.

Prof. Richard Salomon of the University of Washington, U.S., an expert in Indian Epigraphy, has made the following comment on the inscription: "I am happy to hear that the inscription in question is in fact Tamil-Brahmi, as I had suspected. This is important, among other reasons, because it presents a parallel with the situation with Indian inscriptions in Egypt and the Red Sea area. There we find both Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions and standard-Brahmi insciptions; and we now see the same in Vietnam and South-East Asia. This indicates that the overseas trade between India to both the West and the East involved people from the Tamil country and also other regions."

Iravatham Mahadevan adds: "Already we know of the existence of a touchstone engraved in Tamil in the Tamil-Brahmi script of about the third or fourth century AD found in Thailand and presently kept in a museum in the ancient port city of Khuan Luk Pat in Southern Thailand. There is every hope that the ongoing excavations of the Thai-French team will bring up more evidence of ancient contacts between India and Thailand."

Thirumayam-Tamil Nadu-India 7000 year old Ancient Rock Murals

Ancient and rare rock murals reflecting the pre-historic character of the district have been discovered in the Tirumayyam Fort premises, an official said today.

The existence of rock paintings which depict dances that existed in 5000 BC was known earlier, historian and District Chief Educational Officer N Arulmurugan said.

The paintings, made with red colour painting material, were found during a study of the Fort by a team of historians, including himsef, he told reporters.

Tamil and Chinese Incription by zheng

Tamil and Chinese inscription by Zheng He, a Chinese raider of Ming dynasty in 14th century after he routed the Srilankan army of the tamil king, and is popularly known as the Galle stele. This clearly sshows Tamil was the lingua franca and indigenous Tamils were dominant even in South Srilanka those times.

Attirampakkam- Tamil Nadu-India - 1.5. Million Year Old Tools Found

Excavations at the Palaeolithic Site of Attirampakkam, South India

1.5 Million-year-old tools found near Chennai (South India)

Early Pleistocene presence of Acheulian hominins in South India – Shanti Pappu

When the western people repeatedly underestimate the civilization of India to be 2000 – 4000 years back this extraordinary excavation rewrites the history of mankind. Spread our antiquity!

Karur was an emporium of trade. Ptolemy mentions it as early as 2nd century .

WHILE RULERS CHANGED, TRADE THRIVED - The Times of India

With A System Of Merchant Guilds, Levies, Tamil Traders Did Roaring Business With Rome, Far East

N umismatic evidence shows that Roman-Tamil trade in ancient times thrived for centu ries without break, though now and then there was slackness. An important point is that intermodal transportation was well known then. Cargo came to the Indian west coast, moved to east coast by land and river, and left through the eastern ports. After emperor Nero's passing away in Rome there was a lull in sea trade, which recovered later though the currency changed from gold to silver and copper coins.

History has it that Karur was at various times under Chera, Chola or Pandyas. But trade in the river port flourished irrespective of who ruled.Epigraphical, literary and numismatic evidence show that Karur was an emporium of trade. Ptolemy mentions it as early as 2nd century .

Apart from a strong merchant fleet and a sailing community, ancient Tamils had supporting organizations called by various names -largely independent of whoever was ruling at that point of time -but controlling the trade in an efficient manner.

The ruler of the day did not interfere with the trading communities.Merchant guilds known by various names such as “Anjuvannam“, “AinnuRRuvar“, “Manigramam“ and “Padinenvishayam“ had well established trade practices. They had their own methods of collecting levies for cargo imported and exported along with fees for port security and efficient cargo handling.

These traders created an atmosphere of goodwill among the local population by constructing water tanks and places of worship -a corporate social responsibility initiative of those days. This ensured that trade was smooth in spite of changing regimes. The rulers, however, did ensure safe transit of ships and provided various supporting facilities, in addition to collecting custom duties for imported articles.The classic case is that of Rajendra Chola who with one of the best known navies of the world ensured that traders were well protected and ensured easy passage for them.

According to well-known historians Noboru Karashima and Y Subbarayulu, Padinenvishayam was an organization of high order, which controlled other guilds such as Manigramam, Senamugam etc. These names have been found in various countries with whom the merchants of the Chola period carried on trade.

Padinenvishayam means eighteen countries. In a gloss on grammar treatise “Nannul“, Mayilainathar names the eighteen countries. Guilds must have operated as an organized network between various countries for good logistics support.

The craftsmen who went out in the ships to countries in the far east continued their profession there supported by the merchant guilds. A 3rd or 4th century inscription that says “Perumpatan Kal“ in Brahmi script, meaning “the touchstone of the chief goldsmith“, has been preserved in a Thailand museum. A tank was constructed and put under the protection of a merchant guild -Manigramam.

Karashima has observed two more Tamil inscriptions now kept in a Bud dhist temple and says one of them mentions the name of a donor “Dhanmasenapathi“ who made a grant to brahmins. In Pagan (Myanmar), a 13th century inscription shows a Vaishnavite mantra and also says that a hall was built by “Irayiran Kulasekhara Nambi“.

But the most amazing inscription is the one recorded by T N Subramaniam. This was from Quanzhou, a medieval port of south China. The text reveals that one Champanda Perumal, also known as Thava-Chakravarthigal, having got a grant of land from the then King Khan, built a temple there and called it ThiruKhaneeswaram after the Khan.

An inscription found in the Vishnu temple of Ponneri states that to make Mylapore a protected harbor levy was laid on goods imported and exported. A voluntary levy of the trade guilds was denoted by the term “Pattinapakudi“. Pakudi is a share for the betterment of the “pattinam“ (a port) given by the trade guilds.

Alagankulam-Marungurpattinam-Ramnad-Tamil Nadu-India-Roman Empire and Tamil Kingdoms Ancient Trading Port

Alagankulam is a village situated on the east coast in Ramanathapuram Taluk and district. The village is situated on the banks of the river Vaigai and is about three kilometers away from the seashore.

Roman rouletted sherd, Head of Buddha (Terracotta), Buddhapadam (Terracotta), Big size bricks, Beads, Roman, Chinese potteries, Stamped potteries from Alagankulam Excavation, Wooden artifacts, Ring well, Megalithic appendages, Chinese jar, British cooling jar, Silambu, Terracotta figurines, Lead Ingots and Buddha statue off Poompuhar, Stone sculpture of Ayyanar and Models of ship.