In Siva's Temple, Pillars Make Music http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040726/asp/nation/s tory_3541002.asp TIRUNELVELI, INDIA, July 25, 2004: Temples often have...
This message, containing a worm, was generated by some computer (I think in California using Pacific Bell internet) that is infected by the W32.Beagle.I@mm...
Digging yields evidence of Kerala's trade links with Rome Aug 1, 2004 23:18 hrs. IST Thiruvananthapuram: Excavations in a village on the banks of the Periyar...
PL Bhargava notes (2001, India in the Vedic Age, A history of aryan expansion in India, DK Print World, Delhi): "...so far as the list of kings is concerned,...
WORD FOR WORD: Three Sanskrit words in the Quran —Khaled Ahmed http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_1-8-2004_pg3_3 According to Syed Suleiman...
That is interesting. Turns out all three are indeed from Sanskrit. There is an account that prophet Muhammad was presented a jar of ginger pickle by an Indian...
... wrote: Re ginger, the standard etymology tracing it to srngavera has a Tamil root in it viz., Ta vEr - root. Hindi bEr - berry is to be discounted. Also,...
It is known that the last Cheraman Perumal of the Chera Kingdom, abdicated his throne to his three nephews, (who then ruled Malabar, Cochin and Travancore,...
I was re-reading Bridget and Raymond Allchin's The rise of civilization in India and Pakistan, 1982, Cambridge Univ. Press pages 309 to 362 on Iron age and...
The history of the coalescing of gan.a into maha_janapada has yet to be fully told. Gan.a of the type who produced the Delhi iron pillar or the iron-workings...
While it is widely believed that Cheraman Perumal converted to Islam and went to Mecca, the sources on which this is based are very recent. There are many...
I can see your point in questioning the authenticity of Keralopatti because it contains many questionable legends and myths. I do not believe there are any...
... Cheraman Perumal going to Mecca is similar to St Thomas being martyred by the brahmins of Mylapore in 50 AD (?), give or take a decade or two. For some...
... <dsalmon@s...> wrote: None of the url's cited is hard evidence imho. For example, there is no local tradition of any thomas in Mylapore. If there is any...
None of it is hard evidence of Thomas visiting India, as I conceded in my original message ("even if not capable of proof"). It -is- hard evidence that the...
Thanks UNESCO ... but what next? http://www.hindu.com/mag/2004/08/08/stories/200408 0800130200.htm The Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, as Mumbai's celebrated...
Salt Range: a hidden treasure http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_9-8-2004_pg7_32 ISLAMABAD: All that school-children in Pakistan know about...
I just saw a presentation by Prof. Weatherford, who has recently written: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World From the randomhouse.com site: The...
... Parsi ... conquest ... Srini, I think the christians of Kerala are beleived to have originated from Syria, following the islamic expansion. I beleive, they...
A treasure hunt in the paddy fields A STAFF REPORTER, The Telegraph, Aug 9, 2004 A paddy field dug up for Chandraketugarh relics. Picture by Aranya Sen The...
http://www.indiagov.org/new/NewDelhiPressFile/kerala_christianity.html Kerala: Asia's Cradle of Christianity appeared in "Today", a leading daily of Manila,...
The above book by Koenraad Elst (2003) is available online now at http://koenraadelst.voiceofdharma.org/books/finale/index.html Sincerely, Vishal Agarwal...
Malfuzat-i Timuri or Tuzak-i Timuri is the autobiography of Tamerlane (Timur-i-lang (1336-1405)), written in Chagatai in translated into Farsi during the...
... <dsalmon@s...> wrote: Sorry I was traveling so I could not get back to you. Prof Ninan and his writings do not qualify as serious scholarship. He quotes...
