Fwd: Re: PraLayams
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• November 4, 1999
--- sampath kumarwrote: > Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 23:09:17 -0800 (PST) > From: sampath kumar > Subject: Re: PraLayams > To: Ramanbil@aol.com > > Dear Sri.Anbil Ramaswamy, > > Thank you for the information on "pralayAm". Most > interesting and your connecting it to Sir.Hoyle, the > scientist's observations is also most pertinent. > adiyen has really learnt something new from your > post > today. > > Sir, adiyen has one more related question > re:"pralayam". Are there any passages in Vedas > related > to pralayam? We know "purusha-suktam" which is a > great > hymn appearing in all the 4 vedas. Generally, > 'purusha-suktam" is known to be a primordial hymn > that > is Veda's eye-witness account of the process of > Cosmic > Creation. Similarly, is there a hymn in the Vedas > that > speaks of "pralayam" -- a Vedic eye-witness account > of > cosmic dissolution? > > In the prabhandhams also the only pasuram hinting at > pralayam that adiyen can think of is from > "amalanadipiran" that talks of > "aalama-marrathin-illai-mEl...etc" (Verse#9)where > TiruppAn=azhwar alludes to the Lord lying like an > infant upon a banyan-leaf and drifting atop the > great > tides during the Great Deluge accompanying > pralayam... > > If there are any more passages in the Vedas and the > prabhandhams to pralayam I would like to know the > reference. Sir, can you or somebody else on the list > please help? > > Thanks, > adiyen, > Sampathkumar > > --- Ramanbil@aol.com wrote: > > Dear Sanpathkumar > > I give below excerpts from Chapter 21 on the > > evolutiopn and dissolution of > > the Matter- Time -Space triad fro my book > "Hinduism > > Rediscovered" for your > > information. > > ===== > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com > ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
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