Thursday 1 November 2012


WEAPON SYSTEMS USED IN COMBAT




THIRUVETKALAM TEMPLE ALSO CONTAINS DEPICTION OF SOME WEAPON SYSTEMS USED IN COMBAT.

THE VIEWERS ARE REQUESTED TO OBSERVE NOT ONLY THE WEAPONS , BUT ALSO THE POSTURES,FACIAL EXPRESSION AND DRESSES THEY WEAR.








 SIVA AND UMA POSTED AS HUNTER , ACCOMPANIED BY DOGS. WEAPONS – BOW AND ARROW .
 PHILOSOPHICALLY FOUR DOGS REPRESENT FOUR VEDAS .













UNARMED COMBAT .
LORD SIVA HOLDING THE HAND OF ARJUNA .
 HIS LEG LOCKING ARJUNA’S KICK













            SIVA AND PARVATHI . WEAPONS – BOW AND ARROW .
 BOW AND ARROW IS ESSENTIALLY A WEAPON TO SHOOT AN
 ANIMAL AT A DISTANCE WITHOUT REVEALING YOURSELF .
 DOGS HELP TO CORNER THE ANIMAL .
 IN HUNTING EXPEDITION , THE CONSORTS ACCOMPANY THE
 HUNTER. 











SURRENDER OF ARJUNA BY THROWING THE WEAPON DOWN














TWO WEAPONS IN KALI’S HAND.
SHORT MAZE AND SHORT SWORD.
 SHORT MAZE AND SHORT SWORD ARE WEAPONS OF
 COMBAT BETWEEN TWO INDIVIDUALS















      DWARAGABALA WITH CONVENTIONAL LARGE MAZE














WEAPON – SHORT MAZE













WEAPON – SHORT MAZE














  WEAPON – SHORT MAZE















 WEAPON – SHORT MAZE


       HEAD OF MAZE CONTAINS MULTIPLE SWORD BLADES
 SHORT MAZE OF MULTIPLE BLADES CAN HOLD BACK ARMY
 OF SOLDIERS.
 THEY ARE PLIABLE BLADES COMPARABLE TO URUMI OF
 KALARIPAYATTU.
 SHORT MAZE MAY VARY IN LENGTH FROM ONE FOOT TO
 SEVERAL FEET.
 NUMBER MAY ALSO VARY FROM 1 , 3 OR 5.














WEAPON – SHORT MULTISWORD














WEAPON – SHORT MULTISWORD













WEAPON – SHORT MAZE
       HEAD OF MAZE CONTAINS MULTIPLE SWORD BLADES












TOP – MAZE
    BOTTOM – BOW AND ARROW















    A THROW WEAPON COMPARABLE TO CHURIKAN OF NINJAS
         A SHORT THROW WEAPON WITH SPIKES AND BLADES








Monday 15 October 2012

ANANTHEESWARAN TEMPLE

                               A Siva Temple located at Chidambaram


Lord          :  Adhiswarar
Consort    :  Soundaranayagi
Pooja        :  Raja kurukkal (Sathyanarayanan)
Location   :  Chidambaram - 608 001

YOGENA CITTASYA PADENA VACAM
MALAM SARIRASYA CA VAIDYAKENA
YOPAKAROTTAM PRAVARAM MUNINAM
PATHANJALIM PRANJALIRANATOSMI

            - Salutation with folded hands are to Maharishi Pathanjali, the renowned amongst sages, who removed the impurity of mind through yoga, speech by grammar and of the body by Ayurveda.

            Sage Pathanjali was found near an ant hill; He was supposed to have appeared through a hole in the ground (Pilathuvaram). Raised by foster parents (the God Siva & Goddess Parvathi themselves), learnt yoga sutra from Adhi Yogi Siva Himself. Pathanjali gave Yoga to the world in the form of aphorisms- A single line self contained sentence, a total 196 in number.


Pathanjali’s Yoga Sutra is divided into four chapters
1.     Samadhi Padam     -           Ecstasy          - 51 aphorisms
2.     Sadhana Padam     -           Path               - 55 aphorisms
3.     Vibudhi Padam       -           Pavers           - 56 aphorisms
4.     Kaivalya Padam      -           Liberation    - 34 aphorisms

Pathanjali is contemporary of sage vyagrahapathar (also an exponent of Yoga an oldent worshiper of Adhi Yogi Siva)
            Both the sages had been interned at Thirupattur near Thiruchirappalli - Past Samayapuram.
Thirupattur is on the Tiruchy- Chennai National Highway.


ANOTHER VERSION:
Pathanjali’s Father : Athiri Maharishi
Mother: Kornika.
Books Authored by Saga Pathanjali
Yogasanam - Yoga Sutras
Mahabashyam - Grammer
Savakam - Ayurvedam.